FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for November 09, 2020

Peter should learn to keep his baseball equipment out of Jason’s reach.

Sometimes computers do need to get upgraded. I held on to my Windows Vista machine for far too long and now I’m sorry I waited so long to upgrade.

I did the same with my Windows XP machine, because it was one of the most reliable operating systems I had encountered since Cpm

But how is he suppose to play Halflife on that old tired PC with 1994 specs?

My daughters learned at a very early age that my “No” was binding, and that begging would never change it. They also learned that, if I said, “Maybe” or “We’ll see”, if they begged, it changed to an automatic “No”. They haven’t begged since.

I have a friend whose brother bought her computers for her. I did “tech support” for her. I think her brother must have hated her.

Her first machine was Windows ME. The next computer was Vista. I was willing to work on the Vista Machine. However I told her straight out about the ME machine. “The first thing I am doing is upgrading you to XP.”

XP and Windows 7 were probably MS most loved OS. Windows 10 has a shot. Technically (under the hood) it is a good system. The user interface may eventually get there.

If you tinker with enough, you can get Windows 10 to look something like XP.

Ironically, this is basically how the military does it’s budget, emphasis on Jason.

That was pretty ninja to grab the bat at the point of upswing…

A friend of mine inherited a computer when his brother died in 2007. At the time, the computer was about 2 or 3 years old, and was running Windows XP. It was a pretty good computer when it was new, with 2 GB of memory and a dual-core CPU (some variation of Pentium). By 2015, many sites my friend visited were giving pop-up notices about his browser being too old, so he asked me to help him update the browser. Turned out that it was impossible to upgrade, since they weren’t making new versions for Win XP any more. He wanted to install Windows 10, which was new at the time, and I pointed out that it would never run on that computer, so he would have to buy a new one. I asked him to allow me to install Linux on it before he spent loads of money on a new computer, and he agreed. He kept using that same computer until last year, when it started having hardware problems. Just changing from Windows to Linux extended the usable life of the computer by 4 years. Had he “upgraded” Windows like Micro$oft wanted him to he probably would have had to get a new computer 10 years earlier than he did, when Windows 7 was released. He now has a new computer running Linux Mint.

Andy is a Luddite, yes. But you can’t fault her for not liking technology changing rapidly.

Quick, ain’t she?

the definition of “works” is VERY debatable with computers. Yes, it may be able to power on, but is it capable of running software? Is it not good enough for gaming but fine for video editing? Can it run a zoom call or will it lag too much for natural conversation?

I’ve been happily running Windows 7 at home for almost 10 years. It does everything I want. I keep reading bad things about Windows 10, but I must admit it works fine on my work computer.

“Computer, if you do not open this door immediately, I am going to reprogram you with a very large axe.”

I found if you did a clean install not an upgrade most versions worked well. I am still on windows7 and sticking there. I have 10 on a tablet and hate it.