Category Archives: TECHNOLOGY

Not in the hot days of summer, even under the heat of inspiration, have I ever appreciated my laptop more. Than now, on these cold winter nights. Continue reading →

I’ve not felt like writing or thinking or playing, so immersed myself inside the shop computer and gleefully discovered that the problem was a broken plastic clip holding the wire connection to the on/off button.  A dab of hot melt … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It never rains but it pours.  The shop computer will not turn on.  Somewhat similar to what happened to it last time and I found it may have been either the power supply or the hard drive and these have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Tis the season of heavy catalog mail, and what to my surprise should appear?  An amazon.com Bed & Bath catalog! So even as the Vermont Country Store sees the future and sets up a website, the babe born in cyberspace … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The KISS philosophy is one I practice when coming up with passwords, mainly because like you, I have dozens of websites that require them and it’s a PITA to log in.  Seven months after I first set the passwords for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Have one more pc up and running for the shop, although I haven’t yet tried to save the data from the dead main drive I’ve taken out.  I have this one up to Windows 98, although it’s thoroughly confused because … Continue reading → Continue reading →

While I have the new pc running perfectly with a 40 gig hard drive, a 1.8 AMD Duron CPU, its own Win XP o/s and an unbelievable 1280 mg memory, I’m juggling three hard drives to come up with one … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So okay, now I’ve figured out the video device drivers and have reinstalled WIN XP and even Office 2000 and so far everything’s working fine.  I don’t know if it’s something new with Win XP, and if it is, it’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is coming to you directly from a pc I built from scratch!  Obviously, all I had to do was plug in the connector and I’m online in seconds!  This of course is not due to any great abilities on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

…so far. And I must admit that I’m slowly learning to love Windows XP.  The installation of Win XP directly into my new system worked like a charm, and putting in the device drivers was a simple matter allowing the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Fixed the CMOS/BIOS problem on my computer.  Oddly enough, the info was wrong for the setting on the CPU, but by removing a jumper connection on the motherboard and resetting it after five seconds with the computer off, it goes … Continue reading → Continue reading →