What I learned talking to my computer
Gundar, our personal Technology Gremlin, has been instrumental in successfully keeping me from communicating effectively with my computer. I've tried reasoning with it, yelling at it and threatening it with bodily harm. I even tried sweet-talking it, but here's what I've learned so far about communcating with your computer: 1. Doing one successful thing one time doesn't mean it will work the next time. 2. Doing one thing succesfully one thousand successive times doesn't mean it will work the next time. 3. Software MUST be kept up to date. 4. Beware of software updates! 5. Not updating your software is BAD. 6. Updating your software may be WORSE. 6. If you configure things correctly, don't assume it will WORK correctly. 7. If you configure things incorrectly and...