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Printer drivers and the unexpected results

October 25th, 2007 · Comments Off

Howdy one and all and a great big welcome to The Weekly Geek!
As regular readers know, July 2006 Microsoft officially quit supporting updates for Windows 98 and ME. To their credit, you can still get the updates created up to that point.
Now what happened in the printer market was a little quieter. Last week I [...]

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Tags: Hardware · Soap Box · Software

Continue to avoid Wireless N products.

October 10th, 2007 · Comments Off

Even though wireless products have been around for years, I still do not have much faith in them on the business level. Many individuals and homeowners have benefited by not needing to run cables in their apartments or homes, however video and large file transfers and remote sharing are still troublesome at best.
Introduce Wireless N, [...]

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Tags: Hardware · Purchasing · Soap Box

Best Buy Soap Box

August 11th, 2006 · Comments Off

Howdy and welcome back to another fabulous edition of The Weekly Geek!
This week I want to step up on the soap box and let all our wonderful readers know about the sheer pleasure that Best Buy brought to me (sarcasm is dripping from that statement).
About a year and a half ago a customer bought me [...]

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Tags: Hardware · Purchasing · Soap Box

PC World’s 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time!

June 9th, 2006 · Comments Off

Howdy one and all and welcome back to another exciting edition of The Weekly Geek!
This week I had the privilege of reading the almost perfect article, PC World’s The 25 Worst Tech Products of all Time. Well, I couldn’t agree more especially with…
1. AOL (Or in real terms AO Hell) – I was an original [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Hardware · Internet · Malware · Soap Box

Backing up your data

January 27th, 2006 · Comments Off

Greetings one and all and welcome back to another exciting adventure with The Weekly Geek!
In this brief article we will go over the ever important and whimsical idea of backing up your data.
Since, I have worked both for businesses and in the private sector as a hired gun, I know how many of you don’t [...]

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Tags: Hard Drives · Hardware · Security · Software