NOTE: The following article was first published on the now-defunct EduTechGuys WordPress site. The text was recovered from the WayBackMachine on the Internet Archive. Most of the embedded images ...
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If your 2014 Ford Focus is shifting hard or seems to have an erratic transmission, these steps may fix the issue. We ran into this after replacing the TCM in my mother's Focus. 1. Run the c...
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Gazette masthead, recreated by David Henderson While falling down the rabbit hole that is nostalgia-induced Internet diving, I came across an archive of every issue of COMPUTE!'s Gazette ev...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2024/03/the-goodbye-letter-computes-gazette-1995.html
If you try attaching to a guest wi-fi with an active portal that doesn't seem to want to trigger, try this: http://captive.apple.com/hotspot-detect.html Hope this helps!
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2023/07/force-apple-captive-portal-login.html
I was working on an Acer TravelMate that would NOT let me install Windows 8 or Windows 10. Turns out, the SECURE BOOT option was ENABLED and that was the culprit. Unfortunately, the BIOS would ...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2021/08/acer-travelmate-disable-secure-boot.html
Way back in 1994 or 1995, a group of my co-workers told me about a computer flea market in Dallas, Texas, that only took place at night. I was skeptical. Turned out to be true! What appears bel...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2021/07/first-saturday-computer-flea-market.html
On the FON-175, the MUTE button does more than just mute the microphone, as I recently discovered. The MUTE button also places the phone into "Silent Ring Mode." When the MUTE button is act...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2021/05/fortifone-fon-175-silent-ring-mode.html
a) Press “Windows Logo” + “R” keys on the keyboard to open the “Run” command box. b) Type “regedit” in the “Run” command box and press “ENTER”. c) Now, navigate to...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2021/05/remove-andor-disable-preview-pane-in.html
tldr; Change the Print Driver to "Windows Software Printer Driver" I had a user with an issue where their Windows 10 computer would only print ONE copy of a document regardless of how many co...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2021/05/windows-10-prints-only-one-copy.html
I picked up a DevonIT TC2D "Zero Client" device for about $5.00 on eBay. It came new in the box (or appeared new) with a power adapter, instructions, and a DVI/VGA adapter. Let's look at ...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2021/04/thin-client-devonit-tc2d.html
Rear view of opened ca10 NOTE: UPDATES APPEAR AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE. I bought this version of the CA10 because, well, it was blue. I hadn't seen a blue version before. Turns out ...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2021/03/thin-client-neoware-ca10-bl-q2-jd.html
Picked up this thin client hoping to make a fun little DOS machine out of it. Turns out, that's a bit of an issue. The device will not boot to USB. There is also no accessible BIOS/CMOS that...
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I bought an HP t5710 off eBay recently. I had seen a couple of videos and read multiple forum posts about the t5710's ability to serve as a cool, compact DOS gaming rig. In addition to DO...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2021/03/hp-t5710-thin-client-died-during-testing.html
I picked up a DevonIT TC2D "Zero Client" device for about $5.00 on eBay. It came new in the box (or appeared new) with a power adapter, instructions, and a DVI/VGA adapter. Let's look at som...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2021/02/thin-client-adventures-devonit-tc2d.html
I bought a super-cheap Wyse Cx0 Thin Client off eBay some time ago, and I have been toying with it a bit. This post serves as a catch-all place for my information regarding the device. No...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2021/01/wyse-cx0-thin-client-notes-experiences.html
Have a user with a Lenovo E550 laptop. The laptop was working fine while watching videos, etc, but would sometimes appear to turn off without being able to come back on. The Thinkpad light wo...
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Back in 1989, I worked for a retail computer company called "Tract Computing." The operation had two locations: one in the Potomac Mills Mall in Woodbridge, VA, and the other in an office...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2020/10/tract-computing-inc-my-days-in-computer.html
In 1997, I fell victim to two of the worst purchases I have ever made. On top of that, they both shared the name model name even though they were vastly different pieces of equipment. In thos...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2020/09/1997-year-of-mystique-mercury-mystique.html
If you need to do a factory restore on a Fortinet FON-175 (or FON-175i, FON-375, FON-375i) device, they will send you a document that refers to the "Post Mode" in order to do a recovery v...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2020/09/fon-175-post-mode-recovery-factory-reset.html
Every now and then, my brain tries to think of the name of a game I used to play with my friends. I can describe it perfectly, but the actual name escapes me. The game is laid out on a grid wit...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2020/06/lords-of-conquest-commodore-64-risk.html
Since the makers of Zoom don't play by the rules of 99% of the programs out there, I decided to make my own BAT file that will launch Zoom and provide a way for the user to force-quit Zoom af...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2020/06/force-zoom-to-quit-instead-of-minimize.html
After upgrading to Windows 10, my HP LaserJet P1006 failed to work. The printer showed up in my printer list, however it would not process any print jobs. Technically, the queue would process...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2020/02/worklife-hp-p1006-and-other-old-hp.html
Way back in the day (circa 1994 or so, I would venture), I worked for a university where they were using Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) VAX servers. The workstations were a mix of Windo...
http://www.poppedinmyhead.com/2020/01/dec-pathworks-on-wfw-311-group-creation.html
NOTE:THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN APRIL 2017 ON MY WEBSITE DAVIDINARK.COM. THE LINK TO THAT IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS ONE. While poking around online, I discovered that I...
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Though my first computer was a Commodore 64, my first PC was a Packard Bell Legend 316sx. It had a 386sx-16MHz processor, 1MB of RAM, and I can't remember if it came with the 120MB hard drive...
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