July 29, 2011
The computers at the Department of Libraries are somewhat slow and difficult to use. There are three public access computers that I know about, in this building. When I first started using them, there was one for which using it was almost worse than having no computer at all; it froze all the time, and things that should have taken a few minutes could take an hour.
The one I’ve been using isn’t that slow, and doesn’t freeze often; however, all of the computers here have screens that are under a glass-top desk. This one has print that is so tiny that I can barely read the things that I transfer from Word to Weebly unless I use the “Zoom” function to make everything on the screen larger. When I do that, the screen gets cut off on the right side and I have to scroll back and forth, line by line, in order to read what I wrote.
Typos are easy to make and to miss because my options for reading what I wrote aren’t great once I move what I wrote to Weebly. The writing doesn’t get quite as tiny on WordPress, but it’s still very small and sometimes other weird things happen on that blog. When I make the screen images bigger so that I can read what I’ve already published on WordPress, and then I go back to the editing and writing screen, part of the right side of the WordPress screen gets superimposed onto the left side which is where I need to put the writing, and then I can’t read anything or do anything until I change the screen back.
The fact that using the computers isn’t the easiest thing to do in the first place also sometimes results in my being impatient and making more mistakes; fixing those mistakes obviously isn’t any easier than using the computers at all is.
There’s never a time when I have access to a computer where there are no glitches at all. Some computers at some locations are better than others, but then there’s the question of how long I can use them.
@ 4:13 p.m.
The computers at the Department of Libraries are somewhat slow and difficult to use. There are three public access computers that I know about, in this building. When I first started using them, there was one for which using it was almost worse than having no computer at all; it froze all the time, and things that should have taken a few minutes could take an hour.
The one I’ve been using isn’t that slow, and doesn’t freeze often; however, all of the computers here have screens that are under a glass-top desk. This one has print that is so tiny that I can barely read the things that I transfer from Word to Weebly unless I use the “Zoom” function to make everything on the screen larger. When I do that, the screen gets cut off on the right side and I have to scroll back and forth, line by line, in order to read what I wrote.
Typos are easy to make and to miss because my options for reading what I wrote aren’t great once I move what I wrote to Weebly. The writing doesn’t get quite as tiny on WordPress, but it’s still very small and sometimes other weird things happen on that blog. When I make the screen images bigger so that I can read what I’ve already published on WordPress, and then I go back to the editing and writing screen, part of the right side of the WordPress screen gets superimposed onto the left side which is where I need to put the writing, and then I can’t read anything or do anything until I change the screen back.
The fact that using the computers isn’t the easiest thing to do in the first place also sometimes results in my being impatient and making more mistakes; fixing those mistakes obviously isn’t any easier than using the computers at all is.
There’s never a time when I have access to a computer where there are no glitches at all. Some computers at some locations are better than others, but then there’s the question of how long I can use them.
@ 4:13 p.m.