The Weekly Geek

I advise people using loaned computers to always assume there is some sort of spyware planted.
The recent flap over a Pennsylvania school district’s use of tracking software on schoolissued laptops, supposedly to locate those that were stolen, makes me wonder how much illegal snooping goes on everywhere, whether initially intended or not.
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In my previous post about 64 bit computers I mentioned a time when Microsoft Automatic Updates ran and rebooted a computer of mine while compiling a video. Since then another person I know told me of the same issue and I have received many calls over the last year about “lost” data that occurred when [...]

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Well, it was bound to happen. The week before Thanksgiving our shop was building a Windows 2008 server. The technicians and I could not get past the Intel POST screen, the one with the Intel logos only. We removed and tested hard drives. They keyboard and mouse would just not respond and leaving it alone [...]

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Never have I promoted Government “incentives”, after all we all know they are really tax dollars taken from Peter to “help” Paul. With that aside, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 dumps $787 BILLION to “lift” the economy via tax incentives and government spending. Part of the law give the Small Business Administration [...]

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I grew up in a wonderful home. I had all I needed and more. I was taught to work and save and work some more. Unfortunately not everyone learned that. With the downturn in the economy and stock market many baby boomers are getting scared and wondering where the money is going to come from [...]

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