Yesterday I encountered a problem on my Windows Vista laptop which nearly had me stumped. I have Windows Vista Home Premium, and last night my Internet connection stopped working. My main symptom was that Windows said “Local Access Only” in the status window that appears when you hover or click on the network icon. Normally, [...]

This was caused, for me, by Norton Internet Security. I have had lots of network problems be caused by firewalls in the past, but I didn’t even know Symantec was running on this computer because its icon didn’t appear in the taskbar. This is a frequent problem on Windows XP, but this is Windows Vista [...]

This will be useful in the future. DBAN.

From an article in IEEE Spectrum, it looks like they had a pretty serious situation on the International Space Station this past June, but they’ve worked it out. It shut down the station’s three computers, which are crucial for space station operation.
October 2007 -Aboard the International Space [...]

I did some more research and these pages stood out.

Killing a GUI mess
Mac OS X 10.4.9 update causing ugly crashes?
Recover from WindowServer crashes using one machine
OS X Lockup with Command-Tab
C2D Weird Locking Up, Freezing, Hanging
Instant Review: Aluminum iMac

Any fixes out there?
Update: I’ve spent a lot of time chatting with Apple Support and finally got transferred [...]

Here is some valuable info from the Google cache for a website that’s now down.
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Working on a Disk…
I’m working on a disk. It’s has some nasty bad areas on the disk, so much so that I can’t use Acronis True Image to clone the data. It’s probably not completely necessary [...]

Today a couple of laptops came in for repair. One is a super-thin Sharp laptop with a dead hard drive. What an opportunity to run SpinRite!, I thought. But there was just one problem: no disk nor disc drives of any kind.
These super-thin laptops have a hard drive, but no optical drive and definitely no [...]