Sandman’s Weekly Q & A I don’t usually do these, but — this only has three questions and the first is a doozy! 1. What was your first computer? THE OLD DAYS After contemplating operating systems at length, I started rethinking… Read More ›
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SEARCHING FOR STUFF THAT ISN’T THERE
My granddaughter needed a copy of Windows 7 to try and reload the laptop I gave her last year. I found one, finally, after finding at least a dozen version of Windows XP. How old are the XP operating systems?… Read More ›
ANOTHER DAY WITH CUSTOMER DISSERVICE
As soon as I saw that Microsoft was planning to make “updates” and “downloads” automatic for Windows 10, I knew it was going to be trouble. I had managed to completely evade Windows 8 and 8.5. I had stuck with… Read More ›
ELECTRONIC MEMORIES
THE OLD DAYS After contemplating operating systems at length, I started rethinking the whole thing and I began to wonder if operating systems will be relevant a couple of years from now. Because everything is changing. Change is hardly new… Read More ›
AND FINALLY, THE COMPUTER IS FIXED. ENTIRELY. FIXED.
I installed the new operating system, taking everything down to zero. Rebuilt both drives. Added software for documents and photography. Added the plug-ins that I use more than the software. Added back all my photographs, then deleted half of them… Read More ›
HOW TABLETS DIDN’T REPLACE LAPTOPS. AND WON’T.
Last year, I wrote an update to my original commentary (from November 2012 – WHY TABLETS CAN’T REPLACE COMPUTERS AND WHY THEY SHOULDN’T) about how tablets were NOT going to replace laptops which absolutely everyone agreed was inevitable and I thought… Read More ›
THE SCARIEST THING
I was terrified. Was it a big hairy spider? A home invader? A tornado? A threatened lawsuit? A burst pipe? A volcanic eruption (in New England, that would really be something else!) … ? No. My computer refused to boot. It… Read More ›
ELEGANT SOLUTIONS?
According to the dictionary, an elegant solution is as follows: “Refinement and simplicity are implied, rather than fussiness, or ostentation. An elegant solution, often referred to in relation to problems in disciplines such as mathematics, engineering, and programming, is one… Read More ›
WRESTLING WITH THE COMPUTER
I spent a day and a night in mortal combat with my computer. It wasn’t my computer’s fault. It was some update that caused something else to malfunction. Like a house of cards, it just went down and stayed down…. Read More ›
ONE SIZE NEVER FITS ALL
Just when I think this subject has been dealt with, finished, over and done … it pops back up again. For reasons that remain a bit murky to me, a few large software and other organizations still believe the tablets… Read More ›
WHY TABLETS DIDN’T REPLACE COMPUTERS
A few years ago when tablets were the next big thing, there were articles everywhere explaining why tablets would replace everything else. All the techno-pundits said no one would need a computer because everything would be done on a small, portable device. It didn’t happen. Everyone bought a… Read More ›
IT WAS A FINE AFFAIR, BUT NOW IT’S OVER …
Four hours after I finished installing Windows 10, I restored Windows 7 Professional. Why, you ask? How fair an assessment of the operating system could I make in only four hours? Well, for a start, the boot time on Windows 10… Read More ›
