Most of us can identify themselves in at least some of the Dilbert stories, in particular with a technology related work environment. I have added a Dilbert widget to this blog which shows the latest comic strips as well as an archive dating back several years. Best of all, the strips are in color!
It's always a good idea to clean computer peripherals, in particular the mouse. Nowadays, mice come in all sorts of shapes and technologies. No matter what's inside the mouse, it must be clean to function properly.
Dirt prevents mechanical wheels from spinning, optical sensors from reading and lasers and lights from shining. Below an inside shot of a first-generation Logitech TrackMan Marble not cleaned for a decade.
I tried several times to get Canonical's Xubuntu and Ubuntu installed on various computer configurations and everytime I ended up going back to Microsoft's Windows 2000 or Windows XP. That's a rather strange outcome given the hype around the Ubuntu products and Linux in general.
The task was pretty simple: changing the operating system (OS) on old(er) hardware so it either became a licensed one (previously running some illegal copy) and/or a faster one.
(More)Nowadays, virtually everyone with an email address - no matter how private or public - receives unwanted emails. I am no exception to this, despite email scanners and filters. The trick is to know when an email is spam and scam, when an email is incorrectly labelled by the numerous filters it passes, and when an email has passed all filters untouched despite being a scam.
If you want to contribute to the seemingly neverending war against this flood of annoying emails, you could in the very least ignore such emails and just delete them (never reply to them no matter how much you want to give the sender a piece of your mind) and install some filters to reduce this load. If you come across a Nigerian Scam aka 419 Scam, you could give it a quick read to see if it's the usual prince or solicitor sender or if it comes from a bank employee. In the case of a bank imitation, you could go a step further and actually contact the bank (if it exists).
