I few weeks ago, I got up in the morning and went to my main workstation. I saw the blue login screen. I have Windows Update set to download but not install the updates, so it wasn’t a 3:00 am automatic update. I looked at the error log. Not much help there. “Once is … [Read more...]

I needed to print today. It had been four days since I had last used the printer.  I turned on the Epson 4900, and ran a nozzle test. Two tiny Photo Black ink lines, and the rest blank. No labels on any of the patterns; that must come from the Black ink only.  I ran a head … [Read more...]

Remember the Sherlock Holmes short story about the dog that didn’t bark? Read on. A few days ago I booted a seldom-used workstation so that I could run an infrequently-used app. It went through the POST, but hung after that, with a blinking underscore cursor in the upper left … [Read more...]

As luck would have it, the NAS that died was the main file server, the most complicated one to test and restore. Backups were performed to other devices from it, and it was the main target for workstation backup. There was a secondary target to keep errors from propagating, but I … [Read more...]