How to tell what USB plug type it is
DaleStolen from: USB overview and Plug & Receptacle pinouts
It’s a new …
… backup drive! The only people who are really concerned about backups are those people who have lost information. Everybody else doesn’t give it a moments thought. My backup plan…
How to open the Seagate FreeAgent Classic
This is the FreeAgent Classic. My one is a 160GB external drive. Step 1 – using a BLUNT object, such as a thin screwdriver, slide it along the front of…
Writing naughty words in 1990
The Wyse 286 PC (model WY-2108 for the curious) used to have an LCD display on the front panel. You could write messages to it using a MS-DOS based utility. …
“Unable to store job at printer”
Saw this error while setting up a HP Color LaserJet 3525 printer, with the HP Postscript Universal Print Driver (UPD). The problem was caused by several factors: not doing an…
MacBook slows down on purpose!
If the battery is removed from a MacBook or MacBook Pro, the computer will automatically reduce the processor speed. This prevents the computer from shutting down if it demands more…
7 crap IT products I shouldn’t have brought
Hand-held image scanner Seemed like a real good idea, when flat bed image scanners were so expensive. The hand-held scanner would let me scan anything I wanted at 75dpi. Of…
HP Universal Print Driver – shame it doesn’t work with Novell Netware.
Being cheap bastards conscious of the support costs of maintaining device-specific printer drivers, HP has come up with the HP Universal Print Driver (UPD). Works great on Microsoft Windows based…
Disassembling the Microsoft Laser 5000 Mouse
Step 1 - Undo the screw. Using a screwdriver with a security screw bit, unscrew the screw which is located in the battery case, just above the RED DOT in…