This excellent article from The Register is an excellent reason not to use Winblows. Even though its a few years old, it is (unfortunately for MS users) still relevant. And not much has changed in three years on the MS front…
From CNET News.com: …The Microsoft chairman told a group of reporters at a press conference in Lisbon that the tax agency needs special computers to handle his returns “because their normal computers can’t deal with the numbers,” according to a report by the Agence France-Presse news wire… “Special computers”? What the hell does that mean? [...]
Digging through Word’s help facility, I found this entry on password protecting a document (in Word 2000 Help, go to the Index, put ‘password-protection’ in the keywords, and click ‘About using passwords’ to see for yourself) : When you create a password, write it down and keep it in a secure place. If you lose [...]
Look at this hilarious clip of Bill floundering when he can’t get his presentation to work. Normally, its somewhat painful to watch a person in this situation, unless its Bill. Conan O’Brien just adds to the humor. Its nice to see the Big Guys look like total klutzes in front of thousands, and then be [...]
Time to beat up on Micro$oft. I wrote about my new laptop with XP loaded on it a couple months back. Well, for whatever reason, XP doesn’t shutdown about 50 percent of the time. It just hangs and I end up having to power off the machine manually. I have seen this problem on every [...]
Yet another reason (like you really needed one) to ditch IE. MyDoom is back!
I received a new “corporate” Toshiba M200 laptop a few weeks ago as a lease replacement of my old “corporate” Dell C400. On 8/23/2004, I finally got around to installing software for my “corporate” Brother 3100C MFC. The install went fine, but of course it annoyingly requires a reboot for the software and driver to [...]
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