Monday, 25 October 2010

My Macbook Pro has arrived

Finally I have at home a Mac laptop. Would say that the experience is interesting. Frustrating because everything is in different place than in Windows and exciting because how good it looks. Windows now looks like came from stone age.




Wednesday, 6 October 2010

It is just unbelievable how stupid ...

It is just unbelievable  how stupid people sometimes thinking and thinking that others are just idiots. I bought a Mac on ebay the other day and the seller do not want to send it to me because he is still on a contract with this laptop. Seriously, I do not feel good when people doing this.

By the way, if somebody wants to repair a laptop I can do it in London, UK. Feel better when I do good things...:) My site is here remusnet

Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Still studying Mac OS X 10.6 support essentials

I need to say that I have bought from ebay not the laptop I wanted. The listing was incorrect so I have at home MacBook with Mac OS X 10.4 and 80 GB hard drive. Sending it back.

Thursday, 23 September 2010

I bought a Mac Book laptop

I am very pleased to have so dreamed about Mac Book. I bought it from ebay with some adventures. The seller she in my opinion turned out to be completely computer impaired and listed the laptop not  correctly. Thats why this laptop is with Mac OS 10.4 but not 10.5 as advertised.
But I will buy Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. This OS I need for my ACMT Apple Certified Mac Technician.
Will post a few pics of it on my remusnet.com site.

Monday, 30 August 2010

Bank Holiday

Today is Bank Holiday in England. Time to check my bike because it needs some repair work. Last time I replaced bearings in rear wheel. Now it seems that it is a little loose. So need to buy a 17 mm spanner on ebay and tighten it properly.

Sunday, 29 August 2010

To whom SEO is important

Today I had a flash in my mind about site positioning in search engines. I think Google engineers got pretty smart how to determine site relevance to the keywords typed in.
For example, lets look at a web site ibm.com (lenovo.com). What do you think. Will it be relevant to the typed in keyword IBM. Will it be relevant to typed in keyword laptop computer. Yes of course. Now answer my question how to tell google that this is the site that must rank high for keywords IBM and laptop computer. Let's back engineer it. This site is old and has a content about laptop computer for a long time. There are many links to this site with anchor text laptop computer. It has downloadable drivers, manuals etc. The site has many internal links. The site provides support and site has something to offer like laptop computers.
This is the answer why it is ranking high for keywords IBM and laptop computer. 

Thursday, 26 August 2010

Improving my room

Today I finally got good operator chair in my room. Looks and feels nice. I bought it from ebay. Found there somebody who is selling operator chairs as cheap as 30 pounds for one chair.
Next is my PC table project. This is not like design but I need a very small desk table to fit my room. I have  desk dimensions: height should be about 73 cm, width I have chosen 70 cm and depth will be 45 cm. very very small PC desk to suit a laptop, may be keyboard and monitor.
Thinking to transfer remusnet.com to another hosting. It will be BlueHost.

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Hardly finding time to....

Hardly finding time to continue my Odyssey with Comptia A+ certification. Main reason is my full time job.

By the way I am looking for volunteer editor for remusnet.com.
Also looking for business partner in London to start computer repair shop. If you have any interest click here to find out more.
Today have checked CompTia A+ exam practice software from totalsem.com. I wanted to buy A+ Premium Package but found somewhere that one guy is not happy with it. I his words the test is too easy.

Sunday, 22 August 2010

Troubleshooting networks

OSI Seven-Layer Model

Layer1 Physical
Layer2 Data Link
Layer3 Network
Layer4 Transport
Layer5 Session
Layer6 Presentation
Layer7 Application

Mike's Four Layer Model

Hardware

Protocols

Network

Shared Resources

Saturday, 21 August 2010

Continue to learn CompTia A+

APIPA - Automatic Private IP Addressing. Range from 169.254.0.1 to 169.254.255.254.


UNC - universal naming convention. We can access shared resources not only by browsing but also by entering network names. For example \\server1\fredc. server1 is the machine name, and the drive c: is shared with name fredc.

Getting ready for CompTia exams

Today is the Friday and I am reading the book CompTia A+ certification second time. Now it
is easier to understand everything as part of information is already remembered.  What I
still hardly remember is LCD monitor resolutions, fiber optic cable types, backup types and
which one touches archive attribute. For example there is fiber optic connectors square SC and round connector ST. Why they are named like this have no idea. And what is MT-RJ connector which is for full-duplex connections.
I though that in fiber optic must be used a laser but it turns out that in reality most of fiber optic uses LED ? and runs in multimode.
And there is two fiber optic standards 1000BaseSX and 10GBaseSR.

CompTia exam next Friday

I have decided yesterday to take CompTia Essentials exam one week later. I do not remember lot of necessary information for example about LCD screen resolutions :). Another cause
would be that when I checked the web site for exam booking there was no exams available at

Friday. So I will be prepared for next Friday.
Have made a interesting page how to increase wireless network coverage and get rid of annoying drops. Check it at remusnet.com It is  worth to try because it will help all your devices iPods, iPhones, iPads, wifi enabled mobile phones get better wireless signal.

Wednesday, 18 August 2010

Two days left until my Comptia A+ essential exam

I feel little overwhelmed. This is because a lot of information needs to remember and another interesting thing is about exams practice software on the computer. I have a book CompTia A+ Certification exam guide. With this book comes a DVD with a software to practice on the computer. Sadly may be because it is a demo soft all questions are repeating if you try to practice on it second time.

Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Plans to get CompTia A+ certification

I am planning to get CompTia A+ certification. Would like to take the first exam on Friday  the 20 th Aug 2010. The book I have to get ready for this exam is crazy long 1200 pages. Everybody who have read this book will confirm that this is really book worth the money spent and may be even more. Good for me that about 50 percent information for me is not new but some parts are really hard.

Still keeping eyes on remusnet.com and will publish unedited content because have no other choice. Hope good visual information will take focus from my horrible English :)

Monday, 16 August 2010

I will test my persistence or I hate SEO

Ok. Let's say search engines like incoming links. Then if I can get a link every days and do it for a year or so. Then it would be approx 365 links to the website per one year. Would be links counted as good links and will it increase website rankings.

Recently I have watched a few videos related to google webmaster tools. The presenter did talk lot about black hat and white hat techniques. He mentioned that google treys to cut off the content generated by black hat techniques using webmasters and let white hat technic  sites rank better. So where they left business people who concentrates on business and don't have the time to play SEO games.

Still do not have any success with remusnet.com

It is strange for me that my site does not get visitors from search engines. It has good information with pictures. There is also complete guides how to perform various computer diagnostics. I have seen websites full of affiliate links and adsense ads ranking well. Why it is like this. I just want to have my business on-line and in real world. I think it is too hard to compete against crazy site optimizations and folks from India generating gazillions of Internet pages.

Sunday, 25 July 2010

Ubuntu Installation from Ubuntu Live CD

The Linux Ubuntu installation is pretty straightforward. Presently, the entire Ubuntu 9.04 distribution is compiled into just one installation CD. To get the Ubuntu ISO file, simply follow this link. To install Ubuntu from a CD, you will simply need to burn the downloaded ISO file onto a CD. After that, you need to set your computer to boot from a CD drive and let it boot. This is the first screen that you will see.
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You can now select the language for the setup that you prefer.














Now, you have a menu that gives you 5 different choices. The first choice is to boot Ubuntu from the disk without installation. This will leave the hard disk untouched. The second choice is to install Ubuntu on the computer. The third choice is to check the hard disk for errors. It is recommended to perform this check because it takes care of any possible bad sectors on your disk. The fourth choice will be to test the memory or RAM. The fifth choice would be to boot as usual from the hard disk.

Now let us choose to install Ubuntu.



The usual language request


Location request


Keyboard request. If anything is default, leave it as it is.


The process is simpler is you don’t have partitions on your hard disk.


Some data input.


Verify everything before proceeding.


Formatting


This is how the Ubuntu desktop looks.

Repairing Packard Bell EasyNote power board

I inspected the power adapter and green light was flashing. I checked resistance of power socket of laptop which was showing just about 5 ohms. This was my first though that there is a short circuit somewhere inside the board.



As you can see I have soldered out the power socket and some components. The main fault was short cirquit between two layers near power socket. By the way this PCB is with 4 layers. I stripped down a part of first layer and in the picture you can see a second layer.
Here is the whole article.

Sunday, 4 July 2010

How to Fix a Computer

In this guide, we shall go in a step-by-step manner about how to fix a computer. This guide is almost the same as another one we have, expect that here we will cover the hardware of the desktop computer in more detail. The other article speaks briefly about both the software and hardware aspects of your computer.

The best way to fix your computer is to test it and then retest it until you have found out what’s wrong with it. There are various testing tools available on the Internet for free download. Whatever tool you use, you will need a step-by-step guide to use it correctly.

You must begin by testing the memory. After a lot of computer repair jobs, I would recommend that you start here. By testing memory, you will test not only the memory but also the processor and partially the motherboard even. It is because in this memory testing process, different components of the motherboard are involved.
Recommended software for memory test is Memtest.

If you own a computer, you will find that knowing to fix it saves you a lot of time and money. Now, if your computer is running slow, it is easier to find where the fault is. Mostly, it lies in the antivirus program that’s involved. Users have reported that the Norton Antivirus demands a lot of power from your computer system. There are several other similar antivirus and antispyware programs that can slow your system down.

Another cause could be that there is a virus or two on your system itself. This leads you to a cycle of problems—to remove the virus, you will need to install an antivirus program but a bulky antivirus application could also slow your computer down.

A faulty hard drive could also be making your computer run slow. If your hard drive is faulty, it might contain one or more bad sectors in it which the computer cannot read or write into. As these sections tend to spread, soon more of your hard disk is likely to be damaged and have areas from where you cannot properly read data. On account of that, the computer functions slower.

We explain here how you can test the hard disk in your computer.

There might be other troubles inside your computer, mostly hardware causes. Hardware components of desktops are definitely different from those in laptops. Even if one of these components develops a fault, your computer might not start at all. You will commonly find faults with PCI cards and TV tuner cards. The DVD drive is also a common problem area. These devices tend to develop faults in their laser systems after you have been using them for a particular length of time. The initial symptom of such a fault is that your devices fail to read the DVDs and CDs. Sometimes, they may not even be recognized at all. If any such thing starts happening, it is time to check the drive itself or the cables going to the drive.

Another cause for the fault may be the presence of faulty drivers. That can be easily rectified by getting the latest drivers from the manufacturer of the hardware.

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