"I never really liked us anyway"
Have laptop, will travel.
After not hearing from the Datavision people, I wrote them an email I marked "URGENT" telling them to cancel the order, then, if they weren't going to bother talking to me. Within twenty minutes, they had replied/cancelled the order - funny how these things work. Anyhow, I then ordered not-quite-the-one-I-wanted-but-good-enough from Newegg, overnight rush. Hooray, it is here! I'm just glad I don't have to mess with that crap anymore. Unfortunately, I do have to mess with all the attendant crap that comes with trying to set up a new computer. Alas!
I have done the important things already: installed Firefox, Steam, Skype, Trillian, and AVG. Finally got Firefox to bend to my will (it took forever D:), and am working on the same for iTunes (more difficult because of size, mostly). I'm having an interesting time deciding how to go about managing a computer where the desktop and OS are on a 50GB partition of a much larger HDD...which is to say, how to remember not to just save everything to the desktop. I have mostly managed by putting the "My Stuff" folder, where I keep actually everything, on the "Data" partition and a shortcut to that where it would normally sit on my desktop. I also had to burn my own recovery discs which was fine except that I burnt two copies of the first disc on the provided DVD's because I am sometimes not very smart. Still, I have both discs now, which is the main thing. Will move on to installing Diablo (1 and 2) as soon as iTunes sorts itself out (which may be a while).
In completely unrelated news, I am feeling very hungry.
After not hearing from the Datavision people, I wrote them an email I marked "URGENT" telling them to cancel the order, then, if they weren't going to bother talking to me. Within twenty minutes, they had replied/cancelled the order - funny how these things work. Anyhow, I then ordered not-quite-the-one-I-wanted-but-good-enough from Newegg, overnight rush. Hooray, it is here! I'm just glad I don't have to mess with that crap anymore. Unfortunately, I do have to mess with all the attendant crap that comes with trying to set up a new computer. Alas!
I have done the important things already: installed Firefox, Steam, Skype, Trillian, and AVG. Finally got Firefox to bend to my will (it took forever D:), and am working on the same for iTunes (more difficult because of size, mostly). I'm having an interesting time deciding how to go about managing a computer where the desktop and OS are on a 50GB partition of a much larger HDD...which is to say, how to remember not to just save everything to the desktop. I have mostly managed by putting the "My Stuff" folder, where I keep actually everything, on the "Data" partition and a shortcut to that where it would normally sit on my desktop. I also had to burn my own recovery discs which was fine except that I burnt two copies of the first disc on the provided DVD's because I am sometimes not very smart. Still, I have both discs now, which is the main thing. Will move on to installing Diablo (1 and 2) as soon as iTunes sorts itself out (which may be a while).
In completely unrelated news, I am feeling very hungry.