Now that Bertha was going to be my main workstation, I needed to add my other mail accounts to Outlook 365. I tried to set up a POP3 account in addition to the Exchange account that was already there, and I saw: I did a web search. Apparently this error often occurs when … [Read more...]
Upgrading a workstation
In the 35 years that I’ve been messing with personal computers, I’ve put more than a hundred machines into service. With servers, it gets easier and easier. With workstations, not so much. The problem with workstations is installing and configuring all the apps. The data isn’t … [Read more...]
Intermittent crashes
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...]
A fight with the 4900
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...]
The computer that didn’t fail
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...]
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