Data Recovery
Question: I have an Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive, 1TB, and lately I can’t access the data on the drive. The shares (both built-in and created by me) are there, the security works, but when trying to access the data I get a “The network path was not found” message which is worrying, to… [Continue Reading]
Anti-Virus & Malware
How to download combofix.
Question: I just ghosted my vista laptop 120 Gigabyte hard disk over to a brand new 640 Gigabyte SATA drive and the laptop just reboots and never shows the vista boot screeen? Answer: If you boot the vista boot disk up and fix the boot with advanced options, I it will repair the boot sector… [Continue Reading]
For all you people who have just been browsing and suddenly find your computer infected with junk! here’s why. http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218500140 Go here and PLEASE select the fix it and apply it to your computers. the fix it turns off the part of active x that is vulnerable.
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https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/16130-The-Urban-Legend-of-Multipass-Hard-Disk-Overwrite.html For those of you out there interested in ensuring data destruction via overwrites. This is a great article about why old advice and worries may not be valid in data destruction.
To make a ubuntu cd-rom, go to www.ubuntu.com get the LTS 10.10.10 i386 version and burn a cd-rom from the downloaded ISO file. Alternatively, go to Pendrivelinux.com and download the pendrive utility and make a ubuntu 10.10.10 bootable 1gb thumb drive to boot from. boot from either, click try ubuntu click system, administration, disk… [Continue Reading]
Video explains how to save data/backup data using linux on a drive that won’t mount in windows (or causes blue screen of death when you plug it into any windows system to attempt recovery.) In this case it’s a western digital 640gb 2.5″ SATA drive that has failed.
This is a list of awesome Add-ons for Firefox Comment below to add your’s to the list: Ad Block Plus will remove annoying advertisements as well as check your site for what may be blocked by ad-blockers. You can even selectively block images or items on a particular site. AddThis is a plugin that allows… [Continue Reading]
This is a short video on how to create a custom video message to embed in a card or an email for playing on another iphone/android simply by shooting the QR Code with the barcode scanner on the smart phone.
A few of you out there have been asking me for how to wipe a hard disk for computer donation, You can use a bootable nuke disk to wipe the drive and OS in one boot and answer a couple of questions ensuring you wish to toast your hard disk, but if you want to… [Continue Reading]
This is a quick instructional video on how to insert a youtube video into a wordpress post.
Hardware Causes of a slow computer: External media unable to read: unplug all external sources from the computer (Eject all cd’s,Thumb drives, external hard disks, Printers, etc and see if your boot is quicker) You’d be surprised how often a disk in a cd-rom drive will make the computer take 4 min or longer to… [Continue Reading]
I’ve had need to install the Crossloop Remote support agent into my Linux box, I’m running 64 Bit Ubuntu 10.10.10 for what it’s worth. Requirements: Wine must be installed To install wine in ubuntu, click applications, Ubuntu software center, Install Wine Download the CrossLoop setup for windows (This is easier to download from a windows… [Continue Reading]
2 Gigabytes of free Cloud Storage for personal files. If you sign up by clicking the logo to the left, I will get credit for the referral. They have an app for android as well so if you use the same username/password after you sign up on your computer, your dropbox files will show on… [Continue Reading]
