03.29.09
Posted in John H. Gohde tagged Computer Repair, External CD Player, External DVD Player, External Floppy Drive, Fixing Computers, Floppy Drives, Modular Computers, Personal Computers, Tower Cases, USB Ports, Used Personal Computers, Windows XP at 5:01 pm by John H. Gohde
Used personal computers rarely brake down. The nature of digital equipment is that if it does not fail during the first year or two of operation, then it is very unlikely to fail for many years to come. Mechanical ware will give you the most trouble. The component modules that are most likely to fail, are exactly the ones that are the easiest to fix: floppy drives and your CD / DVD players.
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03.22.09
Posted in John H. Gohde tagged CPU Processor Speed, Hard Drives, IBM PCs, IBM Personal Computers, Ideal Used Computer, Operating Systems, Personal Computers, RAM, Service Pack 3 (SP3), SP3, Used Computers, Vista, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows Vista, Windows XP, XP at 11:36 am by John H. Gohde
Once upon a time, one would have to throw away their old computers every few years. The hardware was badly designed. Their operating systems were atrocious. Surfing the Internet was simply toxic to your computer. Well, times have changed. We finally have entered into the age of the stable computer.
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03.19.09
Posted in John H. Gohde tagged Disk Analysis, Do Not Use this Program, Free Programs, Free Stuff on the Web, Freeware, Google Sitemaps, Google Webmaster Help group, Googlers, GSiteCrawler, Hard Disk Management, John Mu, Nearly Free Programs, Shareware, Sitemap Generators, SOFTplus, Webmasters at 2:45 pm by John H. Gohde
The Softplus GSiteCrawler Sitemap Generator that was written by John Mu / Johannes Mueller, googler, is generally considered to be a handy innocuous freeware program that is useful for webmasters. Wrong! It is not just another tiny nearly free program that you might have been foolish enough to have installed and used a few times. For a program that does next to nothing, it happens to be a major space hog on your hard drive.
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