Computers and Technology

Took 4 hours. Couple minor glitches but everything working. Windoze authenticated with the hardware changes. Made new clone of boot drive.

What fun.  My son builds/rebuilds computers and servers for us at home.  He keeps it all running.

Hobbit709-Enjoy your venture(s).  Look forward to reading this Group.

When Apple went all proprietary, I quit having anything to do with them. Much less that they think their stuff is really worth the prices they charge.

I can build a system for about a quarter the cost that will outperform any Mac.

I’m too dumb to do any of that, Hobbit…. I operate in the Mac world, which at least has 24 hour tech support now. I know… it’s big of the company that has more than countries do and abuses labor and labor laws…

Good luck Hobbit.

That one lasted about 9 years. I figure if I can get that many more years out of the new one I won’t complain.

I hate having to change out my motherboard.  I put this one is about 4 years ago, and it’s holding up so far (knocking on wood).  Before that I ended up changing out the motherboard 3 times in 5 years.  :(

UPDATE: Flaky motherboard gave weird errors when trying to reinstall. So I hauled out a spare computer with a 3.5 GHz 6-core cpu and used Mozbackup to transfer my Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey profiles to it so I wouldn’t have to setup up 6 email addresses and all the user ID and passwords for everything all over again. Took 5 minutes instead…[Read more]

In other words, a regular Tuesday for me. :D

Recently my laptop decided to end its current OS, and then I tried installing Linux, but for some reason the computer didn’t like it (but Acer is supposed to be Linux friendly? Oh well, next time will be a Dell) then a refreshed install on Winblows 10 has been done, and just putting little by  little…[Read more]