ROBERT OWEN — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap

Here’s to MAC Security

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This was another “Eaten” Post. I’m adding it back because I find it is still relevant information in the whole MAC vs PC debate going on these days. The information below is slightly dated but, it really hasn’t changed much in the past year. Problems still exist on BOTH sides. (Although the MAC guys would lead you to believe otherwise.)

Well, we always hear of the Apple Macintosh’s superior OS security… How they never get viruses; never lock-up, No “Holes” in their OS etc.. And, now that they have changed to the Intel Processor we are seeing Television ADs with two guys portraying and PC and a MAC… One time the PC guys has a “Cold”.. the next time he “locks-up”. All the while the MAC guy talking about how “HE” nevers has any of that trouble…

Well, you will be interested to see the bit of news posted May 11th…

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Friday Funny: Johnny

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Here is a funny for everyone this Friday:

A first grade teacher, Mrs. Brooks was having trouble with one of her students. The teacher asked, “Johnny what is your problem?”

Johnny answered, “I am too smart for the first Grade. My sister is in the third grade and I am smarter than she is! I think I should be in third grade too.”

Mrs. Brooks had enough. She took Johnny to the principal’s office.

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Load DLL’s needed for Kernel – XP

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Had a user call reporting their computer shutting off suddenly. On reboot, they received the message “On last operation CPU reported a thermal event” Well.. This told me that the CPU fan had probably choked and the CPU had overheated causing the PC shut down. Upon inspection I found my initial thought was only partially correct. The CPU had overheated, … Read more

Monkey Games and others

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**EATEN POST** A while back, I was introduced to some neat online games. If you like Monkeys and robots,  you’ll like these!  They seem to be a perfect waste of time so, I thought I’d share. Mokey Kick Off Monkey Lander Smashing Zed Not super futuristic games but, they are good time wasters if that’s what you’re looking for?!?!? Have … Read more

History Lesson

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Continuing on the Theme of  “Posts eaten” , we have this beauty below. It truly is a dandy, must be because, WordPress ate it up like a plate of Chocolate covered bacon… mmmm, bacon!

A friend of mine sent me a bit of information about our Presidential line that I did not know so, I thought I would share.

Who was the first President?
I’m sure that George Washington was your best guess. After all, no one else comes to mind.

But think back to your history books – The United States declared its independence in 1776, yet Washington did not take office until April 30, 1789.

So who was running the country during these initial years of this young country?

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Remote Desktop

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Here is another Post that must have tasted good because, WordPress ate it when I converted. It should still be useful to someone out there…

When Windows XP came out, we were introduced to the new and improved remote desktop. It’s Great! Believe me, I use it regularly.

Well, when you use it to connect to XP workstations you get to connect to the console session. However, when trying to connect to a Server 2000 or Server 2003 machine you get connected to a “Remote Desktop” not ever to the console. Well, this really kind of bugged me but not enough to worry about. Until now. Now, I use a couple of programs that run as a service but only interact with the console session. So, when you log in remotely it trys to start another instance of the program causing errors. Well, I finally got off my butt and found a way to connect to the console session using Remote Desktop.

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