That last post brings to mind an interesting idea in my mind. One that I’d like to get other’s input on because although I’ve only been at my job for a year or so, I’m beginning to understand that the common view of the IT Department had been in the past that we don’t always…
There just something completely frustrating about discovering that an Acrobat Reader plug-in is causing random problems with various PC’s around the office. Especially when your PC is one of the one’s having a problem. In my case, certain behaviors in Reader, like clicking a link to another PDF on-line, caused the program to crash. Others…
They seem to be at least trying to engage bloggers and participate in the conversations about their products that are going on. I got this email today: Good Morning Mike, I am writing in regards to your post http://www.mikemcbrideonline.com/2006/08/dell-recall.html. I am more than happy to answer any questions regarding your Dell affected battery(s). If you have…
“All I did was try to download a Solitaire game from the Internet” Anyone who’s ever helped someone clean up a spyware infestation knows exactly what I’m talking about. One “innocent” little game came complete with 8 toolbars, 4 startup executables, 3 advertising generators, multiple registry entries, random processes and, ironically enough, an anti-spam program that…
It seems that this attempt at upgrading to Movable Type version 3.32 over at the child abuse site seems to have worked. I posted an entry and a test comment without running into the Pre-Save error I was getting the last time I tried to upgrade. I think uploading the whole package instead of trying…
Download Squad has a post about another tool that might help with cleaning up after a spyware or virus infection. Killbox is a tool that will let you kill anything running on your PC so you can delete the files related to it. I’ve used Unlocker before, which I think works pretty well, but it…