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Monthly Archives: November 2007
TECHNOLOGY: Winding Down
Have almost all the software in and working properly on the new pc, even installing new drivers for the monitor, upgrading to the latest Quicken program, getting Media Player back up to version 11 and installing the Nvidia encoder so … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: A Death in The Family – Comic Relief
Agee, in his tremendous adherence to realism, knows enough to throw in an offset to the dramatic tension in the scene. In this case, it is Mary’s mother, Catherine, who is hard of hearing and uses an ear ‘trumpet’ to … Continue reading Continue reading
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TECHNOLOGY: Solitaire and Speed Testing
One of the primary uses of Microsoft’s Solitaire is to visually note any increase in computer speed after the addition of any RAM modules in an upgrade. I have 2 Gig of memory in this new machine, but according to … Continue reading Continue reading
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REALITY?: Susie Icicle
After fiddling around for five days about the missing ‘M’ in my name on my credit card, Home Depot finally approved shipment of my propane stove for the shop. This morning’s email confirmed shipment and an estimated delivery date of … Continue reading Continue reading
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REALITY?: It’s a Small World
Sometimes ‘out of the blue’ means it comes from a logical but unlikely source. Today in the frameshop my sales rep from one of the moulding companies came in and since we’re the same age and hadn’t talked in a … Continue reading Continue reading
TECHNOLOGY: Ease and Satisfaction
Aside from the fun in problem-solving and learning new things, there is great satisfaction in building something that works. Sometimes it’s a computer. Sometimes it’s a pie, or squeezing grapes or peaches into wine. As you can see from the … Continue reading
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TECHNOLOGY: Learn as You Go
Had I known that the software side of the new pc was going to go so well, I would not have put off this building of the main pc for so long. I’ve never had a problem with the hardware … Continue reading Continue reading
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TECHNOLOGY: Houston, we have contact…
The Dell monitor–not too thrilled with the clarity unless I can adjust something or put in the video card as added help to the integrated graphics, but it only weighs 12 pounds… And this is neat, a glow-in-the-dark PC: Not … Continue reading
TECHNOLOGY: Progress
For the first time in all the years I’ve been building computers the hardware gave me grief and the software didn’t. Of course, I’ve still got to activate Win XP and that’ll take another phone call to Microsoft to explain … Continue reading Continue reading
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TECHNOLOGY: Not every engineer was at least a C Student
I have never had the trouble with the hardware that I’m having with this system. The case has four bays for CD units or the like, and six bays for the hard drives and floppy, but where do you have … Continue reading Continue reading
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TECHNOLOGY: Building Structure
Finally got back into the rebuilding of the main PC and was a bit upset to realize that the motherboard has only one plugin for an EIDE hard drive while it has two for the SATA. I hadn’t even thought … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: A Death in The Family – Reader Involvement
I seem to be reading this part of the story in careful, hushed tones. Has the author, James Agee, brought this about? Does the reader become funereal with the waiting for confirmation of death? In preparation for the ceremonies that … Continue reading Continue reading
REALITY?: More PC BS
More and more I want to cut ties to humanity when I see how it’s determined to dumb itself down. Australian Santas must change "Ho-ho-ho!" to "Ha-ha-ha!" to accommodate the idiots who believe this is degrading and offensive to women. … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: A Death in The Family – Emotion Level
So it ended up taking about twenty-three pages to find out that Jay is dead, but there is a building up of emotion–if not tension–Agee does well. It still seems to be slow, but then again, that may just be … Continue reading Continue reading
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REALITY?: Thanksgiving Harvest
For some reason I always manage to make an excellent turkey, but one thing that made things special this year is that most of the herbs in the stuffing, a butternut squash side dish, and the wine was home grown … Continue reading Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology