Yes, I acted ASAP, and now I have a new monitor; a 24" Dell widescreen monitor. It was pretty tricky lugging it home, but I did it. Whew. Let's hope this one lasts longer than the Acer did.

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Yesterday, my lovely widescreen monitor died.
Then the old replacement monitor also died. Arrrgh!
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After such a long delay that I thought they'd taken my money and run, I finally received my "ErgoTouch Mouse", version 1 and version 2. They are small compact trackball mice, which I thought would be great... and turned out not to be ( Read more... )

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Karmic Koala (Ubuntu Linux) has bad karma. At least with me. Spent hours downloading to upgrade to it, hours and hours. Finally got everything installed. Reboot. Aaaand... my display kept flashing on and off. And half my keystrokes were ignored. But because I'd cleaned my cache before upgrading (oops), in order to downgrade back to the ( Read more... )

I mentioned before that my wireless router died in the recent power failure. So I investigated a replacement. Now, an exact replacement of the same model would have cost $100+, which seemed a bit silly, considering that I could get a more advanced one (Wireless N) for a similar price, or a cheaper one which was also on special for $59. So I ( Read more... )

We had a power failure this morning (high winds tend to do that around here). Ironically, the power came back just as I was crossing the road to the bus stop on the way to work. If it had been ten minutes earlier, I could have restarted my computer, but for whatever reason, these newfangled computers don't restart themselves when the power comes ( Read more... )