RJ_Systems

Kids, forget Windows. This is Linux.

2008-08-06T04:50:00Z

Remember the good old days? Remember back in the early and mid 80's when big company's like IBM and Apple would stock schools with their computers to get their names out there and more known? Then remember how IBM turned it's back on education in the early 90's and soon schools were stocked with Dells, Gateways, and other brands? And then remember how IBM sold off it's entire consumer lineup of desktops and laptops to Lenovo only a few years ago? You see that's what happens to the big names when...(read more)

The Great Laptop LCD Screen Scam!!!

2008-07-25T03:38:00Z

The Great Laptop LCD Screen Scam!!!! Hello everybody, sorry I haven't written anything for so long. I usually only get the urge to write in my blog when I discover something truly outrageous in the tech world, or when I feel I have a bit of info that could help others when it comes to there computers. Lately I have had nothing to say, that is, until today. A customer of mine who purchased a laptop from me back in Feb of this year recently came back to me wanting some warranty work done. You see the...(read more)

Why my blog looks the way it does.

2008-04-11T14:40:00Z

Ok kids, I just recently received an email from an Eggxpert asking me why my initial blog post only has a few words or a short paragraph followed by a link that says "Read More" and the answer is actually very simple. If you navigate to the main page of my blog you will see all my posts from the last 6 months or so. There are two or three pages of them to go through if you really feel like it. I noticed after I posted my first four or five blogs that on my main page, each entry would display the...(read more)

I would like to buy a V Pat.

2008-04-09T21:23:00Z

Have you bought a virus yet? Know anybody who has? Read More...(read more)

XP SP3 - Not Soon Enough!!!

2008-03-19T04:53:00Z

Well in my last blog post I talked about my recent positive experience with Vista Ultimate 64bit. Now I must talk about a negative experience I go through nearly every day with Windows XP. When was the last time you installed XP from scratch? Being that the bulk of my job is fixing peoples broken and messed up computers, I tend to install Windows XP from scratch pretty often. A year or two ago when I would do a full new install of XP it would usually mean about 85 updates including all hardware and...(read more)

A Vista that works!!!

2008-03-17T16:52:00Z

I recently had a very enjoyable Windows Vista experience. Despite all of my previous notions about the operating system, it is possible to use and really enjoy Vista if the system it is being used on is designed well. Read More...(read more)

CPU List - From best to worst.

2008-03-15T05:22:00Z

Often times I am asked by my customers which processor is the best and which is the worst. It's a hard answer to give. So that being the case I am going to try something pretty bold here. I am going to try to list the most popular CPU's on the current end user market from best to worst. Now I know this list may meet with some debate from various fanboys and CPU geeks, but I don't mind, let the debate roll. I personally am an AMD fanboy, but I think I am old enough and mature enough now to know even...(read more)

Bad Hard Drives - How to diagnose, clone & repair.

2008-03-12T15:56:00Z

Often times when a computer slows down it is not a virus or spyware that is causing the problem. Sometimes it's memory, sometimes its just an old installation of Windows that really needs to start over, and sometimes it's a hard drive that has gone or is going bad. In this post I go over how to determine if your hard drive is going bad, and how to fix the problem if it is. Read More...(read more)

Are Video Games Addicting?

2008-03-05T03:25:00Z

Are Video Games Addicting? Let's take a look at four true stories and find out. Read More...(read more)

Graphics Cards and MoBo's - let's get it right!!!

2008-03-04T03:54:00Z

Picking the right motherboard for your graphics card can be really tricky. Read More...(read more)

The Big Brands - Which Is Best? Part 2 - Software

2008-01-29T15:42:00Z

The Big Brands - Which Is Best - Part 2 Ok so in the first installment of this little mini series we discussed the hardware of the big brands. Well now let's talk about software. I could be wrong, but from what I have seen, all of the big brands come with various types of software already installed. Anti virus programs are common in all of them, which usually is Norton or McAffee (and if you have looked at some of my past blog posts you know how I feel about those two). Some will have Microsoft Works,...(read more)

64bit Operating Systems - Are They Worth It?

2008-01-22T15:03:00Z

April 2005, Microsoft releases Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. Most assumed this was to go along with the mass production of 64bit processors from AMD and Intel. It has been nearly 3 years since the release of XP x64 Edition and a year since the release of Vista x64 Editions. So where is the support?

Sorry everybody

2008-01-22T14:53:00Z

Well just in case you didn't notice, all of my old blog posts have been re-posted today. This is because something went screwy with my Eggxpert account and for some reason, all of my most recent blog post going back to mid December were not showing on the site. They were search-able if you knew what to look for, but they were not appearing on the main blog page or on my own blog page.

So I put in a request to fix the bug and as it turns out, it was only with my account that this problem was happening. However the Eggxpert staff worked really hard on my behalf and after a week or so of working on it they got the problem sorted out. The only thing is that we had to delete my old blog and basically start over new again. To preserve all of my previous work and to ensure that people would still be able to read what I have done, I reposted all of my previous articles. So I apologize that my old posts are currently dominating the main blog page here on Eggxpert. It was necessary however to get things moving along again.

Moving on, I am finally going to get to work on parts 2 and 3 of "The Big Brands - Which Is Best?" as well as give you all some other articles to ponder over. Enjoy

Christmas At A Geeks House

2008-01-22T14:48:00Z

Blog Archive Repost

Christmas at a geeks house.

Published 03 January 08 02:51 PM | RjBass Edit

Well kids, I'm back from my long holiday vacation and I'm finally writing my first new blog post in weeks. I know I have some other topics that I need to get back to, but over the vacation I came up with the idea for this post.

Christmas came and went this year just like it normally does. My boys, ages 9 and nearly 12 made out their Christmas list starting back in October and on December 25th they were finally allowed to see what they got. Opening their presents I started thinking "this is not your typical kids Christmas". You see, my boys, like me, are geeks. They have both built their own computers and are really into various computer hardware aspects. So unlike many kids who often put allot of toys on their lists, my kids had computer components on theirs.

Protect Your Systems

2008-01-22T14:45:00Z

Blog Archive Repost

Protect Your Systems – Originally posted on 10 December 2007

Ok, so I have started writing part 2 of the Big Name Brands 3 part series, but then this idea hit me.

So virus protection, and cleaning your systems of dust and dirt, I've covered those topics already. But as I am sitting here in my kitchen in Kansas City, freezing rain is falling outside. The Governor has already issued a state of emergency for Missouri (and for those of you wondering, their are two Kansas City's, with the bigger and better one located in Missouri) to prepare for what they are thinking will be hundreds of thousands without power come Tuesday evening.