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I find it interesting (and often scary) to look at other peoples computers.  You always find the oddest things installed and configured.  One of my coworkers recently had to fix his friend’s computer.  He found some interesting stuff while digging around looking for problems.

I booted up her computer to see what she had installed.  To my surprise, she still had the original Napster.  As I looked a little closer I found Morphius, BearShare, Audio Galaxy and almost every other file sharing program that I knew existed.  It was like taking a trip through the history.

He ended up reinstalling Windows to fix everything which probably would have been my first step.  All this makes me wonder, what does your computer say about you?

Come this December, I will have been a Mac user for 6 years. I got my first mac (a sexy little iBook) for Christmas. My uncle was working at Apple in Cupertino which provoked me to look into Apple computers.

After my first visit to apple.com I got intrigued by the veil of mystery that surrounded the Mac. At the time I didn’t know anyone that owned one. This presented me with the opportunity to be the first to learn about the technology. I could safely fiddle to my hearts content without anyone telling me a better way to do things. It gave me a chance to take the longest way possible to arrive at the simplest solution and learn new things along the way.

I had plenty of friends that knew about Windows. I even had some that knew about Linux. Due to this fact, I would always be second best. I wouldn’t have the chance to learn as much. If they asked what I was working on it would eventually lead to just giving me the answer. As long as there were others that used these operating systems, I would always be second best in my mind.

With the Mac I had free rein to explore until I saw fit. I could come up with my own weird ways to do things without anyone telling me to do it differently. I developed my own opinions on software and created new habits.

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