Do you remember the disk problems with my laptop? Well, here is the rest of the story. Sit back and shudder. To recap: during the last week of August my Macintosh Powerbook 667Mhz started acting strange: programs freezing when doing a lot of disk accesses, the disk making intermittent shrieking noises, and finally on...
Read more →You would just love to hear that from me, wouldn’t you? Well I have good news for you, Macs are actually cheaper than comparable Dells (to name just any run-of-the-mill manufacturer, which happens to be a favourite of one of my favourite correspondents, check the comments to previous articles), and they also happen to...
Read more →Last week the summer officially gave way to autumn, at least that’s what the calendar wants us to believe. It could have fooled me. During the weekend it was so hot that the pigeons fell off the roof. We went to Chania on Saturday morning and spend the early afternoon with Linda and Giorgos...
Read more →It looks like the Greek lifestyle doesn’t agree with a lot of electronic gear. I didn’t mention it before, but I haven’t had a lot of luck lately, electronically speaking. There was the defective battery in my Macintosh Powerbook back in spring. Small problem you would say, and it would be, except in Greece....
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