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By bfwebster on Mar 15, 2012 in Admin, Main, Maintenance | 2 Comments
My systems are all Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. One of my desktops has a Logitech webcam on it. My wife’s systems are all Mac OS X. Her MacPro tower has a webcam on it. We’re on the same LAN, but we’re two floors apart. Is there a simple way to set up video chat within [...]
By bfwebster on Mar 15, 2012 in Main, Maintenance, Quality assurance | 0 Comments
One of my three desktop systems — a slim Gateway tower (SX2802-01) I’ve had for about two years — notified me last week that the hard disk (a Seagate Barracuda 7200, 750 GB) was failing. I googled the Windows system message, and what I found indicated the hard drive was indeed on its way to [...]
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 [...]