Computers – Page 2 – The Haps With Herb

An Open Letter To Anyplace That Uses A Phone Tree – Curmudgeonly Monday On Tuesday

December 21, 2021 Herb 19

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22599 – 912 Here’s the haps: People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. The chief enjoyment of Continue Reading[...]

NaBloPoMo – National Blog Posting Month – Day 2 – The Site Problem

November 2, 2021 Herb 36

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22551 – 864 Here’s the haps: Greetings, all. Day 2 of this idea didn’t go too well. I had trouble with the site whenever I went to get on. I apologize if the problems I encountered made the site unavailable. Continue Reading[...]

Herb’s History With Computers – Putzing Can Be Fun

September 25, 2021 Herb 41

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22513 – 858 Here’s the haps: As I was working on the recovery of my wife’s data I learned quite a bit, by which I mean I learned just enough to be dangerous. There is always something new to learn Continue Reading[...]

Where Ya At, Herb?

August 30, 2021 Herb 49

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22487 – 857: Here’s the haps: Hi Folks, Sorry for the delay in posts. I have been on the computer but it’s been actual work. My wife has an external hard drive with almost 3tb (terabytes, not tablespoons) of data Continue Reading[...]

Changed or Pardon Me, Do You Have Two Tens For A Five?

September 19, 2020 Herb 19

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22142 – 714: This has been posted by me a couple of different times but the last time was 11 years ago, I think. The events took place in the summer of ’06 I believe. I entered the work Continue Reading[...]

Computers: A Love/Hate Relationship

September 5, 2020 Herb 18

Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22128-699: Well, there will not be much of a post tonight. My wife’s computer has stopped recognizing that it has a hard drive. This will take some time and attention. Sorry. Thanks for taking the time to drop by, Continue Reading[...]

Curmudgeonly Monday – WordPress Reader Comments

August 3, 2020 Herb 24

Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22095-665: Quite some time ago it was brought to my attention that people said they liked my blog but were having difficulty commenting using the WordPress Reader. I loosened up a bunch of settings and thought I had fixed Continue Reading[...]

A Sanity Test

July 6, 2020 Herb 7

Running short on time tonight as I was updating the SSL documents for 3 of the websites I maintain and it was kind of time consuming. But, it’s free at ZeroSSL.com which makes the price right. They now limit you to three Continue Reading[...]

Deadline: June 2022

June 1, 2020 Herb 11

Well, you learn something new everyday, doncha? Yesterday I found out that if you have a Chromebook it has an end-of-life date. John over at https://linesbyliming.com/ left me a comment about it so I had to look it up. It was so Continue Reading[...]

Computer Issue

May 31, 2020 Herb 13

I have a Chromebook laptop that I don’t use very often because I have a nice desktop that gets the job done. I needed to use it to blog on tonight and I remember why I don’t use it very often. I Continue Reading[...]

So Far So Meh

April 22, 2020 Herb 14

As the folks who visit this blog at the blog and not through the WP Reader can attest, I frequently change up the look of the blog. It’s usually for the purpose of my trying to see what it will look like Continue Reading[...]

Security – Shmecurity

January 28, 2020 Herb 6

Well, not really. Security is a real pain, though. Some users on one of the sites I administer, Brothers Campfire, were having trouble with Google Chrome because his web address started with http: instead of https: and I had to find a Continue Reading[...]