A post shared by Jack Yan 甄爵恩 (@jack.yan) on Jan 14, 2018 at 4:04 p.m. PST Two very helpful people—bwv848 at Bleeping Computer and Sumit Dhiman at Microsoft—have taken me through the steps to figure out what was going on with my Windows 10 desktop computer, on which I’ve had between 100 and 200 BSODs […]
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Solving my BSODs with Windows 10 Creators fall update—it’s not the usual culprits
Amazingly, Microsoft Windows 10 Creators fall update arrived last week on my desktop PC, and it took all of 25 minutes to do (running a Crucial 525 Gbyte SSD). (Add an extra 35 minutes for me to put my customizations back in.) This is in contrast to the Anniversary update, which took 11 attempts over […]
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Capricious Cortana
I have never seen a program as inconsistent as Microsoft’s Cortana. We were always taught that computers were very logical, that they all followed a certain set of code each time. Not so Cortana, which has had more different behaviours than anything I have ever seen. When I run into technical issues, […]
My first day with Windows 10
I never expected that the Windows 10 download would ever begin. I had registered for it, but the Windows 10 notification window kept coming up with various excuses, talking about my drivers being out of date, then claiming that because of the automatic log-in, the download would not start. Clicking ‘Tell me more’ never did […]
The best mouse to buy might be a dead-stock one made in 2005
With the mouse being the culprit on my main computer causing mouse and keyboard to be unresponsive in Windows 7 (I’ve still no idea when Windows 10 arrives and Microsoft has been no help at all), I decided to shop for a new one again. The failed mouse was one I bought in 2012, […]
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Bugs galore: frozen while using Firefox; keyboard and mouse unresponsive when using Windows 7
Last week was an interesting one for computer bugs. Apple took 42 attempts to install the latest Itunes update on one Mac (and that was the good one that normally presents no issues with updates), but, to its credit, once it was done there were no further problems. Windows, however, gave me a few headaches […]
In the ‘I told you so’ file: Google Plus could be stripped for parts, says Quartz
Quartz reckons Google Plus is going to be stripped for parts: it’s going the way of Google Wave and Google Buzz. I was consistent from the start about Google Plus, unlike a good part of the tech press, which drank the Google Kool-Aid and talked about how it would be a Facebook-killer. The […]
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FCC rules in favour of ’net neutrality (at least we think it has)
I’ve gone into the reasons I support ’net neutrality elsewhere, but it was nice to hear about this on the wireless: even though we still don’t know the specifics, as the FCC has kept this to itself for now. (We do know that Google has written a letter to the FCC, and that ‘an entire […]
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What to do when Firefox for Windows Vista displays no text
During the six hours wasted with Ubuntu today (13 would no longer upgrade, so I removed it and decided to start afresh with 14—big mistake, since it would not let me use the same hard drive), I had to open up my five-year-old Windows Vista laptop and upgrade my Firefox. After all, what were the […]
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The religiosity of the superbrands
Another friend asked the Windows laptop v. Macbook question on her Facebook today. You can predict what happens next. The cult came by. As with the last time a friend asked the same question. The cult always comes and proclaims the superiority of the Apple Macintosh. And it is a blinding proclamation, of […]