Good thing i have a full install disk for XP sp2 and a disc with a virus-free sp 3 for it, and at least 6 parts computers i can use to make an XP system. as well a windows 98 se system, 2000 professional, windows 3.1 in addition to my current “use” computer.
NONE of my software since 1987 has stopped functioning yet even in 5 1/4" disks.
wonder what the need for fondle-ware technology is except maybe the people working at Microsloth have nothing else to fondle so they need some tech to fondle instead while continuing to needlessly copy Apple.
Moore’s Law may exist, but to hell if i wont break it daily and continue using my 486sx 25 mhz IBM PS1 with 100 meg HDD and windows 3.1 with a REAL DOS 5.0! still the best spreadsheet software ever made Lotus 123 R23.
I helped sell & install dozens of IBM PS1 systems like that, was a beta tester for DOS 5.0 … oh the joy of getting it to work with Novell’s Netware 2 & 3, it was the gold standard for smaller networks.
Token ring networking, coaxial networking with “vampire taps”, having to worry about the physics of the coaxial cable when setting up networking, protocols like ipx…the dark ages of computing
I can’t imagine using a single-core computer again. Even my phone is multicore.
Verizon tells me that if I want to upgrade from my Fast Ethernet and Wireless G router that I will have to pay them a hefty fee. After all this time with them I’d say that they owe me a modern router but it turns out that even if I do pay their fee that I’ll still be stuck with a behind-the-times router as their “top end” router is Gigabit Ethernet with 300 Mbit Wifi N.
We already have 450 Mbit N routers, 1000 Mbit+ AC routers and 10,000 Mbit AC routers are on the horizon. Ain’t no way I can justify paying for 300 in such a time and the nature of FiOS makes it seem as though, no matter what I do, the root of my network will always be their router.
However, Verizon says that if I want to get up to even 100 Mbit speed (I’m at ~40 now) that I’d have to pay their router fee as, even though my router has 100 Mbit ethernet, my router “can’t handle it”.
We’ve had Brighthouse’s ( Time Warner ) “Lightning” 90 MBS cable modem for some time, I’ve got it paired with a 300 MBS N Wireless Netgear router, but now that we are getting ready to move I’d like to replace the router with a more current AC Wireless unit.
My neighbor told her provider that she was considering changing providers and asked if they had any ‘deals’. They did. She got a very sweet deal on cable/internet and now has a very fast connection (sorry I don’t know the specs).
Well Time Warner now owns Verizon and it is even an option when you call the Time Warner 1-800-number, as well as the Verizon owned ClearWire, and Comcast is trying to buy Time Warner, so…
you know because the whole anti-trust thing and Comcast not competing with Time Warner, but is Verizon available where Comcast is available? Unregulated it is about to be jsut one big company that screws over ALL US customers and lines the pockets of politicians that let telecomm write the laws that govern it.
As far as big providers, it’s AT&T vs Comcast here. There’s others, but they’re those small brands, and the DSL based ones mainly use AT&T’s lines anyway. The cable ones are another story.
Well, my hard drive that stores My Documents is on the fritz again so I’m transferring My Documents back to the SSD. Even when it is working well, the drive takes a few seconds to emerge from Power Save mode and with so many programs stored on SSD requiring access to My Documents to run that was reducing the SSD speed advantage.
…I still can’t believe that 3 years ago all of my computing was done on hard drives.
So I was playing around with the “Smart LAN” feature in my BIOS, a built-in LAN cable tester, and the thing crashed and caused my integrated LAN to not recognize any cabling and to report to Windows that it was connected to a nonexistent network when no cable was plugged in. With nothing but air in the port the activity and “cable connected” lights were on. Took forever to rectify.
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Sometime between now and 2095 tablet makers have finally decided to cut back on the ridiculously huge margins on tablets, giving us more screen space and less useless dead space.
After resetting values in the BIOS and reinstalling the drivers in Windows it finally came back. More restarts and finagling in BIOS than I’ve ever done before with my PC lol. Of course I bought a USB 3.0 gigabit adapter that I now no longer need. Murphy’s Law, I suppose.
It was weird as I plugged ethernet cables to the computer and my router and other switches on the network and they all insisted that I had no cable connected. When the adapter was being weird I went back to the Smart LAN option and it insisted that I had a Fast Ethernet connection going with a cable length between 11 and 99 meters long.
Lesson learned: stay away from the Gigabyte Smart LAN diagnostic option.
