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Don’t Do That #2: Computer Carnage

Tyler — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:40:55 +0000

Using Your Desktop to Transport Books You’re probably thinking to yourself, who in their right mind would possibly transport books in a computer. Well, I would have asked myself a similar question up until about two weeks ago when I met this genius - a self proclaimed computer wizard and Linux guru. Working for the Student [...]

Zoundry Raven Desktop Blog Editor

Tyler — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:31:55 +0000

So, hopefully everyone has recovered from Google induced heart attack by now. Luckily the entire Internet wasn’t actually completely consumed by some form of Malware, there was just a glitch in Google’s malware detection system. With that said, I have decided to attempt to start writing on here again. While I am still enrolled full-time in [...]

Google’s Harmful Site Detector, Broken?

Tyler — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:59:41 +0000

I dont know if anyone else has noticed this, but as of 9:50AM EST, Google’s harmful site detection seems to be on the fritz. As you will see in the attached photo, every single search result appears to be a “harmful site”. Not only is Google showing this “harmful site” link on the search page, [...]

Google Maps Helps Users Find Voting Location

Tyler — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:00:15 +0000

It’s finally the big day, November 4th, 2008. Election Day! Personally, I have already voted (using an absentee ballot); but if you haven’t I suggest that you get out and do it. It’s really not that difficult, and now thanks to Google you can’t use the excuse that you do not know where to vote. As [...]

Using Office 2007 in Ubuntu 8.04

Tyler — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:38:15 +0000

Being that I’ve spent a decent amount of time over the past couple of weeks attempting to get Office 07 to install and run in Ubuntu 8.04, I figure it would be appropriate to start this post with a Q&A session. This is what I have learned so far, take it for what it’s worth. Can [...]

Data Recovery: When Your OS Deletes Itself - Part II

Tyler — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:19:52 +0000

After crying like a baby for a few hours at the prospect of so much lost data and insufficient backups, I decided that maybe there was still hope for recovering my lost data. As I mentioned, I just recently completed a college course in information forensics. As part of this course, we learned how to [...]

Data Recovery: When Your OS Deletes Itself - Part I

Tyler — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:16:29 +0000

About two weeks ago, not more than a few days after the end of my Junior year of college, I decided that it was time to do something with my laptop. My installation of Windows XP Pro was starting to get sluggish and being the impatient type that I can sometimes be; it was beginning [...]

April Fools Watch: 2008

Tyler — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:15:11 +0000

Gmail Custom Time To start the night off (it’s only 12:20am) I have discovered a dead link in Gmail that definitely was not there earlier today. The link reads “Gmail Custom Time”, but when clicked takes me to a 404 error page. Check it out below. Could this be some new Gmail feature, or the first [...]

Dont Recycle It, Shred It

Tyler — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:00:09 +0000

Last week, I wrote an article on proper hard drive sterilization and as promised I’m going to follow up today with an article on how to digitally shred individual files. Let me first start off by saying this. If you’re some type of cyber criminal and you’re reading this in hopes of destroying evidence, you [...]

It Is Likely That Something Bad Is Going On

Tyler — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:51:05 +0000

Today while trying to install Ubuntu 7.10 on my Desktop, I received this very humorous error, one which I had never seen before. Apparently this error has something to do with some driver problems associated with ATI graphics cards (the x1300 in my case). The only solution that I have found so far is to [...]