Archive for the 'computer' Category

Problems With TI-84 Plus

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

This expensive TI-84 Plus Silver Edition Graphing Calculator from Texas Instruments does not work with the expensive, bloated, buggy, accusatory, oppressive, unsafe Microsoft Windows Vista Operating System.
What joy I felt when observing my new calculator.  Such deep appreciation I have for the  complexity and power of this machine, even though as of now, I am […]

It Works

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

All of the parts arrived  on time and the computer has been assembled.  I installed Vista seemingly without any problems.  I then installed Ubuntu 8.04 on another partition because there is no reason to use the bloated, buggy, oppressive Windows Vista Operating System except it is a requirement for the mymathlab.com interactive website.  I do […]

Today’s Shipment

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Today I received half of the parts for the new Windows computer.  Newegg.com shipped them quickly and UPS was right on time. Tomorrow the rest should show up; including the case.  This post is a test.  I am learning to insert images into my posts, here on the blog at CollegeAt47.com.  I think this image […]

Newegg.com Is Fast!

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Everything for the new computer will be here tomorrow, except for the case which will arrive on Friday.

New Computer

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

I swore I would never buy another Microsoft product, but the college uses mymathlab.com. This website might have a deal with Microsoft, because they will not allow their software to interact with the free and open source Linux operating system.  It seems that I am forced to use the buggy, bloated, vulnerable, accusatory software that […]