Category: Computer

you don’t do anything

Wednesday, 6 August, 2003 at 5:59 pm

Ugh. If it’s not my laptop display freezing, or the wireless networking not working for some weird unknown reason, of course it has to be power outages that render the modem incapable of connecting. -.-;; It’s really stupid. Ever since Daddy installed the wireless network, the entire upstairs has been having power shortages, and lights will dim, tvs will blink off for a split second, and the computers go on the battery backup (complete with BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! buzzzz).

In the past few weeks, the power even stays off for minutes on end, and nothing works. Today the power was out for a little while. It came back after 20 or so minutes. But now, for some reason, the internet cuts off and I get disconnected from the network. That means the modem and network router both get cut from the power supply somehow. O.< And I keep connecting and disconnecting and so I couldn’t say how many “Cannot find server” pages I got today. -_-

To top it off, even after the modem and/or router start working again, my laptop doesn’t pick up on the network signal for a few minutes. I have no idea why. At Noelle’s house it connects aut-o-mat-i-cal-ly. ¬_¬

Spent most of today working on a new layout for IAT. :D Since it’s the only thing to do, really, on my laptop sans internet. >_> First I was making it a frames layout, then figured it’d be less to load if I did it tables, since the “background” is 25 or so small images, and use side-scrolling and pop-ups. So now I’m writing up the stuff and messing around with div positioning. ^^;; How fuun.

behind the bitter ache

Thursday, 17 July, 2003 at 3:02 pm

After having been on the computer for about an hour and a half, these are some things I have discovered:

This song that Adam sent me a while ago, “The Meaning of Peace,” it has two singers, BoA and Koda Kumi. I just found out I have another song with Koda Kumi, “1000 no Kotoba.”

I’ve got almost 23 hours of music stuff. 883 megs. That’s not counting the stuff I’ve deleted from the library.

I still have no idea how to get the Mozilla browser. ¬_¬ (Well, chalk it up to impatience this time, I don’t wanna go looking through the site.) Netscape’s end is near.

Right now I could work on my sites, but I don’t feel like it. ^^;;;

Hidek’s got the Gamecube (playing the Sims) and Mickey’s got the N64 (playing the New Tetris). I could latch on to either, if I really wanted to.

There’s also Fushigi Yuugi (1st season) and Escaflowne I have to finish watching, and the Escaflowne movie and the Cowboy Bebop movie to see. I don’t have the patience to watch tv though. Hmm … I have no idea what to do. ^^;; *goes to update dreamlog*

more laptop crashing

Friday, 11 July, 2003 at 2:48 am

Ugh. Next chance I get, I am so tossing my laptop out the window. -_- What happened? I’ll tell you what happened! *in a highly animated mood right now*

I had quite a few windows open … but does that really matter? I dunno, it could, I suppose … but anyway! I had almost a dozen windows open, and I was trying to save a document in Netscape Composer (I had the save as box open, not sure exactly what I was doing … either typing the filename or moving the cursor to hit “save”). And I got another blueboxscreenwithablackbackground. ¬_¬

I didn’t bother to remember whatall it said, because it never helps, all the stuff I write down. What I remember is IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL_TO (something like that), Contact your so and so for … whatever, more info, help, whatever, and 0x0000000A (however many zeroes …) 0x00000001 0x00000002 and there were other numbers like that … but hey, like I’m gonna remember them? >_< Wahhh, I miss my entry already! ;-; :b

I suppose summertime is the best time to send a laptop back to the manufacturer. And PLUS! The compi in the study is connected to the wireless network finally! *hugs compi* I get my good old compi back! ^-^ Well, I guess it ain’t so good no more … *ahem* … But still, it’s the second one I ever had, and it’s the first good one I had (first one was made in the early ’90s … by IBM …), and I used it for 4 whole years. I even got used to the BSODs and … freezings, and other junk. It’s not nearly as irritating as whatever’s wrong with my laptop. Because it was faulty, it’s supposed to do that. But Portibale is supposed to be uber grand! ;-; It was the best in the house before Daddy got his new black compi!

Anyway. Back to the stupid crashing or whatever thing. I don’t remember the last time my laptop did that. I guess in the spring, before Daddy did whatall for most of the night trying to fix it. >_> It seems to have been a temporary fix … well, I dunno if it really fixed anything, because after he worked on it, my screen would always blink black for a nanosecond sometime during the startup, while I’m putting in the password, or right after. Then after a while the display still froze.

I like it best, though, when the screen goes blank, ’cause I know if I wait for half a minute or so it’ll come back, albeit in a 350×200 resolution (I’m not kidding, it’s tiny), and with like a 4 bit color setting. It’s really odd, because I can’t even get that if I wanted it. The lowest I have is 800×600 (with a warning: “This screen is formatted for a 1024×768 screen resolution, so everything will look funky in 800×600”) and 16 bit color.

Neverwhere and some tv viewing

Thursday, 3 July, 2003 at 1:10 am

I am very bored by my blog right now. Why? I dunno.

About 2 or 3 hours I tried to click on some window on my laptop, and the display froze. >.< I amazed myself. I was very cool and very collected and just picked up Neverwhere and started reading. XP I’ve started chapter eleven. O_O HOW COULD HE/SHE/IT?!?!?! *bangs* Not right, I say! Nooot riiiiiight! >.< Wooo. Two-thirds through the book. XD I started reading last Saturday, too.

“What,” asked Mr. Croup, “do you want?”
“What,” asked the marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, “does anyone want?”
“Dead things,” suggested Mr. Vandamar. “Extra teeth.”
Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

XDDD That makes me like Mr. Vandamar a bit more … that is … if I could like him. O_o

So, what I watched last night … The Panic Room, which I liked, good fun movie (“Get out of my house!” “Say fuck.” “What? Fuck!” O.o “No, say ‘Get the fuck out of my house!'” “Get the fuck out of my house!” haha! that was great) … and Dead Like Me, which was funnay! (“She doesn’t like the word moist because she thinks it sounds pornographic.” XP) Also, last Friday, Mommy and I watched Far From Heaven, which was interesting. Not anything fantabulous, though.

bad mood, computer complaints

Friday, 20 June, 2003 at 8:38 pm

I think my laptop’s going to crash. It’s going slowly. I hope it bites the big one.

It’s probably just the Norton AntiVirus scan thing, though. Hopefully.

How did I ever get so many files on my laptop???

Why do people open my bedroom door and then walk out and leave it open? Feckin annoying. Especially the cats, because when I say hi they stare at me like AHH! then leave. -_-

135298 files. 45 minutes and 3 seconds. Aaaaaaaaauugh.