Geeking out

Spent several hours today loading software on my new HP laptop. It’s a Pavillion with Vista 64 and 4 GB of RAM. So, far, everything has gone quickly and easily. It’s my first Vista computer and the learning curve has been surprisingly mild indeed.

Since I plan to learn PHP, I installed WAMP. This [...]

Old computers, Vista and Macs

My laptop just lost the “E” key and no replacement keyboard exists anywhere (and putting the “E” back is not doable.) My desktop computer has major problems with Firefox, locking up multiple times a day. Ditto for the laptop. Both computers are about three years old and have a creakily obsolescent 512MB of RAM and [...]