I have always disliked HP. Their new computers, sold under both HP and Compaq names, arrive out of box up to their eyeballs in crapware. Now I have one more reason to hate them. In […]
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Recently performed a repair install on a netbook (which is enough of an ordeal to deserve its own post). After performing the repair install, instead of being dumped into the desktop like before, I was […]
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09 Dec, 2009
We received a request from a residential customer to rig up an electronic fish tank. She noted that the massive HDTV on her living room wall went unused when she was playing music, and wondered […]
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09 Dec, 2009
In this example, I’ll talk a bit about the very workstation I am writing this blog post from. I’ll tell you how it’s configured, what’s running on it, why, how much it cost, and why […]
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30 Nov, 2009
Effective October 2009, Charm City Networks was granted MBE status by the Maryland Department of Transportation. CCN was also granted MBE status by the City of Baltimore in 2008, and is currently awaiting approval as […]
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I’ve had G1 for about 8 months now and had to reset to factory settings twice so far. It gets very slow after a while. I tried uninstalling apps to make it faster and that […]
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23 Nov, 2009
A broken backlight is a common ailment of aging laptops. Sometimes they burn out, sometimes they break, but the itsy bitsy tube that gives life and light to every LCD panel out there is not […]
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10 Nov, 2009
In this line of work you visit a lot of offices. You see a lot of office networks. In non-technically oriented small businesses, these networks are often an afterthought, something that grows organically with the […]
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09 Nov, 2009
The opening of our new shop brought with it several challenges, one of which was how to handle payments for our new “residential clients” who are walk-ins for PC repair. It was never an issue […]
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26 Oct, 2009
About 4 months ago I tried Amazon EC2 with Ubuntu image and found it somehow difficult to configure the server, especially if you are not familiar with cli. Making an ssh remote connection required downloading […]
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