A funny thing happened on the way to starting my computer. That paraphrase is so old (1960’s) most people don’t know it is one. Actually what happened to me wasn’t so funny until the end. Then I laughed at myself. I started my computer the day after I brought all my bookkeeping up to date on my computer. This was December 1st. The computer had been working flawlessly all of the previous day while I...
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Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu just updated to version 13.10 so I updated “Sandbox” and my little Netbook to this new version. The updates went flawlessly with nary a hiccough on either machine. I don’t see any difference at the user level interface and in a way that’s OK with me. There was nothing wrong I could detect in the older version (13.0). This is just their standard sequence of progressive update releases. I grabbed a screen shot off...
Continue reading...Excel Panic
I saw a Microsoft Office 2007 update upload in one of my auto update sessions a couple of days ago. I have the full office suite on my business/home computer. I am also running Windows seven ultimate as my OS. Yesterday I was manipulating some old Excel worksheets (.xls) which I use for tracking material orders in my store. I immediately became alarmed after I opened the first spreadsheet. I could look at it but...
Continue reading...OS Speed Lesson Learned
I have been a bit frustrated on the performance of my super bad, 64 bit quad processor, 3.2 GHz, 8 GIG RAM, and 4 Terabytes of Storage, WIN 7 Ultimate. Pretty hot hardware specs and better than almost everything else made today. Re-built about 3 or 4 years ago after a lighting strike, I can’t make her any better today except add more processor cores and maybe a bit faster GPU video card. But almost...
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