IT Tech Support

Creative Technology Solutions

Whether you need technical problem solving, or just analysis and consultation, then check out my meager scope of technology experience below. Then drop me a line!

Hardware expertise:

  • All brands of PC-compatible hardware
  • Minolta Di3510 & Di351 network printers
  • Efficient Networks 5861 DSL routers
  • Eicon Diva LAN ISDN Modem/routers
  • Many other network cards & devices
  • Zoom 3048 external fax modems
  • Dell Poweredge 2600 (triple SCSI RAID)
  • Kodak 3520 SCSI document scanner
  • Canon 5080F SCSI document scanner
  • Canon 4046 & 4050 document scanner
  • Many parallel, USB, and SCSI scanners
  • Ethernet webcams
  • Many HP and other brands of printers
  • Sound & video cards too numerous to mention
  • Motherboards too numerous to mention
  • Flightsim joystick analog-to-USB conversion
  • ATMEL and PIC programmer hardware
  • OESD Magic Box PLUS Embroidery Card Reader
  • I can troubleshoot almost any piece of computer hardware or software

Windows 2000 Server:

  • Symantec AV Small Business Edition Server
  • Veritas Backup Exec
  • MySQL database
  • other Windows server apps barely worthy of mention

Fedora Core 2 Linux:

  • Qmail email server
  • Apache web server + mod_ssl + suexec
  • VS FTP server
  • Samba file and print server
  • Custom multipart forms printing system
  • Hylafax outgoing fax server
  • Custom fax notification system
  • Custom web-enabled online imaging system

Please note: The Linux applications mentioned above were deployed in MS Windows network environments and the features were utilized on Windows client computers. It was an excellent case study of how Linux can “do Windows” better than Windows can, at least in my humble opinion.

Software tools:

  • OpenOffice Writer, Calc, Impress
  • Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint (Office 97)
  • JASC Paint Shop Pro 8
  • Animation:Master 2003
  • DeltaCAD v5.0
  • Multiquence audio/video compositor
  • Crystal Reports
  • FileZilla, CuteFTP and others
  • PDFCreator, PDF Factory Pro
  • pcAnywhere v9, v10.5, v11
  • Nero Burning ROM v6
  • GhostScript & GSView PostScript software

Programming languages and tools:

  • Perl
  • Perl modules too numerous to mention
  • wxGlade & wxWindows for Perl
  • Scintilla Text Editor
  • HTML & XML
  • Javascript
  • PonyProg ATMEL AVR programmer
  • Microchip MPLAB IDE
  • EPICWin PIC programmer
  • Microchip & ATMEL assembly languages

Whatever your technical challenges, you can count on it that I can come up with a solution–and not just any solution, but a creative one that does more than just “get you by.”

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