I buy computers like I buy cars – I bite the bullet and buy everything I want and then I drive it for 10 years or into the ground – whichever comes first. Unfortunately, after seven years of Microsoft Update “patches” my circa-2002 Dell Inspiron 8200 Pentium 4 notebook is too horrifically slow to to [...]
For some reason, I decided in the mid-80s that I should expand my technical chops to include Windows because that platform is used by the the vast majority of the installed base. While that may have been a wise choice professionally, it was frustrating to move from HP-UX (which would run for years without rebooting) [...]