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Computers for the over 40's: October 2012

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Monday, 22 October 2012. Watchdog - Why you should TALK to your engineer. Something got me quire riled this week. The BBC's "Watchdog" program did a piece on a Computer Support company that ripped off it's customers. And as part of the "undercover investigation", they nobbled a PC so that it could be fixed by an engineer. So far, so good, until they showed how they nobbled the PC in the first place. They chose to remove a jumper from a disk drive. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Menage a ...

Computers for the over 40's: August 2012

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Tuesday, 28 August 2012. This is what a disk crash looks like. A bit of explanation is called for here. Your data is magnetically stored on the platter (the large silver disk) by the read write head, which is moved over the surface of the disk by the arm. In the next two pictures, you can see the circular scratch over the disk, caused when the head smashed into the platter. Damaged head, damaged surface, loss of data. Moral of the story? ALWAYS back up your data to an extral hard drive, or dvd.

Computers for the over 40's: December 2012

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Wednesday, 19 December 2012. Raspberry Pi's, Android, and the(mis)hape of things to come. In my last article. I explained my view on why we need to constantly upgrade our computers. One vital thing was missing from that view however, and that was the effect of "Backwards Compatibility" on the evolution of computing. To explain further, we have to go back in time, so let's fire up the old TARDIS and take a look-see (vworrrp, vworrrp, vworrrp.). Became the Intel/Microsoft Windows biggest selling point.

Computers for the over 40's: April 2015

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Tuesday, 14 April 2015. IPhone - invalid sim or no service messages. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Do something funny for money - buy this, it's got some cartoons by me in it. Balding, middle aged. View my complete profile. To use a cartoon. Each cartoon by Shaun Raven. Is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England and Wales License. Please consider making a donation. Thanks! For private commisions, please see my EBay.

Computers for the over 40's: Windows Live Mail - inline images: what if you DONT want to embed them?

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Tuesday, 1 October 2013. Windows Live Mail - inline images: what if you DONT want to embed them? Outlook Express was a much maligned piece of software, but it had a great feature - it could edit emails in a WYSIWYG fashion, and save them as a plain text EML file. This was good news for us techies, because it meant that people that had to create emails for bulk mailing had an editor that was freely available on any XP machine. BUT - you can. Still do it, and here's how. DIV /DIV /BODY /HTML. All you have ...