I haven't posted alot here but when I do I try to keep it somewhat light hearted.
Picture this. I wake up every morning with the sunrise, gather my thoughts and get ready to greet the day. I turn on my computer and once booted up it tells me that I have mail. If my automated updates are working I have to take care of them. Then I have to check other programs like antivirus, spyware, firewalls for updates (especially if I want to go online). All of this before I can even use the computer!
Once a week (unless I've lost some brain cells) I need to run scans with all the programs that I have to protect me from the bad people. Yes only one virus program, but several spyware programs, a couple of registry cleaners, a rootkit program and other programs to clear out cookies and links to where I've been. The you have to check your hard drive to see if it needs to be defraged, almost forgot, need to check for bad sectors on the hard drive. while I'm at it might as well check the memory (you get the picture).
Like the title says, Who's in control! Is technology making us the machines?
So once I'm done with all that I get to use my computer, for what, it already told me if I had mail!
Now back to real life, what are you having the computer do for you? Going to school online, using it to earn a living in the Information Techology world, a learning tool for the children. How about running home automation (taking care of the lights, heating and cooling, home security). Have you turn it to the Multiy Media Center for the Home Theater room? By the way, customizing your computer doesn't count. That's just your computer saying "FEED ME"!
I'm a sports guy, mainly baseball so I have a subsription service that provides me live streaming video of all games during the season. If there is more than one game on that I'm interest in at the same time it let's watch up to six games on one screen. If I still miss a game I can go to the archive file and watch it after its finished (only do that if I don't know the score).
In other words I don't use the computer for much right now. I do have some projects in mind though.
By the way folks, lets have fun out there today.
