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Hisense TV won’t power on: the 1 minute fix

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 15 May 2023 13:03:53 +0000

If your Hisense TV won’t power on, I have a 1 minute fix. Your TV isn’t broken, it’s just a bit confused. In this blog post, I’ll cover basic troubleshooting for your Hisense TV that almost always gets it up

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Mac stuck on lock screen? A no-reboot fix

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:03:40 +0000

A Mac stuck on the lock screen can be perplexing and infuriating. When you enter your password, the computer is supposed to unlock. When faced with a Mac stuck on lock screen, here’s how I fix it. The problem looks

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u200b: What it is, and why it messes up your code or data

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:00:42 +0000

I was pushing some old data through an API at work when I received a weird error message. The API coughed up a hairball. It responded that I had u200b at position 154, and if I needed that character, I’d

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Root cause – what it is and why it’s important

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:00:28 +0000

The term root cause is used in engineering and related disciplines. It simply means identifying the source of a bigger issue. Finding the root cause helps to keep the problem from happening again. What is root cause analysis? I worked

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Tube radio buzz: The non-obvious fix

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:00:02 +0000

I picked up a cool-looking old tube radio the other day. Unfortunately it doesn’t work. When you turn it on, instead of a signal, you hear loud buzzing. Here’s what causes tube radio buzz and how to get it fixed.

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What does No Internet Secured mean?

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 28 May 2018 11:00:30 +0000

What does No Internet Secured mean? It’s potentially the least helpful error message in all of Windows 10. And it doesn’t help that it doesn’t look at all like an error message either. So let’s talk about what it means when

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Curing random errors when installing Office 2013

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 19 May 2015 11:00:36 +0000

I got lots of random errors installing Office 2013 when I went to do it, including error code 112-4 and error code 0-4, and some other install errors mostly ending in 4 that aren’t documented on Microsoft’s web site. Although previously

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Using the OSI model to troubleshoot video

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:00:17 +0000

I was at church on Sunday and the video projection wasn’t working. After a few minutes of watching everyone struggle, I volunteered to take a look, and working together, we were able to get the video working again using a

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Don’t forget the .NET Framework when troubleshooting

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:00:39 +0000

I’ve been troubleshooting a program that’s written in a combination of Java and .NET (yes, now I’ve seen everything), and the program misbehaved. It misbehaved a lot, and the vendor was confused too. About four hours in, one of us

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How I fixed an infuriating printer problem

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:21:20 +0000

Windows 7 and my HP Laserjet 4100 weren’t getting along. And I was pretty livid about it. I paid $125 for my Windows 7 upgrade, and for that money, I got to mess around for 4 days trying to get

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