Today I filed the papers to add a DBA (“doing business as”) to our corporation. The new business name is North Fork Tech Support, and I’ll be doing computer repair and tutoring here in the valley. At least that’s where I’ll start. The local guys who have done this work in the past are either [...]
So I’ve resorted to using email to communicate with HP about my failed laptop. I figure it 1) keeps my blood pressure down, and 2) provides a trail of documentation. So basically I’ve made zero progress. According to HP they still haven’t even sent the return packing materials to me. They keep promising them though, [...]
The contents of this post will come as no surprise to many who read it, and some will have far worse experiences to share. But here’s my story. As noted in my last post, my HP Presario V3000 laptop needs a new motherboard. HP Customer Service has agreed to pay for the computer to be [...]
So it turns out that HP is recalling my laptop and several other models because of some problem with the graphics card. It requires a full motherboard replacement. This explains the problems I’ve been having with my notebook failing to boot after sleep or hibernation, and the blue video signal being sent to my external [...]
One of my clients is a high school reunion organizer. She hires me to build and maintain the sites used for registering and other reunion-related stuff. These sites are built in Joomla 1.0.15 on Linux/MySQL servers. She uses GoDaddy for her hosting provider. I’m usually able to simply copy/paste the last site I made for [...]
