Yesterday was spent getting Mama's computer into shape and making sure she knew what was where now. A few irritating things, but nothing insurmountable. The fact that the old computer didn't have a NIC and hence couldn't be connected to the DSL was sort of a show-stopper; now we have to decide if we can A) buy a cheap NIC to install or B) if Mama ( Read more... )

This has been a week so far of catching up on little things.  Battery for the iPod, battery for the digital camera, diagnosing another problem with same and arranging service, getting the last list of items to be done for the computer before sending it to Oregon to my mother....all the little technological stuff that's been piling up lately.  If I ( Read more... )

So there's this UAT (User Acceptance Testing) project I've been working on at work.  Basically, for those of you who don't know, this is where the users get a new version of an application (in this case a web-app) that is scheduled to be released in a short period of time so that we can try to break it.  And try we do.  The theory is that this is ( Read more... )

I have been putting off a particular project for quite awhile due to...well, frankly, laziness on my part.  However, this morning in my still-awakening-state, it dawned on me that I will be in Oregon for Christmas.  In the middle of December.  In a hair over 6 weeks.

Oh dear.  That woke me up.

I have had a previously-unscheduled vacation day in my ( Read more... )

I took today off to celebrate Laptop Day. I have spent the day trying to get my brand new laptop to crash while playing The Sims. No good. Even with custom content files, all hacks loaded and (my secret weapon) the extra-buggy Ottomas family in their huge-o house...no crashing.

I guess I'll have to keep it.

For purposes of demonstration, I took ( Read more... )

Today was pretty good for the most part. Got some file maintenance done in preparation for moving stuff to the new laptop. Ok, it was on the Sims custom content files I've downloaded, but I did manage to clean some stuff out and organize it better. Hopefully the load time will improve because of it.

Also went for a late lunch with scruffycritter and seer_eridanus to ( Read more... )

You know how when you've been dithering back and forth about something and you finally get to the point where you don't even really care how it comes out, just make a decision already ( Read more... )

I have this laptop. I bought it specifically to run one piece of software requiring 3D graphics and the ability to display changing images on the fly (yes, I mean Sims2). Who knew this game was that graphic-intensive? Anyway, after compressing a lot of files, upgrading the memory and doing a few more things, I'm forced to the conclusion that ( Read more... )

Thank you scruffycritter for installing the memory in my laptop when it came. Never mind that in some people's calendars, "Monday" seems to directly follow "Friday". *hmph* Not on my calendar, but oh well. In any case, at least now the Internet browser is less laggy. Which it should be, with 2Gb RAM.

Now to see if that helps alleviate that Sims crashing

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