Jesse enjoys working with computers. Since 1996, when his family got its first Windows 95 computer, he enjoys working on IBM platform computers. He had used Macintoshes while at a Houston private school, but he never became super-proficient with them as he had more experiences with Macs. Jesse saw the public school system that he entered in 1997 change from Macs to Windows while Jesse attended middle school.
Jesse's family's computers have encountered viruses and hardware failures. At a summer job he saw a computer that had its system battery run dry. Jesse wonders when he will see a BIOS flash failure. If so, he would like to see if he could fix it. Hopefully it won't need for the whole motherboard to be replaced.
What will Jesse become in the future? He does not know; however he might find some kind of job that he loves. Could he become a historian, a teacher, an IT support guy, or a diplomat? What will the future hold for him?
One thing is for sure: Don't become a thieving artist like Todd Goldman! I think the Nation of Amanda explains this well enough. Just because you can find some silly picture on the internet doesn't mean that you can use it!
| BIOS | A program stored in a ROM chip that loads prior to the operating system |
| Boot block | Essential startup section of the BIOS that cannot be overwritten by a flash writing utility |
| BIOS ROM Checksum Error | The BIOS detected that it has been corrupted |
| Multipartite virus | A virus with multiple methods of infection - i.e. Melissa is an e-mail worm AND a macro virus |
This is the funniest BIOS screen ever, posted on some guy's imageshack: http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/451/screen2hb7.jpg (link is deliberately unclickable) - read the account here
And to think it was the fault of a bad IDE cable...
ADDED at 2:24 PM on October 2, 2008: Another link about 1990s web design