How Big a Difference can One Piece of Hardware Make to a Computer?
My poor rig was around a year overdue for a clean out. I evicted at least two families of dust bunnies from within its case on the weekend. A few …
Vickie’s Laptop Upgrade
You know, in the midst of my upgrading frenzy, I forgot to mention Vickie’s Toshiba Satellite A100. Since I bought it for her, Vickie’s had to wrestle with Windows Vista. …
I Just Want My PC To Work
A little while ago, I wrote about how I’d chucked my Grand Idea of starting my own business doing PC support, and I’m ever more convinced that I made the …
Unusual Hard Disk Activity
It’s been a busy past couple of weeks when it comes to computers. It started, as I mentioned on the 24th, when I installed Ubuntu 8.04, a Linux distribution, on …