Tag Archive for 'Norton Internet Security'

Whoops, Wrong Blog. Oh, Wait…

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Rick
on August 16, 2007
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No, you’ve come to the right place. The blog is undergoing a lot of changes.

Aside from the very obvious design change, the majority of changes are under the hood — things readers won’t see, but are large improvements for me, the blog writer.

Problems I was experiencing with Internet Explorer not being able to see embedded videos from YouTube or Google Video prompted me to look into new turnkey blog software.

On my home computer, which runs Vista and the latest versions of Internet Explorer 7 and Norton Internet Security, the embedded blog videos were not displaying properly when I viewed the blog in Internet Explorer.

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Validating Vista

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Rick
on March 8, 2007
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Windows VistaAfter waiting a month and a half for Dell to feel comfortable enough to ship Vista to its users as part of the Windows Vista Express Upgrade program, I finally received my copy in the mail yesterday — and three hours later received an e-mail from Dell saying it had shipped.

I purchased myself a new computer for Christmas from Dell and part of the deal was a free copy of Vista when it launched.

I installed it last night. It took 5 hours and I still have a few tweaks and minor installs to make, but overall I have to say I’m satisfied.

Headaches are expected with every operating system upgrade — at least for us PC users — and there were a few with this transition.

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