by Shane Grantham | Jan 25, 2024
Today I wanted to copy some documents to my Linux file server and couldn’t find it on the network. It was there yesterday! Two desktop clients couldn’t find it either by IP address or hostname. My smartphone couldn’t locate it. The internet was...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 20, 2023
One of the features of Microsoft Windows 11 I read about last year was intriguing. It’s Linux running as a Virtual Machine (VM) called the Linux subsystem. It can be installed from the Microsoft Store and I tried earlier this year without any success. I love...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 8, 2023
Like many of you I use computers often and sometimes have many programs and web browsers open. Many years ago I discovered a shortcut for closing programs. I probably read it in a computer magazine. It’s a keyboard sequence of two keys: Alt and F4. You hold...
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...
