The Vent - Part 2

[lgg 2]

This sounds ALOT like Vista issues -- I kept my home PC loaded with XP and never had a problem with anything since. I'm sorry about this -- I find computer issues THE WORST since it's how I tend to spend some of my spare time...

Not that this helps you but I'm commiserating with you...

Hope you get it resolved quick...

LGG

Grr - computer vent! For a number of weeks now I have been having major computer problems with a bad driver that we couldn't locate for the longest time (appears to be one of the USBs), computer crashing 4 or 5 times a day, not letting itself turn off and having to hibernate then crashing, and any internet page taking minutes to load (and totally unable to load pages with graphics - YouTube? forget it!). Plus, the screen every now and then just goes blank and I have to manually shut it down and reboot. Tonight, I have no email. Outlook kept sending up little boxes asking me to confirm my email address and password - and when I would it would tell me it didn't recognize it! So I tried to get to the website to reset the password and couldn't get in. Since Joe is the primary account holder, he had to go in and reset my password for me - and now comcast is totally down and those annoying little boxes keep popping up every 3 minutes telling me that it can't download my email. Grrr - I have had nothing but problems with this computer from the start - and it all appears to be related to VISTA. We have ordered in Windows7 and are just waiting for it to arrive to junk this piece of junk (Vista) but things, meanwhile, or going from bad to worse. I am really getting frustrated! ok - rant over - for now - but that's mainly because I am going to turn this thing off (manually) and head to bed.

Mal - for your sore throat and incipient cold (I'm fighting something like that off as well) try Sambucol Cold and Flu tablets - it is homeopathic but it absolutely works! Also get the XClear nasal spray - it is saline with Xylitol and also really works great. The two of these together made my last cold almost a non-issue. You can get these at health food stores - I get mine at the Vitamine Shoppe - but I notice the Sambucol liquid is available at CVS. If you can't get the others, at least get that. It really does help. Hope you're feeling better soon.

[Sprailenes 47]

*cough*get a mac*cough*

[lgg 2]

Hee! I work on a Mac at work and have 2 really good desktops at home!

I want a play book, music,movies, web surfing while sitting on the couch type thing. I also have set myself a budge of 400$.

This, my dear, is something that Mac is not going to abide by. For 400$ I might be able to get an AC adapter!

UM, whoops. I just started a chat about Netbooks and thought this was part of that chat.

*ahem*

realize I am wrong...

S'cuse me.....

*cough*get a mac*cough*

Edited October 21, 2009 by lgg

[Sprailenes 47]

True true.

I wouldn't pay any more than 400.00 for crappy operating system either.

I still lubya lgg. *big hugz*

[lgg 2]

Pffff.... I iz a HUGE knob sometimes.

Bless, Sprail, bless...

True true.

I wouldn't pay any more than 400.00 for crappy operating system either.

I still lubya lgg. *big hugz*

[The_Dude 1,142]

*cough*get a mac*cough*

If you want to purchase an overpriced machine that is not upgradeable

####### is that about?

Drop it, I have.

Edited October 21, 2009 by Rob and Mel

[Sprailenes 47]

You only need to upgrade if you buy ####### to begin with.

[lgg 2]

[The_Dude 1,142]

You only need to upgrade if you buy ####### to begin with.

Thats not true. I upgrade my machine semi regularly because there are higher performing components released all the time. So rather than being stuck with the same sound/graphics/t.v. and any other cards, I can upgrade it. Also, unless you are building your own machine, chances are that you aren't getting the top components anyways, as is the case with mac too. The difference is, I can change mine out and mac owners cannot.

[Sprailenes 47]

I guess it depends on what you want in a machine. It' not so much the PC I hate, it's windows that I despise.

Oh and i recently upgraded my mac book. So they are upgradeable. Not in the same sense though as a PC would be upgradeable... but you can upgrade the operating system.

Edited October 21, 2009 by Sprailenes

[thetreble 19]

I <3 the power tie.

[BermyCat 1]

I have absolutely no idea what my life is going to look like in six months. I've no clue what state we're going to end up in and whether I'll be able to find work there.

Phil's talking about goin back to school to finish his Master's. He's found the perfect project ... in Dallas. He'd get to do something he's really passionate about. If he didn't have to worry about me, he'd go back to the student lifestyle in a second. He does have to worry about me though. Now I feel like his happiness depends on whether I can find a job in Dallas in a hurry. Who on Earth is going to hire an immigrant who has been out of work for a year and lives in another state?

~ Catherine

[The_Dude 1,142]

I guess it depends on what you want in a machine. It' not so much the PC I hate, it's windows that I despise.

Oh and i recently upgraded my mac book. So they are upgradeable. Not in the same sense though as a PC would be upgradeable... but you can upgrade the operating system.

I think if you spent 10 minutes in the Mac Store here in Santa Monica, you'd go crush every apple product you own for fear of becoming one of the hipster pod people there

[The_Dude 1,142]

I have absolutely no idea what my life is going to look like in six months. I've no clue what state we're going to end up in and whether I'll be able to find work there.

Phil's talking about goin back to school to finish his Master's. He's found the perfect project ... in Dallas. He'd get to do something he's really passionate about. If he didn't have to worry about me, he'd go back to the student lifestyle in a second. He does have to worry about me though. Now I feel like his happiness depends on whether I can find a job in Dallas in a hurry. Who on Earth is going to hire an immigrant who has been out of work for a year and lives in another state?

~ Catherine

A competent one who has the wisdom to actually look at your resume instead of your address and immigrant status. Good luck with your search.

[lgg 2]

Yep. Same here in Toronto. If I ever go into a Mac store for some plastic covers for my ipod, I want to poke my own eyes out -- the hipster... it's too much for me to handle!!!!

I ain't no bloody hipster!

I is a hillbilly... .

I guess it depends on what you want in a machine. It' not so much the PC I hate, it's windows that I despise.

Oh and i recently upgraded my mac book. So they are upgradeable. Not in the same sense though as a PC would be upgradeable... but you can upgrade the operating system.

I think if you spent 10 minutes in the Mac Store here in Santa Monica, you'd go crush every apple product you own for fear of becoming one of the hipster pod people there