Yesterday was Tuesday the 13th. For most of the world, Friday the 13th is the traditional bad luck day. But for the majority of Spanish-speaking people, Tuesday the 13th is the ominous one. The fear of the number 13th has a scientific name: “triskaidekaphobia”.The fear of the Friday the 13th is called “paraskevidekatriaphobia”. Apparently, its …
Things die… PCs eventually die. As with humans, this is a fact. No matter how much care we spend taking care of them or invest in upgrades, finally some vital component will fail, and the device will go to the heaven of nonfunctioning gadgets (trash). So, after 4 years of work, a mini-PC that I …
I’ll start with a foul, bad, mean word: torrent. For non geeks: Torrent is a technique for massive distribution of computer files. And is a foul, bad and mean word because most of the files distributed by this technique are covered by copyrights, so that means that torrent networks are basically the contemporary equivalent of …
After watching the pop up urging me to upgrade my laptop to Windows 10 for the eleventh time, I took the decision to go for it. I had changed my trusty 5 years old HP DM1 Z , which was loosing its battle against Windows 8.1 and was getting slower each day until it was …
How I helped to kill a Windows 10 bug, or a tale of two mail addresses…. Read More »
