Maverick Ramblings

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If you ever receive a call from someone claiming to be your alarm company’s central monitoring station, be careful about giving out your password. How can you know if it’s really them?

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Virii are not data (like pictures or documents); they are programs – they do things. In order to install a program on your computer, you need a particular level of authority, and without it, you can’t install programs, good or bad. Once you have one, the IT “textbook answer” is to reformat the machine – it’s the only way you can be certain that the virus is removed. Once you repair or replace your computer, we recommend the #1 anti-virus strategy that no anti-virus company would ever share with you.

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A lot goes on during the summer to prepare for the first day of school; to help ensure that important issues aren’t overlooked, here’s a checklist of items to complete for the start of each new year.

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Considerations and strategies for planning to have an alarm system installed

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A dedicated enough burglar can break into any premises; your best defense is to discourage the burglar from selecting your home, and there are two ways to do that. First, make it difficult for the burglar to gain access, and second, make it appear to the burglar that it wouldn’t be profitable.

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There are a lot of misconceptions running rampant about burglar and fire alarm systems. In this article, we’ll dispell seven common myths about protecting your home, business, or family with an automatic electronic alarm system.

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Now that you’ve identified what parts of your PC need to be upgraded, you need to decide how to deal with it. Some issues can be overcome by minor upgrades, but others aren’t worth the cost or trouble, and are an ideal opportunity to replace the PC.

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Maybe now it’s finally time to upgrade your PC, but what should you upgrade? The whole system? Just some components? When faced with limited resources, we have to make decisions about the best ways to employ them. How can you tell what to do?

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Besides hard drive data storage, there is another area in which computer performance may become degraded, appearing to be due to age: increasing demands on the processor and memory. This may be resolvable without upgrading your computer.

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In the previous section, we discussed the concepts behind computer optimization and hard drive fragmentation. After fragmentation, the next issue to discuss about how hard drives slow down our computers is the increasing volume of data being stored on them.

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