The Weekly Geek

It has happened again, another attack / exploit on Adobe Acrobat, all versions (including the free Reader and paid for versions). There is no patch at this time but there is a quick fix. Before we go any further, here is the fix.

Open Adobe Acrobat, go to “Edit” on the menu bar (2nd from the left) select “Preferences” (at the bottom of the drop down menu).
A new menu will appear, on the left side select “JavaScript” and on the right side uncheck “Enable Acrobat JavaScript”. [Read more →]

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 for hours resolved nothing. With the support of Intel, we swapped the motherboard, both CPUs, the RAM (3 times – I’ll get to that later). We tried 3 power supplies, taking the system off the KVM and direct connecting, nothing. Last Thursday we began the build of another server with a different motherboard and CPU, same issue.

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Passwords are like toothbrushes, you should change them often and never share them.

Any Questions? Didn’t think so.

Until we meet again, have a virus free week.

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 (SBA) $730 Million to allow easier credit for small business loans. [Read more →]

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 so more and more are falling prey to internet, mail and phone scams.

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