Computing at North Country CrossRoads

FOR SALE USED (Very Good to Excellent Condition ) $150 HP Elite 8400 Dual Core 3.00 Ghz... 8 GB RAM 1.8 TB Hard Drive 22" Monitor DVD-RW Window 10 Pro Keyboard Mouse See more

+35 years for me.

Can I run my laptop with the lid closed? It really depends on the hardware. Some laptops are designed in such a way that cooling is in some way dependent on the lid being open. Some of the super thin gaming laptops with NVIDIA GPU's are like this, the bottom is cantilevered so that it opens up when you open the lid, exposing or enlarging the exhaust vents to allow for proper cooling. Some other designs integrate the exhaust vents into the hinge in such a way that there can be... little to no airflow if the lid is closed (usually such designs have the hot air flowing up in front of the screen). Other than cases like those though, you should be perfectly fine running your laptop with the lid closed all the time. There is, however, one other caveat to this: don't put anything particularly heavy on top of your laptop when doing this. Most should be fine, but some have poorly designed lids and may end up with damaged screens from doing that.

Do you make it difficult for a hacker? For example, you can put more characters in your password to be more protected: Time for a hacker to come up with your password.... 5 characters = 10 seconds 6 characters = 16.7 minutes 7 characters = 1 day 8 characters = 115 days 9 characters = 31 years 10 characters = 3,000 years Here’s a list of common ways to be more efficient with your passwords: Capitalizing the first letter of a word. Checking all combinations of upper/lower case for words. Inserting a number randomly in the word. Putting numbers on the ends of words. Putting numbers on the beginning of words. Putting the same pattern at both ends, like *foobar*. Top 20 most common passwords according to NCSC from 2019 Rank 1 123456 2 123456789 3 qwerty 4 password 5 1111111 6 12345678 7 abc123 8 1234567 9 password1 10 12345 11 1234567890 12 123123 13 000000 14 Iloveyou 15 1234 16 1q2w3e4r5t 17 Qwertyuiop 18 123 19 Monkey 20 Dragon

DO NOT DO FACEBOOK QUIZZES! Popular social media quizzes, like the ones that pop up in Facebook feeds, may look harmless and fun but taking them can leave you vulnerable to identity theft or fraud. The Better Business Bureau, media literacy groups and police departments warn that hackers and scammers are behind many of these social media quizzes, so they can collect, use and profit from the personal information you share.

Microsoft sends security patches out the 2nd Tuesday of every month. A patch updates one component of the software, perhaps to fix a bug or error discovered after product release. Security patches address vulnerabilities in the software cybercriminals might use to gain unauthorized access to your device and your data. Please ensure your computer is updated. If you have problems with this, we will do it as part of our Health and Status checks (soon to be changed to the 2nd Saturday of the month).

Good article on how to remove personal data from old computers. Or, you can contact us and we will do it for you.

Do yourself a favor. Download Malwarebytes for free and run a scan against your computer. I ran it on a client's computer and removed 569 nefarious files. I ran it on two of my computers and had Zero infections on both. Anyone needing help can ask. Those is NY, I will be doing this as part of a Computer Health and Status Checks on 10 April 2021. https://www.malwarebytes.com/

The First Poem Written for Computers: <>!*''# ^"`$$- !*=@$_ %*<>~4... &[]../ |{,,SYSTEM HALTED For you somewhat cybernetically challenged, it goes something like this (using the proper cyber-names): Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash, Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash, Bang splat equal at dollar under-score, Percent splat waka waka tilde number four, Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash, Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH

SOLD USED (Excellent Condition) $350 Dell Latitude E6530 Laptop Intel Quad Core I7 3720QM Up to 3.6GHz... 8GB DDR3 RAM 1TB SSD (hard drive) DVD-RW VGA and HDMI 15.6 Inch Screen Windows 10 64 Bit See more

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