Seriously, Did You Try a Reboot Yet?

I need to take my own advice more often. Someone comes to me with a computer issue? First think I’ll ask is, “Did you reboot it yet?” Heck, it is written at the top of the big whiteboard in my office.

I don’t care if it is Windows, Mac or Linux. That’s where I always prefer

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Twitter for Support?

Earlier today I was wrestling with trying to use LogMeIn from my Ubuntu install to remotely manage a machine at work. No matter how I went about it, I couldn’t get things working from Firefox 3.

Eventually I whined on Twitter, because that’s how I (sometimes) roll:

Shortly after that I got two big surprises.

First, twitter finally

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Tip: WordPress hacked?

Did your WordPress site get hacked? is a great post by Donncha examining the latest “popular” hack(s), how to prevent them and/or how to recover.

I’ll summarize: Don’t be slow to upgrade.

Lots of activity these days on the WordPress Support forums related to folks getting hacked. Hopefully Donncha is correct in stating that there’s nothing

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Gateway Support Downloads Are… Special

My work machine is a Gateway laptop running Vista Business. While I like the laptop a lot, I’ve been thinking about “upgrading” it to XP in the near future (here’s one reason). Being wise in the ways of the world, I figured I had better make sure there are drivers available for it before I

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Twitter Beefs

I resisted the Twitter thing until just last month, but since then I’ve become pretty gung-ho about the whole scene. It can be a nice distraction — but unlike IM, I like to think of it as a “queuing distraction.”  I can close the window and not miss anything.

I have two main beefs that if

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