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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 [...]

More time wasted with sucky Windows.
I have a client who wants her computer restored back to life. The XP OS has gotten so corrupted the only sensible course of action is to re-install it.
However, as Microsoft have this real stupid OEM system, where only a copy of Windows for a particular brand will work on [...]

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 [...]

 So where have I been? It’s been quite busy here the last few days, even on the weekend.  Something has to give sometimes, and as I spend all day in front of one of these beasts, sometimes, just sometimes, I have to kick back,  and let it know who is master.
Yes, OK, so you are, [...]

Why does Microsoft want to buy a failing company like Yahoo for? Like it or not, Google is the main search engine of choice for the overwhelming majority of the online population.
Remember the likes of Excite and Lycos? They seem to have vanished. AltaVista and inktomi got swallowed up by Yahoo themselves.
What Yahoo CAN offer [...]