Short Wave Sportfising wrote:
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 05:57:55 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

On Mar 8, 6:21?am, Short Wave Sportfising
wrote:
To the local repair guy because I couldn't figure it out.

Turns out the video card was toast and that was causing the problems.

Not the power supply.

Ok - anyway, it came back yesterday - I had XP Home, now I have XP Pro
- can't figure that one out.

But, during the course of the repair, I also lost my mother board, so
the drives were backed up with the subsequent loss of programs, but
the data was ok.

However, for some reason, when I started the beast back up, I found
that I now own something called Open Office.

Anybody know what the hell that is?

Oh, and while I'm on the subject, the new version of Thunderbird
sucks.

Can't they just leave well enough alone?

Sure! Nothing changes on my Windows '98 machine that I paid 35$ for at
a garage sale.

Granny's slow, but she's steady!

My brother still uses 486 machines for some specialised applications
in his server network.

the 486 is kind of like the venerable 220 slant six - run for freakin'
ever.


LOL! I think this is a processed with a pinnium .049