The other day I noticed some of the computers I was working on were reporting the wrong time for their last boot. I thought that was odd. I knew for sure they had been shut down the night before. But Windows was saying they had not been rebooted for almost a month. So after doing Continue Reading »
Let’s talk about search engines. Like it or not they are very powerful and control a lot of our daily life. Search engines are quite possibly the number one source of information for most people. But can we really trust them? The gateway to the world’s information Google is by far the most used search Continue Reading »
Yesterday someone made the comment about me using my left hand for the computer mouse. It reminded me of my battle with arm pain. The fear of carpal tunnel syndrome. And what I did that solved my problem. I am no doctor but maybe it could help you too? My Story with Arm Pain Back Continue Reading »
A few years back I was doing some reading about file systems. I was interested in how ZFS and BTRFS hash every sector of the disk in order to detect data corruption. I think of it as a file integrity monitor but at a lower level in the system. Most of the time these filesystems Continue Reading »
There are times when you really need to get back some deleted files. Like a while back when I had a lady at work come to me in distress. She had a bunch of family pictures on a USB drive and had somehow deleted them. I could tell by her face those pictures meant a Continue Reading »
