Showing posts with label windows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windows. Show all posts

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Ah print Job stuck????

If your a PC user at all, I'm sure your familiar with the long wait and frustration associated with canceling a print job. The printer grinds to a screeching halt. This problem is caused because windows cannot delete the print job while the temporary file for the print job still exists and is being used.
Well there have been several solutions I've found for this problem one was a batch file script that you just saved to your desktop and ran when you needed to cancel a job, well batch files are a little sketchy in nature, but this little piece of freeware does the trick just nicely and requires only basic computer knowledge and the permissions to install a program.

Download here

Monday, January 11, 2010

You probably aren't even close to safe

If you're like most people you probably have the same password for all of your accounts or a close variation of such password. This probably isn't the end of the world except your passwords are probably relatively weak and easy to crack with a brute force attack. Chances are you also use your web browser to save passwords to your websites, this is probably this biggest no no you can commit. Firefox makes all passwords viewable hidden within it's options for example, but it also has a master password that locks all of that down, which is quite secure if you choose a password that is alpha-numeric & 8+ characters due to the near uncrackable AES encryption Firefox uses.

I suggest using a password manager because I know we all can't remember all of the different passwords websites force us to make. I prefer the sofware KeePass as it is cross platform, open source, and best of all FREE.

The MacOS link is HERE