Let's face it: technology sucks. It's a rare thing indeed when any particular high-tech device actually works as advertised. More often than not, they're difficult or impossible to set up, don't work once configured properly, feature a host of bizarre and thoroughly inexplicable problems, and eventually cease to function entirely—often for no good reason. Worse, trying to get support from most companies is just slightly easier than getting Bill Clinton to tell the truth. The following essays are offered in the hope that they might be helpful, or at least amusing.
Vista: Defrag vs Prefetch
Pinnacle vs Premiere
Vista Impressions
Installing Vista
Logitech's G15 Gaming Keyboard
Mack Camera Sucks!
Cruft or Crap?
Too Much Memory, Part 2
Gorthaur Lives!
Project Gorthaur
Windows XP is Hungry for Hard Drives
CPU Lazarus
ATI vs. NVIDIA, Part 4
And Yet Still Another Windows XP Reinstall
Belkin's Nostromo Speedpad n52 Controller
Server CPU Death
ATI vs. NVIDIA, Part 3
Yet Another Windows XP Reinstall
The Dark Side of Memory
Firewire in 2003
The Big Three
The Motherboard Crapshoot
Near-Field Monitors
Presonus vs. MotU
Going Forward
VIA vs. nForce2
The Motherboard Hokey Pokey
KVMs and Standards that Aren't
Memory Tweaking in 2003
ATI vs. NVIDIA, Part 2
Using the Rage3D Tweak Utility
My History of Windows
Too Much Memory
PCI Latency
Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro Support
Mice in 2003
Wireless Woes
Audigy 2 Upgrade
Banking Sucks Too
Rocket Science and CPU Coolers
Confirmation Hell
A Bootup Nightmare
Curiouser and Curiouser
ATI vs. NVIDIA
Damn It, Scotty, I Need More Power!
Windows XP Works!
Emergent Problems?
Why I use Maxtor
Windows XP - Fixed
Installing Windows XP
Service and Support in 2001
Flashing an ASUS A7V133 Motherboard
Overclocking - Video
Going Wireless
Upgrading (2001)
Upgrading (2000)
Upgrading (1999)