Windows: Version Death?

Having so very many donated machines pass through my hands over the past decade, I have had a chance to install various Windows releases on a wide array of hardware. I’ve noticed something odd, though. Regardless of the condition of the hardware, regardless of its age and how well it matches the version of Windows [...]

Craigslist and Crash

After two weeks of silence from my Craigslist post, I had forgotten it. While people who want Macs tend to be diligent about searching for available machines, I figured it was too old for anyone to care much. On the other hand, I knew laptops would be in high demand, even the old ones, as [...]

Trail: Northern Exposure

Today I had the chance to work on the trail some more. After re-entering the largest wooded section, I moved almost straight east for a hundred yards or so to avoid a depression on my left (north side). I managed to get past it and turned north immediately. For another hundred yards or so, it [...]

Archives: Porn Is Not Harmless

Among the articles discussing the current round of attempts to place over the world a single governing entity I ran across a timely reminder of cultural degradation. This shows up as a tactic in various plans, including the communists, the Fabians, and several other, murkier groups. Porn is always a major feature in the effort [...]

Economy Can’t Be Fixed

It’s the same conversation I keep having every other day, it seems. Someone asks what I believe to be the way to fix our ailing economy. They just aren’t ready to hear the facts: It can’t be fixed.
We passed the breaking point back when the Federal Reserve Bank (The Fed) came online. Throughout history, fiat [...]

Top Two Windows Text Editors

Over the years, whenever I ran some version of Windows, I was always hunting down new and better text editors. I’ve purchased a couple of the premium versions, but in the long run, it’s hard to beat these two: Cream and Crimson Editor.
My primary use for a computer of any sort is writing, followed closely [...]

Economic Hysteria All Around

On the one side are voices from within our official government pretending all this economic trouble can be fixed. They are lying. Our economy won’t recover via the route they are taking. At the same time, they are allowing to slip out stories tell us how very bad it really is. That’s so they can [...]

XP: Give Me Control

One of the virtues of Linux is total user control, at least in most situations. If you want to delete a critical file, by all means delete it. Linux will allow it. Just remember it probably won’t restart if you shut down, and it may well crash pretty soon when it needs to access that [...]

Stuff I Miss on XP

While playing with XP on my system, I’ve picked up the usual Open Source stuff most people know about: Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, etc. I’ve tried to find a few other things, but it seems some are just not available.
Nano I can get, but I can’t get it to do any spell-checking. I have Aspell [...]

Our Situation Summarized

It’s not hard to find someone capable of saying it better than I.
I would like to offer for your attention Our Collapsing Economy by Paul Craig Roberts.
A scary scenario? Yes. Overdrawn? Perhaps, but perhaps not. The United States has spent the last 7 years in pointless wars that benefited only the military-security complex and Israel’s [...]