by Joseph Forbes | Feb 12, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals
from the back-in-the-shadows dept. Do you remember what you posted on that music forum in 2004? Or which services you tried for webmail before Gmail? We often forget online services, but they don’t forget us. PC Pro has investigated whether it’s possible...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 10, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
from the there’s-a-sauce-for-that dept. Microsoft is advising users to stick with other browsers until Tuesday, when 57 patches for Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9, and even 10 are scheduled. There is no word if this patch is to protect IE from the 50+ Java...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 10, 2013 | NERD NEWS, Technical Support, Technicals
from the the-nineties-never-left dept. FreeDOS — the drop-in, open source replacement for MS-DOS — was started after Microsoft announced that starting from Windows 95, DOS would play a background role at best for users. Almost two decades later, FreeDOS has survived...
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by Joseph Forbes | Feb 9, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
Imagine this: you’re busy working on your computer and need to access documents saved on your external hard drive. You connect it, get ready to find your data, and…nothing happens. Your hard drive isn’t working. Uh oh. Before you panic, there are...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 8, 2013 | Blog Entry, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technicals
Windows 8 received a decent amount of enhancements on the desktop side that I tend to appreciate versus running Windows 7, even if that means I get Metro standing in the middle here and there occasionally. One such area of improvement is notification management and...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technical Support, Technicals, Web Hosting
The installation, care, and feeding of an Apache Web server is not terribly difficult, but can seem so if you haven’t ventured into those particular waters before. This quick-start guide will help you get your feet wet with Apache on a Linux server. You’ll...
