Category: Computers


  • Office XP suxs… going back to Office 2000. The final needle was it started showing every email as having an attachment.

  • Just got a copy of Lynx. For the uninformed, it is a text based brower from the old days. Apparently it is one of those projects that is still being developed. Latest release was 10 Jul 2001.

  • EH-puh-thet

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    epithet EH-puh-thet (noun) 1 : a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing Guess mine would be Polar Bear, huh? The FOK got about 105 hits over the last week. Have gotten about 80 hits the last week here. Found this SiteSpeed Test interesting… One can get…

  • Selected Hotmail subjects in my Junk Mail Folder: Secrets of the Internet – Free Porn!! 19676 Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs – The REAL stor… EXPLOITED TEENS – They came in to be models b… US$31,000,000.00 We Run Background and Asset Searches!!! Fabulous Business Opportunity! Your Own Internet Business in 30 seconds FREE Have tax…

  • My Specs

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    Here are the specs I would choose: Thunderbird 1.4GHz CPU (266 MHz FSB) w/ Heavy Duty Heat Sink and Fan Assembly same case and power supply: ATX Mid Tower Case with 300 Watt ATX PS same motherboard: K&S5A Thunderbird/Duron – Ultra 100 – ATX motherboard ( 1 4x AGP – 5 PCI – Ultra33/66/100 )…

  • Chris’ specs on a < $1K computer from Micro Pro: AMD Thunderbird 1.2 GHz (266 FSB) w/ heavy duty heat sink & fan assembly ATX Mid Tower Case with 300 Watt ATX PS K&S5A Thunderbird/Duron – Ultra 100 – ATX motherboard ( 1 4x AGP – 5 PCI – Ultra33/66/100 ) 256MB PC2100 DDR memory…

  • Scavenged RAM from one old computer for another last night. Have not turned it on to see if the new boards will work yet. New Yahoo! Article… New Malicious Computer Worm Preys on Anthrax Scare Think the idea of “alternate” domain providers (read rogue) is not such a good idea. First of all, computers have to…

  • Who knows how all of the possibilities for the extinction of human kind? We have the biologicals such as viruses and bacteria. We have seen near misses by comets and astroids certainly large enough to wipe us out. Patterns of evolution indicate there are large spurts of evolutionary change periodically as species after species is wiped…

  • Ah, installing Acrobat Distiller and PageMaker 6.5 so that I can convert the files the one person that still uses PageMaker needs me to make into PDFs. Deal is, you have to have a postscript printer installed to install Acrobat 4. So I had to crack that nut first. Think I might have it now.