Sometimes you need to be patient. Need to control your enthusiasm. Need to sit back and wait for the setup to complete successfully. I’m trying, really hard, to retain my urge to throw caution to the wind. My new Wind, that is, from MSI.
posted in computing, technology | Comments Off on The rush to get something smaller | 359 words
Oh, for the days when backing up your data meant writing down some telephone numbers on the back of a used envelope. The real reason why so many people work without a parachute is that it takes too long to copy all the stuff we collect on our computer hard drives.
posted in computing | Comments Off on But it will be safer if you back it up | 254 words
Please let it end! I’m unable to handle any more media coverage from Neverland or Staples or outside the hospital or anywhere else where fanatics gather.
posted in computing, technology | Comments Off on We feel your pain, console owner | 273 words
The thirst is strong. I want to go back to the Dell well and drink from the newest flavour: Netbook. I mean, can one really have too many personal computers?
posted in computing | Comments Off on Small and ready for my kind of summer | 283 words
In the safety of my living room, I’m watching some really bad driving right now. Virtually. One wall of the room is serving as a screen this evening, and the projected game involves cars that can hit multiple light poles without ever scratching the paint. Try that with your father’s Olds. There’s lots of motor noise, a mix of sirens and gunfire. Entertainment for someone else. I just find the whole thing to be distracting.
posted in computing | Comments Off on Bad driving, videos that can’t be converted and a broken hose | 285 words
The question is simple. Should I play “cheap and dangerous” or “expensive and cautious”? I’m talking about computers, of course. Far too many of them in my day-to-day to not know the risks and costs of keeping our favourite machines in functional disorder. Just this week, three laptops have ended up on my desk because of various failed components. Some of them under warranty, others not. You do the math.
posted in computing, economy | Comments Off on Estimating the cost of risk | 304 words
Despite the occasional sore thumb, I tend to be what the software industry calls “an early adopter”. Ready to plunge in to unknown waters, I install products that are not ready for prime time. A beta player. Over the last few months, Microsoft has promised to provide a Service Pack for Vista (SP2), with the goal of improving my general life and making cheap food taste better (not exactly what they promised, but software is an incubator of dreams).
posted in computing, education | Comments Off on Service pack and assembly necessary | 281 words
My day was much like any other day. I set up a new computer. Truth be told, I do that a lot; sort of a professional requirement. Over the years, there’s been a lot of repetitive action at my desk. Today, though, things were a little different, because I set up a new computer for ME.
posted in computing | Comments Off on A new desktop machine in service, at last | 343 words
There. I fixed it. Only took three tries and a cry of desperation, but my Vista-powered laptop does TV (again). There’s the rub, as Willie said. My laptop did TV, and then it stopped, and there seemed to be no rhyme or reason to the why. Nor, as it happens, as to why it now works. I simply kept reinstalling and erasing until things finally worked. One more reason to wonder if there is magic in the way this stuff works.
posted in computing, media | Comments Off on Wanting to record past triumphs | 313 words
The question I keep asking, based on today’s efforts with my newest Linux boot is very basic. What is the difference between a “release candidate” and the “final version”? Obviously there may be bugs that are almost corrected, but this time around I don’t think the difference will be much more than a name. I’m completely satisfied with Linux Mint 7. This is their best effort so far, by a country furlong.
posted in computing | Comments Off on I am easily impressed | 283 words
