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It occurs to me…

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

That I’m an “old man” in computing terms these days. Why? Well…I was sat in the office earlier, watching a younger colleague play Lemmings for Dos.
Complaints about the graphics, how do I up the resolution, is this a Tandy or a high performance PC and so on were heard.
I had to laugh…Welcome to […]

Shall I tell you what’s nice?

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Getting a virus on the PC is NOT nice. What IS nice is being a techie.
Oh no..mad system tray warnings!! Popups!! Popups!! Porn!! Argh. Should I panic? Swear and curse? Ah, the hell with it.
Machine off, restart into second hard disk running Vista. Start Antivirus, update, set it […]