I go through cycles of enjoyment. Sometimes, all I want to do is watch TV and other days I just find it to be the biggest waste of time ever. Likewise, some days I sit on the computer all day long, and other days I just want to leave the house as I am constantly in front of the computer all day long and I want nothing more than not to look at the computer screen for another minute. Today, however, I have been playing with my relatively new computer. Not too long ago, I decided that it was worth my time, effort, and money to procure a new laptop computer. My employment takes me away from my apartment for long periods of time, so I do not have time to play with my desktop solution. Actually, my desktop has been sitting in my living room for the last few weeks waiting for me to install an operating system on it. The last time I was at home, I loaded Linux on it just to play around. I didn't get very far in that project, as I never got a keyboard working on it. Regardless, now that I have my laptop with windows Vista (BOO!) I just don't have the motivation to do anything with that other system. I talked to my friend Philip and he is looking for a new system to make his parents, so I decided to go ahead and just give him the parts that he needs from that system and just get rid of the rest.
I have been spending the last few hours tweaking my system. I had spent some time when I first got it, loading a whole bunch of software that was designed for Windows XP and just doesn't work with Vista at all. Unfortunately, instead of just not working it made my system run slower to the point where the system could not keep up to the speed of my typing. I might type faster than some people at work, but I don't break any speed typing records. Reluctantly, I factory restored my laptop.
With the fresh start, I got rid of all the extra Dell crap that they loaded on my system that I absolutely don't want, which is pretty much dang near everything. Then I systematically loaded all the key things that I knew that I would need on my core system.
I decided that I should have the latest and greatest drivers and thus ended up spending hours learning how I can make my Ipod sync up with the Internet and I can check my e-mail and do a whole bunch of other funky stuff. I also discovered how to enable my blue tooth on my Blackberry and pair it up with my computer to constantly keep the two devices in sync. Of course, then I started looking at things that I don't really need, but was always slightly interested in.
I am just in information overload right now, even as I do this blog. I am doing it using a much enhanced program called scribe fire. That doesn't exactly mean that my blogs are going to be any less boring or irrelevant to you as a reader, it just means that it takes that much less effort to add links and do bullets, so I might even go as far as doing that on a more frequent basis.
I have been spending the last few hours tweaking my system. I had spent some time when I first got it, loading a whole bunch of software that was designed for Windows XP and just doesn't work with Vista at all. Unfortunately, instead of just not working it made my system run slower to the point where the system could not keep up to the speed of my typing. I might type faster than some people at work, but I don't break any speed typing records. Reluctantly, I factory restored my laptop.
With the fresh start, I got rid of all the extra Dell crap that they loaded on my system that I absolutely don't want, which is pretty much dang near everything. Then I systematically loaded all the key things that I knew that I would need on my core system.
I decided that I should have the latest and greatest drivers and thus ended up spending hours learning how I can make my Ipod sync up with the Internet and I can check my e-mail and do a whole bunch of other funky stuff. I also discovered how to enable my blue tooth on my Blackberry and pair it up with my computer to constantly keep the two devices in sync. Of course, then I started looking at things that I don't really need, but was always slightly interested in.
I am just in information overload right now, even as I do this blog. I am doing it using a much enhanced program called scribe fire. That doesn't exactly mean that my blogs are going to be any less boring or irrelevant to you as a reader, it just means that it takes that much less effort to add links and do bullets, so I might even go as far as doing that on a more frequent basis.
