I am going to start this with some questions for you. Think about them and give honest answers to yourself. Have you ever called or e-mailed Microsoft or some other software manufacturer’s technical support about a problem as a user? What was your result? Did the technical support personnel begin with the assumption that you [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2009’
The Dangers of Loaning Your Laptop
I recently worked on a Microsoft Windows XP based laptop for a young female college undergraduate at the request of her parents. The system was reported to be running “slow” and not able to access DVD media. I picked up the laptop and brought it to my home office for examination while the family took [...]
More Shopping Site Updates
I am slowly but surely getting content on our shopping site. I actually added some items for you Microsoft users today. A service item for Microsoft system recovery and an AVG Internet Security item. Granted, these are not fun items but they are necessary for many Microsoft users none the less. There are plenty of [...]
Backup with growisofs
I wrote an article in 2006 about making backups with growisofs on DVD+RW media. That article is Using growisofs with DVD±RW Drives for Backups on our main web site. Yesterday, 2008 December 31, I created a new addendum that details using tar to create a file that then gets backed up using growisofs. If one [...]
