Have any of you tried using Parallels to run Windows? If so, how well does it work ( Read more... )

My computer's all reformatted and running faster again. Not quite as fast as I'd like though, I tried running that episode of Numbers I had downloaded before the reformat and it's just not fast enough to do it. Now my computer will run it as fast as my laptop will, instead of not at all as it used to be when I tried last ( Read more... )

I finally finished the hard part of reformatting my computer. It's not reformatted yet, but it's all backed up. This took a while because I had to comb through my hard drive and decide what I wanted to actually keep. But I finished it about an hour and a half ago ( Read more... )

...it's all the stuff that comes before the actual formatting part that is tedious as hell. I'm not keen on the backup part, really. It's partly my fault, I store the files that I consider critical in almost a dozen different places on my computer. I made a list of nine different folders worth of data that I want to backup before reformatting my ( Read more... )

Those sunglasses of mine that broke yesterday?Yeah, turns out it was just a loose screw. I called Chico Optical to see about fixing them and they had closed a half an hour before I called, so I called lenscrafters, figuring they're always open. They are indeed open late - until 9 PM today, and the lady on the phone said that the repair is free ( Read more... )

And this means you may need to change some settings on your computer for it to automatically change time at the correct time, as DST now starts a month earlier than it used to start. Unless you have a brand new computer, ie, Win Vista, you probably will want to make sure that your computer is updated so that it will change on the right date ( Read more... )

So it turns out that I won't be needing to buy a copy of PowerPoint after all, since the latest version of OpenOffice lets me print PowerPoints in handout view. I don't really like how it put mini versions of all the slides on the first page, especially since the order of it doesn't really make sense. To me, that's just a waste of ink and paper, ( Read more... )

Last night, I was trying to get my once and future phone line setup, so I'll have the privilage of having "High Speed" interent. While I was doing this, I saw the last thing I wanted to see in the midst of setting up high speed internet: severe packet loss ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if it's just SBC, or the internet as a whole, but it's a diffuse enough issue that it looks like it might not be SBC. Then again, the fact that I can't even complete a traceroute to SBC's own website means that something haywire going on with SBC is probably likely right now ( Read more... )

This is the first smart thing I've seen Microsoft do in well...forever when it comes to security. They're opening up Vista to the hacker world to see if it really is secure. I hope they fix all the holes that are inevitably found - even if it takes several more months or more to release Vista. If they could finally get out an OS with decent ( Read more... )