Subscriber John Paul Plauche wrote to ask about a problem with Windows Vista failing to boot properly: Terry, May I please trouble you with a problem a friend of mine is having with her Acer laptop. She runs Vista Premium Home Edition, I think. After the computer has finished booting up – wherein the booting [...]
Do I Need an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)?
Do I Need an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)? I’m beginning to think that I really do… For a lot of years, I kept UPS’s supplying power to all of my family’s computers. I was concerned over power outages and their impacts on the data structure on my hard drives. I wasn’t concerned with power outages [...]
Windows Media Player and Windows 7
Long-time subscriber J. P. Biddle wrote with a question about Windows Media Player running on Windows 7: I have an interesting question. I noticed in Windows 7 64 bit under active tasks windows media player. I try to kill it but you can’t or it comes right back. It’s not listed under start up. Is [...]
Warning: Unresponsive Script Error
Subscriber Richard Fuller wrote from New Zealand (not Australia, as I mistakenly wrote in an earlier article) to ask about a fairly common problem. Most web sites have some JavaScript, whether it’s used for interactivity, automatic page updating (e.g., quibids.com updating with every bid that anyone makes), as part of their advertizing, etc. Our web [...]
Google’s New Privacy Policy — Read it and Weep
Google announced that it is consolidating all of its myriad privacy policies (roughly one per service that Google offers) into one over-arching privacy policy. They’re written it at an easy to understand level, too. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s scary. I’m not sure that it really says anything new, but [...]
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