Category: Computers
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Deadline: June 2022
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Well, you learn something new everyday, doncha? Yesterday I found out that if you have a Chromebook it has an end-of-life date. John over at https://linesbyliming.com/ left me a comment about it so I had to look it up. It was so inexpensive at the time (I don’t remember the…
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Computer Issue
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I have a Chromebook laptop that I don’t use very often because I have a nice desktop that gets the job done. I needed to use it to blog on tonight and I remember why I don’t use it very often. I don’t know if the issue is with the…
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So Far So Meh
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As the folks who visit this blog at the blog and not through the WP Reader can attest, I frequently change up the look of the blog. It’s usually for the purpose of my trying to see what it will look like with different backgrounds and how my widgets come…
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Security – Shmecurity
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Well, not really. Security is a real pain, though. Some users on one of the sites I administer, Brothers Campfire, were having trouble with Google Chrome because his web address started with http: instead of https: and I had to find a way to fix that. This error is not…
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Murphy's Laws of Computers
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When using your computer, whatever happens, behave as though you meant it to happen. When you get to the point where you really understand your computer, it’s probably obsolete. The first place to look for information is in the section of the manual where you least expect to find it.…
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The Y2K Scare
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Twenty years ago, the scary, fearsome, and dreaded Y2K bug was going to destroy life on the planet as we know it. Chaos and rioting in the streets were going to wreak havoc. What that was all about was when computers started taking over the world, their programmers only used…
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Which Critter‽‽‽
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Everyone knows that I really like bears. Especially now since they can’t make a huge mess out of my trash. I have a collection of bear stuff. Not like my Coca-Cola collection, of course, but I do own some bearaphenalia. This is why I was shocked the other day. I…
