If I see that moron bubble one more time...
Riiiight. So today was the great Jam Experiment, yay... except that having put off the move to Hubby's Old Computer as long as possible (fucking horrible fucking Vista), guess who gets antsy just as the pot's going on...
So I end up spending hours upon hours shifting files/backing up stuff/synching discs and what have you. Only to discover that (a) his DVD drive doesn't play CDs, (b) it doesn't play DVDs either - "I wouldn't know, I don't use it, it's crap", he says cheerfully - (c) he has no bleedin' audio drivers, (d) Nero doesn't damn well work and (e) there's no video-in. He's never had a firewall on it EVEN WITH AN UNSECURED FUCKING WIRELESS CONNECTION (*headdesk*) and my cap card is probably going to hit 'name rank and serial number' mode if I put it anywhere near his inputs.
Nutshell: well, it's up and running, but 9/10 things I routinely do on my old (creaky, SP-1, OLD) PC I can't do on his shiny new one, or at least not without divine intervention. I didn't have time to thump him 'cos on top of THAT, he's only gone and bought an Ipod, and further wifely Help Desk/Research had to be factored into the middle of everything else. (Clearly it has One Button too many). I think he likes it about as much as I like this bloody machine...
I'll have to switch between this (for LJ/web) and the other (for email and all the OTHER stuff I need to do daily) for a while I think :(
Anyway. Somewhere in the middle of all that, Jam Happened. Perfectly edible cumquat/lemon marmalade, thank you. And a lovely scaldy pattern from sticky boiling splashes up one arm.
He'd better sodding well eat it is all I can say :)
On the plus side: itunes had the "Don: The Chase Begins" soundtrack :) yooo
So I end up spending hours upon hours shifting files/backing up stuff/synching discs and what have you. Only to discover that (a) his DVD drive doesn't play CDs, (b) it doesn't play DVDs either - "I wouldn't know, I don't use it, it's crap", he says cheerfully - (c) he has no bleedin' audio drivers, (d) Nero doesn't damn well work and (e) there's no video-in. He's never had a firewall on it EVEN WITH AN UNSECURED FUCKING WIRELESS CONNECTION (*headdesk*) and my cap card is probably going to hit 'name rank and serial number' mode if I put it anywhere near his inputs.
Nutshell: well, it's up and running, but 9/10 things I routinely do on my old (creaky, SP-1, OLD) PC I can't do on his shiny new one, or at least not without divine intervention. I didn't have time to thump him 'cos on top of THAT, he's only gone and bought an Ipod, and further wifely Help Desk/Research had to be factored into the middle of everything else. (Clearly it has One Button too many). I think he likes it about as much as I like this bloody machine...
I'll have to switch between this (for LJ/web) and the other (for email and all the OTHER stuff I need to do daily) for a while I think :(
Anyway. Somewhere in the middle of all that, Jam Happened. Perfectly edible cumquat/lemon marmalade, thank you. And a lovely scaldy pattern from sticky boiling splashes up one arm.
He'd better sodding well eat it is all I can say :)
On the plus side: itunes had the "Don: The Chase Begins" soundtrack :) yooo