Long gone, but now back… sort of. :)
My report about making a hard drive permanently inaccessible really struck a chord with AskWoody subscribers! That article, “‘Moving house is great fun,’ said no one ever” (AskWoody Plus Newsletter 2020-07-13), kicked off a profusion of reader tales about drive sanitizing — a mix of excellent advice, unexpected suggestions, and amusing anecdotes. Take a look in…
An AskWoody Plus reader questions whether data is safe when traveling over common AC electrical circuits. Plus: Yet more tips from your fellow subscribers on hard-drive destruction, salvaging — and maybe even revival! Those are the topics of my column in this week’s AskWoody Plus. Also in this week’s AskWoody Plus edition: PATCH WATCH: Hello! Has…
Following my recounting of decommissioning a failing hard drive, readers share their real-world tips on drive destruction. If there’s a creative way to ensure that an old drive never gives up its secrets, it would appear AskWoody readers have tried it. But a nail gun? 🙂 More on do-it-yourself hard-drive destruction is the subject of my column…
Sometimes, Wi-Fi just won’t fly Steel-framed walls in my new apartment made Wi-Fi connections ludicrously slow and unusable in the home office. The router’s “SON” (self-organizing network) features didn’t help. But a hardware end-run got the office communicating again. That’s the subject of my column in this week’s AskWoody Plus. Also in this week’s AskWoody…
My home and office relocation hit some snags, including fatal damage to 5TB of backup files; and the subsequent necessary physical destruction of the drive to make the old files unrecoverable. (See photo.) But after that and other detours involving both high and low tech, things are finally getting back to normal; and that’s this…
… but it can let you see some things in a new light. We Langas are midway through a major relocation. My column in this week’s AskWoody newsletter covers a few things I’ve learned from tearing down, moving, and rebuilding my office and home computer setups. Among them: another reason to love solid-state drives, and…
Langa.com is on a scheduled break as we relocate our physical offices. New posts here will be infrequent for the next couple weeks… but then we’ll be back to what passes for normal. 🙂 See you in a bit. Stay safe out there! Permalink: https://langa.com/?p=5176
AskWoody subscriber John Mackin’s laptop was badly malfunctioning, and the problem remained unresolved even after some top-notch troubleshooting and maintenance. “Fred, I have a three-and-a-half-year-old laptop (Dell Inspiron 13”, i7, 12 GB RAM, 1TB M.2 SSD, Windows 10) that has recently begun to periodically shut down during use. “Suspecting CPU overheat, I downloaded the CoreTemp…
AskWoody subscriber John Mackin’s laptop was badly malfunctioning, and the problem remained unresolved even after some top-notch troubleshooting and maintenance. “Fred, I have a three-and-a-half-year-old laptop (Dell Inspiron 13”, i7, 12 GB RAM, 1TB M.2 SSD, Windows 10) that has recently begun to periodically shut down during use. “Suspecting CPU overheat, I downloaded the CoreTemp…
Langa.com is on a scheduled break as we relocate our physical offices. New posts here will be infrequent for the next couple weeks… but then we’ll be back to what passes for normal. 🙂 See you in a bit. Stay safe out there! Permalink: https://langa.com/?p=5176
