I bought a Netgear wireless router (model WGR614v7) early in May 2007 so that I could use WiFi at home. I’ve since exchanged it for a Linksys wireless router, and I will never purchase another Netgear product. Here’s why…
Recently, a backup tape containing over 800,000 unencrypted names and social security numbers for Ohio taxpayers and state employees was stolen from the car of Jared Ilovar, a 22-year-old college student working for the state as an intern.
I think there must be ghosts haunting the world’s email servers this week or something, because in the few days, I’ve had three different surreal email incidents.
I followed the instructions I was given for refilling my Dell 3000cn toner cartridges to the letter. They didn’t work. The printer kept telling me over and over again to replace the toner cartridge I’d refilled. I finally got it to accept the refilled cartridge by enabling the “non-dell toner” option. To do this, hit… Read More »
I recently bought a kit from Toner Wiz for refilling the toner cartridges for my Dell 3000cn printer. The kit was supposed to come with instructions and a funnel for pouring the toner into the cartridge. The kit arrived with neither instructions nor funnel. I sent them email at their support address. They emailed back… Read More »
Take a look at http://www.trenchmice.com/. It’s a new site which I’d describe as an “enlightened” version of www.f*edcompany.com. One major difference is that people are encouraged to post about not only companies where bad things are happening, but also about companies where things are going well. Furthermore, there’s a clever community moderation system which keeps… Read More »
I’m hiring IT Engineers to work for me at Tamale Software. Tamale is a great place to work, with great people, a great product, and a great senior management team. If you’re smart and multi-talented, and your friends are always asking you to help them with their computer problems, then this may be the job for… Read More »
I recently needed to figure out how to make a Windows XP machine connect to a particular VPN automatically on reboot, before anyone logged into the machine. I eventually managed to assemble bits and pieces of information floating around the net into a working solution to the problem, but it wasn’t completely addressed in any… Read More »
Check out this site. This guy’s ex-girlfriend applied for various credit card accounts over the Web in his name while living with him for several years, grabbing the statements from the mail as they came in or signing up for paperless statements so he never found out about them, until she finally skipped town right… Read More »
To view someone else’s shared Snapfish album, you have to register as a snapfish user.