Posted on Feb 23rd, 2009
If you ever spill on your electronics, this is your best chance to recover them: Unplug and remove battery immediately. Remove circuit boards. Rinse circuit boards in deionized or distilled water. Fill box with rice and seal circuit boards inside until dry. Rebuild and restart. Water contains minerals and other impurities which cause it to [...]
Posted on Feb 18th, 2009
Eventually Microsoft will drop support for Windows XP. Most of us will upgrade to Vista or Windows 7. But with less than 10% of enterprise customers running Vista, Ballmer making absurd upgrade arguments to corporate customers (“If you deploy a 4- or 5-year-old operating system today, most people will ask their boss why the heck [...]
Posted on Feb 9th, 2009
Over on eWeek PC Magazine’s Larry Seltzer shares a personal anecdote; that a friend at a major anti-virus firm said that they are averaging 50,000 new viruses/spyware/malware samples every day. As shockingly large as this number is, the lesson to be learned from it requires deeper digging. First, the vast majority of these submissions are [...]