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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Is Copilot in your face?

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Is Copilot in your face?   I'll make it quick and simple. If you use Microsoft Office and particularly with a Microsoft 365 Family and ...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

A sure way to get yourself ignored

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 Have you ever received an entire email that looks like this?  If I can't get the critical content of your message in my preview screen,...
Saturday, July 11, 2020

A diagnostic tutorial

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I got a call from a client with a networking issue. The ISP's tech had been in his office because he wasn’t getting the 200 Mbs he was p...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Stranded at the store

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Stranded at the store Oops ... Do you have a fancy modern car that doesn’t even have a key? That pushbutton on the dash almost got me into t...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

What Is Bitcoin?

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The first thing to know is that Bitcoin is not blockchain ; even though both were released to the world concurrently by the pseudonymous “ S...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

Ransomware hits close to home

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Ransomware hits close to home The county government got infected with ransomware. It can happen in the best of families; it’s just a matte...
Monday, September 11, 2017

The Social Security Number must die.

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The Social Security Number must die. It’s been evident for years, but recent publicly disclosed hacks makes it even more obvious. The 80-...
Saturday, September 9, 2017

More notes on "The deal about passwords"

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For an extended discussion on this topic you can download the document at: https://zaitech.com/downloads/TheDealAboutPasswords_notes.pdf  ...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

The deal about passwords

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In August 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued new recommendations on passwords that received significant ...
Sunday, August 6, 2017

"Your connection is not secure"

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A user asks … « From time to time I update my notebook, Windows 10, with the usual Windows random updates and some others like Firefox an...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

The most basic protections

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If you haven’t done so since details about the WannaCry ransomware attack started dominating the news cycle, go right now and verify that ...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Protecting your data in transit

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Data In Transit – Data At Rest I recently received this question from a user: Question , Especially given the new anti-privacy laws. I...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Protecting your data at rest

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Data In Transit – Data At Rest I recently received this question from a user: Question , Especially given the new anti-privacy laws....

Hacked over Russian hackers?

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OPINION Are you upset that Russian hackers – possibly operating under the influence of, or even directed by, their government – got into t...

Browsers churn disc drives

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A researcher discovered that browsers might churn disc drives - to the extent of writing gigabytes of redundant data per day. Steve Gibso...
Friday, September 23, 2016

How to steal an election

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Please read my article on how difficult it is actually to significantly change the outcome of a major election. Download it here: http://...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Heat

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A spinning hard drive (HDD) is often the greatest source of heat in your computer. My custom-built computer has five (5!) HDDs in the case. ...
Monday, September 5, 2016

A useful utility

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How many keyboards and screens do you have on your desk? Here's a utility (skip down) to help tame a tangle, but first, the history. ...
Friday, July 15, 2016

Planning for 2020

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Windows 7? ... Windows 8.1? ... Windows 10? Planning for 2020 Note: these comments may be irrelevant after July 29, 2016. Are you like m...
Sunday, June 5, 2016

A second thought on upgrading to Windows 10

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(1) If you seriously want to get Windows 10 for free on your computer, you might want to get started by mid-July, 2016. When I went to ...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Quotes without comment (Windows 10 edition)

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Some stories that were recommended for me to read/view: On Friday I received: But on Thursday I had already gotten a link to: ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Microsoft will not call you

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Pardon the redundant warning ... I hope this reminder falls in the same category as “buckle your seatbelt” and just reinforces the diligen...