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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007The following is a picture of a 1 GB hard disk manufactured in 1987 that was brought forward during one of the recent IT exhibition in Murska Sobota, Slovenia.
Hot Dumba$$
Friday, September 28th, 2007A user called and complained that her monitor was smoking, smelled of burning, the display had gone wrong, and the monitor was too hot to touch. I suggested that she switch the monitor off until an engineer could look at it.
Customer: “How do I do that?”
Is your computer secretly connecting on the web
Thursday, September 27th, 2007If you are trying to track down why your computer is running so slowly, try using this simple DOS command from Digital Inspiration to uncover a possible problem.
Type “cmd” in your Windows Run box and press enter.
Type “netstat -b 5 > activity.txt” and press enter.
After say 2 minutes, press Ctrl+C.
Type “activity.txt” on the command line [...]
What Virtual Reality is really about
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007Virtual reality (VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment, be it a real or imagined one. To “enter” a virtual reality, a user wears special gloves, earphones, goggles and/or full-body wiring.
Hilarious caller
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007User: “Hi, I was wondering if you could fix my department IBM laptop. It’s under warranty.”
Me: “What seems to be the trouble with it?”
User: “My wife got mad and threw it out the corridor into the pool.”
Hahahahahaaha. Still got the cheek to call technical support to declare the issue and worse, trying to get a [...]
Sumatra PDF viewer
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007Adobe Reader is the standard application for viewing PDFs. Indeed PDF as a format is an Adobe creation. However, Adobe Reader is a big application for what it does. Its also uses a lot of memory, over 20MB for a one page document. Along with the extremely slow startup, there are lots of extensions and [...]
Melayu Boleh!! Sha Boleh!!
Thursday, September 6th, 2007A few months ago, I was random surfing and I stumbled upon this particular site. It’s a funny site with an ‘Uncle’ blogging at the helm. Melayu Boleh!
During those few moments of venturing into his sites, I realised that he was none other than the owner of now defunct cmfaq.com site back in the late [...]