My home computing architecture
My home computing architecture
on
3-20-02:
My trusty Gim
PC with 667mhz (ASUS P3V4X JumperFree
PC-133 AGP/4X Motherboard), 640meg, 10Gb, Internal Panasonic Zip 100MB IDE, and 21" Vivitron monitor from Gem Computers in Atlanta,
Georgia. The big monitor is the best computer investment I've ever
made. We have another PC, just in case the Gem gets wedged.
My wife's , trusty Gim PC, with an
Athon K7- 1.33Ghz (ASUS A7V133-G/550/WGA-UAY
motherboard), 256meg, 40Gb 7200 rpm Western Digital ATA-100, Internal
Panasonic Zip 100MB IDE. It's our accounting machine and it rocks.
Quickbook Pro '99, 00, 01does the
bulk of the accounting business.
ACS (Automated Church System)Accounting
software
is specialized for managing church
business.
City Desk from Fog Creek Software. I using it to publish a friend's memoirs. I think it will be ideal for publishing the memoirs chapter by chapter. You can see how it's going here.
Microsoft FrontPage 2000. I don't use
frames, menu banners, FrontPage extensions, components, or Java
Script. (Oops, I actually use a Java Script on http://tk-jk.net/tksguide/index.htm
to append user comments but I didn't write the script) But, I
do understand them.
Microsoft PhotoDraw Version 2 I started
by making ugly graphics, banners, and backgrounds. My bad graphics
made me sick. Now, I just crop pictures. PhotoDraw no longer existing in the market. Maybe PhotoShop Photo Elements is in my future.
CuteFTP I couldn't get FrontPage to publish to AOL automatically. I don't use the FrontPage extensions, and don't want the extra files cluttering my file space. Plus, I want to be an operating system agnostic.
Surfsaver I use Surfsaver to check newspapers for my beach site. I built a page with all of the online newspapers I want to check each day. I wake up, load that page, and open Surfsaver. Surfsaver loads stores every page that I link to. When I finish my shower or breakfast, Surfsaver is done. I just skim the pages (which are now on my hard disk) and pick the articles I want. It's free and does some other cool stuff too.
Grabber 2K Lite
Edition is the free screen shot grabber.
Hosted by dreamhost.com
and some free hosting from AOL. My modem gets between 40k and 46k performance on two of my home telephone lines. I only get 28k on my third telephone line.
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