Games

...they aren't great. So maybe things will go well. Although what WAS terrible was messing around with computers trying to play Left 4 Dead 2 today with ndoto . dasie was nice enough to get me the... seems to be a common problem with both NVIDIA and ATI cards...). So until I can work on upgrades or a new home theater PC, this may be good in the meantime... Argh! And just yesterday...

Also...

... that role since my last x86 Linux server (Teletran, a system I put together in 1997) was destroyed by lightning in 2002. Sometime early next year, hopefully, the Sun machine will receive some upgrades- including the 40GB IDE hard drive that's presently in the P4. It was supposed to go in the Sun box (doubling its capacity and speeding its disk operations substantially) but the one that came with...

Computers and Writing

...air. C is for cookie damnit! This weekend, I compared the specs of my computer to two games, Dragon Age: Origins and FIFA 10. There is no way my machine can handle either game, even with the small upgrades I've made to it. My current laptop is only about five years old, but with the way technology advances so quickly, it's out of date. Thought, with the way my computer keeps crashing this year, I...

Time flip flop

... it. The biggest one has been the pop-up blocker. Work has one installed on all the computers, but this program uses a pop up to tell you when it's time for a learning session. ...a text file, and the program generates the Japanese words randomly. You click and the English equivalent. Future upgrades will include an option to get the English words and click to get the Japanese equivalent, a multiple ...

Lesson #49 in How to Irritate Your Friendly Night Auditor

... it's still Tuesday night in the computers. We process our audit just after 2am ...the weekend, which we NEVER do free upgrades on. He specifically asked me for a ... but otherwise there would be no free upgrades. He continued to argue with me and ...rate, which is just a standard room. Upgrades and any extras are a COURTESY. ...as plainly as I could, no free upgrades, you are getting your standard room, ...

Pointless ramblings from Twitter

17:03 About to do a final backup and tear Arioch down for upgrades... as long as I'm careful, it'll be possible to undo if I botch it. # 18:06 ...why is it I ... but the ones I want? # 18:23 So no disk for the wireless driver... no worries. Got a cable and two other computers, somehow I'll get it running again. # 18:23 About to start the process. Wish me luck. # 19:18 HD ...

...pick up hi, after all the computers I have rebuilt, fixed and upgraded...a ton of money and upgrades to new computers every year, please think...it to First off you 'rebuild' computers but you aren't sure if...rage-ly, a ton of money? UPGRADES EVERY YEAR? I know people who...' and they don't upgrade computers every year. It's a massive... waiting to give people new computers really grinds my gears. WANTED:...

10 November 2009; The Legacy; Andy Lee Potts/Justin Long/Gerard Bulter, R-ish for concepts

...not actually here here, but at Legacy." "Yeah... computers, emails, electronic appointment books... oh wow - you... given the bridle. "Well there are no computers here," he said. "Any yes, I take... We're here - we uh, the computers. Programs. Upgrades and maintainance." His eyes were staring at the cabinet, then at... all this stuff? I mean, like with computers, you can take classes and things." Justin...

What We Really Need...

From A Facebook Post I Made: Microsoft released a new version of Windows today? I'm still waiting for a new version of Microsoft. -- Dr. Phil

Computer progress

...after a week of computer work/research... Media Center PC - Stuck with an AGP slot in the motherboard so upgrades are a little limited. I think it has an LGA 775 slot so I could probably go up from dual... - Has hung on really well for its age, but also stuck with AGP and a weird socket so upgrades are even more limited. I think ATI has some nice cards that would be AGP compatible, but of course ...