About 15 or so years ago, the recommendation for a password was to use a combination of letters and numbers (and maybe symbols, but back then not everything would accept symbols). And of course you have to use a different password for every place you needed one. I read a blog back then which helped…
Tech
Printer woes
My current printer is approximately 10 years old. It’s an HP and has been a great little printer. It’s wireless (which I love), prints A4 in colour and B&W and has a scanner. At the time when I bought it, I’m sure it was fast, but compared to most printers now it is very slow.…
Tech torture
Last week my computer began playing up. It seemed to randomly shut down and restart, it didn’t type the first letter when I started typing, it would cycle through tabs, open and close things and a whole series of other randoms. Basically drove me crazy. I tried everything I could think of… virus scans, shut…
Fake out
I’m sure everyone has seen the footage this week of what appeared to be an American reporter hurriedly closing Porn Hub when going live to report on the election. Nor surprisingly, this turned out to be fake. “Fake news” has become something of a common occurrence in this modern world of social media unfortunately. A…