It’s about time!!!
Talk about waking up to danger years after the war is already lost..
* US declares cybercrime a ‘national emergency’, threatens sanctions against hackers, online espionage
“Sanctions will hit cyber criminals where it hurts – in the pocket – says the White House.” Read more..
But.. better late than never.. right?
Wonder how/if that’ll affect relations with China.. or, since they own us, and manufacture all our goods, they’ll get a pass? (Since we know they’re major actors.)
(Sounds good, but good luck with that.)
Kinda related: No free pass for Google
“Google’s vaunted “Do no evil’’ credo is taking a beating. Leaked documents show that Federal Trade Commission investigators wanted to sue the search giant on antitrust charges, but the push melted away into modest changes after Google executives made numerous trips to the White House.” Read more..
Today’s quote: “Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own.” ~ Adam Lindsay Gordon
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In Case Of Emergency: You Need This (Disc)
Before you do anything else, please do this:
1) Find the discs that came with the computer.
Do you see a “Windows 7” or “System Recovery” disc? No? Not surprising. Most PC makers are using a recovery partition these days (see, About the Recovery (D:) Drive). Well the plain and simple fact is — In Case Of Emergency: you going to want (need?) this disc.
Why? Because the discs are “bootable”, and can allow you to repair machines that will not otherwise boot (aka “start up”). If you ever run into such trouble, you can boot to the disc; which includes an automated boot-repair tool, some repair/diagnostic tools, and the ability to access a System Restore point and revert your system to an earlier (working) time. (see, My favorite Life Saver flavor? System Restore).
[note: The “recovery partition” option wipes your hard drive, and reverts the machine to the factory-condition state –> total data loss. All your updates and installed programs — gone. Thanks, manufacturers! *]
The disc will give you important “recovery” options, that can get your computer working again.
So you have a partition and not a disc. Remedy that now. All you need is a blank CD or DVD.
2) Click the Start button and type repair into the Search box. The top result is what you want to click – “Create a System Repair Disc”.
3) Your optical drive should be detected (if not, use the ‘drop-down arrow’ to select your CD/DVD drive). Click “Create disc”.
The drive tray should open, so put in your blank disc…
After a few moments, the tray should open (“eject”) and you will now have a “bootable” System Recovery disc…
.. and a powerful tool for repairing your computer in the event of serious errors. You need to make this disc BEFORE you need it.. though I hope you never will.
In case I wasn’t clear: do it now.
Kudos to Microsoft for making this tool a part of Windows.
* Utter, snide, facetiousness. A terrible move; and whoever decided that should be ashamed. And fired. IMHO.
Today’s quote: “”Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.” ~ Douglas MacArthur
Bonus: As a reward for reading down this far, I will explain a bit of Geekspeak you may have seen but not recognized (maybe you have) “disc” – with a “c” – is an optical disc, which you probably think of as a “CD” or “DVD”. When it’s spelled with a “k” (“disk”), they’re talking about hard drives.. usually the storage inside your machine.
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They’re anything but.
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