Raspberry Pi at the shop
The Pi has been on hold for a while, while we get the shop up and running. I did some work on a slideshow so that I could connect it up to a flat screen TV and show pictures of …
Author: Dave
Another computer
A customer recently brought a lap to be fixed, about 6 years old, 1.7Gig Compaq nx6120 with 512meg of ram. It quickly became apparent that the IDE 60GB drive was damaged beyond recovery. I informed the customer of the cost …
Signwriting
As well as coping with one of the busiest periods the business has seen yet, and my wife being in hospital for a day and recovering at home for two, I have manged to do some familiarisation with the new …
New Toy
Just before I went for a long walk on Sunday, I spotted a Mimaki CG-60 vinyl/cutter plotter on Trademe, just a few years old, and apparently little used. Bidding had started at $1100, but the reserve had not been reached and it …
Dropped laptop
Picked this one up yesterday afternoon, nice Sony Vaio laptop, which had been dropped off a chair while booted up. As would be expected, the hard disk was damaged, and the system partially booted into windows, then reset itself. Ran …
Free applications
I am currently studying at the local community college (Whitireia Polytechnic, Porirua), brushing up on my desktop publishing skills, in particular the design side of it. As part of the course we are learning to use the Adobe Creative Suite, …
Administrator passwords
Every now and then I get the situation where I really have to get rid of an administrator password on a PC. For instance, someone gives an aging relative a laptop which they used at work, which has an admin …
Corrupt user profile
A client rang with an interesting tale of woe. When starting up his laptop after everything being completely normal in the previous session of use, it was coming up with a whole raft of disturbing symptoms, including missing icons off …
Dangers of smoking!
I had a call recently from a local lady whose ‘mouse had stopped working’. I popped in and had a look at the machine, and it was obviously not well. The mouse just did not work, the network connection was …
Paradise dial up server timeouts
I have recently dealt with two customers who has an identical problem. They are both Paradise customers, both use a dial up connection, and are both getting server timeouts and disconnects when using outlook express to download emails. Paradise and …