Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

That‘s gotta hurt. Dell has inadvertently shipped replacement motherboards for its PowerEdge servers that are infected with the Spybot worm. The malware affects servers running Windows, but not other operating systems. The worm can be triggered if users run an update to either the Unified Server Configurator (USC) or 32-bit Diagnostics on the server. According [...]

Getting a new computer is so much fun! And I do reformats regularly here. Unfortunately, I am the IT person in the family…. as we have a whopping total of EIGHT computers to manage. And that doesn’t count the ones in temporary storage. I do a lot of tech help stuff, and so I have [...]

I love technology. I’ve been surfing the specs on various computer hot-rods these days, and am mightily impressed with the leaps and bounds of computer technology these days. And thanks to 64-bit machines (which are rapidly populating the market), you have 6GB, 8GB, 25GB or RAM and multiple processors! Talk about speed! I am trying [...]

OH MY GOSH. This is so weird! LOL! I found this video– an old commercial for MacIntosh computers. Someone please tell me how we ever endured such corny, campy TV ads. Wow. This is hilarious! Just makes you want to run right out and get an Apple, doesn’t it? lol! I actually have one of [...]

The doomsayers are at it again. When was the Internet’s funeral… 4,5 years ago now? From the Times Online: Internet users face regular “brownouts” that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace, according to research to be published later this year. Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 per cent [...]

…they love you. They really do. I am gushing tonight. I like to see them happy. I gave my young boys my Acer Phenom X3 computer today, and they are flipping out. You see, last year I’d bought them some very nice computer games for their birthdays (Civilization & Colonization, and other graphic-demanding games) but [...]