Category: Technology

From the Help Desk: Rescuing a Laptop from BitLocker and Lenovo’s SecureBoot

From the Help Desk: Rescuing a Laptop from BitLocker and Lenovo’s SecureBoot

I’m putting this here to help anyone who ends up in the same place I was last night at a bit after midnight. I know you’re out there… I’ve seen your panic-stricken posts to the Lenovo forums (fora?). The Problem: Lenovo-crippled firmware As the de facto “IT person” for the greater portion of my and …

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Getting your $%*# Ring Doorbell hard-wired

Getting your $%*# Ring Doorbell hard-wired

I got a Ring Doorbell as a gift recently (thanks, Mom!), and, after about 4 weeks I’m finally satisfied with its installation! It’s not hard to find people complaining on the internet that their Ring Doorbell installation isn’t working. The design is… not great. There are spring pins on the back of the device that …

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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson: a review

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson: a review

UPDATE: Gruber chimes in In an interview about his recent biography Steve Jobs, author Walter Isaacson had this to say about the writing experience, [Steve Jobs] gave me an enormous amount of material, and the book kind of just wrote itself. Yes, it appears to have. It’s all too easy to tell that this book …

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