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Archive for August, 2010

In today’s world the personal computer has become almost indispensable for day to day life. It is used for everything from writing articles and home work assignments to chatting with friends and family around the world on various social networks. But there are some aspects of computer usage that are often overlooked in our society. One is the legal aspect of respecting and paying for the intellectual property of the companies who provide the operating system and programs we use to accomplish the various tasks for which we obtained a computer in the first place. And another is the security aspect since today’s computers all to often come under attack by viruses and malware. Read the rest of this entry »

Today my laptop “bit the dust”.  It simply refused to cooperate.  I couldn’t even get it to boot into “Safe Mode”.  Fortunately I set up an Ubuntu Linux 10.04 USB drive the other day.  I guess the Good Lord was prompting me.  A search on the ‘net produced zilch, nada, zip, diddley as to ways to fix the problem I’d encountered.  The hard drive was accessible so the external hard drive was called into play and a copy of the document folder contents was made. Read the rest of this entry »