Well, in an effort to cut the traffic coming to my house and to lower utilization of my cpu on my server I am trying to host this blog on wordpress.com at http://hometownnerd.wordpress.com . Not sure yet how I like it since there are no plugins here and cannot extend it much because of that […]
I never realized how much someone that I did not know could have an impact on my life. My love for computers started way back in 1982 or so and it was because of Steve Jobs’ Apple II that caused it. I had no idea who he was at the time, I just knew I […]
Ok, just thought I would make a quick post about a company I am sure if you have any connection to computers at all you know them, they are NewEgg.com. They are a rather excellent PC, accessories, and electronics distributor, mainly online through their website, but they also offer picking things up at their service […]
Ok, here goes, I have been having issues with my laptop locking up, which is for another post, and i finally decided to bite the bullet and do a install of Windows 7 x64 again. I remember last time I did the reinstall I could not get my fingerprint reader installed and while doing research […]
I have been having a problem on my Dell Precision M6400, where Windows 7 was starting to lockup, not where the mouse would stop working but enough of a lockup that any application I could click on was rendered useless with the spinning orb. I ran antivirus scan, a spyware scan, a malware scan, cleaned […]
Ok, I have brought my website back online after a number of years, I am fairly good at working on all things computer from hardware to software, from web pages to applications, from virus removal to malware fixing, and I figured that maybe some people out there would like a cheaper alternative to those big […]
Well, a couple of weeks ago my video card, a XFX GeForce 8600GT XXX, popped two caps, no it didn’t go gangster, it just decided to give up on me. So I replaced it with an XFX ATI 4850 video card which I purchased from Best Buy. I know, I could have bought it from […]