Several weeks ago I was technologically surprised by a non-geek. Over the phone, a good friend of mine and I were discussing a problem with his home PC. For some strange reason he could not get a particular Microsoft Excel formula to work properly. At work I use an application that must first be installed…
OK, you look at the title above and your figure, "Ron has started writing drunk!" But no, I have not started writing columns while I am drunk or on painkillers. Previously I wrote about passwords and had several of you write me asking about coming up with letter/symbol substitutions. If you look closely at the…
I receive questions quite often about passwords. I have a quick, wise guy answer; make them really difficult but easy. OK, I left a couple of words out of that statement. It should have said “really difficult for someone else to guess but easy for you to remember.” We need passwords for networks on our…
Windows 8 is out and according to Microsoft it is, "Vibrant and beautiful." Well the colors are very nice and it is faster. It will work with a computer that previously ran Windows 7 and even run better and faster with less hardware requirements which is unusual for a new Operating System. It also boots…
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