TECHdodo

Today I finished the clean install of Windows. Hours of downloading, and more reboots than I can remember and the system is up to date. The last thing I needed was antivirus software. I think I can get McAfee through my ISP, but I thought I would see how the free antivirus programs were doing [...]

I haven’t had to reinstall Windows from scratch in a long long long time. I have an old Compaq desktop. I don’t remember exactly how old it is, but it is pretty old. It is still fast enough to do pretty much anything I need though. In the last few months, the original hard drive [...]

One of the laptops I have is a Compaq V2000. It is actually a V2312US to be exact. I have Puppy Linux on an old 1GB USB Flash drive. I use it on several other computers, but on the Compaq, there is no USB boot option in the BIOS, or so I thought. I had [...]

A little over a week ago I experienced a malware attack from a kids website. I wrote about it here.  The attack, I hypothesized, came from the ads that it was displaying. The site itself did not seem to be doing it on purpose. I then wrote about a way I found to protect yourself [...]

Someone I know asked me today, what netbook should they look at if they wanted to buy one today. My answer was none. I suggested they wait a month. Here is why. There are some new netbooks waiting in the wings. These are new models with the ION platform. This is a netbook platform combining [...]