Personally, I consider voice chat as being far too consuming than typing. Why? You'll never be sure about the state of the headset, the audio hardware, the Internet connection and speed, and whatever the person at the other side had set up for his/her computer; any of these factors can cut short voice chat ( Read more... )

All right, this isn't much of a nice day, after finding out from a visiting HVAC technician that our air conditioner has been totally shot to hell, some asshole stole the trackball of the mouse from one of our workstations after playing DOTA, and I think we'll have to install Windows 2000 on our only "lesser" workstation carrying only 128MB of ( Read more... )

Air-conditioning's still down and the techs haven't arrived, so right now I'm slightly marinated despite having four fans running at once. Maybe later it's gonna rain again...


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No doubt about it, after unsuccessfully trying to print a wallet-sized pic with generic-type glossy photo paper -- even using the whole piece of paper ( Read more... )

I'll never know but looks like I'm having a really bad rash of systems breaking down for the last three weeks. Some of them worked well once they're pulled out of the repair shop, only to go down hard a few hours later ( Read more... )

* Gonna have two units rechecked and the router configured to block off video-streaming pr0n sites (I had a jerk-off evicted after I found him logged onto y0upr0n... total dumbf*k he can't get into Friendster because of it) because they're eating up bandwidth. Maybe soon I'll modify the HOSTS file for all systems to add the blockade ( Read more... )

It's a royal pain in the ass when it turns out that some of the computers don't have drivers properly installed. It's even worse when that causes some guy's heavy DOTA session got cut short because of a system or memory error. Well, it seems that our resident technician wasn't really leet enough to spot those missing bits and pieces as he ( Read more... )

The next two weeks at work... well, I'll be having my hands full, running the gamut from regular net users to DOTA (Defense of the Ancients add-on LAN map for Warcraft III: Frozen Throne) fanboys.

Ugly rigs, ugly gear, and my nose threatening to overload from excess amounts of boogers... so what the heck?

YEAH SCHOOLTIME'S COMING ROUND THE CORNER

Looks like my half-sister's machine had a fried CPU or maybe a smoked board because the heatsink got choked on dust. Whatever, they didn't bothered cleaning up the machine once a week as their bedroom is a mess. It's gonna cost them about $10-20 for a full replacement of the motherboard and/or the CPU ( Read more... )

The other pet peeve is the cafe management software I've installed. For some screwed-up bugs the software goes nuts and can't run properly and it seems only the developer knows what to do with his stupid program. After midnight I think I may have to uninstall this piece of EPIC FAILGuys, please recommend me the best freeware internet cafe ( Read more... )