Category: Tech Tips for Artists

May 23 2011

Ipower responds to being hacked.

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Little followup to my post yesterday of how Ipower totally failed when they were hacked ("compromised" is their word) 2 times in one week. Thinking more about it, this is terrible management. First, to have such poor security, and second, not admitting the mistake and TELLING US exactly WHAT they were doing to fix it, ...

May 22 2011

Ipower hacked by malware for WordPress blogs.

computer landscape via Yale Digital images

Ipower, (Ipower on Facebook, because their other support is useless) has lost it. They just disallowed all comments on Facebook because they have another security breach, and AGAIN allowed malware in all of our sites! And this is after another attack 3 days ago! Three days ago someone on Twitter told me I had been ...

Feb 09 2010

Don’t buy a Gateway Monitor! They suck!

user-friendly computer, user-hater monitor cartoon

My Gateway FPD 2185W, Gateway FPD 2185W Widescreen High-Definition - LCD 2121", just DIED 3 months after the warranty expired. I was so shocked (literally) that I got sick. I ordered it in 2006 at the same time as my Gateway computer. I'm a tough shopper, and love to do research and understand everything. One thing ...

Oct 06 2009

Google is a prude and hates chocolate chip cookies.

Remember when I wrote a couple of months ago that Google decided it hated me, sent me to my room, and took away my traffic? I had read on one of the sites I researched there that it could be because of one squiffy iffy comment that appeared in his site when he was out ...

Sep 10 2009

Oops.

There was a little kersnaffle with WordPress last weekend - Lorelle describes it well there - and I always trust the very cool Lorelle- that there were some nasty hacks and attacks from an East European hacker into older versions of WP, so I had to update AGAIN. This time it was painless, because of a ...

Aug 02 2009

Why does Google hate me?

I like games. I'll play them for a long time. But I don't like games with no rules at all, because it's only fun if I can learn the rules and play better. By this, my 2nd blog, it's apparent that Google is better at games than I, and believes that too much SEO knowledge ...

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