MasOS Catalina, An Upgrade Story

6 Sep

Those of you who use Macs are well aware of the current version of macOS called Catalina, or if you prefer macOS 10.15. Those of us who support macOS likely know what a clusterfuck this version has been. And that has … Read More »

I Just Really Hate Adobe

11 Feb

I work in IT at a law office. There’s about sixty people here and I am pretty much in charge of keeping everything running smoothly. Basically your JOAT IT guy. If it breaks I get blamed and have to fix … Read More »

Not So Angry…

8 May

Not long after mom passed I wrote a blog post entitled “I’m Angry, and I’m Not Sure What I’m Angry At.” Which was basically me venting about the death of my mother, on October 15th 2012. Since then Dad passed … Read More »

Head Crash

18 Mar

This will probably mean nothing to anyone but computer techies or people really into computers. So during my 20-plus years fixing computers for a living you run across a lot of really strange ways for computers and their components to … Read More »

The Life of Barbara Chambers

21 Nov

    My (then, soon to be) sister in law, Felicia, went back to school in the early 2000’s to get her masters in Adult Education. One of the assignments was to interview a close friend or family member for … Read More »

My Best Friend, Butch

4 Nov

I’ve been a bit raw about this for going on two weeks and I know there are a lot of things going on in this country and the world that are vastly more important. I’ve done my part and voted … Read More »

Mac Motherboards 1986 to 1995

24 Jul

I’ve been doing tech support for a long time. I started doing it for a living at MacWarehouse in February of 1992. But I had been doing it informally at a number of radio stations that I was a DeeJay … Read More »

Selling Mac Memory at MacWarehouse

10 Jul

I had previously written about my entry and experiences changing careers from Radio to computer technical support. Specifically Macs. Early in 1992 the sum total of my experience in Professional Tech Support was the Commodore Amiga I had at home … Read More »

Charlie Chambers’ (Incomplete) Memoir

5 Aug

This document was found in a rarely visited folder in the bowels of my father’s iMac shortly after his passing in October 2015. Simply titled “Outline” It looks like he started it soon after retiring and never came back to … Read More »

Troubleshooting Mac OS

15 Feb

From time to time I post about stuff I find handy doing my job. My job being the computer guy at a small company in (south) Austin. A job I have been doing for a variety of companies (professionally) since … Read More »