by Shane Grantham | Jan 21, 2024
A new client needed help with his big plotter/printer last week so I made a service call to his office. They had recently bought a second-hand printer/plotter from a business. This unit was from 2003 and didn’t have USB or wireless capabilities as modern ones...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 2, 2023
Yesterday I wrote about my HP laptop that has Linux and Windows XP on it. It’s used only for my Video hardware convertor and programming my ham radio Handie-Talkie. I didn’t mention that It’s never put on the internet in Windows XP – So...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 1, 2023
Around 2005 my wife got a business-class laptop with Windows XP on it. She used it for several years and then stopped using it and opted for a tablet instead. It was still in great shape when it was retired and I held on to it and stored it for the future. Typically,...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 16, 2020
This week I was setting up and configuring a new Desktop computer for a New Haven computer client in their office. It had Microsoft Windows 10 as the operating system. Their previous computer died so we had the luxury of using their existing keyboard, mouse and...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 13, 2019
It’s interesting to see how different computer manufacturers design their hardware. Yesterday I was working on a Toshiba satellite laptop and was looking for the Windows key on the keyboard. Usually it’s on the bottom row near the Ctrl(Control) and Alt...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 27, 2017
This weekend I was messing around with an old Dell business laptop which still had its original operating system, Windows XP, installed. I wanted to see if the laptop would let me install Linux Mint 18.2 on it and allow Windows to remain functional in a dual-boot...
