Recently a Client brought in a System with a dying video card. The instal presentation was Video Artifacts on boot and the freezing when it went into high resolution mode during Windows Startup. In most of the time we have to replace the Video Card. In this case this was a low profile Nvida GeForce [...]

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Once upon a time, I had a career in IT in the Travel Industry. Durning this phase of my life, I did quite a bit of traveling for both work and pleasure and refined my skills at navigating airports, train stations, and cultures which sometimes had very little in common with my own. From this [...]

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By shear coincidence I’ve been working two cases involving software with really draconian copy protection systems. As it turns out, my biggest problem with BOTH these peaces of software was not some technical issue, but rather it was navigating the burcracy they had erected to insure they got the maximum revenue from their software. As [...]

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It’s been a busy couple of days here at TCG. We have been on top of a wiring job at the Crossville Chronicle. The Chronicle’s corporate owners are in the process of a fairly substantial hardware upgrade for all the systems in the building. Durning this process it was discovered that the buildings Ethernet infrastructure [...]

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