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Mar. 14th, 2007 04:41 pmSo. Random thought when walking home from college. Well, to the bus stop. Thing. ( Oh god more Heroes waffle. )
Mar. 14th, 2007
Rampancy FTL.
Mar. 14th, 2007 10:28 pmDurandal gave me the biggest freakout it has for a long time earlier. Was just doing stuff in Photoshop and the thing goes and... well. I've seen crashes. I've seen freezes. I've seen kernel panics and screens of death in various colours. (Usually, the thing's rock solid but everything gets twitchy now and then, I guess. I hardly ever *have* to reboot, it spends most of its time in sleep mode when I'm not using it, but do so every so often anyway when stuff starts to get a bit slow.)
I've never seen everything vanish off my screen except for my wallpaper and a couple of blue blocks, then it just going to a plain blue screen with just my mouse pointer on (which moved, OK)... tried to hit the off switch but didn't respond. Dropped the lid to put it to sleep, that worked, then woke it back up again and the switch off and restart message seemed to have gotten through. All safe.
Until I remembered that I hadn't saved the report I was working on for college for Friday. AAAARGH. The day I try to get ahead of myself, grr...
Speaking of computers crapping out, the parents' old one has finally given up the ghost. Mum thinks it's to do with the fan, we've always had trouble with that, but she says it just wouldn't switch on last time she tried to use it. Eh, it was ancient anyway - Windows ME. Says it all, it did good lasting as long as it did. Good job we should have all the stuff from it backed up on my HD, I'm just hoping it hasn't scrambled the files as I've known it do.
Parents are still getting the hang of the Vista comp. The copy of IE7 it has on there has the Norton fraud-protection banner running on it, saying whether or not the website's been checked for phishers and greeblies. It complained about not being able to scan the page once - and this was on the MSN home page, nothing more harmful than it being Microsoft - and Dad got paranoid and ran round rebooting even when I tried to explain... still haven't gotten the hang of 'uh, cancel or allow'? when that comes up either. The touchpad on the thing's twitchy as anything, too, it's very easy to accidentally click something. Overall, though, it's doing pretty good.
I've never seen everything vanish off my screen except for my wallpaper and a couple of blue blocks, then it just going to a plain blue screen with just my mouse pointer on (which moved, OK)... tried to hit the off switch but didn't respond. Dropped the lid to put it to sleep, that worked, then woke it back up again and the switch off and restart message seemed to have gotten through. All safe.
Until I remembered that I hadn't saved the report I was working on for college for Friday. AAAARGH. The day I try to get ahead of myself, grr...
Speaking of computers crapping out, the parents' old one has finally given up the ghost. Mum thinks it's to do with the fan, we've always had trouble with that, but she says it just wouldn't switch on last time she tried to use it. Eh, it was ancient anyway - Windows ME. Says it all, it did good lasting as long as it did. Good job we should have all the stuff from it backed up on my HD, I'm just hoping it hasn't scrambled the files as I've known it do.
Parents are still getting the hang of the Vista comp. The copy of IE7 it has on there has the Norton fraud-protection banner running on it, saying whether or not the website's been checked for phishers and greeblies. It complained about not being able to scan the page once - and this was on the MSN home page, nothing more harmful than it being Microsoft - and Dad got paranoid and ran round rebooting even when I tried to explain... still haven't gotten the hang of 'uh, cancel or allow'? when that comes up either. The touchpad on the thing's twitchy as anything, too, it's very easy to accidentally click something. Overall, though, it's doing pretty good.