I discovered another way to use OneNote today. I created a section titled “Registry Hacks” and named each page as a brief desription of what that key accomplishes. For example, I needed to find these today, so I Googled to find them, copied the text and added each as a new page in OneNote, so…
That was what I thought when I saw this post about McAfee’s screw up with the definition files they released Friday morning. It’s completely unacceptable that those def files got released to the public, and that for five hours, the folks who were doing everything we tell them to do in terms of keeping udated,…
Picked up this story at Download Squad the other day, about a Firefox Extension that will run an Internet Explorer engine inside one of your Firefox tabs. This is kinda cool if, like me, you work some place that uses Outlook Web Access, which runs much smoother in IE, or has an intranet site that…
This post over at the Friends in Tech forum brought back a lot of memories, especially Douglas’ response, because he really gives some insight into the real meaning of those kinds of comments from users. In the 7 annual reviews I went through at my old job, years 2,3 and 4 all included that sort…
We’re down visiting the in-laws today and I’ve spent a few hours fixing their PC and cleaning it up some. They got caught with virus definitions that fell ever so slightly behind the speed of new malware showing up and wound up with a pretty nasty trojan that killed their Internet access, disabled their AV,…
When you go to restart and the memory is so tied up that you have to break down and hold in the power button, every single time! Speaking of that PC, what is it with Norton Internet Security? I swear every PC I run across on side projects, or doing tech support for friends and…