The BearFirst and foremost congratulation to the National Champions University of Alabama.  In a move not normal for my family we decided to have a little football party and watch the game.   Its unique in my house in the fact that non of us are really into football.   I’m originally from Texas, my daughter goes to Birmingham Southern, and my wife only has family who graduated from Auburn.  So no real tie to UA except the fact that we are proud Alabamians.

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zerolove on January 3rd, 2010 in Nerdology

Well I’m not talking about news, we all have our favorite news sites Digg and Slashdot?  I’m talking about Windows Software, not windows itself.  You should have windows update turned on for that.  I’m talking about everything else, how do you keep it updated.  Do you wait for the software to complain that it is old?   Do you have several updaters running in the background, for instance, Java Update or Quicken update?  If so, you are wasting memory and slowing down your system.  What I have found to be the best and easiest way to keep updated is to use, FileHippo.Com Updater

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zerolove on November 5th, 2009 in Commentary

My Role ModelYep, it is already that time of year again.  We just skipped past Halloween and now its on to Thanksgiving and Christmas.  This becomes a very busy time of year for me.  See this is when people become vulnerable to E-Card type of viruses.  Everyone wants to be green and send these fake, none feeling, one click, vi er E-Cards.  It again becomes my job to stop them.  They are a hindrance on Mail servers,  they are a hindrance on IT Staff, and who wants to spend the holidays battling a computer virus.

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zerolove on October 22nd, 2009 in Nerdology

14412196 6df76d4f85 s Zbot Variants Spreading!There are several ways to propagate a virus. One of them being social engineering.  This is what the Zbot variants are trying to do.  They are sending emails that seem to come from your service provider, Microsoft themselves, and or your system administrator.

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zerolove on September 20th, 2009 in Alabama

An Auburn fan tries to go boating….
Fail Boating!
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