Every Computer Poops
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An invitation to a conference on the politics of waste leads to thoughts on the relationship of dirt and technology -- thoughts that lead inexorably to the trash-can icon on personal computers. Commentary by Momus.
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The Hitachi 2400 Smart Windshield: You think you got clutter on your computer display? Ha! Screech! CRASH!
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Device uses NCQ technology to prioritize a PC's requests.
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Computers are made and marketed as all-purpose machines, but for a lot of people they have a rather limited job description: Web browsing, e-mail, MP3s, digital photos, the occasional letter . . .
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No I don't want to register any E-Monkey Assistants DAMN IT! Dell's tradition of shoveling bloatware into newborn PCs may be coming to a close. All it took was a few years of outrage.â¦
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At Fry's this afternoon, where I bought two 500GB Firewire drives. Which it turns out I needed because after I got home all three external drives attached to my desktop were reported as damaged beyond repair by the new Mac OS. Coincidence? Lucky that I had exactly the hardware I needed to dig out of the mess? Who knows!
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Our colleagues over at PC World gathered up a list of products that each of them simply couldn't imagine going through daily life without. Some are relatively obvious, such as Windows 2003,  TiVO and Skype, and others a bit more odd, such as Cyber Systems' RoboForm. Heh?
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Secretarys PC wont boot up, and the reason is clear from the error message: bad RAM. Pilot fish tells her to send it back for a fix, but her manager has a different idea. ...
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Cures for an update gone bad, a trashed Registry, and a shutdown failure.
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Also: Start-up offers messages that self destruct. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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This is where computers go to die a green death. Inside Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cavernous recycling plant in the Sacramento suburbs, truckloads of obsolete PCs, servers and printers collected from consumers and businesses nationwide are cracked open by goggled workers who pull out batteries, circuit boards and other potentially hazardous components.
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Have adware and spyware commandeered your computer? An extreme solution: erasing your hard drive and starting over.
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About two years ago you may remember we were in the throes of the SOAP revolution. "Web services everywhere!" was the cry and have to confess I'm one of those guilty of having gone for it, for a while. There were going to be these giant UDDI servers that would aggregate everyone's web services and the Internet would never look the same again...
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The holidays are done at last. Time to get back to normal. Well, perhaps not entirely normal. Our computers, after all, are normally in a state of chaos, cluttered with once-cherished files that we can't even find anymore.
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How spyware, a program that creeps onto a computerÂs hard drive unannounced, is wrecking the Internet.
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If you always forget to scan for viruses, update virus protection, run Disk Defragmenter, or run any other system tool, look to the Task Scheduler for help.
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those nasty viruses, worms and Trojan Horses that have, on more than one occasion, crippled PCs. No doubt about that. The question is: Will they be as bad?