by Shane Grantham | Jan 3, 2024
Being in the computer/IT field, I tend to neglect my own computers. Take for example my computer file server. It was a Ubuntu server distribution which was having problems installing updates over the last few months. In December I started researching and found it was...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 20, 2023
This month I was helping a client with their laptop computer. Their main program was having problems reading data from their 4TB (terabyte) external drive. I feared the drive had a hardware issue or the USB port on the laptop was faulty. Luckily, it wasn’t...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 15, 2023
Last month a computer client messaged me about their new wide-screen television. They wanted to connect their audio system they’ve owned for many years to it. It had a CD changer and tuner along with an amplifier. I made a visit to the client’s location...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 9, 2023
I hear different information about protecting Apple laptops with anti-virus software depending who I listen to. Some say you need it and others say you don’t. The ones that say you don’t say you need to keep the operating system and applications...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 8, 2023
We all know to do it and some of us never do it. It’s backing up or archiving the files we create. Every once in a while I encounter a computer user who never backs up their files. Maybe they don’t know how and thought they’d never lose a file or a...
