In this very specialized post, I talk about how to resolve communications problems on Windows 7 and Server 2008 when printing to a Universal Laser Systems XL-9200 Laser Engraver.

Starting this spring I will be teaching a four-hour crash course on home PC maintenace at SUN Area Career & Technology Center. Because of the length of the course and the unavailability of a good, no-nonsense text on the subject, I’ll be creating the course materials myself and making them available for free online. The main goal of this course is to teach home PC maintainence from a proactive perspective.  Users will learn safe computer [...]

I’ve been using PostgreSQL for years as the back-end database for my company’s intranet, and though I haven’t had to reinstall it once in the past five years on the production server, I inevitably need to reinstall it on my development workstation at least once or twice a year. Of course when the time comes for a reinstall, the steps I’ve taken to make it work have been completely forgotten. Performing a basic install of [...]