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Beware of products made by ATI

ATI makes computer video cards also known as graphics cards. They also make computer motherboards.

I am not sure how good thier motherboards are but their video cards are crap.

They don’t work reliably under XP. Now this could be entirely due to XP but there is nothing on the ATI literature that warns of [...]

Sears Direct Parts

I have an EZ walk behind Craftsman Lawnmower. It is a Sears frame with a five horsepower Honda engine for power. It is self propelled, hence the EZ walk behind title. It is front wheel drive which is not a very smart design because it tends to tilt backwards when the collection [...]

The Monitor in the Dell

This time it is a monitor, not a farmer.

I have wasted the last two days messing with a video computer problem. I am trying to get an ATI dual monitor video card to work with my XP system so I can watch Netflx movies on my standard NTSC ANALOG TV.

I recently started using a [...]

AT&T Ding Dong

We live in Richardson. We have been using AT&T Uverse for over a year now and are happy with it.

Richardson has had an ordinance forbidding door to door solicitation. This covers any and all solicitation including Girl Scout Cookies and Boy Scout Fertilizer.

Folk in our part of town have come to consider the [...]

Impulse buying at the computer store

People often advise me to avoid those displays that are set up at the entrance to stores. They are usually sucker bait for impulse buyers.

Well, our local computer emporiun is no exception to this practice.

Looking for CDs to transfer some pictures from the iBook to disk and free up some hard disk space. [...]

Drake LED pilot lights

Next to Collins, Drake is probably the better of the old boatanchor rigs. Not better than Collins, just better than anything other than Collins.

One of the more annoying aspects of using older tube type equipment is maintenance. The equipment rarely needs maintenance but when it does good parts are difficult to find.

A dead [...]

Goodbye Firefox

Version 3 of Firefox will not work with older versions of Windows. No reson given as to why. No explanation of why it is a good thing for the user to use bloated software that is not backward compatible.

So, I dumped Firefox when I found K-Meleon.

K-Meleon is faster loading and smaller in size [...]

Apache and Win98

I just tried to install the latest Apache server into win98. It does not work anymore. Need to go back to an earlier version of Apache to make it work with win98.

Not sure if I would want to do that. Apache was never big on windows of anykind and prefered to be [...]

Home Improvement Center RG6

The last time I needed 50 feet of RG6 coax I paid under $10 for it and I am pretty sure I got it at a home improvement center. That was about six months ago.

I needed another 50 feet of RG6 so I went back to the previous source and discovered the price had [...]