Archive for April, 2010
Legal spying via the cell phone system
I don’t think many people know about this or can even really technically understand it.But this article should serve as another warning to people – you have very little REAL privacy. Just about everything you send or receive via the internet, cell phone or even publicly switched telephone system is very open to ‘evesdroping’. The NSA [...]
McAfee fix for killed XP machines
I am not a fan of McAfee security and AV products and haven’t been for years. Their software has become a huge drain on system resources and worse, seems to get more false positives than actually stoping malicious software. I highly recommend Microsoft Security Essentials. But if you are one of those that have had [...]
Creating Bookmarklets and Smart Bookmarks
Bookmarklets are small pieces of JavaScript code that can be bookmarked to perform the intended action later on any web page. The are a way of making your browsing and web searching much more productive. With the advent of more applications being ‘cloud based’ the browser is becoming the ‘operating system or portal’ to most [...]
How to fix the “Cannot attach the virtual hard disk …
Little backround. I use Acronis to create images for true disaster recovery ability. With Acronis I can also mount back up images and retrieve any needed files in minutes! The newer versions of Acronis also allow you to convert your Acronis images (.tib) into Microsoft Virtual Hard Drives (VHDs).[Acronis has solutions for home and enterprise [...]