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At the bottom of this blog page, in the right column, is a banner identifying itself as SPAM claming 251 spam blocked. It has been claiming that same score ever since it showed up after the last upgrade. I have no idea where it came from or why. I do suspect it is spam [...] Some time ago my son-in-law experienced a major failure in his external hard drive storage system. He pulled the whole thing and replaced it with a new system. He boxed up the old system and let me have it. One of the external hard drive cases was a Thermaltake. I was [...] Both of these programs used to be useful but recently they have become less useful and make the user a target for scammers. We were recently hit with a virus. First time in over 30 years. Unfortunately we could no longer use the infected computer and I became involved in getting rid of the virus. It [...] I use one small system running XP to support the magic jack telephone. This afternoon its speaker was making a funny sound. I rebooted the computer to see if that would solve the problem. That was when things really went wrong. The built-in computer speaker began to squawk. Turns out the a [...] I just noticed that the calendar widget on the lower left of this blog has some days in bold numbers and a greyed-out background. It appears that those days are ones on which new posts were added to this blog. Yeah, I know, is that really useful? Useful or not, it think it is cool. It is solved at least for now. This entire mess is occuring on a Dell Dimension E521. Overall this is a good computer. A decent machine. Like most newer computers this thing has built-in Ethernet, video, and sound. Currently all three of these features are disabled. Six months ago [...] Sounds like a rare disease but Atahualpa is much more the cure than the malady. It is the name of the theme being used in this blog. After I started this blog with Kubrick it took me a while to figure out how to make the rotating header graphics work. I soon discovered [...] If programmers knew how tiresome frequent updates were there would not be so many. Or would there. Frequent updates indicate that the job of writing the software is an ongoing excercise. That nothing about it is ready for use. It needs constant fiddling to keep it running. That is not software. [...] A summary of work done on the computers during September. SATA card and driver: It is finally official now. The Siliconix SATA card will not work under XP without causing problems with explorer. The solution is not to use the SATA drives under XP. Do not install the Siliconix driver. The [...] Turns out it is very useful to know how to use the dd command in Linux. The ‘dd’ command is a low level command line utility that allows reading and writing memory to screen, files, and other memory. It is useful in duplicating disks (partitions) by directly reading from one and writing to another. [...] |
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