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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
If you ever wanted to know why your Trend Micro has blocked a certain page:
http://reclassify.url.trendmicro.com/submit-files/onlinequery.aspx
I'm posting this here because their online KB and support can be difficult to navigate. I have had great results with the online chat feature. This seems to be the best way to get support from ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
Today on The PM computers show we upgraded someones Dell from 256MB of PC3200 to 2GB of PC2700. I know it is a speed downgrade, but what she uses the computer for, AOL and email, it won't make a difference. 2GB of PC2700 is much faster than 256MB of PC3200, ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Not much to report. I'm designing a website for a local contractor.
The worst thing that has happened lately is having to scratch my head over why Microsoft never embraced PGP and added support to it for Outlook Express. I absolutely adore Thunderbird and Enigmail.
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
If you plan to leave the country and need to take a computer with you, buy a brand new one, and keep the files you need to work with, on a jump drive/key drive/thumb drive. Thumb Drives can be kept away from the computer and may not be searched if they are ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Trinity Rescue Kit is my new favorite tool. It is doing wonders for that laptop I mentioned before. I just thought I'd link to them and give a shout out.
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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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