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Thank You Cox Communications

January 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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The Joy and Pain of a New Computer

October 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments

A few months ago Patty’s computer, a seven year old Dell 4100, crashed with the dreaded BSOD. When it came back up, there was an ominous warning in the Windows System Event log with this Description: “The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and [...]

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