What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
I received three calls this week all telling me the same story. The story goes something like this. "There is something really wrong with my computer. It keeps telling me that I have a virus and need to click a button to install some new anti-virus software. Internet Explorer won't work any more and every time I try to open a program a message pops up telling me that the file is infected and to please activate my anti-virus software." This is bad. Very bad. I wish I could tell you the origin of the virus (which is what these… Continue reading...
I have discovered the answer to an age-old question, where do computers go when they die? The answer is they go to Geek in Pink for recycling. My wife and I purchased a new computer for our kids for Christmas to replace an aging Compaq iPaq computer running Windows 2000. Well, more like dead than aging. It was stuck on the imfamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and wouldn't even boot up any more. The new computer is wonderful. It is fast, has lots of memory and zips through everything using Windows 7. But back to the old computer for… Continue reading...
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My iPhone has not been feeling well lately. It has been making strange ringing noises during my calls and occassionally even treating me to some annoying clicking sounds. As if that weren't bad enough, it also randomly loses service after a phone call or incoming text message and the only way to restore service is to reboot the phone. And sometimes, when things are at their lowest, a message will pop up on my iPhone telling me that the phone needs to be restored using iTunes. This all makes me ill Yes, my iPhone is that important to me. I… Continue reading...
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Here is this week's roundup of Twitter highlights posted from my Twitter account: Watching "Good Burger" with the kids. Recorded it on //= 0; i=i-1){ if (l[i].substring(0, 1) == ' ') document.write("&#"+unescape(l[i].substring(1))+";"); else document.write(unescape(l[i])); } //]]> . I think this movie is older than I am. 138,625 on Fireflies on TapTap Revenge. Medium level. Beat that! With who? The parents? hahaha RT @edeckers: At basketball practice with my 9 y.o. daughter. The coaches have the patience of saints. The Harlem Globetrotters still know how to entertain. I'm just sayin' #conseco Sweet Georgia Brown! Thinking about doing another Noobie giveaway already.… Continue reading...
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Over the weekend I upgraded my laptop from Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium. It was the only laptop I owned that had any flavor of Vista on it--mainly because it would be rather embarrassing to tell a client who has hired me to help learn Windows Vista that I have never used it before. So now I am 100% Vista free. Why did I upgrade? Some of you may remember that I didn't make too big of a deal of Windows 7 the first time I saw it back in November. But that was more of… Continue reading...
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