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Call me a masochist. Most people have learned the hard way to treat their computers gingerly, but last week I deliberately tried to cripple mine. First, I deleted every cheap program that came pre-installed on my year-old PC, wiping out a sea of icons cluttering my screen. Then I took a dozen programs off my bookshelf and installed them one by one, praying for disaster. I hooked up a joystick. I installed a video card. When warning signs sprang up, informing me of the potential hazards of my rampage, I ignored them. Finally, I clicked on the Windows...
Truth be told, you don't need any of this stuff. While most consumer PCs will come with Windows Me preinstalled, there's little reason to upgrade an older PC. The browser and media player have been available as free downloads since July. And if your computer has anything less than a Pentium-150 with 32 MB of memory, the bloated Windows Me (which can gobble as much as 2 GB of disk space) won't work...
...though. After snapping some pictures on a Kodak digital camera, I plugged it into my PC. A few seconds later, up pops a window displaying every image in the camera. I could view them in slide-show format, click on the ones I liked, then either save them to my hard drive or attach them to an e-mail...
FASCS also plans new PC purchases for the PC classroom by the end of the semester...
...Rebel" and deliver a powerhouse "River Deep Mountain High." If anyone had given Midler the new party line on safe humor, she had mislaid the instructions, and she interpolated her singing with her trademark Sophie Tucker-esque one-liners. a cascade of ribaldry uncontaminated by PC concerns. One sensed the audience straining to gauge the reactions of the Gores and Liebermans to the jokes, rather like the nervous glances young adults take at their elderly parents when risqu? material is unleashed in a family setting...