Posted by Brian R Hickey | Posted in Computers, Gaming | Posted on 06-16-2010
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I found myself getting frustrated with my phone the other day. But then I started to think about all of the problems I used to have with computers back in the day. These are just some of the ones that I came up with and I’ll add more as I think of them. Please feel free to comment about your own experiences with technology over the years…
When I bought my first computer (mine, not my family’s) it had an Intel MMX 200mhz processor.
My new EVO phone has a 1ghz processor, which is 5 times faster.
When I first got on the Internet, it took an hour to download ONE mp3.
Now I can stream them to my phone… from my house. Or stream podcasts.
When I first got on the Internet it could take 5 minutes to download a picture on dial-up.
Now I can stream HD videos on YouTube to my phone.
One of the first FPS games I bought was Doom. I had to bare-boot my machine with a custom AUTOEXEC.BAT in order to play.
Now I can play on my phone.
Posted by Brian R Hickey | Posted in Computers | Posted on 02-18-2010
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Open up device manager and go to “properties” under your hard drive.
Click the policies tab and uncheck the box for “Enable write caching on the disk.”
You should also disable System Restore if you haven’t already.
If this doesn’t work you can also try editing the boot loader settings:
BCDEDIT /set {bootmgr} device boot
BCDEDIT /set {default} device boot
BCDEDIT /set {default} osdevice boot
Posted by Brian R Hickey | Posted in Computers | Posted on 11-20-2009
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I seen this at a local mall in New Jersey. Why this Coke machine needs a computer is beyond me. And why it’s running Windows in the first place is nothing short of sheer amazement.
Posted by Brian R Hickey | Posted in Computers, Gaming | Posted on 11-05-2009
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For those of you who don’t know what StumbleUpon is… it is a wonderful browser add-on where you specify what your interests are and it will bring you to a random page in one of the categories you specified. It also acts as a bookmarking site which you can access from anywhere. You can add friends and stumble their favorites also. It’s part bookmark part social-network. You can also share interesting websites with your friends on Facebook and Twitter. If you choose to install Stumble, please give this page and website a big ol’ thumbs up.
Posted by Brian R Hickey | Posted in Computers, Uncategorized | Posted on 11-03-2009
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A wonderfully horrible error message that I received when I was trying to workaround a problem…
