At Amazon. My Writing Buddy told me about this a few weeks ago, but I balked at the $40 pricetag for something I wasn't sure I'd use. However, I've heard good things about it and know people who swear by it, so I dropped $20 on it today and will use it to write my Next Thing (whatever that is--I'm thinking the story for the Fearful Symmetries antho ( Read more... )

And it kept cutting out on me. I knew it had to be my computer, because the Hubby!Puter worked just fine, thank you ( Read more... )

Maybe I could get on the internet if I installed the driver for the wireless card. Which I am now in the process of yoinking off Averatec's website onto a thumb drive. And, perhaps, I should download all the drivers I need and put them on a handy CD so I'll have it when this happens again--as it inevitably will ( Read more... )

I've got my screensaver working properly (I think). At least, I have new wallpaper that is not embarrassing and that doesn't suck, loaded from Webshots, so...yeah. That's a good ( Read more... )

Yeah, I don't even know. Paint Shop Pro is right there. Webshots (my screensaver) is there but none of the collections I had in it are in it (I have them, they're just not in the program). I have Firefox. So maybe I don't need to install all this stuff from scratch like I thought I might ( Read more... )

I hope I haven't completely hosed myself. I appear to be doing a Windows install on my little netbook. I told it to leave the file system intact. We'll see what happens, I guess. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I wonder if I should take a class so that I actually know what the hell I'm doing next time something like this happens (as ( Read more... )

I have an XP disc that Geek Box burned for me ( Read more... )

My poor little puter has blue-screened at me again. Fortunately, I know how to fix it this time. Unfortunately, I still don't own a WinXP disk so I can access a recovery console. The guy that loaned me the disk before is out of town until the 28th. I've emailed my Writing Buddy to see if he's got one lying around. My next step is to call Geek ( Read more... )

So, I left my computer running (as I do) and went to make dinner on Friday. When I came back, I had a black screen, and it wouldn't boot. AUGH. Naturally, this is a netbook with no built-in CD drive (I have an external drive), and thus the OS came in a partition--which was lost when I replaced the hard drive during the Great Crash ( Read more... )

My computer is back up and running smoothly ( Read more... )