By Brian Haines on May 13, 2010
This is a very good deal on a refurbished laptop. MSI is not well known but most of the personal computers I have built have MSI motherboards in them. This is a great laptop for the price. I can hardly keep from purchasing it for myself. Core 2 Duo T6600 2.2GHz 4GB 320GB DVD?RW DL [...]
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By Brian Haines on April 13, 2010
I think it is well past time to strongly encourage everyone to strengthen their passwords. Imagine all the sites you have passwords for that can be reset by verifying your email address. A strong password should meet ALL of the following criteria. It should not a word in the dictionary, Not include dictionary words, Be no less than 8 characters (longer the better), Use both letters and numbers, Use both lowercase and uppercase letters, Use one or more special characters (e.g. %, $, @, etc…)
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By Brian Haines on February 17, 2010
I knew we would all move to Windows 7 eventually, but I didn’t know that I would be this happy about it. Really. Not only has Windows 7 performed well on my 2 year old laptop with only 2GB of RAM, I have enjoyed using it and find that some of the new features are [...]
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