Well, I was trying to visit Google Groups to send an email, and seems to be down right now. Yup, 502 Server Error. I’ve been trying for well over 30 seconds, too. I hope Google gets it sorted out. I’m pretty sure a company like Google is aware of a problem like this on such…Continue Reading…
I have a new Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad Z61t. I close the lid often when done working, to put the system into standby (suspend) or sleep mode. Recently, the ThinkPad was failing to resume from standby. Instead, I’d just get a blank desktop. Although the wireless utility would pop-up with the Fn key combo, nothing else worked,…Continue Reading…
If you have Windows Media Player 9 or 10, and you’re playing MPEG or MPEG2 content, just press CTRL + i to save a capture of the screen. Alternatively, you can drag Video Acceleration down to None. mvps.org Tonight, we were watching Naruto, and I finished all 75 episodes which my friend gave me to…Continue Reading…
Bluetooth support server has encountered a problem and needs to close. I’m getting this error about 5-10 minutes after playing the online multiplayer game Albatross18. It doesn’t seem to affect anything, but I haven’t used the Bluetooth functionality on the computer yet. Since it doesn’t bother me (the computer doesn’t show any adverse effects), I’ll…Continue Reading…
Looks like a number of people on the ThinkPad forums have more than 5 computers. Ah, I love computers, and I could easily use the capabilities of faster ones, and with Synergy, use more than one at a time. But I really only have one working computer, mainly because I’m saving money. I’ve been taught…Continue Reading…
I’ve discovered the fix to the elusive keyboard beeps which occurred whenever I pressed certain combinations of three (3) keys. Using experimentation, I came up with this rule: The computer beeps when I press any three key combination all in the same row including at least two of these keys: 4567rtyufghjvbnm. Some Google searching found…Continue Reading…