5 January 2014 I thought I had the right cable to hook up the video card on Serrano2 but turned out I missed again. But I had another one on order and arrived in the mail. So I gave it…

1 January 2014 I am still trying to get audio out of our old Toshiba TV. The right channel analog output died long ago. But it has coaxail digital audio out, and so does the new Blueray payer. So I…

29 December 2013 I decided it is time for a new cable modem. We were early adopters of Internet by cable so there have been lots of improvements. I also decided to purchase one and not pay the rental to Comcast. I…

12 December 2013 Still getting OL 393 error when I try to pay bills with Quicken Bill Pay. Called again, and this time she tells me it is fixed and I have to put the spaces back in the account…

9 December 2013 Making progress. I gave up on getting the printer to work on the new/old machine and went to reconnect it to Serrano and then when I gave it a shove to turn it around to change the…

9 December 2013 I spent a lot of time yesterday, Sunday, struggling with two issues. The first is to get the old HP LaserJet 5P accessible by other computers since I have moved it to dvgibson2old. I resolved the problem…

5 December 2013 Yesterday I paid 6 bills and deleted three payees and added one new one. But Quicken Bill Pay failed, tried over and over again. Today tried again and also moved the backup to the old computer and it failed…

13 October 2013 I started last night to try to download more issues of Bon Appetit to my Kindle. Very flustrating having to keep signing in with both username and password each time. Its my own copy of the application…

24 November 2013 The new Bother printer is being a pain to install!  Spent many hours trying to install the “driver” which includes huge invasive applications. Lots of crap in the tray now, not even identified by its owner. Computer is slower to boot. cashes…

6 November 2013 A few days ago I thought it would be cool to get a mobile app from TD Bank and deposit some checks electronically.The app installed fine, then the first test to get the account balances seemed fine.…