Headachy day
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kribuPicked up my shiny new computer yesterday, so today was spent setting it up. Especially as I wasn't in the mood to go out - managed to stub my toe on the sofa yesterday, so it's all bloody and bruised. Not broken though from what I can tell, just hurts a bit if I try to put full weight on it.
Gah. All this installing and copying stuff is what I really hate about getting a new computer. On the plus side, after a lot of effort, I got my external hard drive working (never mind that it doesn't come up half the time after restarting), managed to import the old Outlook data file without issues, so I get to keep my old e-mails, and got Firefox bookmarks imported, too. On the minus side, it took me forever to figure out why the blasted thing was slow as a snail and kept freezing whenever I tried to do anything - finally got rid of BitDefender that came pre-installed and put in AVG antivirus again. It's free but it works, and after that, the new computer's been ... very, very nice.
And I am enjoying filling up the second hard drive. I'm somewhat glad I'm not a complete newbie though as while they'd installed the second drive, it was unallocated, so I had to go find it in disk management and format it to get it to show up. (And re-assign all drive letters while I was at it as the idea of having the second hard drive as the S-drive or something didn't sound appealing.)
And it's quiet. Blissfully quiet. The external hard drive - not overly noisy itself - is the only thing I hear, unless there's active copying going on, in which case I can hear the hard drive a bit too, but no airplane jet engine startup noise anymore.
Have only got the bare essentials installed so far though, so there's a lot of work yet to be done.
All this computer stuff (and dust flowing around) has given me a rather nasty headache. And I haven't written a word today (not really worried about it, but still). And I just watched Estonia getting beaten by Belgium in the World Cup qualifiers ... 3:2 doesn't look too bad as the result, I guess, especially for an away game, but Belgium really was so much stronger. Grrr.
Oddly enough I'm almost missing the laptop now. And I hated using it when I had to switch to it last week. *sheds a single tear*
Gah. All this installing and copying stuff is what I really hate about getting a new computer. On the plus side, after a lot of effort, I got my external hard drive working (never mind that it doesn't come up half the time after restarting), managed to import the old Outlook data file without issues, so I get to keep my old e-mails, and got Firefox bookmarks imported, too. On the minus side, it took me forever to figure out why the blasted thing was slow as a snail and kept freezing whenever I tried to do anything - finally got rid of BitDefender that came pre-installed and put in AVG antivirus again. It's free but it works, and after that, the new computer's been ... very, very nice.
And I am enjoying filling up the second hard drive. I'm somewhat glad I'm not a complete newbie though as while they'd installed the second drive, it was unallocated, so I had to go find it in disk management and format it to get it to show up. (And re-assign all drive letters while I was at it as the idea of having the second hard drive as the S-drive or something didn't sound appealing.)
And it's quiet. Blissfully quiet. The external hard drive - not overly noisy itself - is the only thing I hear, unless there's active copying going on, in which case I can hear the hard drive a bit too, but no airplane jet engine startup noise anymore.
Have only got the bare essentials installed so far though, so there's a lot of work yet to be done.
All this computer stuff (and dust flowing around) has given me a rather nasty headache. And I haven't written a word today (not really worried about it, but still). And I just watched Estonia getting beaten by Belgium in the World Cup qualifiers ... 3:2 doesn't look too bad as the result, I guess, especially for an away game, but Belgium really was so much stronger. Grrr.
Oddly enough I'm almost missing the laptop now. And I hated using it when I had to switch to it last week. *sheds a single tear*
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Date: 6 September 2008 22:10 (UTC)*hugs*
(I stopped working on ye olde Desktop when Evernote didn't look the way it is supposed to look anymore. *wail*)
Hope you feel better tomorrow ... sadly, I have to work. Meh.
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Date: 7 September 2008 08:30 (UTC)If it helps, I'll need to work again tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after, and... you get the point. ;-)
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Date: 6 September 2008 22:58 (UTC)no subject
Date: 7 September 2008 08:33 (UTC)Dust never helps, no, but I think it might also have been the unconfigured monitor that didn't help. Couldn't get to calibrating it properly until later, as it takes time, and a large LCD screen with brightness and contrast not adjusted really isn't a good thing.
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Date: 7 September 2008 10:47 (UTC)Estonia did better than France: we lost 3/2 to Austria. Pff!
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Date: 7 September 2008 11:03 (UTC)I know. Chilli sounded most pleased. ;-)
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Date: 7 September 2008 14:25 (UTC)have fun with your new toy!
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Date: 7 September 2008 14:33 (UTC)I have too many programs I need. *sighs*
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Date: 7 September 2008 14:53 (UTC)ok 56 restarts sounds really annoying. I didn't need so many when I rebooted my entire hard drive.