The Smarmy Carny

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Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie have this great song truthfully titled "Every OS Sucks." It's funny because it's true.

There is a fairly lengthy introduction, but it's worth the wait if you're a computer geek. The song reminisces about the good ol' days when our computers never crashed. It's truly geeky snark at its best.

Be sure to check out the Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie site for more!

Crash! Burn!

Ouch!

The hard drive holding the server's operating system suffered a horrendous crash and burn yesterday.

I had the system up within a few hours, as I thankfully had a usable spare hard drive available, and it was even the exact same size as the defective drive.

Unfortunately, I had other things to set up long before I could take the time to get the web server back up and functioning properly. The fact that the web server data ended up with a different label didn't help the process much, either.

It's a good thing that the drive didn't go a couple weeks ago when I was bedridden (or futonridden, as was my situation) without any possible attack on the problems.

Now I'll just have to learn how well Western Digital's tech support and return policy work.

Happy Birthday, Microsoft

In October 1985, Windows first shipped.

What would we be doing now if Windows had never shipped? Would the 95% of computer users that currently use Windows be using an Apple OS instead? If so, would Apple still be charging an arm and a leg for their Macs? And with only Apple on the scene, would Linux have been developed as much as it has? The answers to these questions, just like the number of licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop, the world may never know.

Back then, it didn't even include Internet Explorer.

Sing along: "Stormy Weather . . . "

My video card bombed out on me earlier this week and I'm currently suffering with a lousy 4MB video card that doesn't even have proper drivers for any current OS. It started storming last night, so I decided I didn't want to lose additional equipment.

Thus, I turned the server off for the morning. Sorry about the downtime. Unless you're a few fries short of a happy meal, you've realized that the site is back up.

MS Windows

The OS we have come to know as "Longhorn" has now officially been named "Windows Vista."

The official Windows Vista website was also released.

The first beta will be available August 3, but don't expect to see the finished product for over a year.

Other than what we already knew about Longhorn, there doesn't appear to be any new information on WinVista except for the name.