Yesterday I installed Ubuntu. Trying Linux is something I've been meaning to do for ages but never got round to. TBH, not having any programming knowledge and not doing anything very difficult with my computer, it's unlikely to give me any significant benefits over windows, but I want to see what it's like ( Read more... )

The front page of google is about 6,600 characters of html, plus an 8KB image. How much memory does it take to run an instance of IE rendering this page ( Read more... )

And we're just walking by ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how long I've been at my new job. Long enough for people to expect me to be busy, but not long enough for me to know how to do things. Working wouldn't be so bad if it didn't take so much time. I might move to France.

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One of the side-stories to my life is a constant succession of problems with computers. I will narrate the saga of our internets.

( cut for computer ranting )

Gah, computers. My computer has been playing up for months now, completely locking, or occasionally resetting, usually during or shortly after startup. It was very variable though; sometimes it'd be fine for a week or two, then it would play up again. The last couple of weeks it's been constantly bad, and got worse, to the point where it's ( Read more... )

My computer's ability to find new ways to go wrong never fails to impress me.
edit: it's new fun trick is this - it'll go along fine for a while, like most of the day. Then it'll decide it won't connect to the internet. It's not (for once) the wireless connection that goes - it still connects to the router fine - and resetting my connection doesn ( Read more... )

I attempt to reconstruct a semi-stream-of-consciousness account of my trip into town.

( I don't like it here either )