What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
I love a good noobie story. They reinforce why I started this business. Here's one that happened to me earlier today. A client of mine in Pittsburgh asked me to help him purchase a new laptop. I asked him my usual pre-purchase questions and we eventually decided on a really nice Toshiba laptop. Wrong laptop? A few days later, his laptop arrived via FedEx and he called me in a panic. "They sent me the wrong laptop", he said. I asked how he knew it was the wrong laptop and he told me it was because the screen was too… Continue reading...
Last night, something really cool happened. A storm blew through the greater Indianapolis area and knocked out the power in my house. No, that wasn't the cool part. The cool part was that I was able to catch up on my email for nearly an hour after the power went out using my laptop and my home Internet connection. Ok, so the laptop part is pretty easy to figure out. It has an internal battery and can probably run for 4-5 hours on its own before needing a recharge. The trickier part to figure out is how I was able… Continue reading...
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I had some downtime this morning between appointments so I decided to swing by a nearby Starbucks to enjoy a latte and write this blog post. The original topic of this blog post was not supposed to be about Starbucks and their wireless Internet access but circumstances forced me to change the topic. It all started when I tried to connect my laptop to Starbucks' wireless Internet. I was able to connect to the wireless network ok but got stuck when trying to get past the proxy page. The proxy page is the web page that displays automatically any time… Continue reading...
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It was bound to happen to me eventually. Over the weekend, my computer got a virus. Well, it didn't really get a virus. More like a virus wasted a bunch of my valuable time. The reason I didn't actually get the virus is because I use Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare anti-virus program. And it did its job. Sort of. Close, but no cigar As soon as the virus was detected, OneCare popped up a message letting me know about the virus and gave me an option to clean the virus. I thought all was good until a few minutes later,… Continue reading...
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A couple of my friends had their cars broken into at a networking event I attended today. This hit a little close to home for me for a couple of reasons. For one, one of the cars broken into was parked right next to me. I can't help but wonder if my car would have been next on the list if the thugs had just a little more time. Another reason was that my car was broken into about a year ago. I was fortunate at that time to have left nothing of value in the car, something I practice… Continue reading...
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