Look, I know 15 character, multi-symboled, including 3 numbers and 4 capital letter passwords are no picnic or walk in the park and should probably be outlawed but this is no way to store them. There are plenty of password managers out there like KeePass, Billeo, and PassPack (now known as Passpack) — so […]
It’s never easy to do but its a necessary evil. Sometimes you have to open up and tell the people what’s going on. This is something that Twitter has learned recently. With all of their downtime and problems, they have found that simply notifying their users that something is wrong makes everyone […]
Look but don’t touch.
Touch, but don’t taste.
Taste, don’t swallow.
–Al Pacino, The Devil’s Advocate
While this is one of my favorite quotes of all time, it fits perfectly into my next so-called rant and funny story. Windowsitpro.com had a great story about a university web site going down because someone took the X-box out of the […]
This will be a quick story that I came across from an angry IT guy. All you nonits, listen up as a friendly IT guy sent in this email:
Don’t lie to me when you need help with your computer. I don’t judge you if your PC messes up, these things happen but don’t think […]
This is my first post on That Damn PC and I’m happy to be here. I’ve spent my life tinkering with computers, blowing up electronic equipment and picking on the end-users at all of my IT jobs… Now I want to give back. I started blogging over the past couple of years […]
How many times have you wanted to take your printer out and give it a good whacking? Here’s your chance to exact some revenge on your plastic nemesis for the numerous times it broke down while you need to print something important.
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Announcing the first winner of our contest: It takes a computer to really screw things up, which asks you, the reader, to send in a funny computer story from your personal experience and if it wins, you win a prize: Colleen won with her story (Taming your wireless with antivirus) of the tech support she […]
Prediction: 2007 will find us getting more frustrated as tech support continues to disappoint one and all. All our gadgets will not save us from ourselves, from our tech support, from terrible manuals, from software which messes up hardware, from new-fangled operating systems which promise everything and deliver little or nothing or something we never […]
The contest is closed for now because I wanted to offer better prizes. It takes a computer… to truly screw things up! Contest!Have your own outrageous, true computer tale of horror, woe, or hilarity to tell?
I am sending the winner an original artwork, which may double as a mousepad (in a pinch). I’ve given these […]
Video downloaders will rejoice in Free Online FLV Converters. Download and convert your video from one format to another in a jiffy (AVI, MPEG/MPG, 3GP, MOV, FLV).
Windows IT Pro links to a review of 10 Anti-Phishing Toolbars (Cloudmark, Earthlink, eBay, GeoTrust, Google, McAfee, Microsoft, Netcraft, Netscape, and SpoofGuard.)
Download Google Earth Free (beta) and a Santa […]
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