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I received another e-mail from Skype today. It was very polite and to the point. The interesting part was: Skype can *not* refund the money you might have lost due to this incident! Every user has to take care of his/her security systems on private computers. “Can not” is a poor choice of words. This [...]
You know how sometimes you’ll hear a blurb of a noise, it doesn’t sound like anything, you don’t give it any thought and then something else will happen that explains the noise and gives it a bit of importance to a larger event? This is the something else portion: “Ow,that hurt” said Samson. “I farted [...]
As you may recall from yesterday’s exciting entry, my Skype account was accessed by someone other than myself. At a time when Skype was not installed on my PC. While I was researching what might have happened, I stumbled across this article from September of 2008: Hundreds of Skype Accounts Hacked. It says, in a [...]
I did something this past weekend I’ve not done in quite a while. I stayed away from my computer. It was so relaxing I stretched the weekend off into a weekend plus Monday. (WordPress was kind enough to post pre-written things as expected without having requiring I do anything superhuman.) You may recall I reinstalled [...]
Once upon a time I flew First Class. Twice upon a time, actually. Once I was bumped to first class as they were out of seats in coach; on that trip I was wearing sweats I’d roofed in. The second time I used my frequent flyer miles to book a flight out west. As I [...]
In my early to mid-20’s I played a fair amount of softball. I was never terribly good and approached fielding with this thought in mind: If the ball gets by me, my friends will hate me. This worked best in situations where someone was throwing the ball to me – I wasn’t afraid to stand [...]
The last couple of days I’ve written about my Windows XP reinstall. I’ve mentioned the boot time was slow and that I’d hoped to speed that part of the process up. What I’d forgotten to mention, and this may be due to the fact it was hard to measure, was the system had slowed down [...]
All right. When we left off yesterday, all of my data was encrypted on a 32-gig USB drive and I couldn’t get to the files. My inability to access the data was driven home by the fact that each time I tried I could get one folder deep and then I’d be greeted with an [...]
I run Windows XP Pro on my computer at work. (You know, because anything worth running is worth running professionally.) Once in a while, oh, like every six or eight months, XP will slow to the point that it takes about two minutes to get to a login screen. After a password is entered it [...]
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