Tell us about - your computer!

[landbeforetimelover]

Sorry to go of topc but have you been reving my messages f-22 "raptor" ace?  If not there may be something wrong.  I have posted my email address on this site if you can find it.  You can directly contact me this way without going through the forum (I think there is something wrong with the way I send messages)

[landbeforetimelover]

Naw.  Microsoft doesn't pay well enough.  I'm planning to be one of those people who creates programs and is employed by companies who need to make a cheap program and distribute it with great speed and efficiency.  They can get paid up to $700,000 a year!

[f-22 "raptor" ace]

Yea ok I'll start emailing you.

[landbeforetimelover]

I am posting this hoping that my posts are being posted.  I have posted several responses and they have not appeared on the forum.  Sorry for the inconvienince.

[f-22 "raptor" ace]

Macs are my schools computers. But the new laptops aren't! btw My school is awesome!

[landbeforetimelover]

Oh.  Speaking of my buisness, I may have to close down soon.  I am getting about 60 calls a day (Literaly)!  I have been trying to train a kid at my school to work on computers but I'm afraid I didn't choose my assistant well.  He's pretty slow at learning and I have to frequently check his work.  He is more of a liability than an asset.

[f-22 "raptor" ace]

Also my school is pratically full. And there are still students wanting to join my school. The thing that makes my school awesome is If there is a piece of work you're strugling with you can do something com pletly different and relate it to the theme and you'll get credit even though it's not the assinged assignment! I'm gonna get off now. Need to rest my eyes been on computer pretty much since I got home. My dream job is being a pilot hopefully a military pilot.

[Petrie.]

Well with all those queer video formats I hope you have VLC installed to play them all.  I just stick with .avi and .mpeg (2) since they work with most editing programs.  I'd like to see you get a matroska file to work with Windows or a Mac editor.  :

I'd work for you if I knew more about the repair side of things.  My dad's better at that than I am...I can do Windows maintenence but that's about it.  You'd be amazed how many people can't even do that.  :

[landbeforetimelover]

I know.  It's really sad but thats the way of things.  It's one of the many reasons we computer people are so rich - normal people don't care how something works, they just care that it does work and when it doesn't, they call us in and are forced to pay a crapload for our unique knowledge.  One of the reasons I got into computers is because I can't stand being reemed.  When I was six, I paid a computer guy $350 to upgrade my computer to windows 98.  I thought to myself "Hey, why does he get this money for just popping in a cd"?  The ease of the work and how much it pays is what attracted me to computers.  I keep a log.  So far, I have installed windows 98 2,811 times, windows xp pro 6,574 times, windows 2000 983 times, windows 95 42 times, and windows me 658 times.  I have come a long way from that curious little 6 year old.  Oh.  Forgot to mention windows vista.  28 times.  I still don't know how far computers will advance in the future but I think we can be assured that in ten years, computers will be so different from now that the computers today will seem as archaic as a butter churn.

[Lain_EX]

OK, here's some of my computer data:

System:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional 2002 version.
Service Pack 2

AMD Athlon (tm) 64 Processor.

[landbeforetimelover]

ooh.  I beleive that this type of processor is 1.8-2.4 GHZ.  How long have you had it?

[Petrie.]

Windows Vista needs a couple of service packs before I'd even consider buying/installing it.  And that's not likely to happen.  I'll keep XP until the computer dies.

[landbeforetimelover]

I actuall went out and bought vista ultimate as soon as it came out at a hefty $400.  My advice - DONT but it.  I hate it.  It takes over three minutes to boot up on a computer with 2.4ghz and 1gb ram.  The minimum you can get it on is 800mhz, 20gb hd, 512 ram.  On this, it takes a good 10 minutes to boot.  Windows vista really has no additional features worth buying.  It's mainly just a visual style that makes your computer slower.  It's just another way microsoft makes you upgrade your computer and programs.  That is the ONLY reason they made it.  They don't care if it has any usable new features.  They just want to make your existing computer hardware and software obsolete so you have to buy new ones from them.  They obviously make vista ultimate for less than $5 because it is $3 american in China right now and they charge you $259.99 here for the same thing!