by Shane Grantham | Jun 27, 2022
All computer operating systems have updates which get released by manufacturers like Apple and Microsoft. The many distributions of Linux have the same situation. Computer operating systems have update services which seek out these updates on the internet and...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 21, 2022
One of my old computers has a newer version of Linux Mint I installed recently. I decided to enable the recovery utility called timeshift this time. It’s good to test the programs so I know features I can share with my clients. Timeshift allows you to go back in...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 2, 2022
The saga of my main Desktop PC continues – but first some history. The computer was upgraded to Linux Mint 20.2 a few weeks ago and I it went well and seemed fine for a few days. It was running out of disk space because the partition was too small. When I...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 30, 2022
I have so many computing devices that I can’t always keep them straight when they have problems. Some times I just live with the problem when I can work around it. Other times I find a solution. Earlier this month I had a weird one happen where the two DVD...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 27, 2022
I got a phone call today from a long-time computer customer who has a Linux computer. They could print yesterday and today they can’t after sending an obituary article to their HP printer. Troubleshooting printers using remote control tools is challenging if the...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 25, 2022
Every couple days my Linux Mint desktop computer has hard drive problems where I can’t write files to the drive. Or it freezes in mid-use. Sometimes it won’t start Linux and I have to run it in recovery mode and then I run the manual file check utility on...
