Dan’s Thoughts

Okay, boys: A boner is a mistake. Sure, giggle. You enjoy it. But you might want to save some of that laughter for some of the great, written boners of the high tech writing field.
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The wicked old witch of technology is about to cast her final spell on the personal computer. The victim? That spinning hard drive in your PC’s bosom. Expect all new PCs to be solid state within 5 years; no more moving parts. Samsung is leading the way.
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I’ve started writing a troubleshooting blog. No, you won’t find that blog here on Wambooli. Instead, you’ll have to visit the PC Live web site and go to their new blog, For PC’s Sake.
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Just recently I bought a 512MB DIMM to upgrade one of my PCs. It didn’t fit. Though I thought I had checked all the stats, I bought the wrong thing. Not wanting to have wasted the $60 or so I spent on the DIMM, I desperately tried to use it somewhere, anywhere, in any PC I owned. It didn’t fit in any of those computers.
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I got an interesting e-mail from Michael. He was getting feedback from his laptop every time he put his hands over the keyboard. The laptop’s microphone was echoing through the speakers and creating a rather annoying situation. That led me to discover the 7 steps it takes in Windows Vista to mute a microphone.
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¿Hablas Español? Probably not. I wish I would have learned more Spanish in school. I didn’t. But let me assist anyway: Saber Hacer is Spanish for know-how. It’s also the name of a new website that I’m a part of.
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Believe it or not, but this was once my e-mail address:

crash!pnet01!dang@nosc.mil

Yep, that’s weird, but that was 1990 — before the Internet. In fact, that’s a USENET address, one that I stuck in my old book Staying With DOS.
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I recently made the rounds and changed all the passwords I use. Experts say that you should do so every three months. I was overdue.
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Perhaps you’ve gone to Windows Update recently or even visited the microsoft.com home page. You noticed something called Microsoft Sliverlight. Like me, you probably installed it. Then you probably noticed that your computer wouldn’t start, or something equally weird. So you did a System Restore. That leads to the question, what the heck is Microsoft Silverlight and do you really need it?
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Microsoft has released a Service Package (SP) for Windows XP. It’s called SP3 because it’s the third and final service package for Windows XP. The thing was released this past week, and it’s not making users happy.
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