Dead Computer

Distractions, Personal Bits, Tech

See what I did there with the title? Title of blog, title of post? Yeah, I’m all bacony wrapped enigmas.

The last few weeks my poor Pentium 4, 2.3Mhz computer started to act funny. Drivers suddenly didn’t drive things plugged into the USB ports. Things started to fail and somehow my monitor went a pale blue.

And suddenly without notice, my CD burner just refused to be a team player. I can read from a CD but the burning software (hopelessly outdated) will not respond, even after re-installing. It’s a great cup holder, though.

This week, if my computer sleeps or iTunes opens (with every recharging of my iPhone) then my mouse needs to be unpluged and replugged in with not one, but two activate/deactivate sounds.

On Tuesday, I clicked on a YouTube link and suddenly got an alert window (not a browser pop up) letting me know that “they” were sad that I was leaving their page and I should visit more often. Thing is, YouTube doesn’t allow scripts like that within their pages. A chill wend down my spine.

I instantly ran some virus software. Nothing more than usual adware malware came up. Then while the computer was suppose to be idle, I noticed that there was a “hidden window” that couldn’t be closed when I “Alt+Tab” and huge packets of information were being shot off into cyberspace.

I disconnected my RJ-45 instantly. Yikes.

So I’m hopping along on SharkBoy’s iMac in my own recently created profile and I’m lustfully looking at iMacs for myself.

Anyone wanting to donate money to my sorry cause can do so via PayPal or just send bacon.

4 thoughts on “Dead Computer

  1. Dyl

    cb has it right. TIme to say goodbye to Windows…. though there’s nothing to stop you installing OSX on pc hardware 😉

  2. photog2

    Keep your PC, install Linux hehehe… Anyway, a Mac would be fine, but so are new PCs, Apple propaganda aside. You should get whatever suits you and you budget best.

  3. Evil Panda

    Macs are good. Also, download Spybot (it’s free) and run it on your PC. That will find and kill whatever’s lurking on your machine.

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