Thursday, September 4, 2014

EMERGED FROM THE JUNGLE







I have emerged from the Windows 8.1 jungle, and surprizing enough the journey turned out not to be as dificult as expected. There are a number of tutorials on line that give a basic understanding, and once you understand how to access a few commands the self learning curve in not steep. There is still much to explore but that will come in time.

My wife prompted me to purchase a new computer because she was tired of hearing me swear and complain about the freeze ups and slow speed of my old machine that I had purchased in 2006. At Walmart I found a HP Pavilion 500-223 with 8GB DDR (whatever that is) and 1TB harddrive that cost just under five hundred dollars. As computers go that is not expensive - but to me that is a lot of money. 



I did not realize how antiquated my old machine was until I began to use the Pavilion. The speed is amazing and the apps that come installed give a whole new meaning to the world wide web.

The only thing lacking is a good word processor. Word Pad could meet all my needs except it has no spell checker which leaves my writings looking like Bubba script.

The computer comes with Internet Explorer and Bing. Google Chrome was such a pain in the ass on my old machine that I hesitate to down load, so will probably run without it for the time being.

Out of the jungle and unscathed but still leery of what may still be hiding under the dark canopy wating to waylay me aroung the next river bend.

the Ol'Buzzard

10 comments:

  1. You know, I just bet there's a spellcheck app out there that could be downloaded. Congrats on the new computer!

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  2. Hey, do you remember which CFB in Alberta you took the Winter Survival Training course at? Cold Lake, Wainwright, maybe even Edmonton?

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    1. I was a US Navy SERE instructor and attended Winter Bush from the base in Edmonton.
      O'B

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  3. If you are typing a blog post on the internut it does the spell check for you. Or if you copy/paste a post from wordpad into a blog post it does a spell check, at lease that is how it works on my end.

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    1. I found the blog will spell check my copy and paste but for all else I am on my own.
      thanks
      O'B

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  4. Open Office is what I'd recommend for a word processor, spell check is a necessity!
    http://www.openoffice.org/product/windows.html

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    1. Thanks, I will take a look at Open Office - this computer smart screen wants me to rent Microsoft Office at ten dollars per month - I don't need the spread sheet etc. ; just a good word processor.
      O'B

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  5. Glad you got Windows 8 beaten into submission
    Windows Office 365 (2013+) is $99 per year for everything you ever needed and didn't need. I am learning it slowly as 2013 is different by far from 2003 which I used for 10 years.

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    1. I may go with the monthly Office fee. My old word processor was also 2003 - about time to upgrade...I guess. Just have no use for spread sheets etc.
      O'B

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  6. Open Office is good stuff and used to be free, don't know if it still is.

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