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I used usenet before I had an internet account.
My first PC - 640 RAM, DOS 3.3, 12 VGA (256 color 640 x 480), 30MB hard drive, which cost me £1,250 ($2,500) - was fine with email, and news. That was back in 1986. IRC worked on it too when it came along.
It came with a [...]

Computers are like cars.
A quick job almost always ends up taking hours, and something that you think will be a simple, inexpensive quick fix, entails buying half a new machine.
Well, perhaps not quite, but it often seems the case.
Anyway, I’ve been canniba lizing some of the many old boxes I had laying around here.
Kathy [...]

First there’s news that Microsoft is going to start using it’s well-known bullying tactics to try and get its way in its efforts to take over Yahoo.
Now, the latest rumor is that Murdoch’s News Corporation - well known for its political bias, and it’s dumbing down of all that it touches - is weighing in [...]

I didn’t. Well Wordpress didn’t. The new image uploader wouldn’t work when I tried to upload images from my hard drive.
Don’t worry, I posted a fix over at the Tech blog.
It works now for me. At least it does in Firefox. I try to avoid Internet Explorer where possible, but I’ll check it out next [...]

Another hard drive that’s been lurking around for 3-4 years. At the time I thought something with IBM on it might be more reliable, but it failed after a few months - just out of it’s warranty. In fact, it was still new enough that I’d not practiced what I preach, and backed it [...]