Category Archives: Computers

Move to Solar Web Hosting

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: October 19, 2009
I’m excited to announce that I’ve moved the business website for Danenberg Consulting LLC to 100% solar powered web hosting! I’ve also become a reseller and joined their affiliate program. I’m a huge fan of solar power, by the way. As a reseller, I interface directly with my clients to handle their support needs. [...]
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Problems with Dell Latitude E6400

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: April 10, 2009
I bought a Dell Latitude E6400 last September when the hard drive on my aging ThinkPad T42 started hemorrhaging sectors left and right.  I could have just replaced the hard drive and kept chugging along with the ThinkPad, but my 1024×768 screen really wasn’t cutting it coding in Visual Studio or Eclipse.  I wanted a [...]
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Uber-geekiness

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: February 12, 2009
I stumbled upon this page of essential digital skills while researching drive partitioning strategies for my new 500GB hard drive in the context of server virtualization under Linux. I don’t know whether the scoring is for skills you can do or have done, but either way, it says I’m a "Radified Warrior".  I think "Über Geek" [...]
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Frickin’ laser beams!

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: February 1, 2008
I picked myself up a nice affordable laser printer today in the Lexmark E250dn.  It’s got the two features I wanted most: a network port and a built-in duplexing.  Since the printer can sit on the network, I can reclaim the PC I’ve been using as a print server and use it as a test [...]
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How To Repair an Ethernet Cable

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: October 9, 2007
I’ve had a broken Category 5e Ethernet cable lying around for a while that I finally decided to fix. Actually, the cable was fine, but the spring on one of the modular connectors was broken, so it wouldn’t stay in a network jack. Since I’ve never done this before, I figured it’d be [...]
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Foray Into Ubuntu

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: September 26, 2007
The other night I installed Ubuntu, a user-friendly if not the most user-friendly Linux OS distribution, on my mothballed classic Athlon 600. I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about it, so I thought I’d install it on an old machine to use as a file server. If you’re at all curious, you should [...]
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