Category: I.T.

What kind of printer do you have?

HP? Brother? Konica-Minolta? Whatever it is, it’s not as cool as:

Fix mouse lag issue connecting from Mac OS to Windows 7 running Citrix XenDesktop

At work I use an iMac running Mac OS X 10.11, and I connect to my Windows 7 computer via Citrix XenDesktop. I am running Citrix Receiver 12.1.100 on the Mac, and XenDesktop VDA 7.6 on Windows. The other day I started getting a weird issue: when I would connect in the connection would work …

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Quotable: Peter Drucker

“Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.” ~ via http://techpinions.com/microsoft-is-the-very-antithesis-of-strategy/32303

Do you want to watch the Superb Owl?

In case you really didn’t know, Microsoft Word is programmed by nerds and not jocks: And yes, I would like to watch a superb owl.  

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HP LaserJet 50.32.11 Fuser Error or 50.72.11 Fuser Error

If you have an HP LaserJet M600 / M603 and you are getting a “50.32.11 Fuser Error” or “50.72.11 Fuser Error,” you will probably find that there isn’t any info on how to fix this error on HP’s site, and replacing the fuser may not work either. Each time I was inserting the fuser the …

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miskeymunication

Customer: My letters are typing numbers. Me: Press the F-Lock key. Customer: Where is it? Me: It’s up on the top row with the Fn key Customer: There’s a whole lotta f-in keys!

VBS 2013 Development Diary: #14: Digital Content Creation & Management

As I have previously mentioned, the first skits we started doing were entirely written by me an hour before we performed them. There was a single Microsoft Word document with all of that week’s skits–that was it. As the years have progressed, we have strived to do better, and as a result we have created …

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Weird iPod / iTunes issue

A few weeks ago my wife brought me a secondhand iPod Nano to troubleshoot. She had already performed all of the basic troubleshooting steps herself, but it still would not sync with iTunes. When you plugged the iPod into the computer, the computer would see the device, but iTunes would not. It did not matter …

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Restrict color printing on Ricoh SP C425

If you are trying to completely restrict any color printing to a Ricoh SP C425, try loading a driver from a Ricoh black and white printer–this removes any ability to send color information to the device.