Daily Blog October 7th, 2013

Hello there,

     So today our main focus was to get Windows XP to boot from a USB drive. The damn thing wouldn't work on my USB drive, and after much trouble shooting I determined that it was my flash drive just wouldnt work for it. So because of it, I dont have much to day today. HOWEVER for anyone still having trouble or people you know haing trouble trying to boot XP off USB, this guide should help

     Untill tomorrow,

     Quinn

Daily Blog October 4th 2013

Hey there,

 Today we did a small bit of IC3 but mainly did A+ involving troubleshooting our own rigs. Mr McNeil gave us a couple set of things to try out involving taking certain parts out of the computer at a time and documenting what happened every time we turned it on.
 That, and we still grinded away at bootable USB drives

Thanks.

Quinn.

Skydrive VS. Google Drive VS. Sugar Sync VS. Ubuntu One

Unresponsive Mouse Flow Chart

Daily Blog October 3rd 2013

Hello All,

     Today we took a break from A+ to start our IC3 textbooks witch took us through a very simple guide to operating systems. What informed me the most from today actually was the info we got on linux based Operating Systems. Now I have a general knowledge on Linux OS' but I took this after school time to really get into looking at UBUNTU specifically. So in my journey through the world wide web, I am sharing this In Depth Look At UBUNTU. This was really cool to read and I am for sure going to get into more Linux based stuff. Expecially cause it's open source.

     For all you gamers out there or people who are interested (and hopefully if you havent heard about it already): I present to you, THIS! the best and most relevant part about it? Its Linux Based!!!

     See ya tomorrow,

     Quinn

Daily Blog October 2nd 2013

     Oh! I didn't see you there,

     Today we focused on Troubleshooting PC problems from video cards to speakers with a little hint of CD cloning to cap off yesterdays storage topic. Anyways, Troubleshooting. We took many notes on how to address the customer as well as on how to find the problem. We then looked up flow charts and made them on what specification we chose. I chose Speakers. Now to be honest, I didn't finish my flow chart and got frustrated and scrapped it. HOWEVER, I found this one that I thought was pretty good:

Now satire asside, it is pretty accurate.
   
     Later on in the day, we made a powerpoint talking about 5 common questions to ask to a customer when they're in need of IT support


There you go. Now if I were to add some advice, really, just dont be mean to whoever needs help. It means you can get the job done quicker and more efficiently and potentially bringing in new business.

     That's all folks!

     Quinn.
   

Daily Blog Oct 1/2013

Evening all,

     Today we focused on the A+ section of our course and talked about secondary storage involving CDs DVD's and I guess Hard drives but we've already talked about them earlier in the course.

     I was browsing the internet looking for things to add to my notes and I came across This link explaining the differences between primary and secondary storage. Its a nice little read.

 Unfortunately thats all I got for today.
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     Until Tomorrow,
     Quinn