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Friday, February 27th, 2004 01:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI have a new computer on my desk here in the office. It is a dinky little black thing with a flat screen; much faster than my old one, and really quite spiffy.
Except that half the settings don't work, all my bookmarks have disappeared into the ether along with the all the fabby fonts I've accrued over the years. I guess I'll have to start rebuilding.
The keyboard I'm using is my old grey one. It took me less than five minutes of having to hammer the spacebar into submission on the new one to get fed up with it; realising that there are no spaces in a full paragraph is rather frustrating - I still stare at the keyboard when typing, see - never made the transition to touch typing, although at times I do instinctively find entire sequences of letters without looking - until I realise what I'm doing, at which point I start typing in Norwegian to judge by the gibberish on the screen.
The main annoyance, however, is that I no longer have even the simplest of games, such as FreeCell and minesweeper, which I tend to use to distract me during those long and boring telephone conversations with the great bewildered.
I must get someone to reinstall them.
Except that half the settings don't work, all my bookmarks have disappeared into the ether along with the all the fabby fonts I've accrued over the years. I guess I'll have to start rebuilding.
The keyboard I'm using is my old grey one. It took me less than five minutes of having to hammer the spacebar into submission on the new one to get fed up with it; realising that there are no spaces in a full paragraph is rather frustrating - I still stare at the keyboard when typing, see - never made the transition to touch typing, although at times I do instinctively find entire sequences of letters without looking - until I realise what I'm doing, at which point I start typing in Norwegian to judge by the gibberish on the screen.
The main annoyance, however, is that I no longer have even the simplest of games, such as FreeCell and minesweeper, which I tend to use to distract me during those long and boring telephone conversations with the great bewildered.
I must get someone to reinstall them.
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Date: 2004-02-27 05:28 am (UTC)New OS's (Windows Xp for example) often have the ability to save all your old settings to disk and then import them into the new setup.
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Date: 2004-02-27 05:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-27 05:43 am (UTC)Windows XP is particularly good at importing the old settings.
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Date: 2004-02-27 07:52 am (UTC)All the keys bounce right and sound right and there are no Unnecessary Keys to get in the way, nor are the keys in a strange layout.