https://jacobcavaness.com/Personal blog by Jacob Cavaness. 2026-05-01T16:57:08-05:00 Jacob Cavaness https://jacobcavaness.com/ Jekyll © 2026 Jacob Cavaness /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-05-01T12:00:00-05:00 2026-05-01T12:00:00-05:00 https://jacobcavaness.com/posts/fix-hung-print-spooler-windows/ Jacob Cavaness

The Problem You hit Print in Word, Chrome, Acrobat, or pretty much anything else, and the application immediately locks up. Spinning cursor. “Not Responding” in the title bar. The print dialog never appears, or it appears and then hangs. You try the obvious fix and stop the Print Spooler service: net stop spooler …and Windows throws this back at you: The service is not responding to the c...

2026-04-27T12:00:00-05:00 2026-04-27T12:00:00-05:00 https://jacobcavaness.com/posts/subnet-modulus-formula/ Jacob Cavaness

If you’ve spent any time studying for Network+ or CCNA, or you’ve just tried to teach yourself subnetting, you know the part I’m talking about. Someone gives you an IP and a subnet mask and asks what the network address is. Out come the tables. You start counting by 16s. You sketch a few ranges on scratch paper and hope you didn’t lose count somewhere. There’s a quicker way I picked up that I ...