Lincoln Parent Searching for Daughter’s Stolen Laptop

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  • Written on: May 27th, 2008

I admire the father in this situation for taking the initiative to contact the computer repair shops in Lincoln and in Omaha just in case this system might turn up for some reason.

New Windows XP Service Pack 3 Glitch Renders Wi-Fi Adapters Useless

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  • Written on: May 20th, 2008

One by one each notebook’s wireless network adapter stopped working. We were getting the following error from the Windows Zero Configuration Service : Windows is unable to find a certificate to log you on to the network [Network name here]

How to Respond When People Threaten to Sue You on the Web

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  • Written on: May 19th, 2008

Listing ONLY “Peter Kowalski” not my full name, easily apparent in the program itself, as Alexander Peter Kowalski. Thus, I’d never find it online) & this would be part of the grunds I am suing on if need be for libelling me online since 2004. This is not an idle threat, it is a certainty. I am rather insulted & furious regarding this incident that has long been hidden from myself via what I feel are nefarious means.

Thor Schrock Interviewed on Podnutz

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  • Written on: May 4th, 2008

About a week or so ago I was interviewed for a podcast that is currently up on Podnutz.com. The interview was originally supposed to be about techie computer stuff, but it kind of morphed into an interview about starting a business and learning your marketplace.

Where Do All of the Dead Hard Drives Go?

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  • Written on: May 1st, 2008

If you have ever wondered how data recover works when your poor backup habits come back to bite you, you should watch this video. It pretty much says it all.

Dell Inspiron 1721 Notebook – Rollback from Vista to XP

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  • Written on: March 31st, 2008

Word of that success made its way from Nebraska all the way to Pennsylvania where a Vista-strapped Dell Inspiron 1721 longed to run Windows X instead. The owner of that notebook decided to ship it all the way to Nebraska to have our technicians take a crack at migrating it back to Windows XP, even though Dell would not provide XP drivers for the unit.

iPhone Delete Multiple Email Problem Solved

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  • Written on: March 20th, 2008

Long story short, I figured it out and here is how you can experience the pure joy of checking email on your iPhone, avoiding almost all spam, AND as a special bonus have everything you do on your iPhone synchronized with your Outlook email client in REAL TIME matter where you are in the world!

Thank You to My Readers Who are Helping Others!

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  • Written on: October 13th, 2007

Came across you site while googling to find the SATA chipset drivers to install Windows XP on newer Toshiba laptops. You said you found drivers on Gateway’s site. I wanted to let you know where to find the Intel drivers that are not vendor specific.

Apple Destroys its PR Image over $3/month

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  • Written on: October 1st, 2007

This war is unwindable, as Microsoft has learned over the years. It doesn’t matter what Apple does to make nice at this point, short of restoring every bricked iPhone out there – and that is not going to happen.

Heads up on a New Version of the Storm Virus Scam Emails

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  • Written on: September 9th, 2007

The Storm Worm has a new trick to help build its bot-net supercomputer – Attention football viti… I mean fans!

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