Well, I finally took the plunge and built a computer to run Microsoft Vista. It is very different from Windows XP. It requires 512 megabytes of RAM in order to install, and has some very serious video card requirements.
I have found workarounds for several of my older peripherals and applications, so i don’t need to [...]
In the second installment, I described how nothing we had planned seemed to work to get the images on the PCs. After a good night’s sleep, we discovered that the CDROM drives for my old Compaq EVO laptop would work in the PCs we needed to image. So, using my laptop, I created a boot [...]
After an interesting trip to NM, Nathan (my son) and I arrived at our destination in a small town near the NM and AZ border. After a nice dinner with my brother, Marv and his wife, Betsy, we went to start working on the computers. The first thing we did was to set up a [...]
Well, I am off on an adventure to help my brother set up 120 computers in five days. He is pastoring a church on the Navajo reservation and the aforementioned computers were donated to the organization with which he is affiliated. The PCs arrived with the hard disks and memory modules removed, so the first [...]
This week at the Library, the IT staff was asked to install MS Office 2007 on our computers because we will be supporting it when it gets deployed to all the workers. I was kind of excited at first, but the more I use it, the more disappointed I get.
We use Windows XP, and [...]
This is how a simple home network with a wireless router, laptop, and a desktop pc will probably look.
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Hopefully the diagram makes it easier to understand. In order for computers to share files and printers, they need to be configured to let other computers access the printers [...]
My brother in law gave me some old Linksys routers last week, so I have been playing with them. On the WRT54G, I installed Tomato firmware. Now I am in the process of reconfiguring my network to make it easier to maintain and improve reliability. I have replaced my old Netgear router with the WRT54G, [...]
This morning Bill Gates was demonstrating the latest technology Microsoft has been working on. No, it is not Vista! Check it out here.
Related Reading:
GO! with Microsoft Office 2007 Introductory (3rd Edition)
Tomorrow’s Technology and You, Introductory (9th Edition)
MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Vista: MCSE/MCSA Exam #70-620
Windows Vista For Dummies
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