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A couple of years ago I made the decision to take my home office off the grid and start powering it with a small solar power generation/storage system.
Simply put, I grew weary of not being able to work during the outages that frequently shut down the power grid in my rural neighborhood.
I procured the parts necessary to build that first solar setup and I was so impressed with the results that I decided to take my entire home (mostly) off-grid, one step at a time. [Read more…]
Question from Charles: I updated my PC from Windows 10 to Windows 11 a while back.
Ever since then I’ve been getting “User Account Control” warnings several times a month, and I ALWAYS get them when I’m trying to install something new or make a simple settings change.
I can’t seem to do hardly anything at all with getting hit with a warning.
I know that UAC is meant to prevent me from doing something stupid and trashing my system, but I’m an experienced user and I know which types of things I need to avoid.
My question is do you think it would be safe to disable UAC? I really don’t think I need it. [Read more…]
In my opinion, WordPress is the most powerful blogging platform out there. And truth be told, it’s also one of the easiest to use.
There are times however when something goes wrong and your blog simply refuses to load in a web browser.
If you’re new to WordPress it can be quite frightening the first time you see the dreaded “white screen of death” – the stark, solid white error page that WordPress displays when it encounters what it deems to be a catastrophic error. [Read more…]
Question from [name withheld by request]: After reading your Blog about Facebook and all the scams and hackers you make me want to NOT like anything.
How do I know now what is to be trusted and what is a hack, scam, virus, computer killer, bank account wiper outer…
Heck dude you got me paranoid just even being on the danged computer now…thank you, but not really!!!
Why should I trust YOU? [Read more…]
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Question from Glenda: I’ve been using Carbonite for over a year thinking all of my data could be recovered if my hard drive died, but now I’m not so sure.
A guy at work told me that there are some very important files that Carbonite doesn’t back up.
If what he told me is true, do I still need to back up my computer onto an external hard disk even though I use Carbonite?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]