Consumer inkjet printers have always been a bad deal. Over-priced ink cartridges dried up if you went too long without using them, so you could well end up paying thirty or forty dollars just to print a few pages. If that wasn’t bad enough, now they’re even worse deals. By weight, inkjet ink is one…
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Laptops With Legs
Good article on where your laptop is most likely to be stolen.
Dealing With the Loss of Data
A big oopsie at Pixar almost costs $100 million. Data is easily deleted and can be hard to recover. Plan for what happens if someone makes a careless mistake.
Kaspersky Strikes Again
In a funny bit of news, related to my post the other day, it seems that Kaspersky has released a removal tool for the Java ‘Flashback’ trojan that deletes Mac users’ settings and breaks their computers. Good job, Kaspersky. We’re so proud of you.
Failed The Test
Yesterday I had to fix a Windows 7 laptop for a client. The mouse wasn’t working at all. The mouse cursor showed up on the screen, but wouldn’t respond to either the trackpad or an external mouse. Device Manager recognized it, but claimed to be unable to load the drivers. After poking around a bit…