Dan’s Thoughts

During my recent visit with PC disaster, I had the opportunity to put the PC’s Backup program to the test. Well, actually, I had the opportunity to the the PC’s Restore program to the test. The results were rather tepid.
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There has been a lot of buzz about the “dot-com economy,” and Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and other overnight success stories on the Internet. But for every dot-com billionaire are there millions of people who once had jobs and who now don’t?
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Windows 7 is just about to land on the world’s lap, possibly in the fall. But what about the next version of Windows, dubbed Windows 8?
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Where once you bought a new computer ever two or four years, people are now keeping their PCs for six, eight, or ten years. That means you dragging around a lot of digital dust.
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For the first time since Bill Gates acknowledged that email is a necessary thing (c.1995), a new version Windows will not come with an email program.
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The iPhone is here. I have one. Yes, I’m a Mac fanboy.
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As I sat at my computer to begin working, I noticed something funny: It was dead.
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You can name a computer file using dozens of characters. Well, except for an annoying few.
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Once I was merely annoyed at the long time it took Windows Vista to start, but now I’m really ticked off.
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I was on the road this past week.
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