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Windows Was Late the First Time

10 November, 2008 (16:22) | Computers, Technology

Well it was on this date back in 1983 that Bill Gate’s unveiled the OS of the future durning a big event at New York City’s high end Helmsley Palace Hotel. Gates promised an easy-to-use graphical interface with dropdown menus, tiled windows, mouse support, and the ability to run several applications at the same time. [...]

Sunday Update

7 September, 2008 (22:34) | Computers, Stuff

Almost forgot to do a post of today. Well I got the Mac all Bootcamped up and now have Windows running on it. Took a little work as I missed a step when in stalling Windows and had to start over. Got the scanner software all install and looks like everything is going to work [...]

Computer Repaired

11 August, 2008 (19:51) | Computers

Well after a few days work I got my brothers computer backup and running. So here is my question to Dell. Why in the h*** can’t you provide a restore disc or partition that puts the computer back to the state it was in when it left the factory like every other computer maker does? [...]

Broken Computer

6 August, 2008 (19:07) | Stuff

One of the downsides to being The Geek of the family when someone’s computer breaks down they look to you to fix it. My brothers computer quit on him the other night and while he has his iTunes backed up he never backuped his photos. So instead of simplely doing a restore I have to [...]

XP given the Ax

16 June, 2008 (19:27) | Computers, Stuff

Well Micosoft is giving their best selling operating system ever the Ax. As of June 30th large PC makers will no longer be able to sell Windows XP machines. Retailers will also have only until their current supply is exhausted to sell boxed copies of the operating system. But there are still ways to get [...]

Wiiiide Screen

15 May, 2008 (19:14) | Computers

Saw this insane rig setup over on TUAW today. The pic is up on Flikr with all the rigs marked. They guy is using an application called Synergy to seamlessly move the mouse and keyboard from one computer to the next with out using a KVM. The set up uses Five Macs, Three Windows boxes, [...]