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Here’s my screenshot of my system running Microsoft Fisher-Price Windows XP. For me, the thing that’s really making this OS worthwhile is all the little touches that they’ve added. It’s all minor stuff that doesn’t really matter, but now that it’s there, it really makes the experience better. Things like transparent icon text on the [...]
<GEEK NEWS> Oh man. I’ve been through the best and worst ends of computers in the last week. I’ve formatted my computer four times, and Annie’s twice, and I still have to do it one more time because I somehow fried her hard drive. The bad news was that all the upgrades didn’t always go [...]
“It took the computing power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon, but it takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here.” –unknown
If there’s one thing that Miles and I can relate on (if not agree on), it’s the frustrating feeling of preferring one Operating System/Platform over the one that is favored by the majority of people in your field. Miles is a programmer/gamer who loves Macintosh, and I’m a graphic designer who loves PCs. We’ve talked [...]
There are certain things that you just come to expect from a computer technician job. You will work in a dungeon. The office will either actually be underground, or the windows will be covered to prevent glare. Your coworkers will be social in spurts. Sometimes an hour or two will go by where three people [...]
