Find Me: You can follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/charlief/
Who: My name is Charlie. I grew up in Morgan Hill, but I live in San Jose. I am currently employed as a Computer Technician, with knowledge in Data Recovery. I am currently working on various projects which include learning Ruby on Rails, Learning Linux/Bash, Re-learning C and other various languages, and whatever else time allows. My hobbies include researching tech news and information as well as working on computer geeky stuff.
What: This is something I started to help channel the knowledge of things that I am learning or have learned. I hope it will become a location to help others locate certain tips and avoid downfalls I have had in the many projects I am interested in.
Why: I have used resources published by others to help me in various projects. I just want to return the knowledge and help make things more refined.
How: Defective Kit was a term I heard while my daughters were watching tv. Someone had a ‘detective kit’ and her brother said ‘Look at her defective kit’. Found it rather witty.
You can check out the stories I have dugg at http://www.juffowup.com
February 28, 2007 at 6:19 pm
hey Charlie, you made my bookmarks! I hacve you and raymond.cc as some good tech blog bookmarks, i am also a technician (component laptop). Kudos mate!
March 1, 2007 at 6:46 am
Thanks!
November 19, 2007 at 7:19 am
hi Charlie, this the first time i entered to this site and read some things that really made me chearfull which make me to write you about my annoying problem;
i have a dell laptop that has XP home edition OS, and the problem is when i try to open the windows task manger i keep recieving this annoying message (windows task manager has been disabled by administrator) on the other hand i miss the (folder option) in the tools bar,
so please if you have any information on this matter
November 19, 2007 at 8:54 am
I would recommend going to this site…
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Taskmanager_error.htm
It has information about your particular problem. I would also recommend running an Anti-Virus / Spyware program to make sure something isn’t taking over your system. Either way, that should help get you started.
- Charlie
August 19, 2008 at 9:37 am
Charlie,
I discovered your site while trying to find info on a bum laptop screen. I am in no way qualified to attempt your approach to replacement…..but I wondered. I turn the computer on – everything lites up, fans blow, cd/dvd whirs but no screen – blackness. Is this a simple bulb fix or something more costly. It’s a 13 month old HP Pavillion dv2000 series….1 dang month out of warranty.
April 4, 2009 at 6:05 am
Hi Charlie, I read your article on fixing a laptop power jack.
I have an Inspiron 1300. I noticed the power jack has six posts and one post has no solder on it. Is this normal or do I solder all six posts?
September 7, 2009 at 4:07 pm
HI, i’ve probs with my dell inspiron notebook…one day smoke came off the power port( where DC adaptor plugs into the laptop)actually i had to fiddle with the wire to charge it (been goin gon for 2 weeks ) and then one day it just gave out smoke…any way to get that fixed? and can the data be retrieved?
tahnx