Holiday Support
Jaws directs us to an oh so true fact of modern life. When we go home for the holidays, we get to fix computer problems for the parents. I certainly have been there and done that, but I don’t mind at...
View ArticleSpeaking of Tech Support for Friends and Family…
I just received an entertaining plea for computer help from a friend. The subject? “Bill Gates sucks wet farts out of dead pigeons.” Alrighty then. Now, this is a great guy, tops at what he does, but...
View ArticleI Can Still Hear You Saying You Would Never
Break the chain! I have to agree, down with chain letters. Sending them and, worse, believing them, always struck me as a very newbie computer user thing to do. The surprise is when non-newbies...
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Do We Make It Too Easy?
When I got my first IBM compatible PC, a 286, it booted up to a C prompt. That was it. I had to know or learn what was a file and a directory, how to navigate, and that some files by typing their names...
View ArticleDying Microsoft? Don’t Panic
Is Microsoft a dying company? I’d say “dying” is a strong word for it, but my perception is of size and hubris problems enough to place them near their pinnacle of size and success before having to...
View ArticleThis is Funny
Yet I can totally see it happening, based on my experiences with people and buildings and companies. Server room is a unique location.
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Duh?
You Are a Geek You definitely have some nerdy ways, but you’ve evolved into something way cooler – a geek. You are free spirited and quirky. You’re proud of who you are, and you’ve got style. You may...
View ArticleDancing Bubble Sort
Via Warren Meyer, who in turn got it from Flowing Data, it’s a bubble sort demonstrated with Hungarian folk dance:
View ArticleNotepad++
It’s an awesome program for editing things like HTML, CSS and PHP, for opening text files that aren’t in CR/LF format, and for search functions. However, I am amused that the spell checker is in...
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