One of the reasons I’ve been so upset over not having good internet access is that there are just so many things I want to do that require it. This won’t be news to any of my readers, of course, but it becomes even more apparent when that access is missing or impaired.
For instance, in [...]

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I’ve just added a new feature to this site, which I may also implement on my personal blog. It’s called Snap Shot, and if you roll your mouse over any link in this page, you’ll see what it does.
The popup windows give you a glimpse (“snap shot”, doh!) of the target page, so you can [...]

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When I left off in my last posting, I was going to chase down the last vestiges of malware still apparently lurking on Phil’s MacBook Pro from the DNS Changer trojan horse. Even though I’d eliminated the installer, what it installed was still creating some kind of traffic back to a couple of IP addresses [...]

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On the advice of our good friend, Mark (whom you may recall showed us his on-the-road internet setup, which got us started down the mobile WiFi path), I’ve been looking into the possibility that Phil’s MacBook Pro could have some kind of malware that is sucking up all our bandwidth.
First I found Little Snitch, a [...]

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This afternoon I had a call from Verizon’s sales, following up on our recent purchase of one of their AirCards and data plan. I told the rep that while we had no technical problems with the setup, and were actually pretty happy with it, their 5 GB cap is completely inadequate. In fact, four days [...]

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