Just a few things that have struck me about my new Vista machine: OK, so Dell announced on June 18 that they were going to allow customers the option to not have some pre-installed software. I ordered my system the week before that and saw that option, how new is it really? This system came…
I got to work this morning and the new super-charged, powerful machine wouldn’t boot. After about an hour and a half of troubleshooting on my own, I eliminated the drive being the problem, even a brand new drive gave me a no device found error. At that point, it was time to gather up all…
I had been loving Gsyncit, as I mentioned before. Unfortunately, as with many other tools, an update created chaos with my machine tonight. When I opened Outlook, I was prompted to install an update to Gsyncit. I agreed to do that. Naturally, the install required me to close Outlook, which hadn’t finished opening in the…
So you’re a cable repair guy. you go to someone’s house and there’s obviously a network running. The cable modem is giving the customer problems, so you decide to try and replace it. In fact the tech support folks on the phone told the customer that there seems to be a recent history of the modem losing connection to…
I actually meant to say something about this awhile back. For a long time I looked at people who worked with dual monitors and thought to myself “meh”. I never saw the attraction, or saw much benefit to having two. In fact, I kind of figured if I had that much desktop space to look…
We’ve been having problems off and on with our Internet connection at the house. Finally, last night Angela gave them a call. The bad news is that it’ll be Thursday before they get out to our house, so I can’t really plan on having reliable Internet connection during the evening until then. (For example, it…