by Shane Grantham | Nov 20, 2016
I was on a Fort Wayne Computer repair service call this month where my client couldn’t print from their Windows 7 computer to a wireless HP inkjet printer. To remedy their dilemma, they turned off the printer briefly and back on, but nothing printed. I checked...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 14, 2016
I took some Information Technology classes at Ivy Tech Fort Wayne around 2001 while working at a local IT company. The professor from my Linux and Unix class told us that the operating system uses the \tmp folder for temporary storage. It cleans out the contents of...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 13, 2016
My old Apple iBook laptop was having a problem on Wi-Fi networks last spring. It just wouldn’t connect to any of them. When I first got the laptop, it worked fine connecting to Wi-Fi networks. I didn’t know what had happened- was it hardware or the...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 12, 2016
I was at a business client this summer where a hard drive had failed on a Windows workgroup computer in a shared peer-peer network. After we got the new hard drive installed and setup, I had to change BIOS settings for drive to be seen by the computer. I went to...
by Shane Grantham | Nov 11, 2016
One of my dilemmas being a computer consultant is what operating system do I use on my own computers? The one I like or one the majority of my clients use? Unfortunately, they aren’t the same in my case: I prefer Linux Mint and most of my clients use some...
