I think my life is a perpetual cycle of spring cleaning. So much has been stockpiled over the years, stored away in areas that I say I’ll take care of at some point in my life… but then I just forget their existence. I forget that I put them there. and when I go back…
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The last days of my Sony VAIO laptop
It survived numerous basketball trips from one end of the Northeast to the other. It survived at least two vicious computer virus attacks. And it survived four years of a Vista operating system. But now my Sony VAIO laptop is on its last beeps. I remember getting the VAIO in November of 2007; its acquisition…
Read MoreIf you want it done right… install it yourself…
So for the past few weeks, I’ve had trouble with my CD/DVD burner on my custom-built computer tower. I’ve pressed the little button to pop the drawer out, so that I can put a fresh blank CD in the machine. Chuck needs his music for long road trips, because there’s nothing like singing along to…
Read MoreWanna know what those tinyurl and bit.ly hyperlinks are in Twitter? Sure you do!!
Ever since I became part of the Twitter universe, I have learned that it’s difficult to list any sort of website redirect without condensing it with a website abbreviating company like tinyurl or bit.ly. You place your long URL into these programs, and it spits out a shortened alphanumeric link, short enough so that it…
Read MoreThe attack of Antivira.av
So last week I was working on my laptop, trying to get some PBL basketball work done before I could get some sleep. Everything was working well, my old Sony VAIO has been a dependable workhorse since the day I bought it at a Best Buy “Black Friday” sale in 2007. Suddenly I noticed a…
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg showed me who’s boss
On Wednesday, I saw a news report that Facebook was going to institute a new program whereby any status updates you make – no matter when or how long ago they were made – can be turned into instant testimonials for advertiser product. The last thing I needed was to go on Facebook and find…
Read MoreThe White Label Computer Tower
Back in the 1970’s, Johnny Cash had a hit song called “One Piece at a Time,” the story of which involves him smuggling parts out of a General Motors factory to build his own car – only because it took so long to smuggle every part, all the parts didn’t fit together when he tried…
Read MoreWife’s laptop update – the battery finally arrived
The story so far. I am in the process of updating my wife’s 2003 HP laptop so that she can still use it for another few years. I increased the laptop’s memory from a puny 512MB to 1G. I cloned and swapped out her 30 gig hard drive with an 80 gig hard drive. I…
Read MoreSwapping out the hard drive on my wife’s laptop computer
Status report on my wife’s laptop computer. The six-year-old HP laptop now has a full gig of memory (up from 512mb), thanks to Computer Renaissance in Latham and Computer Answers on Central Avenue in Albany. And last Monday, one of my trivia teammates, Jeremy McNamara, brought me one of his old 80-gig 2.5-inch IDE hard…
Read MoreHewlett Packard’s HP customer service doesn’t care about me
An update. I’ve already replaced and upgraded my wife’s computer laptop memory. As for the hard drive, my Monday night trivia teammate Jeremy has graciously offered to give me his 80 gig EIDE 2.5″ hard drive, as he has no use for it any more now that his electronics setup is SATA-based. Thanks, J-Mac. But…
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