Several years ago I wrote but did not publish an “How to” on My Space security. About 3 months ago I began one on Facebook security. It turns out that others have written excellent articles with great screenshots on exactly what to do. Instead of repeating what they did I will put the PDF files on line here for you.
Privacy Settings – by the U.S. Navy
Download them, print them and pass them along.
Until we meet again, have a virus free week.
Many articles have been written about SSD hard drives, Intel recently put out a review of the speeds of these drives new compared to well used and thus fragmented. I would just like to throw my results in to the piles of articles.
A year ago this week I built a test Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate machine with a 40 GB SSD drive from Intel. I have all the same security and misc. software that I use on my other computers so it is a fairly easy one-to-one comparison. Well, talk about fast boot times. From “power on” to ready(and I mean ready, not just at the Windows desktop but still loading background “stuff”) takes 38 seconds. Yes, you read that right, 38 seconds. My next fastest machine takes just shy of 2 minutes. Continue reading