Long gone, but now back… sort of. :)
After reading “Should you trust a hard drive after a major error?” (2019-02-18 AskWoody Plus), reader Daniel Loyd wrote with a real-life anecdote of a rather usual drive problem he encountered: “Fred, I had a hard drive that worked great, check disk and several 3rd party tools showed the drive was in great shape no…
Removing active malware will stop it from doing further or future local damage, but that’s all. You may still have trouble left over from the original, now-removed infection source. For example, removing ransomware from your PC or phone won’t automatically decrypt your files — they’ll still be inaccessible. You’ll have to restore your device from…
How about $0.00? Plug the drive into any PC that’s on the network; use that PC’s built-in OS tools to “share” the drive on the net. For example, let’s say you plug the drive into a Windows 10 PC. When Windows recognizes the drive and assigns it a drive letter, right click on that drive’s…
Reader Sheldon Doskie asks: “Hi Fred, Great to see you back! Are you aware of a problem when trying to update the latest virus signatures of the Malwarebytes free version? I keep getting ‘unable to access update server,’ then after a minute or so, the current date followed by a 2-digit number is displayed as…
Sure, within reason. Merely being outdoors or in motion won’t hurt a desktop PC. But impact, moisture, or temperature might. If the PC is properly and fully shut down before moving; and is protected/padded from sharp jolts, bumps, bangs, and such; and is kept dry and at human-comfortable temperatures; it should be safe to transport…
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As if Boston’s warm-ish, nearly snowless winter wasn’t enough of a clue that something weird is going on, a local resident spotted a porpoise in Dorchester Bay last week — a normal event in Spring, not February. A brief Boston Globe article on the porpoise is here, and includes a phone video of something you…
How about four identical 14-year old, 250GB ATA/EIDE hard drives? They’re still in use and still run fine. I use them for archival/backup storage of various photos, software, and virtual machines. Those drives actually have more miles on them than shown because they were inexpensive remanufactured models. They’d already been in service; had failed or…
Keyboards are ultimately a trade-off between the number of letters and numbers in common use in the language being supported, and the size of human hands and fingertips. Ideally, you want the most-commonly used letters, numbers, and symbols to be immediately visible and accessible; but not have so many keys that the keyboard is huge,…
This week’s new AskWoody Plus newsletter is out; and for now you can read it for free, online. Here’s what’s inside issue 16.6.0: In the Langalist‘s “Should you trust a hard drive after a major error?,” I show you how to tell if a hard drive is still trustworthy after a significant event. In Woody’s Windows Watch, Woody Leonhard sends…