If you’ve ever dealt with a computer crash due to virus, hard drive failure or otherwise, then you know this comic is 100% TRUE.

I mean, who has time to waste constantly backing up the hard drive, and technicians can make it all better, right? WRONG.

After you get your system back on track you should make this comic your desktop image and NEVER FORGET to back that data up.

And remember-no amount of key pressing will bring your precious data back, and those kittie pics on your hard drive could have made you A MILLION DOLLARS!

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Interesting times to be shopping around for a processor, but what about a new cooler to go with it? This unassuming little work of art is the copper special edition of the NOFAN CR-95C, which is rated to cool CPUs of up to 100W TDP without the need for a fan. Judging from all the Intel and AMD leaks, that level efficiency ought to have you covered regardless of whether you opt for Ivy Bridge or Trinity — so long as you don’t mind hanging around until June, because FanlessTech reckons we won’t see it go on sale any sooner.

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MSI outs new GT60 / GT70 gaming laptops, we go hands-on (video)

Everything old is new again: NVIDIA rebrands Fermi-based GPUs into 600-series

Intel puts Ivy Bridge on the map: promises up to 20 percent faster CPU, doubled graphics, desktop quad-cores from $174

Now that Intel’s let the cat out of the bag (and into the Ivy), it’s high time we took a look at what manufacturers are going to do with those fancy new processors. Behold: The MSI GT70 gaming laptop, one of the first gaming beasts out of the door with Intel’s next generation architecture. Living up to its next-gen CES promises, this 17.3-inch behemoth falls squarely in the desktop replacement category, at 8.6 pounds, and packs a new 2.3GHz Core i7-3610QM processor, NVIDIA’s latest GeForce GTX 670M chip with 3GB of video memory, 16GB of DDR3 RAM and a fancy RAID 0 dual SSD setup — all wrapped in one hefty, formidable package. So how powerful a combination do Ivy Bridge and NVIDIA make? Let’s find out.

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DNSChanger is the name of an Internet Trojan estimated to have infected millions of computers around the world. In a nutshell, DNSChanger (incorrectly reported in some outlets as “DNSCharger”) redirects your Internet traffic to unsafe Web sites by modifying your computer’s or router’s DNS settings to point to malicious DNS servers. When the perpetrators behind the trojan were caught last year, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations oversaw replacing those DNS servers. Now the FBI is preparing to shut down the DNSChanger temporary DNS servers on March 8th (update: U.S. courts agreed to extend the deadline to July 9th, 2012).

If your network isn’t infected by that Trojan, this March 8th server shutdown has no impact on your Internet access. If your network is infected, however, the shutdown will cause your Web browsing to stop functioning.

You can remove it by running a Full Scan with your favorite antivirus tool, such as http://microsoft.com/securityessentials, and you can fix it with http://www.avira.com/files/support/FAQ_KB_Download_Files/EN/AviraDNSRepairEN.exe?x-origin=web if you’re having trouble with your Antivirus app updating.

If you’re like us, there’s nothing you hate more than having to go to different sites to pick up your pneumatics and abrasives. Thankfully, Amazon, that aggregator of all things with a price tag, has launched AmazonSupply, a site serving a broad range of industrial and business categories, including such favorites as fasteners, power & hand tools, fleet & vehicle maintenance and cutting tools. The site also offers up such Amazonian favorites as free shipping for Prime customers. AmazonSupply features some 500,000 plus items at present and 365-day returns. More info can be found in the press release after the break.

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Adobe’s biggest day of 2012? Go ahead, don’t be afraid to call it what it (probably) is. For starters, the outfit is introducing Creative Suite 6 to the world in formal fashion, with 14 applications either unveiled or refreshed. Photoshop CS6 is graduating from beta — seeing an update that’ll provide “near instant results” thanks to the Mercury Graphics Engine — while Content-Aware Patch and Content-Aware Move are sure to please artists suffering from the “Surely you can fix this in post!” clientele backlash. Adobe Muse is happily entering the scene for the first time, described as a “radical tool that’ll enables designers to create and publish HTML5 web sites without writing code.” (We’re still waiting for Flash to comment.)

In related news, those who aren’t up for paying $1,299 (and up) for one of the new suites can try something a bit different: monthly installments. That’s coming courtesy of Creative Cloud, an quasi-new initiative designed to harness the power of cloud-based app distribution and streaming in a way that’ll make CS6 more accessible than any of the packs that came before. You can tap into CS6’s amenities over your broadband connection for $74.99 per month, while those who agree to an annual subscription can get in for $49.99 per month. To be clear, that provides unbridled access to any CS6 tool: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and AfterEffects, and the rest of the gang. If you’re jonesing for Photoshop alone, that one will be available for $29.99 per month month (no contract) or $19.99 per month (annual agreement). There’s no set release date just yet, but we’re told to expect the new goods “within 30 days,” and pre-orders seem to be a go. Head on down to the source links for more details on each individual aspect, and catch a promo video for the cloud-based subscription offering just after the break.

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With more on the Flashback malware plaguing many Macs, beaverdownunder writes with some explanation of how the infection grew so quickly: “Alexander Gostev, head of the global research and analysis team at Kaspersky, says that ‘tens of thousands of sites powered by WordPress were compromised. How this happened is unclear. The main theories are that bloggers were using a vulnerable version of WordPress or they had installed the ToolsPack plug-in.'”

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So, there’s still a little while to go before Intel gives Ivy Bridge a full unveiling, with official benchmarks, pricing and all those trimmings. But in the meantime, the BBC has detailed just how different this new architecture is compared to 32nm chips like Sandy Bridge and also AMD’s coming Trinity processors. Most of this stuff we already knew — like the fact that Intel has switched to a 3D or ‘tri-gate‘ transistor design — but what’s new is a direct and official boast about performance. According to Kirk Skaugen, Chipzilla’s PC chief, we can expect Ivy Bridge to deliver “20 percent more processor performance using 20 percent less average power.” Now, judging from leaked desktop and laptop benchmarks, this broad-brush claim masks some very different realities depending on what type of CPU or GPU workloads you want throw at the chip, so stay tuned for more detail very soon.

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If
you do lots of push-ups, you get stronger – but if you do a lot of mental
exercises, do you get smarter?

For most of human history, it’s accepted that you’re either born smart
or (sadly) not and that there’s no amount of Sudoku that will make you
smarter (sure you can be more knowledgable – say by educating yourself,
but not intrinsically more intelligent).

But that common wisdom may be wrong: studies show that you can increase
your smarts by improving your memory through certain types of games.

… in 2008, [Susan] Jaeggi turned one of these tests of working
memory into a training task for building it up, in the same way that
push-ups can be used both as a measure of physical fitness and as a
strength-building task. “We see attention and working memory as
the cardiovascular function of the brain,” Jaeggi says.“If
you train your attention and working memory, you increase your basic
cognitive skills that help you for many different complex tasks.”

Jaeggi’s study has been widely influential. Since its publication,
others have achieved results similar to Jaeggi’s not only in elementary-school
children but also in preschoolers, college students and the elderly.
The training tasks generally require only 15 to 25 minutes of work per
day, five days a week, and have been found to improve scores on tests
of fluid intelligence in as little as four weeks. Follow-up studies
linking that improvement to real-world gains in schooling and job performance
are just getting under way. But already, people with disorders including
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (A.D.H.D.) and traumatic brain
injury have seen benefits from training. Gains can persist for up to
eight months after treatment.

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