by Joseph Forbes | Apr 22, 2013 | SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
from the high-cost-of-upgrading dept. During a recent trip to an eye doctor, I noticed that she was still using Windows XP. After I suggested that she might need to upgrade soon, she said she couldn’t because she couldn’t afford the $10,000 fee involved...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 20, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the one-of-us-one-of-us dept. The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects are...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | Blog Entry, Data Recovery, KnowledgeBase (KB), SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
Windows 8 has been out for a while, featuring an interface that’s as cool as it is annoying . . . until you get the hang of it. But, like any computer operating system, it can fall over. Luckily, there is an easy way to solve the cause of most crashes; just call...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 17, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
A year from now, Microsoft will stop supporting the archaic Windows XP operating system. Make haste in migrating to another OS. The one-year countdown to the end of support for Windows XP began ticking down yesterday. If you’re still using the ancient, legacy...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 16, 2013 | Malware Reports, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SOFTWARE, Technicals
from Microsoft® Malware Protection Center by msft-mmpc We recently came across an interesting threat that we detect as TrojanDownloader:Win32/Nemim.gen!A. This particular malware is a trojan downloader, and is capable of deleting its downloaded component files in a...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 15, 2013 | SOFTWARE, Technicals
No matter where you work odds are your company uses some sort of relational database. And nearly all of these use SQL for data retrieval. So it goes without saying that ultimatley if you want to play with data, you need to learn a little bit of SQL. You might argue...
