Help Desk Report 19 Apr 2021 – 25 Apr 2021

On April 16th I was investigating issues with the Internet Gateway and decided to run the update and let it reboot. This procedure should have resulted in less than 5 minutes of downtime. But alas, this was not the case. A corruption of the config file caused the machine to not start back up. It…
A help sheet on setting up Mozilla Thunderbird for email is now available at http://kcs.me/kdr. Thunderbird is completely unsupported software. Feel free to use it but any Help Desk Requests on its use will not be completed.
Software updates LibreOffice 5.1.3 Handbrake 0.10.5 x86_64 GoogleChrome 48.0.2564.109 OracleJava8 1.8.73.02 Firefox 38.6.1 AdobeFlashPlayer 20.0.0.306 Help desk report helpdesk_in_depth-Feb-4-Feb-10
As you may have seen, we’ve started converting machines older than 2006 into Google Chrome Browsers. These machines running Google Chrome are as fast as the Google Chromebooks, run Flash with sound, and are a great way to repurpose and use these older machines.