Archive for 'Hardware' Category
Recycle It, Repurpose It
People always ask me, “George, what do I do with my old gadgets, computers, monitors and electronics?” My answer is always Recycle or Repurpose them. If you want to recycle them but don’t know where or how(or just don’t want to bother with it) you can either get in [...]
What’s the Difference?
I get asked about cables alot, HDMI/S-Video/USB/Component. Who has the best? What is the best kind to get? Do I need gold plating? Does it matter? i could tell you just from previously being an Office Depot cronie that it’s strictly marketing and proifit but i think this article puts a better light on things. [...]
Hard Drive Failure
It was a week of hard drive failures. Why is that strange? Mainly because the week was filled with thunderstorms and it should have been a week of power supply failures. Only one of those drives was completely unrecoverable by us. I hate not being able to recover data for people – all their pictures [...]
Need More RAM
One problem that I see time and again – lack of memory. A client brings in a computer that is running slow and it only has 256MB of RAM or if we are lucky 512MB. Of course a computer with so little memory is going to run slow given all the programs that people run. [...]
XP SP3 and Realtek Audio
While I am complaining about things that do not matter – why do I have to uninstall SP3 to get sound to work when the driver is Realtek?
Laptop Insanity
So the last six weeks I have had clients with laptop problems. Two Toshiba’s and one Acer. I have no idea what was wrong with the first Toshiba. It seemed like the motherboard was bad. The second Toshiba did have a bad motherboard. At random points the DVD would disappear, the touchpad would stop working, [...]
New Kindle Models
Well there are reports that the Kindle will have friends. There will be a smaller, updated version with an improved interface and a larger version about the size of a piece of paper. I would love to have one but $400 is a bit much for me at this point. I would be afraid to [...]