Category Archives: Computer

My New Baby

Gotta say, it’s really nice to touch. It feels nice especially when you’re using the trackpad to scroll… There’s a nice click click to the keyboard. Also, I really like the Chinese input. Somehow makes more sense to use the spacebar instead of the return button to call up the characters. Screen is nice and [...]
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Gaaaah…

Windows XP can’t connect to the internet. Fuckity fuck fuck! Thankfully, I have Ubuntu… And I don’t know why it can’t connect. I suspect it’s a missing .dll file since it was the first message that greets me when I restarted. Why why why why why… At least I have backup. Sigh. This sucks though. [...]
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Moving to Feisty

The other day, I saw a blog post (boingboing, I believe) about the Ubuntu installer Wubi and downloaded it to try. It came rather serendipitously since I had been facing the BSoD a few days prior [insert usual 'Microsoft sucks' comments]. I had gotten the BSoD fixed though but that definitely, definitely made me want [...]
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Long Ago

There was once when I toyed with the idea of getting into the School of Computing. But the lack of an ‘A’ level Math made that impossible. Even the professor I talked to in Open House said as much. Someone asked me the other day why, if I liked computers so much, didn’t I get [...]
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In other news

It’s probably only significant in my laptop usage but I’ve changed my taskbar to the left side of the screen. It cuts of the last bookmark in my toolbar folder but that’s not a significant loss when I gain lefthand-side messenger pop-ups! It’s always so damn annoying on the bottom right. — My first time [...]
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O Beautiful News [written at 9.10am]

YESH! It’s finally here! I’m getting my laptop today! w00t-ness! Here is project_00′s GIMPshop suggestion. Wow, I didn’t really know so many people read my blog. It feels like there’s a sudden influx of comments. Not that I mind but I don’t seem to be updating very much (and content-wise nothing much too). So thank [...]
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Getting Impatient

Things to Install in New Laptop: Basics AVG ZA AdAware Rainlender MSN Messenger 7 Azureus iTunes DivX GIMP (although the flyer says that the notebook would come with the Macromedia thingy) Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird MS Office WinRAR Adobe Reader? Games Guild Wars The Sims 2 + University World of Warcraft Media Rip some of my CDs, [...]
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