Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Wow I Got My Dream Job!!!

I have several loves in my life besides my wonderful wife Marianna. I love flying pretty much above all else after her. I love photography and I love messing around with computers. I have spent the last 15 years (up to November 2009) working at Rubbermaid mostly as a tech. I was able to work [...]

Fixing Your Own Computer

I recently had an issue with my new laptop. It is a slick little HP TX1000 and I loved it. The problem started just after the warranty expired. The first symptoms were that the internal wireless card stopped working. I went through a series of steps to try to resolve the issue starting with calling [...]

My Dell Laptop

Well I have decided to write about my Dell today. I bought a Dell 4150 almost 10 years ago. I guess it has been a pretty good laptop for the most part. One of the issues I had when I first started using laptops was the fact that I didn’t know how to work on [...]

My First Computer

I remember when I first became interested in computers. I had worked in the Navy as a SINS (Ships Inertial Navigation Systems) tech and we had these old Univac computers. They were taller than I was and wouldn’t do what any modern computer would do now but they were neat. A few years after I [...]