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opjii ctitu-cu mat. I My Dad had a silly kind of saying about ; advice from your friends on some > question or other you might be pondering. ! De used to say, talk to everybody you can and j then go ahead and do what you want. Now, I i always assumed that meant go ahead and do [ what you want, after considering the advice ' you received from your friends. But, I can’t , be certain of that. ] When I worked for a living... and I’m talkj ing here about honest labor, nine to five, get i a paycheck, go home, kind of working... a , computer was in the middle of my desk and I j used it every hour of the day, and I was on • the internet as much as I needed to be. But, , in the life span of all things computers, five ! calendar years is about a millennium and a ; half, as best I can figure.
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| There are subtle ways that you learn that . you need a new personal computer, or pc, as 1 they call them. (But, don’t get confused; ‘pc’ also stands for ‘politically correct,’ if you happen to care about such things. I don’t, much.) One of the ways you know you need a new pc is when all bT your computer savvy friends tell JfiB you at every opportunity, “When
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