Category Archives: Computing
Under attack – Brute Force Attack and Loginizer
Most of you won’t care a hoot about this post because, in all likelihood, you don’t create and manage a WordPress Site. The WP Hosting company, I now use is www.siteground.com and one of the plugins that they suggest to install is one called ‘loginizer‘ (See https://wordpress.org/plugins/loginizer/) if you’re so inclined. Their website is https://www.loginizer.com – I
Etch a Sketch vs Laptop
I can recall about 25-30 years ago when my very computer illiterate boss was handed a laptop by one of the geeks in the IT dept. He would not take it back and told my boss to call the IT manager as he (the geek) was told to leave it. One of my coworkers, did
Legal Logic or Logical Legality or Is Logic Legal?
After having failed his exam, a student goes and confronts his lecturer about it. Student: “Sir, do you really understand anything about the subject?” Professor: “Surely I must. Otherwise I would not be a professor!” Student: “Great, well then I would like to ask you a question. If you can give me the correct answer,
My name is CHRISTOPHER not CHRISTOPHE and I’m Pissed Off.
Somethings are not quite right! My name just happens to be Christopher which is one of the two eleven character names in the top 1000 list of names given in the USA in 2013. It was ranked at 26th in that list of 1000. Now the US Government is denying my right to have that name
The Engineers Approach
Not that many years ago a class of math students whose majors were in Chemistry, Physics and Engineering were being introduced to the Law of Diminishing Halves in Calculus. Simply stated, they were told that if they approached an object by taking an initial step then a step equal to of one half the remaining
A Senior Citizen’s View on Modern Technology!
Read it all the way through! It’s a good laugh! AND really quite true!! A good laugh for people in the over 50 group !!! When I bought my Blackberry, I thought about the 30-year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a cell phone that plays music, takes videos, pictures and communicates with
Microsoft and Ford – An unlikely rivalry!
Windows vs. Ford – For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX) Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, “If Ford had kept up with technology like the computer
I have a printer problem.
Caller: Hi, our printer is not working. Customer Service: What’s wrong with it? Caller: The Mouse is jammed. Customer Service: Mouse? Printers don’t have a mouse!!! Caller: Mmmmm??.. Oh really?… I will send a picture See below
The Calculator Story of 1972
Sears is a wonderful organization. One wonders sometimes about their benevolent and easy going return policy, but there’s no doubt their customer service works and we keep going back for more. When electronic calculators were just coming on the market, they were quite a novelty and sometimes they actually worked. This is a story about