Drive-by Geek Forensics: I didn’t know I was your hardware tech!

So my sweetie’s Powerbook G4 is having some performance and operation problems, and I just thought I’d take this opportunity to talk about what the symptoms appear to be and what what our action plan is to get it back into operation.

Updated to make certain decision-points a little clearer.

Updated 2 with alterations suggested by ckd, [...]

I wuz in hole – let me show you it!

Basically, I installed the wrong version of a security plugin (Role Manager, Owen Winkler – only for WP 2.0) on the wrong version of WordPress (2.5.1) and got my own Admin account locked out of Plugin Management (which I needed to properly uninstall the bad plugin and install the good one). Read further to know [...]

Updates – Verizon working!

Near as I can figure it, the old modem WAS the bad bit, as well as my wireless access point, which is cutting down transmission rates by half, even though the connections are at 54 Mbps, and using WPA2-PSK encryption (encryption sometimes helps with various kinds of protocols that can encourage link reliability). When I [...]

More updates from the Land of the Lost

Current findings and situation (mostly to do with the Verizon ADSL issue):