Posted on 01/30/2012 2:57:48 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass
Let’s stop beating around the bush. Bill Gates is watching all of us!
His pupil was Alexander the Great.
That is all we need to know about him. :)
JB
Oh yeah - I almost forgot - in the words of the famous Philosophers ....
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
I recently found something on my laptop computer that was from three laptops ago. I figure it was transfered with each generation of computer when I used microsoft’s “transfer files and settings” program between each generation.
OpenOffice / LibreOffice are fine as long as you never attempt to use them for business. If you do, expect trouble. I tried several times, and it never worked right. I have MS Office 2003 on this computer, and MS Office 2010 elsewhere, and they are parsecs ahead of OpenOffice, even with their stupid ribbons.
Any chance you had those docs on a thumb drive that you might have plugged into the new laptop? If you explored that drive, any files with a Works specific filetype that were recognized by the system through file association would probably make it into the list. That’s my guess, anyway.
I got this new laptop and didn't really transfer anything to it in any organized way, but I have opened backup discs that may have contained those old files. I have never opened them or, as I said, opened Works previously on this computer, so I suppose it just retains the memory of having seen them on the disc.
When I try to open them, it indicates that they can't be found on the computer, as one would expect.
And those Rhetoric studies (mostly the modern stuff, the classical stuff was OK) that finally convinced me I was no intellectual. No more papers in this trailerpark!
in the professional computer world, this could most easily be explained as PFM (Pure ‘effing Magic).
What anti-malware program are you using? I had an account with Webroot for my computers, and one of its free features is that it automatically backs things up in the cloud. (I was unaware that it was doing this, BTW, and was substantially creeped out when I found out.) Next time I installed Webroot in the same account on a new computer, the connection was made with some old Word docs from my previous computer. So you must have some software running in background that captured your old Word files. Could have been any number of things because there are quite a few programs that can do that, these days.
It’s not Big Sis or Mr Bill, but yes, it’s exceptionally creepy. Even though this saved my life when the old computer suddenly conked out in an odd way that negated my external drive, I put a stop to further automatic uploads to the Webroot cloud.
Happens all the time.
Restart your computer i safe mode. Look for a file in your c drive: dll.ea.google/works:oldwork:isp82715
Google monitors all work done on any computer and saves it as virtual data and cross tracks it with your internet isp.
In their recent settlement with the feds, they agreed to this stipulation so all data can be available to the NSA.
In my business we used to refer to it as BCOM (Beats the Crap Out of Me).
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