Lizz Murphy - Poem 240: How computers shape our feelings (14) - Infectious

(14)

INFECTIOUS

i.

attack, degrade invade

viruses, worms, 

ii.

How did I get infected?

 nuisance,

iii.

remove infections.

only way for certain clean,

is to low-level format the hard drive

(overwrite with all zeros).

iv.

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Lizz Murphy - Poem 238: How computers shape our feelings (13) - Memory perfection

MEMORY PERFECTION

On scanning an article for key information about memory

 

Computer memory

memory perfection. 

What is memory?

 binary neural networks. 

The two types of memory

main memory data (

volatile, auxiliary memory 

hard drive or a flash memory. 

external memory  ), CD/DVD ROMs 

hard drives. virtual memory Internal memory

 RAM (random access memory) and ROM (read-only memory). 

 keyboard). transistors 

Random and sequential access random access 

sequential access: magnet DRAM and SRAM

DRAM (dynamic RAM) and SRAM (static RAM). 

 cellphones,  battery life) electronic components. 

capacitor and one transistor 

it.

ROM

 flash-memory  electric current t ultraviolet light. 

modems, and wireless routers  firmware Auxiliary memory

T

hard drives and CD/DVD ROMs. 

 history of computing, 

 Floppy drives         

                              ahhhh I remember those!

— words selected from Computer Memory by Chris Woodford with thanks Online [Accessed August 29, 2016] 

URL: http://www.explainthatstuff.com/how-computer-memory-works.html 

Lizz Murphy - Poem 235: How computers shape our feelings (12) - Motherboards

GRIEF

How horses point their rumps to the weather

How cancer can be confused with grief

How a motherboard is declared ‘dead on arrival’

Lizz Murphy - Poem 234: How computers shape our feelings (11) - Alone

ALONE

day after day 

8 o'clock in the morning 

to 2 - 3 o'clock in the night 

I wake up and do the same 

over and over again 

I literally cannot stop 

I turn on the computer 

and touch the mouse and keyboard 

the computer becomes my whole world 

I simply never turn it off. 

Everything revolves around the computer 

it steals my whole time. 

I have tried quitting 

this is destroying my life 

I need to get rid of this addiction 

I'm just left alone by myself...

tl;dr: i am addicted to the high use of a computer, 

and it's ruining my life.

— found text from a computer forum

Lizz Murphy - Poem 233: How computers shape our feelings (10) - Panic attacks

PANIC ATTACKS

panics after waking

black 

rapid heating 

lost the capacity to start up 

these panics do not occur during normal usage, 

panic log 

-Turned deep sleep off

that doesn’t work, erase the disk

— found text from computer forums

Lizz Murphy - Poem 232: How computers shape our feelings (9) - Refuse cookies

‘disable or refuse cookies’

note to self:

turn computer off 

if breaking diet

Lizz Murphy - Poem 231: How computers shape our feelings (8)

computers
all day long - pain
in the neck

Lizz Murphy - Poem 230: How computers shape our feelings (7) - Siri

SIRI 

Air strikes on civilians

‘I didn’t quite get that’

Lizz Murphy - Poem 228: How computers shape our feelings (6) - Linux

LINUX

all my problems solved

— with thanks to Kit Kelen

Lizz Murphy - Poem 226: How computers shape our feelings (5) - Overload

OVERLOAD 

i am afraid of overload and disable 

i don't trust the overload 

i don't trust/to minimize the danger of overload, 

I don't know the cause 

i think Microsoft is responsible for my overload

— found poem based on text from a support forum

Lizz Murphy - Poem 225: How computers shape our feelings (4) - Spinning ball

my head is spinning

like the coloured ball 

on my dying laptop

Lizz Murphy - Poem 223: How computers shape our feelings (3) - Cables

I felt as able as an obsolete cable

Lizz Murphy - Poem 222: How computers shape our feelings (2) - Frozen screen

I was blue 

as a frozen

PC screen

Lizz Murphy - Poem 221: How computers shape our feelings (1) - Passwords

it made me shudder
like a computer screen with
the wrong password

LIzz Murphy - Poem 222: How computers shape our feelings (2)

I felt as blue
as a frozen
PC screen