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7 rules for effective computing

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

My own personal rules for effective computing:
1. Don’t buy anything with ‘Norton’ written on it, unless the next word is ‘Ghost’.
2. Don’t buy any program without consulting osliving.com. Open source is often faster, more effective, and doesn’t provide features you don’t need.
3. Half the computer companies are brands of another. Check who belongs to whom, then use Google Shopping to find the cheapest supplier. The product and warranty will be the same, just the price will be cheaper.
4. A 2GHz AMD processor is as fast as a 3GHz Intel, but costs less than a 2GHz Intel.
5. Memory is the cheapest, easiest, and most effective upgrade you’ll ever buy.
6. Most users don’t use anything most Linux distributions won’t give you for free.
7. Free antivirus is better than no antivirus at all, but the best antivirus money can buy is no substitute for common sense.

VB5: hindsight is golden…

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Isn’t hindsight wonderful?  Just re-installed VB5 because there’s an old VB project I need to modify and saw this in the install screens…

vb5setup

“software that automatically downloads and installs on a user machine”.  Now who would ever have thought that could be a problem, eh?

Firefox easter eggs

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Did you know if you type about:robots in Firefox’s URL bar, you get a nice screen. Try about:god as well. Oh, and don’t forget about:mozilla as well :-)
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Lower your office’s property values…

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

…with junkyard desktop wallpaper! Sheer class – loving it!

Hidden game in Internet Explorer

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

I had to try this

Well, it made me laugh, anyway :-)