23Feb 2017 by Jim Blaich

February 22, 2017

AMD, computers, gaming, Intel, Microsoft, Windows
  Explained to David a friend what he would need to implement long range WiFi from his shop to his house.  I also picked up an all in one touch screen Acer.  BTW, do not buy all in ones.  They are too prone to problems and when the main board goes then you loose it all.  Also, there's no need for touch.  I don't think anyone even considers it as a day to day thing.  Maybe once in a while.  Besides, Microsoft isn't any good at touch.  They just shoehorn the shit in.  I tested the Acer's power adapter first.  That worked.  It measures the proper voltage output.  The plug looked like it might fit my Samsung 27" display that I picked up  yesterday from the goodwill.  Nope.  I set…
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22Feb 2017 by Jim Blaich

February 21, 2017

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I'm trying to keep a log of some of the interesting things that I had to deal with on a day to day basis. Things done/encountered yesterday: Early in the morning Robbie and his mom showed up to get her obitalk device configured.  About a week ago we had to go through and clean up her accounts.  She couldn't remember the email addresses that she needed nor the passwords.  We had to go through all the accounts recovering the passwords once the accounts were identified.  Her gmail account was tied to her yahoo account for password recovery and she didn't know the names or passwords of either.  We recovered those and I made sure she brought a notepad where she could write down the names and passwords of each so…
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17Feb 2017 by Jim Blaich

Windows Launches IE Whenever a Network Connection is Made and Loads the MSN Site

computers, Google, Internet, Microsoft, privacy, Windows
Disabling advertisements is a normal thing these days.  There are many ways to do it.  Some are more detectable than others.  Some sites are more aggressive than others at detecting and reacting to it.  These sites should just accept that people are going to block their sites to rid themselves of ads. The ways to do it are via your router, via a block list that you add to a program that operates as a local domain name server where it checks lists of unwanted sites before allowing you to connect, and then there's the most detectable way which is through your browser with an addon called an adblocker.  Ublock Origin is the most common. The issue that I had earlier has to do with the fact that I use…
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