Puter Duder

07/03/2021

Hey everybody!

Just a friendly reminder to back up all your devices! Save yourself time and agony later!

05/22/2020

Howdy everyone! Hope you are all safe in these interesting times!

Please remember to back up *ALL* your devices just in case THEY catch a virus!

01/06/2019

Remember to back up your devices or at least sync your most important stuff.

Signed,
680 lost gallery items

11/15/2017

Yesterday's work perspective:

Manager at POS install after I was done: "They wouldn't let me rate you 11."
Me: "You should have offered 20! That's not 11!"

As usual, another happy customer!

11/10/2017

Hey, everyone! Today is a good day to back up your devices!

09/08/2017

ATTENTION FRIENDS! EQUIFAX (yes, the credit score place) GOT HACKED. PLEASE USE THIS LINK TO CHECK YOURSELF!!!!

https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/

September 7, 2017 — Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX) today announced a cybersecurity incident potentially impacting approximately 143 million U.S. consumers. Criminals exploited a U.S. website application vulnerability to gain access to certain files. Based on the company’s investigation, the unauthorized a...

07/14/2017

TODAY'S PUTER DUDER TIP!

If your technician suggests re-installing (or upgrading a current version of) Windows as the first step to fixing a computer issue, DO NOT DO IT. I just did a job where the user was told that, and the update failed, now her computer is unusable and she lost everything, plus the fact I spent 5 hours on it (much of that though was to create different installs on my flash drive, but her system wouldn't read the drive, although the drive was getting power (and I figured that out after the third install creation ugh). The fix in her case was actually quite simple, and would have taken me a maximum of 30 minutes to accomplish with only the loss of her login using her MS account, and that probably would have been temporary.

04/23/2017

CHECK YOUR TRACEROUTES, SURVEILLE THE SURVEILLANCE!

IXmaps wants to “make visible the secret, dangerous, often illegal forms of surveillance that are increasingly becoming part of everyday life.”

03/28/2017

Windows 10 choked my netbook up so badly I had to IMMEDIATELY uninstall it.

Three people have filed a class action lawsuit in Illinois for $5 million, claiming that Microsoft's Windows 10 update ruined devices or caused them to lose data in what they called the company's "failure to exercise reasonable care."

03/21/2017

All 15 iPhones lined up side by side.

03/15/2017

Nice.

Lots of sports teams celebrated, but only one went 30-digits deep.

08/11/2016

Thanks to Marc Stern for sharing this. I guess I'll stick with my 1080p, from which I sit about 10 feet away.

For most people, 4K resolution on a TV screen is pointless because the human eye isn't refined enough to pick up the detail in a 4K image at typical viewing distances.