Strange comment
I just deleted a comment on my last post that looked inoccuous enough, and certainly wasn’t indicated as spam, but it was a lttle bit odd. The chap basically commented that he liked my blog, and that he was thinking …
Category: Computer Stuff
More directrdr stuff and Combofix
Well the fix below did not work but no fault of the software, which I will still use. I tried a bunch of other stuff I saw on some tech support forums, but the common thread on these was ‘try …
directrdr.com
I recently got a malware infection on my laptop, which I promptly dealt to with the usual array of products – SuperAntiSpyware, SpyBot, Avast 5, Malwarebytes, and seemed to get rid of the infection OK. However, I continued to get …
Programming
38 years ago in June, I wrote my first computer program. It solved quadratic equations using the Quadratic formula. It was written in Fortran, and I wrote the code on coding sheets, which were sent to Chester City Council’s Data …
Signwriting
As well as coping with one of the busiest periods the business has seen yet, and my wife being in hospital for a day and recovering at home for two, I have manged to do some familiarisation with the new …
New Toy
Just before I went for a long walk on Sunday, I spotted a Mimaki CG-60 vinyl/cutter plotter on Trademe, just a few years old, and apparently little used. Bidding had started at $1100, but the reserve had not been reached and it …
Dropped laptop
Picked this one up yesterday afternoon, nice Sony Vaio laptop, which had been dropped off a chair while booted up. As would be expected, the hard disk was damaged, and the system partially booted into windows, then reset itself. Ran …
Free applications
I am currently studying at the local community college (Whitireia Polytechnic, Porirua), brushing up on my desktop publishing skills, in particular the design side of it. As part of the course we are learning to use the Adobe Creative Suite, …
Administrator passwords
Every now and then I get the situation where I really have to get rid of an administrator password on a PC. For instance, someone gives an aging relative a laptop which they used at work, which has an admin …
Corrupt user profile
A client rang with an interesting tale of woe. When starting up his laptop after everything being completely normal in the previous session of use, it was coming up with a whole raft of disturbing symptoms, including missing icons off …