Monday, 7. May 2007, 00:59:14
humor, ESL, English
For the first 500 or so of my DVD collection, I had really neat disk cases that had an index on the lid, and a little sliding button on the front. When you slid the button to the index number and opened the lid, the proper disk was lifted out for use. This was all referenced via Excel in my computer, so I could find any movie easily.
Then... I failed to keep up...
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Thursday, 3. May 2007, 14:21:37
windows, boondoggle, security
There is always a lot of 'Oh Yeah!?!? Well my computer/system/setup/whatever is better than yours! Here's Why... blah blah blah...'
Now that I have tested out as only 62% Geek, I know I can't compete in that arena. However I do want to make a comment about something I saw on the net yesterday.
It seems that users of the Windows operating system are always getting security updates. That's well and good because it is too easy to encounter a virus these days.
But it was getting a little overwhelming to keep it all straight I guess, so a company decided to make it easy for people to keep track of which updates they had installed, which version of Widows they were using, information about their computer etc. So they would scan the person's PC and create a file on the person's computer that organized all this very neatly for them. Nice huh? Sooooo what's up?
You won't believe it... read on!
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