My new Dell XPS M1530

I bought my last desktop computer from a house that was custom-building before full customization was popular, and ordered each component exactly to specifications.  That desktop computer is now almost 4 years old (it will turn 4 in March of 2009), and although it has aged well thanks to some optional and some repair-type upgrades, [...]

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Grr…. Windows… Grr… ZoneAlarm…

Today, we had no classes at my university (it’s a sort of holiday) and I stayed home this morning rather than driving in to work.
Anyway, early in the morning I decide I will do some computer stuff and maybe play some COH. I recall that ZoneAlarm has been nagging me for the last week to [...]

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Thank you very much Microsoft

The incompetence of the Microsoft Corporation never ceases to amaze me.
I use Windows XP, because Vista after all this time is still not really “there” yet as an operating system (though it’s getting closer). Also, I have an older machine so I’d rather not over-stress it with the resource hog that is Vista. Furthermore, because [...]

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