BRUCEB NEWS
The Covid Vaccines Started With A Teddy Bear Stuffed With Money
On January 10, 2020, Chinese scientists posted online the genetic sequence of a then-unidentified virus isolated from 41 hospitalized patients in Wuhan. Two days later a team of scientists at Moderna had programmed the RNA sequences that became the Moderna Covid-19...
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BREAKFAST WITH BRUCEB & MIKE COOK
On Friday morning, March 27, from 7:30-9:00am, join Mike Cook and me at the French Garden restaurant in Sebastopol for continental breakfast and some bits of wisdom about...
WINDOWS XP SLOWDOWNS
Why are our computers running so slowly? I began to notice it about six months ago. Everyone with a 3-5 year old Windows XP computer was complaining that their computers were...
NEVERENDING WIRELESS WOES
I have shared a bit of wisdom with many of you when we’ve talked about setting up 802.11 wireless networks: People who depend on wireless networks call me about connection...
WORD 2007 CRASH
Some random troubleshooting notes. I don’t know why Word 2007 got cranky. My poor computer is working hard these days as I load it up with programs and services, so maybe it was...
ACROBAT SECURITY UPDATES
Adobe has now released all of the updates to fix the security vulnerability reported last month. Here’s my original post about the need for these fixes. On my systems I had to...
THE HUNT FOR CONFICKER
Don’t miss the fascinating article in the New York Times today about the worldwide hunt for the authors of malicious software named “Conficker.” An extraordinary...
INTERNET EXPLORER 8
At 9am PDT on Thursday, March 19, Microsoft is scheduled to release Internet Explorer 8, with a number of new features and under-the-hood security improvements. I’ll let you know...
SENDING LARGE FILES WITH ACROBAT.COM
Adobe’s online service Acrobat.com has been available for almost a year as a place to store files and collaborate. I wrote some notes about it last summer. Now Adobe has...
BACKUPS – ONLINE BACKUPS
Previously:BACKUPS – INTRODUCTIONBACKUPS – DATA vs. DRIVE IMAGEBACKUPS – EXTERNAL HARD DRIVESBACKUPS – SOFTWARE FOR DATA BACKUPS There are dozens of services to help you back up...
ACROBAT SECURITY PATCHES
If your computer has Adobe Acrobat 9 or Acrobat Reader 9, you should have already installed an update to version 9.1, issued last week. Open the program and click on Help / About...
GRANDCENTRAL BLOSSOMS INTO GOOGLE VOICE
After years of uncertainty, Google announced Google Voice yesterday, the expanded version of its phone service GrandCentral. As a GrandCentral subscriber, I’ll be upgraded to the...
BACKUPS – SOFTWARE FOR DATA BACKUPS
Previously:BACKUPS – INTRODUCTIONBACKUPS – DATA vs. DRIVE IMAGEBACKUPS – EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES I’ll mention a few ways that you can make a backup copy of your important files, but...
PAUSE
That’s 14” of fresh snow overnight, followed by an afternoon of sunshine and deep powder skiing. I’m sorry, I didn’t want to gloat, but I had to tell someone. There will be a...
BACKUPS – EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES
There are no excuses. You must have a backup of your data that is updated regularly. A backup is just a second copy of your files stored separately from the primary computer’s...