by Shane Grantham | Jan 29, 2025
I had an interesting case last week. A new client contacted me about their MSI gaming laptop which wasa having problems charging the battery. Before we got together, they took the cover off the laptop and looked around inside and put it back together. The power...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 28, 2025
Around 2016 I put a Linux Server into service for holding my business and personal files. It was left on continuously so it could always be there if I needed a file. Another reason was to keep it in a stable thermal state at the same temperature, If it was shut down...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 11, 2025
For the past month I’ve been trying to get my Lenovo laptop to connect to my Linux file server computer. My windows 10 and my Apple and Linux workstation can. The laptop can ping the server and see it. Research I did on the internet points to a possible Samba...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 27, 2024
I have two Raspberry Pi computers which I put together maybe two years ago. These are small form-factor units a little bigger than a deck of cards. One is for mainly printing. The other is for file processing and playing videos. The program for videos used to work...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 26, 2024
For the last month I’ve been trying to fix the updates on my work laptop. It won’t download and install Windows updates. It may have something to do with it being on the Insider preview release OS and not the regular release. After I bought the laptop, I...
