Category: Computer

Computer related posts – computer troubleshooting and tech support, software, programming and more…

Online Connections

I made my first remote connection in 1992, using a Macintosh “cube”. BBS’es and file transfers were the purpose. Soon I was online with both Windows and Macs using programs such as Crosstalk. While intriguing, it […]

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MMS 2007

Just back from a week at the 2007 Microsoft Management Summit. Excellent sessions, good people, tons of new products and strong direction forming up from Microsoft. Kinda wild for a first timer like myself. From the […]

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Dork geek

Just spent 15 minutes tracking down a phantom machine on my home DHCP network. I was working on my wifes laptop figuring out why it had lost it’s IP again and wouldn’t renew. I checked my […]

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Internet Explorer 7

I rebuilt my work laptop and instead of installing Firefox or Opera I went with Internet Explorer 7. I installed from a test build I’d made using IEAK 7. The install went smoothly and after a […]

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Windows Media Player 11

Don’t upgrade to Windows Media player 11, yet. (01-27-2007) I bypassed my usual Audio app iTunes on a newly built machine in an effort to force me to use Microsoft’s new Windows Media Player 11. I […]

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A brief history of Windows PCs

Your computer is what’s often (derogatorily) referred to as a “WinTel” machine on which the software is dominated by Microsoft Windows and the hardware is dominated by Intel. Intel was founded by three unhappy Fairchild Semiconductor […]

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