This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. ~Chapter 2
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. [...]
I’ve got an iPod Nano, but I’m tempted by the cheap MP3 players available. They’re basic — no display, so they have a shuffle-type interface. They use a single AAA battery. There’s no onboard memory, so you borrow the card from your camera.
This one is $15.99, can support up to a 2 gig SD card, [...]
I’ve got a Palm Vx, which is way long in the tooth. It does everything I need from a PDA, though - stores several books, all of my contacts, notes and tasks, and it’s darn cheap.
I got a replacement battery for $14.99 a year ago, they’re now down to $5.99. A 33.6 data/fax modem was [...]
I’m really happy with Dreamhost, my web host. disk space is virtally unlimited, they’ve been relatively problem-free over the past year, they continually offer more services for the same price, and they have some interesting community-based services, like a place to vote for new features and a Wiki for end-user documentation.
In the past few months, [...]
(Part 2 of the WayBack Saga)
My Dell Optiplex GX1 is performing admirably. I’m running Office 2003 Professional, a fully service-packed Windows 2000, and the only issues I have so far involve rendering a large page on a web application I have.
I loaded Office 2003 on the system with some hesitation; I’d prefer to put a [...]
In desktop support, I’m continually faced with people requesting upgrades because their computer is too slow; I hear everything from ROI analysis of time spent waiting for processes to complete, to needing a laptop in case Bird Flu strikes.
We’re in the midst of a cost-cutting phase at work. I decided that if I’m going to [...]
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