https://news.yahoo.com/device-may-low-end-laptop-103502577.html

This hardware looks to turn the system-peripheral paradigm completely on its head.

It just took longer now to connect to the Internet and get to this blog...

...than it did for me to fill out my Federal tax form for 2007 this afternoon.

I'm really annoyed and I don't know who to feel annoyed at, because of this glitch.

FP

PS: Producers Are Money-Grubbing Scum.

Had a Trojan Horse Installer attack on my compy this afternoon. I think I got rid of it and all the programs it attempted to install, but I'm afraid I may have missed one or two ( Read more... )

Just spent more than an hour and a half attempting to download yet another e-book in .rar format and then get an error message from the unpacker program that the content is corrupted, so I'll have to try again when I have time.

Bah.

For a couple weeks now, I'd been having a weird glitch on my computer...five minutes after log-in, it wanted to connect to the Internet, even if I wasn't running any Internet capable programs ( Read more... )

Had a hard time connecting tonight. For some reason, the ISP was either too busy or out of service for a while.

When I finally got through about ten minutes ago, I heard the signal noise of the ISP's server responding and quipped to myself "The National Anthem".

FP (who wants to find a way to transmute the sound to something more like actual

On Tube Network lately, a certain music video must have become a "programmer's favorite", as in consecutive weeks I've seen it more often than I'd think if it had been random chance. (Here, the FOX station airs an hour of Tube at 2AM on Saturday Nights...and that is the only regular airing of Tube that I think I can catch, at least till I get a TV ( Read more... )

Looks like LJ got their act back together. I was beginning to get worried there. (They had been out of service since about mid-afternoon here time.)

FP

It looks like that problem I was having earlier was due to the computer possibly overheating. I looked inside the CPU case and found that the case's fan was only set on LOW. So I put it on HIGH and I'm seeing how it does ( Read more... )

I've been hit with a lot of Stop Errors and Browser Crashes and the like lately, so I may have to pull my computer out of operation and have a repairman or three look at it. Dunno whether to blame Hewlett-Packard, Adobe or Microsoft for my current trouble. It may turn out to be all three.

FP