Posts tagged: tech

May 23 2011

Ipower responds to being hacked.

International Conference for the Integration o...

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 ...

Jan 03 2009

I miss my computer. Backup, you peeps!!

Thanks to those of you still here! Have been pounding the heart of my computer for 10 days trying to make it live. Right before Christmas I got spyware from GoComics. (yes, it's all cartoons, which is shocking enough. What kind of person likes cartoons and also sends spyware out?) Later, when they hired me ...

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