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An Exercise
North Miami Beach, Florida 9-24-2000 Aaron H. Schectman
THINKING ALLOWED
Essays on issues, ideas and reflections on the times. Published now and
then. Opinions pro or con are welcome.
AN EXERCISE
Actually, the machine I am writing this on was meanly uncooperative
yesterday. I use it to exercise my penchant to compose essays. It failed
and let me know by "crashing." I got a lot of dead looking screens with a
red light (instead of green) showing on the "on" switch in the front of the
tower. Knowing it would provoke retaliation with a blue screen telling me
that there had to be a scan of my "C" hard disk, I turned off the power any
way - many times. Each time I turn off my hardware the software tells me
that I shouldn't do this because I should have turned the machine off by
following the proper steps. You can't do this when the machine crashes and
you are faced with a blank monitor screen and that red light shows.
On my machine when that red light shows, the internal fan stops. If that
fan is on all is well. I complained to the MICRON people about this and
they sent me two fans - one department not knowing what another was doing.
One of the three fans I now owned seems to work and since the original fan
had a coating of dirt; I regularly vacuum out the tower interior and the
cooling slots on the monitor. I do this without any knowledge if vacuuming
works. If the machine works, use it - is my motto.
I know that using the switch too often will ruin the switch. So, this last
time when the machine responded and seems to be working, I left it on. I
have learned that you should not only use a screen saver but you should set
the settings to turn off the monitor and turn off the hard disks. Doing
this saves on electricity, I guess. But, it is also nice to realize that
despite the red light at the switch in the "sleep" mode it will come to life
and turn green when I move the mouse.
For non-computer literate people this is a lot of nonsense. To me, however,
it is quite an "up" turn when the computer stops crashing and losing what I
write and remains on and quiet and comes back when I call on it to work.
One of my chief forms of exercise is to sit in front of my computer and
tickle its keys. Sometimes it thinks I am humorous and the computer
flatters me by working. Any comments? Carol's Evaluation: 10 out of 10.
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