This is really starting to piss me off.
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gemfyreI.E. keeps crashing. It kindly allows me to send an error report for it (like that ever makes a difference anyway). If I DO send the report EVERYTHING crashes and I need to reboot. If I don't send a report IE just crashes and leaves it's button in the start bar to annoy me until I reboot.
One day someone will write a computer program that works...
One day...
One day someone will write a computer program that works...
One day...
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Date: 2004-03-03 08:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-03 08:57 pm (UTC)I keep hearing that it's impossible.
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Date: 2004-03-03 09:04 pm (UTC)There might be another way to do it, but that's the only way I can remember. Does it list IE6 in Add/Remove Programs?
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Date: 2004-03-03 09:07 pm (UTC)That evil word format.
Do not have CD burner
cannot afford CD burner OR blank CD's
It's too much of a pain in the arse, you can never get everything the same again.
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Date: 2004-03-03 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-03 09:47 pm (UTC)Now i just need to afford more blank CDs so I can get the rest of my MP3s off my parents computer before it dies completely.
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Date: 2004-03-03 09:54 pm (UTC)Actually... is karaoke happening this week? I might come along, now that my Friday nights are once again free :-)
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Date: 2004-03-03 09:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-04 11:14 pm (UTC)Can I buy one of those off you?
Real cheap like?
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Date: 2004-03-05 01:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-05 01:18 am (UTC)Burning is a waste of time, I just yell, "Luke, can I borrow a few gigs for a day or so?" then whack all my junk on his secondary drive.
But network cards and cabling'd prolly cost more than a burner. (They're really cheap now you know... I'm almost gonna chuck mine and get a DVD burner) I could get Luke to make you some cables if you ever decide to go that way though. Network cards prolly $10-15 apiece.
Which version of windows you got?
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Date: 2004-03-05 02:09 am (UTC)We have a network, problem is none of us have any hard drive space.
Matt does have a 13 gig hard drive but it isn't installed yet.
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Date: 2004-03-05 03:56 am (UTC)Now I feel like a computer geek, too... I got about 100Gb of free space kicking around. (and my rommate Travis prolly has about 200... because he likes to play with adobe premiere and movie files are huuuge. My one experiment takes 10Gb of HDD space, but I got a HD for it in Performance last year :D)
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Date: 2004-03-05 08:47 am (UTC)Unfortunately I've had to settle for a computer that cost me $60.
It is pretty darn good for $60 however.
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Date: 2004-03-05 10:32 pm (UTC)yep, when I first moved out, I bought a pentium 100 for $100. It was a dinosaur, even compared to my Mum's 333. I've upgraded it bit by bit... I think the only original part is the floppy drive.
Now I got an Athlon 2.6... although it thinks it's a 1.5 because my motherboard is outdated. *strokes computer* soon, my baby. Soon.
Austin Computers I find is pretty reasonably priced for components.
As for XP, it's fully illegal, of course--though tempting to get it from uni since the student price is only $119. (and since the disc I installed it with has so far proved un-copy-able, does not belong to me, and has in fact just moved to Switzerland with its owner.) I'd definitely reccommend it over 98 (you should hear the frustrated screaming everytime I try to negotiate it on Mum's puta when I fix that...) but you do need a fast-ish computer to handle it. I reckon about 500mmx and 20Gb?
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Date: 2004-03-05 11:05 pm (UTC)When I get the right power in this thing I'll install it, but until then I'm stuck with 98. It's better than WinME anyway.
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Date: 2004-03-06 05:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-06 05:47 am (UTC)I don't think so. ;)
Last legit copy of Windows I saw was 3.1 back in 1994.
Oh, and our WinME disk. *burns WinME disk*
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Date: 2004-03-06 05:55 am (UTC)The last legit windows I saw was Mum's 98 (not SE). 3.1--I still remember nearly murdering my bro when he wrote over the 3.1 disks with porn. I still have the old 486 up in the roof, by the way. remember that? No CDROM even. Can't quite bring myself to chuck it. too many memories of sitting up until 3am writing essays on it in the kitchen. And the whine of the old dot matrix printer as it took 2 hours to print 10 pages in green ink because the black had run out and Mum wouldn't buy a new ribbon when 2/3rds of it was barely used.
Never ever seen WinME... does it suck? (I'll admit I'm still rather confused at 2000, ME and XP all appearing on each other's heels... Ah well, I'm quite happy enough with XP to not care what the other two are like.)
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Date: 2004-03-06 06:25 am (UTC)At least in my experience. It was nothing but trouble. We went backwards to Win98 because of it.
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Date: 2004-03-04 02:33 am (UTC)Of course, you could always use k-meleon or Opera instead... Opera rocks, K-meleon can be buggy but it's pretty clean.
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Date: 2004-03-04 12:55 am (UTC)Ahhhhhhhhhh, Nirvana.
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Date: 2004-03-04 07:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-08 09:06 pm (UTC)works much better and quicker than IE. and has nifty features, like blocking pop up windows. good for browsing pr0n and ebay :P
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Date: 2004-03-08 09:11 pm (UTC)And with my beloved Google toolbar I haven't seen a popup in ages. I will soon reach 300 blocked popups!