I’m sure you all have days like this…
I’ve worked with computers for almost 40 years now, and they still play a huge part in my life, but boy, there are times when I wish I hadn’t set eyes on them.
Following a recent incident with a Blue Screen of Death caused by a Microsoft up
date and having to spend several days rebuilding my computer, successfully I should add, I decided to try to resolve another issue that’s been bugging me for months. For some reason, Firefox doesn’t always resolve the t.co Twitter short links first time, it’s as if it tries to open the t.co link rather than the underlying web page. Anyway, after a few days of trying to track down a solution, I gave up and switched to Google Chrome. All seemed well on Saturday morning, and the t.co links were resolving instantaneously; however, early on Saturday evening and throughout Sunday, my laptop crashed to a black screen every few minutes. I tried testing the computer memory, I tried installing the latest nVidia drivers for my graphics card, I uninstalled the notoriously unstable Adobe Flash Player all to no avail. On Monday morning, the laptop crashed after a few seconds of using Chrome, so I decided to investigate, only to discover that it is a common and unresolved problem with Chrome. Frustrated after battling for several days trying to resolve the initial problem, I’m back to using Firefox now with its unresolved links……
Sometimes I hate computers. Wish I could afford an Apple coz they “Just work” :-). Wish I could afford a new computer, full stop!
