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January 18, 2006

dell on earth

I've been out of commission for the last 29 hours, trying to pare all the crap off my new Dell laptop. It's no small undertaking. The desktop was nearly completely obscured by shortcuts to unwanted crapware. But now I've gotten the problem down to my trying to get Windows to work as it should. Little things, really. Like getting "Windows Media Center Edition" to play Windows media files, or getting Microsoft's web browser to display images at higher than 72 dpi, or getting the Microsoft operating system to recognize the Microsoft mouse. Another two weeks ought to do it.

posted by john at 12:31 AM  •  permalink