Archive for January, 2008

The really long & brown week

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

About 6 days ago, I discovered the ribeye steaks I bought a while ago when I went shopping with Ricky. For two pieces, the price was extraordinarily low – for I said to Ricky, “this is Super 88 – meat is cheaper here!” The package been frozen since and I haven’t touched it [...]

I’m sorry Vista, you’re not the bad apple

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

It’s ****ing Gigabyte to blame for the 10+ hours lost at troubleshooting their broken product!
Started out with Vista not setting up properly ~ ie, taking forever. Then it became, “is it Vista’s fault or Lite-On’s fault or motherboard’s fault for the DVD drive not working?” After an entire night of trouble shooting by [...]

Vista should not take more than 10 minutes to install

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Apparently, there are a lot of stupid people posting answers on the net, and I’m even dumber for believing them. I waited 30 minutes to the first window to come up during clean setup of Vista – this is not right ~ the problem lies with the LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Model LH-20A1P that [...]

New Computer for New Years!

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

I’ve been using the school assigned IBM T60 for the past year and half as output to my Samsung 42″ DLP. The problem with the IBM T60 lies in its Intel 945GM Express Chipset integrated graphics ~ it does not output to 1280×720 properly. After a lot of searching and reading, I found [...]