After crying like a baby for a few hours at the prospect of so much lost data and insufficient backups, I decided that maybe there was still hope for recovering my lost data.  As I mentioned, I just recently completed a college course in information forensics.  As part of this course, we learned how to [...]

About two weeks ago, not more than a few days after the end of my Junior year of college, I decided that it was time to do something with my laptop.  My installation of Windows XP Pro was starting to get sluggish and being the impatient type that I can sometimes be; it was beginning [...]

Let me start off by saying that I realize making a statement as bold as the one in the title is blasphemy in the I.T. world, and I also realize that at this very moment I’m probably being brought up on charges of high treason by my fellow computer guru’s, but aside from all that [...]

Working in customer service and retail often expose employees to some pretty interesting customers. You know the kind; they call you up right before the store closes demanding to know why their computer won’t start even though they swear on their life that they’ve properly checked all the connections. After fifteen minutes and countless obscene [...]