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Bad Passwords

Bad Password! The new bogeyman of malware, that is, malicious programs secretly installed on your computer, is raising the fear level amongst users. Note that “Fear Level” and “Awareness” are not the same thing. One will not get control of something so much out of fear as they will out of better knowledge and awareness …

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Artificial Intelligence OR How Soon Can I Get Rid of These Pesky Employees?

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is becoming more and more common as new applications of it are developed. I thought it would be a good idea to share some fundamental data about this and perhaps reduce unnecessary mystery around it. I found it interesting to learn that the basic “thought” process used by AI is extremely simple. …

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Spreadsheets: How Not to Create Future Problems with Solutions Created Today

In the heat of daily battle urgent needs arise and the solution seems obvious: quickly throw up a spreadsheet and put the data in it.  There is nothing wrong with that. There is very little effort to execute, and if after the hot action that spreadsheet can drift back into history, we have scored a …

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Creating a Comma Separated Value (‘csv’) file from Access

Below is a simplified procedure for creating a .csv file from Access. As with so many applications, there are dozens of setting, parameters and options you can pick from, but to accomplish the simple task all you need to know follows. What is “csv”? Let’s just make sure we all know what we’re talking about. …

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