Seems I need to add a tab for computers after all :)
Yesterday with Windows Update I got IE9 and I ended up upgrading my Firefox to 4th version as well. Seems like I will start to compare them as lately I was getting really displeased with the browsers I had. Firefox was eating too much of ram, Chrome was eating too much of physical memory, IE.... IE is just.... IE (slow, unsafe, bothersome).
I don't know if Chrome has a newer version out, but I actually don't care as I am not going back to it.
I will inform you about my observations over both of them. I must say that both new versions left really nice impression on me... and IE9 isn't that slow either!
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Monday, 11 April 2011
Rainy day with blank aftertaste
You have a long awaited interview planed for today. You have tried to get hold of this person for a month and at last, just few days ago you managed to get his private phone number, call him and arrange a meeting. It is at 12.30, but you have to be in the town at 10.00 am already as you need to borrow a recorder. Meaning you have to get up at 8.30 am.
But lately you have had quite stressful time, so for more than week you are having restless sleep with lot of small nightmares and nasty dreams. Also you don't want to be late for the meeting at 10.00am as you have made that person to wait before and you know that he will need the recorder on the same day. That is kinda making you uneasy... and that's the least you need... You wake up on 5.30am, then on 7.00am, 7.30am, 8.ooam, 8.15am and last 15min you spend staring in the ceiling.
Cause of all the restless sleep you have lost all appetite as well. You eat a sandwich for breakfast and then spend 20min slowly drinking coffee to wash away that nauseating feeling you get after eating lately. And suddenly you understand that you have only 10min left to get ready and leave! So you quickly get ready, rush out and the tram stop understand that it has left just bit ago, so you will have to wait for next one and might be late. Damn! Well... at least weather is nice. Cloudy, but rather warm and pleasant.
At the end meeting place gets changed by him and you even have to wait on him. So it is all good. You decide to meet at 2.00pm and if you finish earlier, then just bring the recorder to the concert hall.
As you watch him leave, you understand that you have 2.5hrs to waste till the interview. So you decide to walk around the old town, go to some shops. But you aren't allowed to buy anything big as you can't go to interview with big bags, right? You get some bit fancy dark chocolate for the person who got you the phone number of the person you needed to interview. He used to be your professor and your bothered him in his free time, so least you can do is to bring him a small thank-you gift (10.12am). You remember about the mall nearby and decide to go look there for some calming tea. You get some red african tea called "African passion". The shop keeper told it has calming effect.
10.33am - you are out of mall. 10.45 - you get bored from walking around the old town and decide to get the your pass to the house of Parliament. 11.00 - they haven't ordered one for you yet, but after a call you still get yours made. At 11.20 it starts to rain.... Till 12.15 you go from one shop to another, go twice back to the same mall, get on nerves of some shopkeepers with "I am just looking" and you wonder how come you aren't bored to death yet. 12.25 - you are back at house of Parliament and get told by assistant that you will have to wait till 12.40 for him. At 12.50 assistant gets an sms from him asking if there is a possibility to move interview to hour later (1.40pm).
You can't be sure that you will be able to give back the recorder on time, so you decide to take a risk and use your phone for recording. You go to french cafe nearby and test your phone's abilities to record while you have some cup of coffee and chocolate cake. Afterwards you go give back recorder and slowly go back to Parliament house while it is still raining. He comes on time but while he is talking you notice that he doesn't have too deep knowledge about the matter you are asking. While moving hands he kinda sneaks a peak at his clock. Means he wants this to get finished sooner. You try to ask him questions you need and to which he could answer. At some cases he asks his assistant for some details, you get given some notes. Soon you part your ways. Interview lasted only for 13min. The amount of information you need is really small. You sigh as you leave and wonder what was the point to try to get him to answer few questions... Was there a point to get stressed overs this matter, if it was kinda useless anyway?
Well at least it is done and with kinda blank and wasted aftertaste you go home....
Your results of this day: Calming tea which doesn't seem to have any effect, New headset with slightly too short cord, Interview which doesn't tell anything much....
But lately you have had quite stressful time, so for more than week you are having restless sleep with lot of small nightmares and nasty dreams. Also you don't want to be late for the meeting at 10.00am as you have made that person to wait before and you know that he will need the recorder on the same day. That is kinda making you uneasy... and that's the least you need... You wake up on 5.30am, then on 7.00am, 7.30am, 8.ooam, 8.15am and last 15min you spend staring in the ceiling.
Cause of all the restless sleep you have lost all appetite as well. You eat a sandwich for breakfast and then spend 20min slowly drinking coffee to wash away that nauseating feeling you get after eating lately. And suddenly you understand that you have only 10min left to get ready and leave! So you quickly get ready, rush out and the tram stop understand that it has left just bit ago, so you will have to wait for next one and might be late. Damn! Well... at least weather is nice. Cloudy, but rather warm and pleasant.
At the end meeting place gets changed by him and you even have to wait on him. So it is all good. You decide to meet at 2.00pm and if you finish earlier, then just bring the recorder to the concert hall.
As you watch him leave, you understand that you have 2.5hrs to waste till the interview. So you decide to walk around the old town, go to some shops. But you aren't allowed to buy anything big as you can't go to interview with big bags, right? You get some bit fancy dark chocolate for the person who got you the phone number of the person you needed to interview. He used to be your professor and your bothered him in his free time, so least you can do is to bring him a small thank-you gift (10.12am). You remember about the mall nearby and decide to go look there for some calming tea. You get some red african tea called "African passion". The shop keeper told it has calming effect.
10.33am - you are out of mall. 10.45 - you get bored from walking around the old town and decide to get the your pass to the house of Parliament. 11.00 - they haven't ordered one for you yet, but after a call you still get yours made. At 11.20 it starts to rain.... Till 12.15 you go from one shop to another, go twice back to the same mall, get on nerves of some shopkeepers with "I am just looking" and you wonder how come you aren't bored to death yet. 12.25 - you are back at house of Parliament and get told by assistant that you will have to wait till 12.40 for him. At 12.50 assistant gets an sms from him asking if there is a possibility to move interview to hour later (1.40pm).
You can't be sure that you will be able to give back the recorder on time, so you decide to take a risk and use your phone for recording. You go to french cafe nearby and test your phone's abilities to record while you have some cup of coffee and chocolate cake. Afterwards you go give back recorder and slowly go back to Parliament house while it is still raining. He comes on time but while he is talking you notice that he doesn't have too deep knowledge about the matter you are asking. While moving hands he kinda sneaks a peak at his clock. Means he wants this to get finished sooner. You try to ask him questions you need and to which he could answer. At some cases he asks his assistant for some details, you get given some notes. Soon you part your ways. Interview lasted only for 13min. The amount of information you need is really small. You sigh as you leave and wonder what was the point to try to get him to answer few questions... Was there a point to get stressed overs this matter, if it was kinda useless anyway?
Well at least it is done and with kinda blank and wasted aftertaste you go home....
Your results of this day: Calming tea which doesn't seem to have any effect, New headset with slightly too short cord, Interview which doesn't tell anything much....
Saturday, 9 April 2011
Troubles with computers 2
My headset died... Talk about bad luck with computers.
So within 2 weeks I will have changed ram, upgraded hard drive, changed video card and changed headset.
What will be next? Mouse? or my beloved keyboard.
It is ergonomic, but not way too much which actually makes them uncomfortable then.
Keys are rather sensitive, so I can type lightly and quick without using too much force on them. And in the result it is quite silent as well! Only Space is loud compared to other keys. I often stay up quite late when everyone is sleeping, so it is perfect that I can type quietly without disturbing anyone.
Another great feature it is Split-Resistant. Sounds funny, but it is really useful. I am slightly clumsy with my hands - I have split lemonade and coffee on my keyboard. But it never got inside, it stayed on the surface so I could easily and quickly wipe it away without damaging it.
As for Special Hotkeys... I don't really use them. In all these years I have it, I can count on my fingers how many times I used them. Actually I once did try to get used to multimedia hotkeys, but it wasn't natural for me. Only Hotkey I often use is shortcut to Calculator.
This is a perfect keyboard for me! When I was looking for a new keyboard, I had a few things I wanted for it - to be quiet, ergonomic, simple. Now if I looked for a new one, I would also add Split-Resistance! (Actually price did matter too... it was cheap as well :P)
So within 2 weeks I will have changed ram, upgraded hard drive, changed video card and changed headset.
What will be next? Mouse? or my beloved keyboard.
It is ergonomic, but not way too much which actually makes them uncomfortable then.
Keys are rather sensitive, so I can type lightly and quick without using too much force on them. And in the result it is quite silent as well! Only Space is loud compared to other keys. I often stay up quite late when everyone is sleeping, so it is perfect that I can type quietly without disturbing anyone.
Another great feature it is Split-Resistant. Sounds funny, but it is really useful. I am slightly clumsy with my hands - I have split lemonade and coffee on my keyboard. But it never got inside, it stayed on the surface so I could easily and quickly wipe it away without damaging it.
As for Special Hotkeys... I don't really use them. In all these years I have it, I can count on my fingers how many times I used them. Actually I once did try to get used to multimedia hotkeys, but it wasn't natural for me. Only Hotkey I often use is shortcut to Calculator.
This is a perfect keyboard for me! When I was looking for a new keyboard, I had a few things I wanted for it - to be quiet, ergonomic, simple. Now if I looked for a new one, I would also add Split-Resistance! (Actually price did matter too... it was cheap as well :P)
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Troubles with computers
I probably got one of the worst 1st april day jokes ever. My pc played it with me - video card crashed. After few days it got fixed and I was able to use my pc again, but at that moment I didn't really feel like laughing.
Then I started to think... I get small problems with computers too often...
~My flash kinda died on the day I had to hand in one of my papers at uni. I got the IT guys help me. They worked for hour with my flash and recovered the file I needed. I was really thankful to them, but as they told me it isn't their job to do something like this, I never came back...
~At some point my video card's coolers started to die. First change lasted for half a year, but every next one lasted less and less. Last one lasted longer... but that was rather big fan put on weird construction... luckily it lasted till the card died
~I learned that pulling wires/cards out and putting them back in can make computer work again, even if it refused before. I learned how pc is built cause of that....
~Ctrl+Alt+Delete - solves most of messed up things
~When your screen starts to turn pink, then you don't think it is cute. You know it is time to change monitor's cord/wire.
~I changed 4-5 headsets with in half a year and the shortest time one of them lasted was few days. 1st one - died one side of it, 2nd - mic died, 3rd - I suddenly stood up and quickly left, while I still had them on ears so it got split into two parts, 4th - I am still using and it has showed some defects already.....
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