An Open Letter to Tech Support

The following is the text of a little rant that was sent to Tech Support at CableOne (name included to humiliate and humble the guilty), the cable ISP in my area. Any area where information has been modified or deleted to protect the identity of the client is enclosed in brackets [].

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When One Monitor is Just Not Enough

Multiple monitor arrays for computers can be a great advantage for power users. If, say, you are in college and working on your doctoral thesis, more and more of the reference material that you may need for citations and research are available online. You have a choice, you can either flip back and forth between [...]

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Friendlier Computing: I think I’m gonna be sick

Microsoft Bob: An operating system overlay that lives in infamy. Microsoft Bob was Microsoft’s ill-fated attempt to make computers easier to use. Debuting in 1995, Bob quickly became the most hated-program in Microsoft history. It failed miserably. You would be hard pressed to find many references to it on the Web, especially on Microsoft’s own [...]

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What Happened?!

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This is my second post after a nearly 3 year hiatus. The post explains further.

On September 9th 2008 I suffered a hemorrhage in the left parietal lobe of my brain – a stroke. In geek speak, I think of it as experiencing an “on board hard drive crash”.

To continue the computer analogy, I suffered cascading peripheral failures. I couldn’t, at the time, figure out how to make my hands work nor make my eyes focus.  Attempting to walk was pretty much a bad idea but I found walls to be extremely useful if not essential. It wasn’t physically painful, but it’s repercussions have been massive.

Partial listing of impacted systems (@date):

• Processor Speed: down 10% – 40% (energy dependent)
• Memory & recall: moderate to severe
• Speed & Endurance: variable
• Data Retrieval: variable tending towards annoying
• Data Concatenation & Output: annoying tending towards expletives

All in all, I have faired much better than I could have. I’ll write more on this but for now I’ll leave you with an interesting and insightful video of one person’s experience.

To Be Continues….

March 3, 2011

IO Error

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I’m Back (sort of)

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January 24, 2011