Archive for March, 2008
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
PM Computers is now supporting Meineke's MKey Software. We are in the process of migrating a local Meineke shop from Pipedream to Mkey. We have also been very busy migrating the website and domain for http://www.affordablekb.com. Affordable Ktchens and bathrooms is a local home design firm located in Quincy.
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
I spent my whole day doing an emergency repair of a Windows XP system. This system had been corrupted by worms and trojans. The system had already been farked over by some other tech. It's billable hours, so when they asked me where my green was, I said "my wallet". ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Did you know that a standard USB Device side plug, can fit into an RJ-45/11 jack? This was the whole problem behind a recent case. We tried to fix this remotely, but with no luck. After checking the clients site, we found that they had plugged the USB cable into ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Todays tip for fighting spam is spelling and language.
If there are a lot of mis-spellings in the email or instant message, it has a good chance of being spam.
If the message is in a language you don't normally speak, it might also be spam.
These are just two of the many ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Last week The smart folks at PM Computers was able to rid someone of the Zlob.DNSChanger trojan.
The solution was found here:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=15015
Normally with spyware infections our philosophy is as follows:
"I say we back up and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
In the real world ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Today PM Computers helped someone say goodbye to Lotus 123. There were some legacy files they had not converted to Excel. Old habits can be hard to break. Onward to the 21st century! Now if we could only convince the emacs users....
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
This week we fixed a Gateway 6020gz laptop. The LCD screen was coming up dark, as if the lamp had blown, turned out the problem was actually a bad ground around the inverter. The system now works and everything is wonderful. We also checked the system for spyware and applied ...
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