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By bfwebster on Apr 15, 2011 in Complex systems, Main, Maintenance, Product development | 1 Comment
I love it when technology converges. The first key step was buying a Windows Home Server box last summer. It took me a while to get all the kinks out (read my review at the link), but since then it was worked pretty much trouble-free, 24/7. Not only do my various computers get backed up [...]
By bfwebster on Feb 23, 2011 in Complex systems, Maintenance, Quality assurance | 0 Comments
As I mentioned in my previous two posts (here and here), I ran into a bunch of networking problems during a recent extended business trip to a client site. One of the problems I mentioned was that I had brought along a Gateway desktop box so as to be able to use files and applications [...]
By bfwebster on Feb 22, 2011 in Complex systems, Maintenance, Quality assurance | 1 Comment
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I was recently on a business trip where my HP laptop was largely unusable with the hotel’s internet system. Whether I was using wired or wireless connections, I was getting multiple blue screens of death (BSODs). So I dug out my Sprint U301 mobile broadband device (a 3G/4G USB [...]
By bfwebster on Feb 21, 2011 in Maintenance, Quality assurance, Risk management | 3 Comments
Well, first, apologies to all you who have been waiting for me to resume posting here. Your wait is over; I will be a bit more frequent in the future. Second, I have chronicled here my problems with two HP systems — a desktop and a laptop — that I each purchased new, with Windows [...]
By bfwebster on Jul 21, 2010 in Maintenance, Risk management | 1 Comment
[UPDATE: Read this post, which seems to be having trouble actually appearing here on the blog.] Since last November, I have bought three new, out-of-the-box systems preinstalled with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (and upgraded to Windows 7 Professional 64-bit at the end of May): an HP Pavilion e9237c desktop (quad-core 64-bit processor, 8 GB [...]