It had to happen sooner of later. Crackers (the undesirable version of a computer hacker) have been playing in my remote web servers. I thought it was secure but it seems the dedicated can “crack” almost every deterrent. I won’t go into details (for security reasons) but they left their mark and I and my web service know who they are. The problem may not have been noticed except the files they installed shut down some...
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Dual Boots and 64 Bits
No, it’s not about wearing two pairs of boots at the same time. It is a computer start-up term. I have been doing it for quite some time, almost since I started playing with computers in the dark ages. What it means is that a computer is set up with two (or more) operating systems and at the time of starting up the computer, the operator has a choice as to what (which) operating system...
Continue reading...Keeping Up
You won’t notice but the blog was updated yesterday. Both the main “backbone” called WordPress and the front end theme called (in this blog), Mandigo. There are forced links to these products in the right hand column under Access. That is because both are free and the links may attract new users. It seems that this kind of software is never finished. Every new release always repairs bugs and adds new features. Since I don’t...
Continue reading...Vista Update & Energy
After the strenuous upgrade that took more than a week to accomplish, I can now report after many months of use that the MS Vista OS has been (operationally) quite stable and reliable. I always figured it would be, it had to be. Oh, all the other problems have not gone away. The OS has to be treated “special” by every piece of software that runs on or in the OS. It is a brave...
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