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Couldn’t Print to a Local Printer

January 13, 2010 | No Comments
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I recently had an issue where I couldn’t print to a local printer. The printer was connected directly to a laptop, and Windows had no trouble identifying the printer, but when the job was sent to, it wouldn’t print. While I usually like to post more challenging problems, this one turned out to be rather [...]

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Delayed Write Failure With External Hard Drive

January 6, 2010 | No Comments
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I had recently bought myself a new external hard drive because I had out grown my 250GB western digital drive. My new drive is the 2TB Western Digital My Book. My new drive has three methods of connecting to the computer: USB 2.0, Firewire, or eSATA. Since I don’t have an eSATA connection, I used [...]

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Understanding Blogger Page Types

December 16, 2009 | 6 Comments
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Understanding the various Blogger page types is important if you plan to edit your own Blogger template. When you know this, then you can display certain HTML elements on specific pages by checking the page type. In my tutorials I, at times, mention creating conditional statements that check the type of page that is displayed. [...]

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Finding and Fixing 404 Errors on Your WordPress Blog

December 2, 2009 | 4 Comments
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It is important to find and fix 404 errors that can occur in your WordPress blog. This allows you to take corrective measures to ensure visitors to your blog are presented with your content and not an error page. Earlier this year I wrote a post that explained how you can remove broken links in [...]

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Windows Installer Error: System Cannot Open the Device of File Specified

November 25, 2009 | No Comments
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I had been having a problem when installing software that consisted of a single MSI file. Whenever I ran a MSI file I continuously received an error on the screen that prevented the application from being installed. I tried it on several installs, and they all produced the same error. Realizing it wasn’t the actual [...]

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Finding Your D-Link DI-524 Revision

November 20, 2009 | No Comments
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I recently had an issue with one of my tutorial posts that outlines how to secure a D-Link DI-524 wireless G router. The issue was that the steps I provided didn’t exactly match the options that were available on some DI-524 routers. After a few readers reported this issue, I decided I should look into [...]

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Why are Some Files Coloured in Windows Explorer?

November 18, 2009 | No Comments
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Someone recently as me a question as to why some files appear in either a blue or green colour when they viewed their files in Window Explorer. They were wondering if there was a problem with those files and what should they do about it. I assured them that there was no problem with their [...]

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How to Reset the Linksys WRT160N Wireless-N Router

November 6, 2009 | 9 Comments
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Learning to reset the Linksys WRT160N wireless-N router is important if you currently change the settings within the administrative pages. The reason it is important is because one wrong setting change could make it difficult to access the Internet or the administrative pages of of the router. If you need to start over with your [...]

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