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The computer was being recalcitrant, not too unusual after running for a couple of days and using Photoshop Elements. Don’t remember precisely what it was refusing to do, but it was decided that the quickest and surest cure was a restart. But the computer refused even that. Tried at least 4 times to choose Shutdown [...]

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My apologies if your attempts to visit over the last week have been less than successful. By an as yet unknown means, the .htaccess files on this website were modified without my knowledge to include links to another site peddling bogus antivirus software. It was pretty sneaky. When the files were opened in a text [...]

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Chances are that nearly everyone who wants to convert from Windows XP to Vista on their home computers has already done so. If that is your case, the rest of this article won’t be news. But if you are thinking of upgrading or have done so recently, you may run into the same problem I [...]

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It was more than 24 hours later than promised, but Cox Communications did find the solution for my online ebill viewing problem. Since you are only experiencing this problem when using Internet Explorer, there is a setting in in menu option Tools-Internet Settings-Advance called “do not save encrypted pages to disk”, please make sure this [...]

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Computers are such time wasters! Yes, I know, and agree that there are some things that they make so easy that now we can’t live without them. But that’s when they work correctly. There are so many times when they don’t quite, and then it becomes a huge time killer to figure out why and [...]

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Here are some other shots from the November 1980 Torrance Townhall meeting. Then-California governor Jerry Brown introduced President Carter (above center). Can you guess who the reporters are in the other two photos? If those faces are unfamiliar to you, this typical home computer of the time ought to produce a chuckle.

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