by Shane Grantham | Sep 24, 2023
One of the security suggestions I always see from professionals is to keep your operating system (Microsoft Windows, Apple OS. Linux) up to date. Desktop operating systems usually have an automatic system of doing this or alerting the user to updates. One thing that...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 2, 2023
Working on my client’s computer issues makes it harder to work on my own problems. Lately, my main desktop computer has hesitated on start ups and I have to repair it often. I ran the disk utility and discovered it had bad sectors on the hard drive. This means...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 2, 2023
My favorite Operating System is Linux and the loading process is managed by the GRUB boot loader. GRUB is not something you would find in the ground! GRUB stands for Grand Unified Boot Loader. It allows the computer to boot one or more operating systems among other...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 19, 2023
Many computers are part of my business and personal life. My main office computer is a Linux Mint 20.x machine which used to have Windows 7 installed. Linux does well on it the majority of the time but today it was slow and the hard drive LED was solid most of the...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 25, 2022
I was reading a Unix book last week and discovered an option within the top command in Linux. Top is run from the command line and shows all processes in real time. A process is a running program. Top allows you to kill a process with a few key strokes. It won’t...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 4, 2022
One of my challenges working in IT and computers is staying up with operating systems as they change and grow. My clients mostly use Microsoft Windows 10 and a few are using the newest one – Windows 11. Others use Linux and Apple. Every time a new Microsoft...
