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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¿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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Yeah, I’ve written about it often enough. I know how it works. But call it stupid timing. I fell victim to a phishing scam. O the shame!
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Long, long ago, a brave and enterprising guy took a bold step into cyberspace and irritated a lot of people. He was a pioneer.
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I’ve been really busy with a non-computer project, so this is as much as you’ll get for my regular Friday post!
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