"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."-James Dean
Jun 15
Once again, Micro Technology has come to my rescue and corrected a problem with a PC of mine in a short amount of time and with much professionalism. You remember I my last post on this PC problem was not all that positive. I worried that I might have a significant problem, but hoped for [...]
Jun 13
A friend brought me a new PC I had ordered from the US. It was a reconditioned Gateway. I have purchased a lot of refurbished equipment and never had a problem. My first problem with this PC was getting it up with Vista. Since it wasn’t new, it didn’t come with the restore disks, documentation [...]
May 10
I recently purchased an external DVD reader because I wanted to have more flexibility to do things with my ASUS eee.
I was able to give the ASUS a good workout on the recent Royal Caribbean cruise I went on. One of the things I didn’t care for all that much was the Xandros OS system [...]
Feb 02
Just to be fair in my coverage of Internet providers, my Cable Onda Connection was down when I got up at 6:30 AM. I was able to get a Yahoo messenger connection and that verified that the problem was not with my equipment. Since I complained so much about C&W, I thought I should give [...]
Jan 06
I am currently trying to retrieve photos for an individual off of a dieing laptop. It was a Windows XP system and will not boot even in the “Safe Mode”.
My assumption is that the OS has become corrupted. Reinstalling Microsoft would require loosing all data on the hard drive.
I tried removing the hard drive and [...]
Aug 30
I was looking to find a USB Bluetooth adapter to try on my Linux system. I found the best price yesterday at Acer Computer which is in the road that runs by the side of the Mitsubishi dealer.
It is always good to have several options and it is wise to know what reasonable prices are. [...]
Aug 20
I had friend ask what it would take, for him to move to Linux. He was having some problems with his Windows XP system and was tired of the aggravation. I decided to go take a look at his setup and see if he was a good candidate.
The first thing I did was ask why [...]
Aug 04
I recently received an email for some advice about getting support for a problem with an iMac. This was a relatively new iMac and it had gone on the funk. The individual lives in Chiriquí and was wanting help in David.
I advised them to talk to Arte Graficos and see who serviced their equipment. I [...]
Jul 17
The other day when I posted about buying the Forza UPS, I thought I had posted about Pars Computer in the past. When I did a search on the blog, I saw that I hadn’t. I was there today and I took photos of the store.
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Jul 13
Yesterday morning, I took the UPS back to PriceSmart that was failing for a week. I had monitored the device all week so that I could accurately explain what the problem was.
I took it to the customer desk and they promptly called the resident expert to check UPS. He took the UPS and plugged it [...]
