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“There is no magic fairy dust protecting Macs" – Dai Zovi, author of “The Mac Hacker’s Handbook"

Ah, Toshiba, you disappoint me

November 5th 2014

I haven’t had my Qosmio laptop for that long, I am sure, but now that I need to replace the laptop battery, do you think there is a non-faulty **genuine Toshiba** battery available for purchase? Well, no. I did get a new battery costing $176 only to have it die within 48 hours of starting to […]

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Sometimes, CAPTCHA, you do my head in…

September 20th 2014

I have no idea how to answer this…

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Spammers pressing the wrong button again….

August 15th 2014

Here’s a snippet of a spam comment I just found… { {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. {It’s|It is} pretty worth enough for me. {In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as you […]

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Please do NOT do that to me again Windows Home Server…

August 15th 2014

A “server connection lost” alert pops up on my Mac.  I look at my WHS and all drive lights are out and there’s the infamous flashing blue light… in all the years I’ve had that WHS it has never rebooted in the middle of the day like that. Thankfully all came back to life after a few minutes.  I’m going […]

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Who says IT stuff can be boring?

August 13th 2014

Fire Ants in a fibre patch panel??? http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nanog/users/173777

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