Dan’s Thoughts

The search for truth in the universe will not be making a stop at your laptop’s battery meter.
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I have just successfully recovered from an upgrade of this blog software.
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The second thing you can do to improve the performance of Windows Vista is to take advantage of ReadyBoost.
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There are two tricks you can pull to make Windows Vista faster. No, not fast enough that you’ll no longer be angry with how long it takes Vista to do some things. But at least you can make Vista run faster than it’s running now.
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Before I shoot all my old hard drives, I should seriously look into the opportunity to resurrect them as external USB drives. I can do that for about $14 a pop.
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Identify theft isn’t really a new thing. The hyperactive alarmists on the television like to tell you about identify theft as if it’s going to happen to you any time you even look at a computer. Not true.
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What’s ThinkCentre? it is nor RAM, nor disk,
Nor processor, nor any other part
Belonging to PC. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? that which we call a Mac
By any other name would run as sweet;
So ThinkCentre would, were it not ThinkCentre call’d
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Have you ever been as bored as I’ve been? If so, then you too have probably visited one of the big computer shopping sites and configured one of their models with everything possible just to see how much it costs. I call it the Most Expensive Computer Playoffs.
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The very first computer I bought was a TRS-80 Model III. It cost me $1048, plus another $70 for the taper record. The tape recorder was the computer’s primary mass storage device. I kid you not.
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One of the major frustrations in Word is knowing how to edit a template file. Once created, you can use the template over and over. But to edit the template file, you have to follow some rather stupid and outrageous steps.
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