Direct MP3 Download: Podnutz Daily #109 – IE8 Messed Up Comcast Mail
New shop rule might not have been a good idea:
Install IE8 on all incoming computers.
Computer came back in after the update to (beta) IE8
because the customer was missing some of her
mail icons when looking at an open Comcast email.
An IE7 downgrade solved this problem so we are going to
hold off on updating all IE instances to Version 8.
My hard drive on my computer crashed today at the shop.
Bad news — a lot of the laptop videos were on this hard drive
and I have not backed it up in a few weeks.
I am trying to recover using Spinrite. We will see how it goes.
Infected computer came in and Malwarebytes did the job
that SuperAntiSpyware could not.
Thank you to everyone who suggested this program to me
in past episodes of this show.
It destroyed all of the spyware on the machine.
Sony Vaio laptop driving me crazy:
No power. Nothing at all. Dead.
Went through my hardware troubleshooting.
Felt it was the motherboard
Core 2 duo/T7700 chip MB replacement $320
Vaio motherboards are rare and expensive.
Installed new motherboard. Still no power.
Voice Mail from Mike in NM:
Difficult to find a jump drive with a write-protect switch.
SD cards all have them and I tested the switch.
I used a SD to USB adapter to do this
You cannot write to them if read only is enabled.
Purposefully infecting an machine using VMWare.
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About those easy fixes:
Do you tell the customer or do you justify the cost?
Email from Andrew?
Where can I buy an eco-friendly (green) computer?
Thors geek squad-like commercial
Also: thank you for all of the great emails
helping me with my eye strain —
and I love that most of them were sent using a very large font.
Email from David:
Search revealed that glossy screens can produce eye strain
Advice on power jack solder job failure rate:
Use GOOD solder. I like Kester Solder.
He includes a funny story about a customer
who was having trouble connecting to a wireless network.
(She was lacking more than just the hardware.)
Email from ?
Learning a little about DNS operations goes a long way
in understanding how a computer communicates with the internet.
Open DNS Blog
