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.FEBRUARY KOMPUTER TIP
Finding fun games online
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If your kids are bored of their current computer games,
help them find new ones for a different gaming challenge. - Go to MSN Games by Zone.com.
- With your supervision, allow your kids to select
a few games that interest them. - Choose from tried and true puzzles and board games
or search the Kids' Zone for fun new favorites. - Select the desired game.
- Follow the download instructions. Or, your kids
may be able to play the game right on the screen.
| LIFE AT FRASER . Casual Friday In The Tech Department |
MY E-MAIL BAG
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| Subject: How Babies are Made
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A little boy goes to his father and asks "Daddy, how was I born?" The father answers: "Well son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, where your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared that said: You got Male! |
NEW SCAM - Second Chance Ebay Purchase | If you bid on items at eBay watch out for this scam. What happens is that after you unsuccessfully bid on an eBay item and the auction is over, someone contacts you by email offering the same item for a certain price (usually the amount that you bid). This person may or may not pose as the original seller. They promise to send the items to you as soon as the payment is made. | 
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What happens is that these fake sellers watch auctions on eBay, noting the people who place bids. After the auction is over, they send out second chance emails with the description of the item to the unsuccessful bidders. Do not respond to these. You will lose your money. This is a scam. If you don't think it is a scam, at least, make sure that you do not use links in the email. Instead find the item or original seller on eBay and contact him through eBay. Also pay using a payment method that will refund your money when it does not work out, like credit card or PayPal. If the seller will not accept these, do not buy the item. If you don't want to get taken by scams like this, please be smart and cautious. 
ASK THE KOMPUTER GUY | HEY KOMPUTER GUY: I just recently updated the driver for my scanner and ever since, it seems like my computer is running out of sync. Everything seems very unstable and just not like it used to be. Is there any way I can reverse this or do something else about it? Please help! -Brad It sounds like you just need to do a little driver rollback. Whenever you update a driver (basically, replace an old driver) on your computer, whether it's for a scanner, a digital camera, a video card or any other device you may have installed on your PC, it's not always guaranteed that the update will come through smoothly. Often times, it's invalid, incorrect or even corrupted. If that happens, it can really affect your computer and how it performs. It could even go as far as render your computer unbootable or make the device completely fail when you try to use it. | |
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Luckily, in Windows XP, you can sort of reverse the update with the driver rollback feature. With this, XP actually saves a copy of the previous driver for you, so if you have any trouble with the new one, you can go back to using the old one. This will get you back to a place where you didn't have as many headaches when trying to use a certain device and it will also give you some more time to try and figure out why the new driver failed in the first place. Cool, huh?!So, if your computer seems to be acting unstable, give the rollback a spin. Now, the driver rollback feature in Windows XP only allows for one level of a rollback, which basically means that only one prior driver version can be saved at one time. Also, I want you to know that the driver rollback option works for any class of device, but it will not work for printers, so you'll definitely want to keep that in mind. Okay, here's how you do it.
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| 1.) Make sure you're logged in to your computer under the Administrator account.
2.) Find the My Computer icon on your desktop, right click it and choose Properties.
3.) Next, click on the Hardware tab and then the Device Manager button.
4.) Once you're in the Device Manager box, scroll down to the driver you want to roll back.
5.) Right click on the driver name and choose Properties.
6.) Now, click the Driver tab and then click on the Roll Back Driver button. |
BILL GATES vs. GM At a computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics  For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash... twice a day.
Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.
The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
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Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off. |
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