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DON'T FORGET TO SCAN YOUR COMPUTER FOR THE CONFICKER WORM AND IF YOU HAVE IT TURN OFF YOUR INERNET BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT

code got writ over the weekend, find it here
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DON'T FORGET TO SCAN YOUR COMPUTER FOR THE CONFICKER WORM AND IF YOU HAVE IT TURN OFF YOUR INERNET BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT

code got writ over the weekend, find it here
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I was trying to transfer files to my new flash drive last weekend, but I kept getting an error where it said the files were "in use" and would only transfer an emtpy folder. So I decided to retry today and ALL OF THEM ARE GONE. D: It was my folder full of cat macros and dumb pictures and now they are GOOOONNEEEE.



:'C
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I was trying to transfer files to my new flash drive last weekend, but I kept getting an error where it said the files were "in use" and would only transfer an emtpy folder. So I decided to retry today and ALL OF THEM ARE GONE. D: It was my folder full of cat macros and dumb pictures and now they are GOOOONNEEEE.



:'C
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VIRUS WARNING

There is a virus currently dormant on possibly nearly 15 million computers that will activate April 1st; no one is sure what it will do because it will take over the host computer and contact a remote server for further commands. So this could really potentially be a huge deal, and I believe if you use peer-to-peer anything or share folders at work or ANYTHING like that, you are more likely to have it. And since it is currently dormant, most people don't know it's there.

For more information (and a possible way to get rid of it) go here.


This is either the real y2k panic, or a massively trollingly successful practical joke.


If we all get rickrolled because of it I'll just give up for the rest of my life, mkay?
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VIRUS WARNING

There is a virus currently dormant on possibly nearly 15 million computers that will activate April 1st; no one is sure what it will do because it will take over the host computer and contact a remote server for further commands. So this could really potentially be a huge deal, and I believe if you use peer-to-peer anything or share folders at work or ANYTHING like that, you are more likely to have it. And since it is currently dormant, most people don't know it's there.

For more information (and a possible way to get rid of it) go here.


This is either the real y2k panic, or a massively trollingly successful practical joke.


If we all get rickrolled because of it I'll just give up for the rest of my life, mkay?

also:

Mar. 19th, 2009 01:54 am
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Please alolw me to geek out for a moment: I figured out how I can clean up my computer some by organizing some of my files in essentially what would be a "tagging" system in excel. Slightly more effort than what tags are conceptually now, but it will be possible. For once, excel will finally come in handy! :D

And if I can set up a user interface for it, it will be even cooler.

also:

Mar. 19th, 2009 01:54 am
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Please alolw me to geek out for a moment: I figured out how I can clean up my computer some by organizing some of my files in essentially what would be a "tagging" system in excel. Slightly more effort than what tags are conceptually now, but it will be possible. For once, excel will finally come in handy! :D

And if I can set up a user interface for it, it will be even cooler.
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Sooo some bad news (for me). Last night while I was surfing on the lappy, disk cleanup popped up and told me I only have 199 MB left on my C: drive and that 200 remaining is optimal for... running. Or whatever.

I ran disk cleanup, so presumably I have some more space now (and I need to defrag that thing like crazy), but I'm still rather operating on the fact that I really can't download anything else to that computer. Which is an issue, because I'm a media whore. I save webpages like crazy.

So here are my options, I figure:
1) figure out some sorting system where I can save stuff to my external harddrive, though I'd have to partition it somehow because it's also my backup harddrive.
2) figure out a system of storing stuff on the new 16GB flash I got
3) figure out some kind of system where I can store ALL my music/video files on a drive (flash or SD or something) as well as some media player (something that runs on linux/windows/mac?) and open up a lot of space. As well as be able to use music on any computer then. (I'm not saving anything right now on the netbook... I'm not sure what I want to do with that yet.)

Otherwise:
--maybe turn my netbook into my writing/gaming computer? This would take some effort.
--I NEED to organize my old files, and I could probably go through and edit whole webpages down to text and photos and address and save them in a scrapbooking-type notes system, like OneNote.

Thoughts? Resources? Anything?

My main concern is that flash drives are not secure enough and are liable to corruption; however, I've pretty much been living on my 2GB for a year with no issue, and I've never actually read anything about it, just from hearsay.

GAH. This means it's time to take a vacation to sort my computer out. Reorganize all the files like I've been meaning to (there's a lot of messy overlap). But it does mean that I might be able to invest in some other media storage, like a music player (if it could actually store my files) or something.

Bzzzeh.
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Sooo some bad news (for me). Last night while I was surfing on the lappy, disk cleanup popped up and told me I only have 199 MB left on my C: drive and that 200 remaining is optimal for... running. Or whatever.

I ran disk cleanup, so presumably I have some more space now (and I need to defrag that thing like crazy), but I'm still rather operating on the fact that I really can't download anything else to that computer. Which is an issue, because I'm a media whore. I save webpages like crazy.

So here are my options, I figure:
1) figure out some sorting system where I can save stuff to my external harddrive, though I'd have to partition it somehow because it's also my backup harddrive.
2) figure out a system of storing stuff on the new 16GB flash I got
3) figure out some kind of system where I can store ALL my music/video files on a drive (flash or SD or something) as well as some media player (something that runs on linux/windows/mac?) and open up a lot of space. As well as be able to use music on any computer then. (I'm not saving anything right now on the netbook... I'm not sure what I want to do with that yet.)

Otherwise:
--maybe turn my netbook into my writing/gaming computer? This would take some effort.
--I NEED to organize my old files, and I could probably go through and edit whole webpages down to text and photos and address and save them in a scrapbooking-type notes system, like OneNote.

Thoughts? Resources? Anything?

My main concern is that flash drives are not secure enough and are liable to corruption; however, I've pretty much been living on my 2GB for a year with no issue, and I've never actually read anything about it, just from hearsay.

GAH. This means it's time to take a vacation to sort my computer out. Reorganize all the files like I've been meaning to (there's a lot of messy overlap). But it does mean that I might be able to invest in some other media storage, like a music player (if it could actually store my files) or something.

Bzzzeh.
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Oh, fuck you too, UDit guy. Thanks for not checking back in the last 45 minutes you were at work, and now I can't get on the internet all weekend except when I have someone else around to log me in.

Goddamnit I have the worst luck on the fucking planet. I basically can't do shit all weekend. Fucking bastard.
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Oh, fuck you too, UDit guy. Thanks for not checking back in the last 45 minutes you were at work, and now I can't get on the internet all weekend except when I have someone else around to log me in.

Goddamnit I have the worst luck on the fucking planet. I basically can't do shit all weekend. Fucking bastard.
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YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME

SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH MY INTERNET AND I CAN'T GET ON IT NOR CAN I ANY LONGER CHECK MY NOTES EMAIL.


FUCKING LOTUS, THIS IS WHY YOU ARE A PIECE OF SHIT.




posting this from work because I'm royally pissed off and, of course, UDit is not being helpful at all.
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YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME

SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH MY INTERNET AND I CAN'T GET ON IT NOR CAN I ANY LONGER CHECK MY NOTES EMAIL.


FUCKING LOTUS, THIS IS WHY YOU ARE A PIECE OF SHIT.




posting this from work because I'm royally pissed off and, of course, UDit is not being helpful at all.
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I HAVE AN EEEPC

IT'S SO CUTE

IT'S KIND OF HARD TO TYPE/CLICK OR SEE MUCH OF ANYTHING



BUT IT'S ~AWESOME~
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I HAVE AN EEEPC

IT'S SO CUTE

IT'S KIND OF HARD TO TYPE/CLICK OR SEE MUCH OF ANYTHING



BUT IT'S ~AWESOME~

ARRRRGH

Feb. 17th, 2009 11:39 pm
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Fuck, Brittany's "t" key is only working sometimes (LIKE NOT ON MY WIKI) and same for the "n" key I MEAN WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE.

wiki, pull your shit together

ARRRRGH

Feb. 17th, 2009 11:39 pm
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Fuck, Brittany's "t" key is only working sometimes (LIKE NOT ON MY WIKI) and same for the "n" key I MEAN WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE.

wiki, pull your shit together
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ARGH so here's what's up. I went to Best Buy and Target (and Circuit City and hhgregg) to hunt down all their eeepcs and ultraportables and to get the numbers on all of it, which, none of them had the 901 which is the model I wanted.

However they do have the next model up, which is the same basic hardwares but a larger screen plus a hard drive (whereas all the 9" models are just flash drives). Which I'm not sure if I'm happy about because while it's a MASSIVE memory increase I don't want to fuck up the hard drive moving it around, which is not something that happens with the flash memory.

Plus the 901s are so damn cute. But anyway, it's looking like I'm going to get the 10" because I can save $40 before shipping, and I'm getting a lot more memory and a not-so-cramped keyboard.

SOOOOO I drag dad back in there tonight (I went with mom and dad to see Pink Panther 2--very good and very cheesy, of course) and finally there is a guy who knows what the fuck is going on and is very helpful, especially when I realized they might not have the 1000 models with Linux (they didn't) so he says yeah it's easy to install ubuntu (or xubuntu or whatever) instead, and even with the XP license I'm STILL saving money by buying it in person (probably like a good $70 total), and then the guy goes to check the storeroom and THEY ARE OUT AND SO IS DAYTON AND THEY ARE NOT EXPECTING THE NEXT SHIPMENT UNTIL TUESDAY.


DAMN YOU UNIVERSE.

*sigh* Well, at least it gives me time to research the ubuntu installations and shit, and check on the 3-cell battery comment he made.
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ARGH so here's what's up. I went to Best Buy and Target (and Circuit City and hhgregg) to hunt down all their eeepcs and ultraportables and to get the numbers on all of it, which, none of them had the 901 which is the model I wanted.

However they do have the next model up, which is the same basic hardwares but a larger screen plus a hard drive (whereas all the 9" models are just flash drives). Which I'm not sure if I'm happy about because while it's a MASSIVE memory increase I don't want to fuck up the hard drive moving it around, which is not something that happens with the flash memory.

Plus the 901s are so damn cute. But anyway, it's looking like I'm going to get the 10" because I can save $40 before shipping, and I'm getting a lot more memory and a not-so-cramped keyboard.

SOOOOO I drag dad back in there tonight (I went with mom and dad to see Pink Panther 2--very good and very cheesy, of course) and finally there is a guy who knows what the fuck is going on and is very helpful, especially when I realized they might not have the 1000 models with Linux (they didn't) so he says yeah it's easy to install ubuntu (or xubuntu or whatever) instead, and even with the XP license I'm STILL saving money by buying it in person (probably like a good $70 total), and then the guy goes to check the storeroom and THEY ARE OUT AND SO IS DAYTON AND THEY ARE NOT EXPECTING THE NEXT SHIPMENT UNTIL TUESDAY.


DAMN YOU UNIVERSE.

*sigh* Well, at least it gives me time to research the ubuntu installations and shit, and check on the 3-cell battery comment he made.

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