Sometimes I get flummoxed, flustered and make a big mistake, like the time I deleted the Admin identity on my Win2K system and totally hosed Windows. That wasn’t what I was trying to do, I just got mixed up and clicked in the wrong place… or…. something. Heck, I don’t even know how […]
I’m a computer junkie — that’s how it is — so, when I ran across a couple of Compaq Deskpro computers with unknown specifications for the price of a carton of cigarettes, which I can afford since I quit smoking a few years ago, I bought them. Soon after I arrived home I "popped" the […]
I began what I like to think of as my “Linux Adventure”, in February of 2006 on a short, much-frazzled shoestring. I couldn’t afford to buy a new, or even a late model second-hand computer to use with Linux and I wasn’t prepared to give up Windows. Used computers are comparatively easy to […]
When I called my phone company to order DSL service, the representative asked what operating system I was using, implying that I’d be better off with Windows XP and specified minimum values for my RAM, free hard disk space, and processor speed. When they sent me my official "new customer" package it included a DSL […]
Our computers aren’t networked. I did try to network them "once upon a time" but the resulting catastrophe isn’t something I care to discuss (nope, not going there). Suffice to say that, once in a while we’ve needed to transfer data from one computer to another and this was complicated by the fact […]
When my wife’s 800 MHz P3 Debian machine developed onboard video problems I couldn’t fix I bought a new motherboard for an 800 MHz Duron CPU I already had and just swapped out the board. I assumed that switching from an Intel P3 to an AMD Duron would force me to reinstall Debian so […]
The NTI CD Maker Gold software which came with the Sony DVDROM/CD-RW drive on my two year old Windows 2000 Pro "white box" ceased to function following a visit to MS Update when the system was only a few weeks old. I was able to repair it by reinstalling the software but the problem […]
Lisa and I both love to cook. We season our cooking with incredibly fresh herbs and spices which we buy in one pound packages from San Francisco Herb Company and keep in the freezer until we need them. Every morning we make one pot of Folgers Hazlenut flavored coffee and as the day […]
I’m trying very hard to avoid becoming a rabid Linux advocate but it’s really not easy sometimes. I have more than a few reasons to feel resentful towards the folks at Microsoft. Two years ago, when I bought the Windows machine I’m using now I didn’t want XP and Win98SE was no […]
We’ve been having fun with myspace.com this week. The statistics on our new web host tells us the URL’s which link or refer to our website and a few days ago I noticed that there were some myspace URLs on the list. I tracked them down and found that four myspace users were […]
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