Well, you guys have convinced me to dig it out and give it another shot. If a Windows reinstall doesn't work, maybe I'll try Ubuntu, just to play around.

It did work okay for a few months. I wasn't using it that hard, just some word processing and light games (I'm talking NES emulator, maybe as advanced as the original Torchlight) and I was initially happy with it.

Hmm. I experienced frequent crashes that eventually drove me away. Like every 5-10 minutes if trying to download anything, and maybe "only" once an hour if not using the network. I tried a lot of basic tech support (drivers, patches) but I admit I got frustrated before trying a complete reinstall, which might have been called for.

Honestly, my Acer Aspire One is the PC that taught me that. Odd that it's Acer which thinks they're going to be the last one standing. I'd have a hard time being convinced to buy another of their computers.

Don't forget: "Mercury!!!!"

I was going to mod you funny, but you forgot that the best is when you make a poast proast sandwich. Don't forget the glass of beer, prost!

iThrst?

But people do it anyway. So it's really an *extra* distraction, because it's one more thing to monitor. I've seen people drive a stick with a coffee in one hand and a cigarette in the other, while shifting and adjusting the radio. It's scary.

In my house we had a set of encyclopedias from around 1952, the year my mom was born, plus about ten addenda for the years 1953-1962. In 1988 I needed to do a report on nuclear power plants, and was first confused and then very amused when I realized my encyclopedia didn't even have an entry for those things. It was one of the first times the encyclopedia had completely failed me.

I do suppose the addenda made it partially self-correcting.

I've seen this headline about 5 times in the last 24 hours, on a variety of media. It's certainly good for advertising, if nothing else.

I guess 1337 vowels are out, too.

20 years is long enough for an information-based business to be completely thrown into turmoil by the internet. I'm not saying it was, but there's been a lot of change in the field. More so than in a lot of other markets.

Ah, they just taste like chicken.

It's easy to have a positive attitude when you're a lottery winner.

I like keeping host and registrar separate. That way if something goes wrong with the host (and I've had lots of bad experiences with hosts, some of which may be due to being poor and looking too cheap during the 90's and 2000's) it's easier to move the domain somewhere else.

Registrar services are generally straightforward and low interaction, while hosting services may require frequent interaction and can really depend on quality technical support. They're different enough in my experience that you don't necessarily need or want the same company doing both.

I didn't use them as a registrar, so I can't comment on that side, but as a host they were a little spotty, and I had instances of hair-pullingly-bad customer service. Often you don't interact much with the registrar anyway, so it may not matter much as long as they don't break something.