the last word

This morning, conventional wisdom doesn’t look so bad. Last night, the new Win 7 system started responding slowly. Norton Internet Security was doing a full scan at the time, so I didn’t worry about it much. I brought up the Task Manager and didn’t see anything untoward. But then I couldn’t close the Task Manager…. [Read More]

I gave up on the Win 7 upgrade that Amazon sent out groundinstead of  Blue Label. So did Amazon; they sent a replacement even though UPS said it would get here in due time. On Turkey Day, I ordered another copy for Saturday delivery. This morning, it showed as being prepared for shipment on Amazon’s… [Read More]

The 3880 came a couple of days ago. I went through the usual Epson shipping tape hunt, and found ’em all. Setup was simple using the USB port. After my Ethernet problems with the 3800, I figured I’d save the network connection for later. In loading the ink cartridges into the printer, I had a… [Read More]

Amazon shipped the Windows 7 Upgrade UPS ground instead of the 2nd day air I specified, so it won’t be here until next week. I will use the time to make friends with my new printer. I’ve had an Epson 3800 for a couple of years now. I got it when the baryta-coated fiber papers… [Read More]

I plan to attempt another in-place upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. This one is a real hard case. I have a Falcon Northwest water cooled gaming machine (the way they think of it; I thought of it as a great photo editing machine when I bought it about three years ago). It shipped with… [Read More]