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Naturally, I have a computer in just about every room of the house.  The one in my kitchen has created quite an eyesore with speaker wires, network cables, wires keyboard and mouse, wired webcam, and […]

A computer virus is no excuse for missed emails, at least in Federal Court. A federal appeals court has upheld dismissal of a wrongful termination case granted after the plaintiff’s lawyer experienced computer problems and […]

In today’s world of 500GB drives for under $100, most of us don’t need to worry about maxing out the hard drives on our personal laptops unless we have tens of thousands of mp3s and […]

Why A good hot air solder rework station costs well upwards of $100. If you have just a few parts you need to reflow, you can use a common heat gun available at most hardware […]

About this Post We recently found ourselves in a fight with SURBL.org to get a client’s domain off of one of their blacklists. This is a little bit of information about SURBLs and some resources […]

ABOUT: This is a circuit I designed to generate a PWM signal for an RC servo given an analog voltage or high frequency PWM.  It has no microcontroller and can be built with one quad […]

We recently had a computer in the shop that had a Hard Disk password and a BIOS password set on it. The Hard Disk password is stored not only on the logic controller, but also […]

A clean install is a reinstallation of your operating system “from scratch”.  Under most circumstances, this is a last resort when the operating system is so badly damaged, corrupted, or otherwise uncooperative, that other options […]

We often find ourselves the new owners of our customer’s old computers. Some cheerfully donate them for parts, some just don’t want to ever look at their old laptop again (this stems from the same […]