Desktop Dungeons eats my housemate
This was unexpected:
1 gold? Sure, I'll take him.
1 gold? Sure, I'll take him.
The peculiar misbehavior of my laptop
Conveniently, my laptop has built-in buttons for the functions Volume Up, Volume Down, Mute, and Oh Crap What's Wrong With My Laptop.
These buttons are apparently incompatible with my DDR pad. Each time I use the pad, the buttons stop functioning, and then I need to reboot the laptop for them to work again. As laptop problems go, it's really not so bad*, but it is very peculiar.
*On a day-to-day basis, I'm more inconvenienced by my laptop's unwillingness to access Google Calendar with Firefox. Whenever I try, it just reports "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete." I have not had this problem with any other computer or any other site. Consequently, I use Firefox for 95% of my Internet use, and then I leave a browser open with IE and Google Calendar.**
**My, what a long footnote that was!
These buttons are apparently incompatible with my DDR pad. Each time I use the pad, the buttons stop functioning, and then I need to reboot the laptop for them to work again. As laptop problems go, it's really not so bad*, but it is very peculiar.
*On a day-to-day basis, I'm more inconvenienced by my laptop's unwillingness to access Google Calendar with Firefox. Whenever I try, it just reports "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete." I have not had this problem with any other computer or any other site. Consequently, I use Firefox for 95% of my Internet use, and then I leave a browser open with IE and Google Calendar.**
**My, what a long footnote that was!
A terrible sinking feeling -- and reprieve.
I am not very good about the hard copies of my software. I know this. I have a tendency to install the software and then misplace the CDs.
But with Sibelius, I was sure I had not done this. I was, in fact, positive. I was positive because I saved the box with everything in it. I even knew where the manual was (a true, true rarity!)
Today, I checked the manual to find out how many copies of Sibelius I can install total, and I determined that I am legally allowed to install 2 copies so long as I am the only person using both. I went to pull the box so that I could install Sibelius on my new computer, and... the box is empty.
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I made it that far on the post before the fifth frantic ransack of my desk located the (free-floating) CD to install Sibelius. Consequently, I am accepting this as a Lesson from the Universe with (mostly minimal) anguish involved.
Ladies 'n gentlemen, if you purchase devastatingly expensive pieces of software, STORE THEM CAREFULLY.
Thank you.
But with Sibelius, I was sure I had not done this. I was, in fact, positive. I was positive because I saved the box with everything in it. I even knew where the manual was (a true, true rarity!)
Today, I checked the manual to find out how many copies of Sibelius I can install total, and I determined that I am legally allowed to install 2 copies so long as I am the only person using both. I went to pull the box so that I could install Sibelius on my new computer, and... the box is empty.
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I made it that far on the post before the fifth frantic ransack of my desk located the (free-floating) CD to install Sibelius. Consequently, I am accepting this as a Lesson from the Universe with (mostly minimal) anguish involved.
Ladies 'n gentlemen, if you purchase devastatingly expensive pieces of software, STORE THEM CAREFULLY.
Thank you.
Terminology
"Would you like to rip the CD?"
"Would you like to burn a CD?"
Would you like to give me some less violent options?
"Would you like to burn a CD?"
Would you like to give me some less violent options?
DivX Terms of Use. No, that really is what's in this post.
The DivX terms of use are the most readable and least dry terms of use I've ever seen. Good heavens.
( I threw the beginning of them under this cut so that you could see if you're curious. It's actually kind of interesting. )
( I threw the beginning of them under this cut so that you could see if you're curious. It's actually kind of interesting. )
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Puzzle Pirates: Atlantis
I cannot blame the vanishing popcorn and ice cream on another memory lapse. I can blame it on puzzle vision, though. "Must... be... powered... for... puzzle!"
I spent four hours last night playing Puzzle Pirates (www.puzzlepirates.com).
Mostly, I don't pillage on Puzzle Pirates, because mostly, I play Alchemistry. It's a patient, untimed game where you connect swirly tubes with pots and fill potions of different colors. I treat it a bit like Nethack -- it keeps my hands and the front of my mind busy while the back half muses.
Since my initial departure from Puzzle Pirates in... 2003, I think... and my semiofficial return last week, Puzzle Pirates has acquired sea monsters. (Semiofficial: I'd been dipping in and out of free gaming for a couple months, but I gave them some money last week.) Sea monsters live in Atlantean outposts. It is possible to get a map there... but you'd better hurry if you do, because your map will only last eight days before crumbling to bits. And when you get there, it's freakin' scary.
I gave this a try last night.
( If you play Puzzle Pirates and haven't experienced Atlantis, it's conceivable you will find this spoilery, so I'm dropping it under a cut. )
In other news, I feel and look significantly more human today, for which I am glad. Tomorrow will be an Effective Work Day.
And today is one of the "judges wait impatiently" days for the 13th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. Games come out tomorrow! You can be judge! http://ifcomp.org. Bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce....
I spent four hours last night playing Puzzle Pirates (www.puzzlepirates.com).
Mostly, I don't pillage on Puzzle Pirates, because mostly, I play Alchemistry. It's a patient, untimed game where you connect swirly tubes with pots and fill potions of different colors. I treat it a bit like Nethack -- it keeps my hands and the front of my mind busy while the back half muses.
Since my initial departure from Puzzle Pirates in... 2003, I think... and my semiofficial return last week, Puzzle Pirates has acquired sea monsters. (Semiofficial: I'd been dipping in and out of free gaming for a couple months, but I gave them some money last week.) Sea monsters live in Atlantean outposts. It is possible to get a map there... but you'd better hurry if you do, because your map will only last eight days before crumbling to bits. And when you get there, it's freakin' scary.
I gave this a try last night.
( If you play Puzzle Pirates and haven't experienced Atlantis, it's conceivable you will find this spoilery, so I'm dropping it under a cut. )
In other news, I feel and look significantly more human today, for which I am glad. Tomorrow will be an Effective Work Day.
And today is one of the "judges wait impatiently" days for the 13th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. Games come out tomorrow! You can be judge! http://ifcomp.org. Bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce....
To everyone who tried to reach me on AIM at 2 AM last night...
...oops. Very sorry about that.
But I did feel awfully popular when I saw how many people tried to reach me. (Why don't any of you keep sane hours?)
But I did feel awfully popular when I saw how many people tried to reach me. (Why don't any of you keep sane hours?)
Nethack for the win.
(to the tune of "I Feel Fine", with some serious apologies to the Beatles.)
Vista's good to me, you know,
It's got this brand new glow, you know,
I said so --
Nethack runs on Vista, I feel fine.
Nethack is sublime, you know,
I tell you all the time, you know,
I said so --
Nethack runs on Vista, I feel fine.
I'm so glad
It runs on my computer
I'm so jazzed
And I couldn't be much cuter
'Cause the dungeon waits for me, you know,
It's down the dungeon stairs I go, you know,
I said so --
Nethack runs on Vista, I feel fine.
I got this dungeon crawling thing,
I got the Amulet and two rings
Of charisma --
Nethack runs on Vista, I feel fine.
Nethack runs on Vista, I feel fine.
mmmmm.
Vista's good to me, you know,
It's got this brand new glow, you know,
I said so --
Nethack runs on Vista, I feel fine.
Nethack is sublime, you know,
I tell you all the time, you know,
I said so --
Nethack runs on Vista, I feel fine.
I'm so glad
It runs on my computer
I'm so jazzed
And I couldn't be much cuter
'Cause the dungeon waits for me, you know,
It's down the dungeon stairs I go, you know,
I said so --
Nethack runs on Vista, I feel fine.
I got this dungeon crawling thing,
I got the Amulet and two rings
Of charisma --
Nethack runs on Vista, I feel fine.
Nethack runs on Vista, I feel fine.
mmmmm.
Update...
Dell flatly refused to send me a technician to correct their mistake. They also prohibited me from having anyone else move the wireless card from the old computer into the new computer (where both computers referenced are the ones that they sent me.)
I flatly refused to have them send me a THIRD computer (are they insane?) and told them I would send back both computers and take my business elsewhere.
However, they did agree to overnight me an external wireless modem at no charge to me. I thought this seemed (after another couple hours of going round and round with people) like a reasonable solution.
The punch line: they are overnighting it on September 13. The order has to be processed.
I thought about rejecting this solution, but decided to let it be. I do have a computer now, at least, even if it can't reach the Internet. Her name is Regalia (no, I don't know why) and she allowed me to install and play Fable last night. (The sheer quality of the graphics and sound went a long way toward settling me down.) And it isn't her fault that she was manufactured by Dell.
Meh. Fortunately![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beloitst remains exceedingly generous about permitting me to use her computer.
I flatly refused to have them send me a THIRD computer (are they insane?) and told them I would send back both computers and take my business elsewhere.
However, they did agree to overnight me an external wireless modem at no charge to me. I thought this seemed (after another couple hours of going round and round with people) like a reasonable solution.
The punch line: they are overnighting it on September 13. The order has to be processed.
I thought about rejecting this solution, but decided to let it be. I do have a computer now, at least, even if it can't reach the Internet. Her name is Regalia (no, I don't know why) and she allowed me to install and play Fable last night. (The sheer quality of the graphics and sound went a long way toward settling me down.) And it isn't her fault that she was manufactured by Dell.
Meh. Fortunately
beloitst remains exceedingly generous about permitting me to use her computer.Excuse me while I go totally insane.
The replacement for my new computer is here. However, it's screwed up as well. It does not have a wireless card. It's set up for Ethernet cable instead.
Excuse me while I go courteously ballistic.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Thank you for your patience.
"It's another tech support Thursday" is not as poetic as "it's another tequila sunrise", but it's accurate and painful.
Excuse me while I go courteously ballistic.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Thank you for your patience.
"It's another tech support Thursday" is not as poetic as "it's another tequila sunrise", but it's accurate and painful.
Dell Haiku
Brand new computer
Crashed, died, and detonated.
Tech support helpless.
"Please solve my problem!"
"Open up your computer."
This was way scary.
Wait for replacement.
Autumn leaves drift slowly down.
Ten days too damn long.
Crashed, died, and detonated.
Tech support helpless.
"Please solve my problem!"
"Open up your computer."
This was way scary.
Wait for replacement.
Autumn leaves drift slowly down.
Ten days too damn long.
Eek. It's coming!
I just checked (having dealt with weird delays already, and being in a sleepy, paranoid state of mind) and discovered that my Dell has actually been delivered to FedEx already. Theoretically, it will arrive on 8/29. Joy!
Here's the part that's puzzling me.
Why hasn't Dell charged me yet? I thought they charged before shipping.
Here's the part that's puzzling me.
Why hasn't Dell charged me yet? I thought they charged before shipping.
Dude.
I'm getting a Dell.
3-5 days for delivery from today. (It was supposed to be yesterday, but I had to sort out some difficulty with the bank, and hence today instead.)
::pace pace pace pace pace::
3-5 days for delivery from today. (It was supposed to be yesterday, but I had to sort out some difficulty with the bank, and hence today instead.)
::pace pace pace pace pace::
Computer shopping.
Er. Could someone with a clue please share one?
Is the Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6600 (4MB L2 Cache,2.4GHz,1066 FSB) an improvement over the AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4400+ ?
And, if so, how do I tell?
Thanks.
Is the Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6600 (4MB L2 Cache,2.4GHz,1066 FSB) an improvement over the AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4400+ ?
And, if so, how do I tell?
Thanks.
My computer has epilepsy.
First, our Internet was out from Sunday to most of Tuesday. Then, my computer got sick. My typity box can't currently start in regular mode -- it will snap its screen off, snap its screen on, flash a blue screen (for less than a second -- I don't know what it says except "hardware failure") and then restart. It can start in safe mode, so my data seems to be OK. People tell me it's probably the graphics card.
Needless to say, this has something to do with my recent quietness on LiveJournal, not to mention my slightly twitchy demeanor face-to-face. I am spared intense withdrawal by the kindness ofbeloitst permitting me to use her computer, which is wonderful, but... time to go shopping. I need a wizard to give sell me a brain.
With that said, I'm not going shopping anywhere except the Internet tonight, 'cause I have to be up shiny early for a day trip to New York. I have a bus ticket and dinner reservations and everything. Yay!
...I have eleven hours to kill before I'm supposed to be back on my feet and I doubt I'm sleeping more than eight of those. Twitch.
Needless to say, this has something to do with my recent quietness on LiveJournal, not to mention my slightly twitchy demeanor face-to-face. I am spared intense withdrawal by the kindness of
beloitst permitting me to use her computer, which is wonderful, but... time to go shopping. I need a wizard to With that said, I'm not going shopping anywhere except the Internet tonight, 'cause I have to be up shiny early for a day trip to New York. I have a bus ticket and dinner reservations and everything. Yay!
...I have eleven hours to kill before I'm supposed to be back on my feet and I doubt I'm sleeping more than eight of those. Twitch.
My monitor is dying.
...or, if it isn't dying, I'm going to kill it soon. While on, my monitor is making a high-pitched sound that occasionally wavers into distinctly painful ranges.
I need to buy a bed, but I might... just might... need a flat-screen more. Because OW.
I don't suppose anyone has any theories for making this stop? (she asked hopelessly.)
I need to buy a bed, but I might... just might... need a flat-screen more. Because OW.
I don't suppose anyone has any theories for making this stop? (she asked hopelessly.)