stuff on support

at number 10

Tuesday, 27 November 2007 8:46 am by noel
posted in stuff, support

from the pages of crave at c|net uk: top 10 terrible tech products Vista Any operating system that provokes a campaign for its predecessor’s reintroduction deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating system that quietly has a downgrade-to- previous-edition option introduced for PC makers deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating [...]

laptop battery care

Tuesday, 4 September 2007 11:36 am by noel
posted in hardware, support

for the past few months i have had a couple of laptop batteries die on me. its not the spectacular fiery end that they have on the news a couple of months ago. fortunately. a couple of the battery packs are just a little over 12 months old. they shouldn’t be dying this early. so [...]

warning: spam is up

Monday, 19 February 2007 7:05 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, internet, support

i’ve been getting a lot more spam for the past two days. something’s up. so: don’t open any e-mail from anyone you do not know. don’t click on that link from an e-mail unless you’re expecting that e-mail be wary of e-mails even if it appears to be from someone you know be wary of [...]

txt spk (text speak)

Friday, 26 January 2007 12:05 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, internet, opinions, software, support

hi gud am,jst wnt 2 ask,i cnt cend email,d mesge says,cnt cnd bcoz d server dnt wnt 2 acpt d sender,wat 2 do,. tnx. i had to read this text message three times, slowly, before i “got” its meaning. in short, its a call for help. this is a sample of txt spk or “text [...]

best way to reach me, really

Thursday, 6 April 2006 12:31 am by noel
posted in e-mail, stuff, support

a couple of days ago i went out of town to take care of some stuff. during that time a couple of people were trying to reach my via landline. its not a bad idea but if it concerns me, its not a good one either. you see, i move around a bit. in a [...]