Jim's Computer Repair & Web Design
You supply the transportation, I supply the geek - Vancouver, WA

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Jim Michaels

Services

  • Computer Repair (Windows PC's, I do have a little UNIX exp as an admin)
  • Intermediate Web Design (really web programming)
  • Help you build a computer
  • Write Open Source Software or an installer

Certifications

CompTIA A+ Certified for life (Hardware+OS) 4/2005
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Hours

I don't work Sundays.

If you wish to reach me and I don't get to my phone in time, leave a voice mail.

I work a lot with Seniors.

spyware

if it's a spyware issue, you can drop your computer off to be fixed, it's may be 8-48 hours of scanning (spyware for instance), rather than me coming over. It usually takes me from an evening to a 2 days to clean the machine up. I don't charge for the scan time.

If you can, do [windows-logo-flag-key]-R c:\windows\system32\mrt.exe [Enter] and do a full scan. If you have been doing Microsoft updates (the little yellow shield), then you have the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, and you can remove many pieces of spyware without needing an antispyware software package installation.

ExtraCurricular Activities

I conduct a computer group meeting at Crossroads Community Church.

about my programming

The languages I currently use for development are SQL, PHP, C++, Perl, Java, Assembler, JavaScript, Auto-it3, Tcl, BASIC, and now the flex & bison tools (again, although minimally). I only do minimal stuff with Flash.

Certifications have not benefitted me and seem to be a waste of my resources. I know basically what I can do.

Windows GUI programming I tried once before using MFC, but now I am trying to tackle it using only the Win32 API. any help is greatly appreciated. Now I would like to work with combo boxes and list boxes without using a resource editor, and using mingw.

How much I charge

I charge $10/hr for computer repair and $100 for a web design build. minor web mainenance is free, new pages or major changes cost $10/hr.

Strengths

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I have written my own tree menu mgmt system, built a breadcrumb menu mgmt system, and built a dropdown horizontal tab menu mgmt system based on some CSS code in O'Reilly's CSS Cookbook, and packaged it all as an Open Source software package called menu.

How many hours do you take to do computer repair?

usually takes me an evening. once in a while it takes me 2 evenings or a day or I may just request that the machine come to my place to be worked on. I like to get the job done right. Scans are something I leave to do overnight.


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