18Mar 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Windows 7 auto upgrade is happening

Computer PC Tips - bits and bytes
  Upgrade from Windows 7 is possibly happening on your machine. The latest news concerning a auto upgrade with your Windows 7 operating system on a machine regardless whether it is a notebook or desktop may fade into memory unless you take steps to prevent an automatic upgrade of your Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 machine, it will happen even if you're not around to approve it. Our IT department witness it happen on a machine that is basically on most of the time, the update was filter from Microsoft and the upgrade began before anyone could stop it.  Is this big brother forcing users to go their way regardless they want to or not, could be.  There have been various reports of certain applications that have stopped working due…
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11Mar 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

The Raspberry Pi 3 is on sale!

Computer PC Tips - bits and bytes, Hardware Reviews
Raspberry Pi 3 is on sale! The Raspberry Pi is the credit card sized computer that changed the world. It’s Linux-based, and is perfect for tinkering or learning to program. The Raspberry Pi is a single board computer that has an ultra low cost, compared to typical computers. The primary reason for its creation was to give kids a low-cost computer with which to learn how to program. It's got a beefy quad core processor that runs at 1.2GHz, 1GB RAM, and most of the ports and capabilities that any normal computer would have. Generally, it runs on a Linux operating system and can run games, word processing programs, and spreadsheets.  For board comparisons you can click here. Some of the features are: ARM 64bit Quad Core Processor 1GB RAM Onboard…
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19Feb 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

How to fix a WordPress Memory exhausted error on your blog.

Computer PC Tips - bits and bytes
How to fix a WordPress Memory Exhausted error in the Cache.php Many times a blogger will insert a plugin thinking that everything will be fine and you will see the results immediately but instead after activating the plugin you are shown after logging back into the admin area. PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 6253909 bytes) in #### on line ### leaving you with no method of getting to the admin area getting only a white screen with this message. After doing some research the results were 3 simple updates that fixed the problem and brought back the web site. Step #1 - Make sure you have a FTP account with a username / password to retrieve the necessary files as well as…
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19Feb 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Microsoft will stop extended support in 2016

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Microsoft will stop extended support for Products and SQL Server Versions in 2016 Extended support in 2016 for various Microsoft products will come to an end.  Losing extended support will be some of the older Internet Explorer browsers (IE) as well as some .NET framework 4 versions.  In April of this year, SQL Server 2005 also will lose extended support. The loss of extended support means that Microsoft will stop issuing security patches for these products, which represents a potential security risk for organizations. The products won't get any future hot fixes, although there's an exception for software covered under Microsoft's "custom support" contracts. That's a potentially costly option, though, with costs going up after the first year. As a long practice by Microsoft they have provided support for the older product…
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22Jan 2016 by richard@baronsoftware.com

1337 Institute of Technology on-line courses Review

Computer PC Tips - bits and bytes, Software development Concepts, Software Events
Udemy on-line courses beat the competition. After taking a recent Excel certification course using 1337 Institute of Technology there was a lot left to be desired. It seems that the course instructor are descent but the overall experience on watching and learning from the course on-line leave so much to be desired.  The display is weak thus giving a terrible session when attempting to learn new software or gain knowledge on a subject.  The sound is mediocre and just the mobility between lessons is extremely slow.  There were numerous times you have to re-log into the session if you did not respond to it in minutes when in fact it should remain open for at least 30 minutes before forcing a logout. Even if you were to go full screen it was…
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