I’m back from my annual one-day jaunt down to Washington DC for the computer show formerly known as the Federal Office Systems Exposition. Now, it’s just FOSE, pronounced ‘fah-cee.’ You can get a good feel for what’s happening in the government computer markets based on what’s showing in the DC Convention Center. This year, the [...]
Had a call from a client this week, describing a “Microsoft logo down by the clock with a virus alert.” It wasn’t, but that was the message. This is on a recent vintage Dell box, XP Home, fully-patched, with antivirus and antispyware packages from one of the major companies. A yellow warning flag announced that [...]
Following up on the Dell commercial for Bonzi Buddy, well, OK, it’s for a “custom” notebook that apparently is only available with “all” the stuff you could want… (here) Well, it gets stranger. The background music is fun to listen to. It’s catchy. It’s the first verse and the chorus of a song called “Catch [...]
Dell is adverting Bonzi Buddy is available on their newest notebooks. Well, close enough.
This Dell Dimension has had a rough time. It’s been invaded, and although the hard drive was corrupted, I can’t prove a strict cause and effect relationship between the bad directory entries and lost clusters and the resident of the system. When Dust Bunnies Attack Evidence found of PC Gremlins… Film at 11 Our Crack [...]
