Well, if you’ve been following my Twitter then you’ll know that a few days ago my computer experienced colossal failure. There I was, happily watching some porn (it wasn’t actually porn; I can’t remember what it was) when suddenly BAM! There it is. (The avatar’s foot, that is.)
Anyway, there was a big and scary BSOD with ‘IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL’ – a message which actually means bugger-all. It’s bollocks that roughly translates to ‘Oh noes! Something went wrong!’ and serves no useful purpose at all… especially since from what I’ve seen nothing is wrong with my hardware anyway. So I was fairly phased by this and I went to bed with a heavy heart and heavy(ly swollen) glands – the only thing worse than your computer giving you the finger is your computer giving you the finger and feeling like shit.
School on Friday was a bit suck-tastic; I almost didn’t go in because I felt awful, but decided it would be best became it was the last day before half term and I felt that I should get the chance to wish everyone well over the coming week. Really, I needn’t have bothered. We learned tantamount to nothing in Physics (although we did eat biscuits) then I spent most of Classics not concentrating/sleeping. The afternoon was the worst, however, because I had no Further Maths lesson and so had no choice except to sit in a chair feeling exhausted and watch the seconds tick by. However, all of this time did give me a chance to talk to Peter about how best to tackle my computer problem and even Max showed up for the last two periods to print off some work, so we all had a nice chit-chat.
On the way home on the bus I talked to Oscar and Tanya of whom the former gave me a free packet of Tunes and the latter gave me 60p for a packet of Super Noodles (which were very much appreciated). It’s good when people are nice to me.
Yesterday, upon realising that I really had absolutely nothing better to do without a computer, I started again watching the episodes of Dragon Ball Z Elliot had lent to me. Apart from that I also ordered a new laptop:
XPS M1530
Complete with: 2.0 GHz dual-core processor, 4GB memory, 320GB hard drive, 256MB graphics card and a biometric fingerprint scanner.
So nothing earth-shattering, but it should run Portal okay, and that’ll be one New Year’s resolution down.
That evening I dined on quince (pasta) and slices of mince (bacon) which I ate with a runcible spoon (fork).
I slept totally shitily and ended up getting up at around what I thought was 8:45. When I got into the kitchen, however, the clock said that it was 7:45. I thought I was going mad until my parents called up and reminded me about the clocks changing. Stupid clocks.
I finished watching DBZ and then set about working out what to do with my current laptop. I snooped around on the internet for a bit looking for OSs but eventually said screw it and just got Ubuntu. I downloaded it, stuck it on a disc, put it into my computer and hammered F12. And it worked! It took about ten minutes to load up, but once it got there it was pretty fast, even running from a CD. I nabbed my mum’s portable hard drive (it’s 500GB, and she’s barely even scratched it) and started shovelling over all of my important stuff – about 20 GB in all, which took just 20 minutes to transfer.
Well after that I decided that I might try installing Ubuntu so that I wouldn’t get the slow and loud disc running all the time… and that’s where it gets complicated. Suffice it to say, it didn’t work and I plan to get Peter (as the regional Linux expert) to fix it. I could go into more detail but that would bore you and me both more than we already are – and no-one should be that bored.
Well, I’m still running Ubuntu to write this and it’s pretty stable, but I’m also looking forward to my new laptop. Reinstalling all those vital little programs (WINamp, 7-zip, VLC etcetera) will be really annoying, though.
Well, bet you had fun reading this! Here’s the nerd team to sort any of your problems:
THE TECH GUY - Also known as Peter, he seems to be from another planet. Even if his bleached skin and strange voice didn’t tip you off, you can quickly see that his technical know-how is out of this world.
THE HTML GUY - Brought up by his millionaire parents, Max had little time for normal toys as a child. Tinkering with code since the age of three his websites will simply blow away the competition.
THE OTAKU - Fluent in Japanese, Luke is as mystical as they come. His enormous database of anime and manga knowledge is matched only by his giant robot fetish.
THE CHRIS - Chris! Er, yeah. Move along.
THE GAMER - At an impressionable young age, the flashing lights and sounds of videogames brought Ben’s plans for world domination to a crashing halt. Now dedicating his life to always finding that last energy tank, he never allows anything to come between him and his games.
TOGETHER THEY ARE:
THE NERD FORCE!
Fighting every day to tell you that there are over 9,000 ways that THIS IS Sparta and I’ma let you finish, but I herd u liek mudkipz.
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