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Category Archives: Computers
Deleting Hard Drive Data (Files)
Previously, I wrote about how to permanently delete magnetic data. Nobody uses removable magnetic media anymore, so I thought it’s time to outline the same procedure using internal or USB drives.
Windows 10 Licenses Your Hardware
I’ve been running Windows XP, Mac OSX, and Linux. I am trying Windows 10 without upgrading from anything and it appears to be free without activation for some period of time. Skip all the upgrade chatter. Instead, I downloaded a … Continue reading
The Westell 7500 Doesn’t Forward Email Ports
I want my Mac to receive encrypted email via POP3 on port 995, and I want to send encrypted email using SMTP on port 465 and 587 (two different ISP providers). The Westell 7500 DSL modem fails to perform the … Continue reading
SSL Mac Client with Windows Server – Toys
My toolset for Mac OSX 10.6.8 SSL into a Windows XP Pro SP3 computer is complete.
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Drive Appears Unformatted Only When on External USB Cable
Strange happenings in the computer lab. It appears my external USB cable makes hard drives appear unformatted even though they work fine when installed internally.
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Tagged cloud computing, computers, hard drives, linux, USB drives
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99% of ICOs Will Fail
The 10,000 year view of cryptocurrency