nerd!
Sunday, December 17, 2006
getting my computer together...
the tech guy sent me a new hard drive to replace the one that broke and i’m -hating- getting it all together… it takes so long to personalize everything and get the setting correct and this is the second time i’m doing all of this - in less than a month!
i wish i could just “restore” and go back to my 12 inch…
-sigh-
Thursday, December 14, 2006
y'know it's no good when tech support swears at your computer
so yeah.... tuesday, everything’s great, i’m on my computer, and i turned it off when i went to bed....
and then wednesday, at school, i try to power it on, and i got the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!!!! grrr.... windows wouldn’t boot up! it just kept on saying “UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME”. i asked all my tech-savvy students to take a look; none of them could figure it out. meanwhile i was txting jayson the whole time to see if he could give me any tips on what to do… no luck there either. the tech support dude who works at our school printed out a possible solution for me to try once i got home with my cds but that didn’t work either.
so late last night i called dell support and got some guy in new delhi. he was very helpful and i did all that he asked me to do and at one point, we ran diagnostics. everything was going fine until my computer started blaring at me,
‘error 0142!” i told him, “what do i do now?”
and then i started laughing when he said “OH SHIT! turn the computer off”
yeah.... when tech support starts swearing at ur computer, u know that’s never good. turns out my hard drive crashed because it wouldn’t let me re-install windows on it. the bad news is that i lost everything since my last back-up about 1-2 weeks ago. the good news is… nope, there isn’t any. i have to wait 2-3 business days before i get a new hard drive, one without any of my information on it. boooooo!!!
owning computers really sucks…
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
laptop party
hahahhaa… the three roomies are reunited, and we hung out on monday night. everyone had something to do, but at least we did it in each other’s company =) hahahha… and yes, at one point in the evening, we emailed each other - rita sent me an email about watching rent today, and kat forwarded me a picture i had lost (but one that was originally taken with my camera). i dunno if you can tell the laptop sizes but kat’s 17-inch mac is the papa bear, and rita’s 15-inch is the mama bear, and my li’l 12-inch is the baby bear.... =) this is reminiscent of the days in the old house when everyone would come over to watch the laker game but we’d all be studying/working/browsing the web on our own machines… i think we maxed out at 6 laptops and 1 pda =) don’tcha just love how we spend time together?