What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
My computer woes continue. Last week I was hit with a virus. This week, my hard drive on my computer started acting up. And yes, there's no need to remind me these things come in threes. When trying to think what good could come of this it occurred to me that most noobies would have no idea if something was wrong with their hard drive unless a big giant message on the screen told them so. So I thought maybe I could teach them. How did I know my hard drive was failing? Pretty simple actually. My computer started responding… Continue reading...
It was bound to happen to me eventually. Over the weekend, my computer got a virus. Well, it didn't really get a virus. More like a virus wasted a bunch of my valuable time. The reason I didn't actually get the virus is because I use Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare anti-virus program. And it did its job. Sort of. Close, but no cigar As soon as the virus was detected, OneCare popped up a message letting me know about the virus and gave me an option to clean the virus. I thought all was good until a few minutes later,… Continue reading...
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A good friend of mine, Cindy Hartman, recently included one of my blog posts on her Hartman Inventory blog. The blog post talked about the importance of backing up the data on your laptop and how close it came to affecting me personally after three cars parked right next to mine in a parking lot were broken into. One of those cars belonged to another friend of mine who had his laptop stolen from the front seat of his car. Hearing me preach about computer backups is nothing new. But have you ever stopped to think what would happen if… Continue reading...
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Is there such a thing as getting too many confirmation emails? A recent online purchase I made inclines me to say yes. I recently helped a Noobie Concierge client purchase an ASUS Eee PC 1000HE 10-Inch Netbook (I told you these things were a hot item) along with a Samsung USB external slim DVD drive. At the time of purchase, the best deal on the external DVD drive was at NewEgg so I went ahead and placed the order there on behalf of my client. Since I have placed the order, I have received the following emails (subject lines listed… Continue reading...
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Last week I wrote a blog post asking readers if the busy signal has become obsolete. I received a lot of great comments to that blog post including one from Michelle Hartz of Bloomington, Indiana, who sent me a link to an article on the Internet that took my blog post a step further by mentioning 10 things your great grandchildren won't remember. I'm not going to include a link to the original article because the web site containing the article is NSFW (click that link if you don't know this means). In order for me to still give proper… Continue reading...
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