Michael Hiltzik over at The Los Angeles Times reported this morning, Intuit Changed TurboTax This Year, Triggering an Enormous Customer Uproar. What they did was pretty bad. The base $59.99 TurboTax has always included the filing of schedules C (small business expenses), D (capital gains), E (suplemental income) and F (farm income). These are pretty…
Month: January 2015
Hackers Could Crash Your Car — But Don’t Worry
People tell me that they don’t like the idea of self-driving cars. I mean, who is to say that they wouldn’t screw up? I understand the concern, but it is probably uncalled for. At one time, I was employed writing software to follow a given car from a video feed. It was a difficult problem….
Don’t Let Myth Drive Your Choices
Not that long ago, I found myself working at a high tech start-up. It was amazing. The company had been started by a brilliant if eccentric man who had new ideas every day. And I worked along side a hardware genius who could make just about anything work. I, of course, was doing the software….
Gateway SX2802-07 DVD Eject Button
What we’ve got here (is failure to communicate! sorry) … is the uncooperative DVD (optical drive) button on a Gateway SX2802-07, which can be easily fixed. This unit does not want to eject a DVD and it has nothing to do with the functionality of the drive itself, it has to do with the way…