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Posts relating to Mount Vernon, Illinois.

Another school year

Well, another school year has begun. The kids are enjoying their time, and I think sissy is taking to the learning better than she had previously. Things are definitely looking up in that department. The sad part for me is that I’m not going back to school. I have my degree, a few certificates, and [...]

Self-congratulations

El yay. I finally got my AAS degree in the mail today. I now have proof that I spent two years fine-tuning my IT skills with official curriculum. Rend Lake definitely has a great program in my opinion. The instructors go out of their way to help you learn material. While at RLC I picked [...]

Computing Basics III

This is a reprint of an article from my Ask a Geek column in the Mount Vernon Register-News. It is written for a general audience, and I hope you like it. You’re sitting in front of your computer after booting into the operating system and cleaning out your extra startup junk. Now what do you [...]

Computing Basics II

This is a reprint from my Ask a Geek column that appears weekly in the Register-News. It is written for a general audience, and I hope you enjoy it. Once your computer has booted into the operating system, most people think it is just sitting there waiting for you to tell it to do something. [...]

Computing Basics I

This is a reprint that originally appeared in my ‘Ask a Geek’ column for the Register-News. This is written for a general audience, and I hope you enjoy it. Your computer is stupid. Yes, for all the wonderful tricks you can accomplish with it, your computer only understands two things ’1′ and ’0′. On and [...]