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Imagine what life would be like if…

December 16th, 2009 Kirb 1 comment

Recently I received the following comment on my post (which has over 200 comments already) about an Internet Explorer problem. I had to chuckle when I read it and thought it was worth sharing.

This worked! Thanks. That was a really annoying problem.

My other computer which also runs XP doesn’t have the problem, but after I installed the fix on this one I discovered that it already has that entry.

But why does it have to be this way? Imagine what life would be like if all our electronic products required this degree of fiddling and bug fixes. Why, we would turn on a lamp, only to get an incomprehensible error message. We’d copy it down, Google it, and come to a site like this and find some incomprehensible gobbledy-gook to try as a solution. Some of us couldn’t make heads or tails of it, while others would manage to install it. Voila! the light goes on. But then the refrigerator issues some kind of warning and goes off. And the toaster hasn’t worked for a week. And the car stopped in the middle of the road yesterday, and some motorist said the thingami package needed to be reinstalled and the registers cleaned out of electronic gunk. “You need to update your anti-roadblock software,” the motorist said as the car finally started again. “Or this’ll keep on happening. Don’t get Norton, though.”

BlueScreen Screen Saver

December 11th, 2008 Kirb 5 comments

Windows XP Blue Screen (by wikipedia)Sure you have. You’ve seen that dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). Yea, that lovely blue background with informative gibberish about what you did wrong to your computer. Yes. that’s the one I’m talking about. Did you know you can download a screen saver featuring a realistic bluescreen complete with a startup splash screen? I can just tell what you’re thinking now, “but… but why would I need that??”.  That’s a good question. Why would a person want a blue-screen screen saver? I can think of at least one good reason why you might like to know about this, but I’ll let you decide for yourself.

Official Download from Microsoft
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