Calibrating Your Mouse

You should do this every few days. More often if you spend a lot of time
on the computer!

I was shocked to see this actually worked!
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Tags: computer, mouse

Spanish Computers

A Spanish Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.

‘House’ for instance, is feminine: ‘la casa.’ ‘Pencil,’ however, is masculine: ‘el lapiz.’

A student asked, ‘What gender is ‘computer’?’

Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether computer’ should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.

The men’s group decided that ‘computer’ should definitely be of the feminine gender (’la computadora’), because:

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your money on accessories for it.

(THIS GETS BETTER!)

The women’s group, however, concluded that computers should be Masculine (’el computador’), because:

1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;
2. They have a lot of data but still can’t think for themselves;
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that had you waited a little longer, you could have got a better model.

The women won.

Tags: computer, computers, fun, funny, jokes, men, women

New computer bits!

Well, they are not really new, but they are new to me. I don’t do new computer components often, and when I do it is only really hard drives. The rest I salvage from other people’s old computers.

Today I went doing a maintenance job for someone who had got a new computer but needed the CDRW drive and Floppy Disk drive from their old computer putting into the new one. While I had the old computer in pieces they mentioned to me that they were going to be taking the old one to the scrap yard so I asked if I could take some of the bits from it first.

I came away with a motherboard (unknown brand so not much use as getting drivers will be very difficult), an AMD Semperon processor, 1GB RAM, and a 200GB HDD as well as some assorted cables and case fans.

I’m looking forward to being able to swap out some of the oldest parts of my PC and replace them with these newer parts. If nothing else, it was the RAM I really wanted. I’m quite attached to my really old AMD XP processor.

Tags: cables, computer, fans, happy, hdd, motherboard, processor, ram, semperon