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Sometimes you have a shared folder and the permissions are never what you want them to be. Suppose you have a HP Color Laserjet Pro MFP M477fdw that can scan to a network folder on your Mac. The problem might […]
I run quite a few websites for friends and clients. One in particular keeps getting hacked (not this one). The rest of my sites do not get hacked at all. The differences, as I see it, is a theme purchased […]
It’s really not that big of a deal. But sequence DOES matter. And if you have access to your database via phpMyAdmin, that might be handy in case anything goes wrong, you can fix it. The database doesn’t get moved, […]
Sometimes your email server gets a new SSL security certificate, or you have just set up your email account for the first time on this computer. In those cases, you may need to accept & save the email servers SSL […]
THE BAD NEWS From heartbleed.com The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers […]
The worst thing about passwords is trying to come up with a new one that is sufficiently complex, yet something you can remember. And how do you know if a password is easily guessed versus being a great password? How […]
Hey, if you are open to saving money with last year’s phone, and some people will be, check this out. It won’t work for the iPhone 5, but it does work really well for the Verizon iPhone 4S. I mentioned […]
Most Mac users have not even seen a virus in many years. But it could happen. I’ve been trying out Sophos AV for Mac (Free) for some time now in both Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard & Mac OS […]
I am now a contributing editor of Technical documentation for the CHIRP project. CHIRP is a free, open-source tool for programming your ham radio. It supports a large number of manufacturers and models, as well as provides a way to […]
How to Migrate from VirtualBox to Parallels I have a bunch of VirtualBox VMs that work fine under VBox, and I’d like to use them with Parallels Desktop 8 on Macintosh. Sadly, Parallels is not able to import them as-is, […]