Tag Archives: windows

“Fan error” Blown Away

Posted on September 6, 2007 by Lloyd

I’m writing this email on my purring ThinkPad T42p with its new fan. Yes!

Posted in Consuming, PC | Also tagged burning plastic, fan, ibm, laptop, lenovo, PC, personal computing, repair, service, t42p, thinkpad, Ubuntu | 64 Comments

“Fan error”

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Lloyd

My ThinkPad t42p is less than two years old, and today it became a paper weight — I hope temporarily.
Thursday Update: Yes, it seems that it was temporary!

Posted in PC, Victoria | Also tagged burning plastic, fan, ibm, laptop, lenovo, Linux, microsoft windows, PC, personal computing, repair, service, t42p, thinkpad, Ubuntu | 18 Comments

Flushing Blue Toilet Cleaner of Death!

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Lloyd

Microsoft, after finding that the blue screen of death wasn’t having the same amount of market “penetration”, and since the hourglass cursor had never been as successful as Apple Mac OS X’s Spinning Beach Ball of Death , for Windows … Continue reading →

Posted in Computing | Also tagged Apple, Mac OS X, Macintosh, MacOS x, microsoft, operating system, vista, windows vista | 18 Comments