Friday, December 02, 2005

The computer is a living organism...

A computer system is a living organism, you get its original DNA along with its operating system and then it starts to evolve. Every day that you add a new program to it, it grows and becomes bigger and better. The more programs you have, the more tasks you can accomplish. Like a flower, you water it every day so that it can flourish. You might need also some entertaining programs like web-messengers, browsers, games and so the living organism that you have created keeps growing and growing. Your computer is very powerful now. You could conquer the world with it if you wanted.

But what happens if the living organism starts to develop into a monster?

All those programs install much information on the pc. They not only install themselves, they might install an updater, some registry keys, start up information, information… information… information… Some of them though, go that far, to become one with your operating system. As if they were in love with it, they merge into it and it becomes impossible to separate them. Even if you decide one day that you don’t need them, you will never be able to delete them forever. Some pieces will always remain back. With all those programs that you have loaded on your pc it has now become a monster. Especially when you downloaded those hijacker programs that took over your browser, now that you have some much garbage in your temp folders, so many tracking cookies, spy-ware, old unknown registry keys that load for ages when you start your pc.

The power is starting to turn against you.

Then one day, you install a new program that will change your life forever. It will crash your pc, it will make the system instable, and it will finally KILL your living organism. You had of course no idea that such a thing could happen, but some tiny little piece of … past installed and present orphan information, created an invisible but existing incompatibility with the program and killed your pc. Even if the monster survived, it now has become old and lost its swiftness and power, injuries of war with other software can be seen on its body. There is but one solution now, put it to an eternal sleep so that does not suffer anymore… FORMAT C …. And rest in peace…

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