Finally I am going to upgrade… haha I make it sound like it’s been a long ways coming. I’ve had my computer for a year now..
I ordered a motherboard from a Lenovo x61t. I have the x60t. I am going to stick the motherboard in this computer. Things that will be upgraded:
32bit -> 64bit
3gb -> 4gb of ram
There is also a WWAN slot so I might be able to add WiMax
I hope that switching it all out goes smoothly.
My mom tried making a call and it failed so she thought something was wrong with her phone. She had me take a look at it. I tried placing a couple of calls but nothing went through. I reset the phone and tried again. Then I tried called her phone from the landline. It wouldn’t connect and it didn’t give me an option for voicemail. At this point I knew it was a Verizon problem. I pulled out my straighttalk phone and tried to place a call it also failed confirming my suspicions.
When called on a landline and asked about the outage the service rep was unable to help and explained that the Service was out in WI, OH,MI, and CA but he didn’t know why: “I’m sorry I’m just a man at a computer.” He said they expected it to be out for a couple of hours.
#tips #verizon #cellphone #fail
Over the past couple weeks I’ve been really disappointed with the internet. Why you might ask? Quality.
Recently one of the news sites that I frequent redid their webpage with a new style. I’m not sure if other people had this problem or not, but their Javescript is messed up and my browser would hang every time I went to their site. Finally frustrated with it ,I blocked all .js files on their site. It now loads again. Maybe it is me and not the site, but I just don’t seem to find any of the articles exciting or even interesting for the most part.
Over the past couple months I’ve been going to gizmodo a lot more often. The quality of their posts has gotten better. Although they still have way too much nsfw stuff… and while they have a tag system that should work to remove that stuff, it also removes deals of the day, so I can’t really use it. I used to like the downloadsquad, because they would have some really good articles every once in a while, but either I’ve changed my opinion of what a good article is like or they just don’t have them as much. Jkontherun used to be okay, but the quality articles are getting fewer- but mostly the writers interests/opinions have drifted so far away from mine that I just don’t enjoy reading it. There are a couple other sites I could mention, but it probably isn’t worth your time to read about my complaining.
I’ve heard a lot of people claim that Email would die- saying that it would be replaced by Instant Messaging(IM). Email is still going strong.. IM on the other hand seems to be dwindling. It used to be that there were a lot of people online at any given time. I created an account with every service provider so that I could talk to anyone regardless of their protocol preference. Of the 40+ people I used to talk to all the time, only 2-3 are on most of the time. Where did they go? I’m not sure facebook maybe? Well that’s what I thought, so I added facebook IM to trillian but no one seems to want to just IM, they’d rather take some goofy only quiz than talk to me. The purpose of these quizzes originally was so that someone could read the results and gets to know you a little better. This really isn’t happening anymore. Everyone is so focused on themselves- Just wanting to get the next quiz or something. Why not just talk to the person you want to know more about you? It’d be better than hoping they read the quiz, and then take the quiz themself so that you can read their results… rather pointless.
I hope that you this post isn’t to you what posts on other sites have been for me, even if the post is just me complaining.
Recently my younger brother has been talking about building a computer.so come Friday, he wanted to buy everything then. The Problem is that he only had $50. You can’t build a whole computer for $50. My dad told him to wait till Monday. Monday came and I was asked to find parts. I checked newegg, tigerdirect, microcenter, amazon, and frys. I will say this right now. Frys is NOT worth going to. Their website is trash, they didn’t have good deals at all. Of the products that were slightly cheaper, you had to add them to your cart to view the price. Once done it was a huge hassle to remove from the cart. Amazon has always been nice and easy to use, but I didn’t see anything useful on their site. Microcenter had some good deals, but nothing that I needed. TigerDirect had a power supply and a graphics card. I ordered those, and then from newegg ordered the motherboard, ram, and cpu.
The end result: 2.66ghz quad core, 1gb nvidia graphics card, and 2gb of ram for $234(after rebate) we have a case already that will work, so just a hard drive is missing. I ordered myself a 2TB external hdd. Right now I have a 500gb one, but it is almost full. Long story, but my 500gb is without a case. I figured I could move the data from the 500gb to the 2TB drive, and throw the 500gb in this new computer.
I am still bothered by the fact that there aren’t any computers on the market that I could upgrade to. Of course my computer does everything except for games extremely well, so I shouldn’t be complaining. Actually I am still extremely happy with my x60t.
My Current Speedtest:
I finally got a phone that seems to work well. It is just a cheapie straight talk phone, but I have unlimited everything for $45 a month. I got the phone setup to tether with my computer via Bluetooth. I get just over twice the speed of dial-up. It seems pretty stable, and I believe it would be faster if I weren’t using it way off in the woods at my house.
I’m still looking to get a new mp3 player. I’ve been using a blackberry pearl flip for an mp3 player, and it works great. The only problem Is that the storage space is small I only have a 2gb sd card in it. I’ve been thinking about buying a new one, but I don’t know if I want to spend the money if I’m going to be getting a better mp3 player. The nokia n900 looks really tempting to me. My zaurus broke for the first time. The power button got out of place, so I had to take it apart and use some foam to hold it in place. It wasn’t very hard, but it worries me a little. Once a device starts to wear out they just keep wearing out. It has happened to a lot of things, including my mp3 player. The n900 would be able to replace the zaurus, but it isn’t a claim-shell, and it costs a lot of money.
I’ve also been looking at getting another external hard drive because mine is currently full of things that I don’t want to delete. I’m hoping to find a deal online in a couple days. Company is coming tomorrow, so there will be plenty of cleaning to do around the house.. that will probably take up the rest of my day today.
I preorderd the ZuneHD from amazon.com it came on the 15th. I tried to use it, but the interface is just bad. the size is perfect, but there was no didicated volume button, so you can’t adjust it if the player is in your pocket. Also, when I put the volume at level 1 it was kinda loud. maybe I just haven’t played my music loud enough and wrecked my hearing so I need it loud, but this was frustraiting to me. I was also hoping to develop some software for the Zune. I had done a little programing for my brothers Zune 120gb.. I did a little, but it was a pain to work with the XNA studio. See what I did here. Don’t get me wrong the player was very nice, and it seemed to have a solid build, but for $300.. it just wasn’t worth it to me, so my ZuneHD is on its way back to amazon for a refund.
In other news, I have been working on cleaning up my website. A lot of the pages were made years ago before I knew any programming, so they are very messy. I haven’t uploaded anything yet, but in time I replace the pages that are up with better looking pages.
a couple weeks ago my archos gmini 402 died. I have been using the player for almost 4 years. the player was starting to fall apart. I kept fixing it, and soldering new parts, but it finally died beyond what I can fix.
I would have bought a player right away, but the ZuneHD looked really tempting to me. also there is now this Zii EGG. Both look really sweet, and both look really expensive. :\
which should I get? or should I just go for something cheaper. suggestions?
I might wait to see how much that new archos player costs.
Wheee! I am finally back home in Michigan. lots of stuff has happened since te last post. I bought a new phone; the Motorola Q. so ou might see some posts about that. also, Intel gave me an Acer aspire one, so you might also see some posts about that. I
I threw windows 7 on the acer. it runs really well. my main complaint is the touchpad. I am a pointer-nub guy.. I generally don’t care for touchpads, but this one is the worst I have ever used. the buttons have horrible positions, and I am forced to wonder if the person who designed the case actually used it..
I bought the Moto Q on ebay for $35, and it came with all the extras. it was a good deal. The phone had the verizon rom. I was planning on using alltel, even though alltel is switching completely over to verizon come October. so I flashed it to the Alltel rom. Now I just need to get service for it…
The title is the name of a song by FM Static. of their latest cd Dear Diary. If you haven’t, you should check it out. it is pretty good. recently the cd means a lot to me, but the cd I like most right now is Expect the Impossible, by Stellar Kart. It is amazing
The other day my car died. The engine fell right out. (the rear subframe bolts rusted out.) the only place that can work on it out here says that it will cost $1000 for just the parts. The car isn’t really even worth that much, so I have to scrap it. now I am looking for another car. if I don’t find one by the 7th, I am going to be flying back or staying longer. My last day of work is next Friday. I am excited to be going home. Also today when I called home my mom told me that they are going to Minneapolis, MN today. I don’t know how long they are planning to stay, but I am going to be driving through Minneapolis on my way back home. I just feel so left out all the way out here. and I fee like I am wasting time, because I don’t feel I have done anything really productive. and all that money I made over the summer? well… see my car died and I have to buy a new one, so that money will all be gone soon enough. I guess it is good to be able to put ‘interned at Intel’ on my resume.. but really? </rant>
Hello all..
sorry for not updating that much. it isn’t like I don’t have the time. it is just I haven’t really been doing all that many things that I think are worth talking about, or rather, that I think the reader would be interested in reading. well not for a tech-based site. You’d think working at Intel there would be cool stuff I can talk about. heh actually there are plenty of cool things I would love to write about, but I don’t know how much I am actually allowed to tell you. recently I have been working on the MID platform. That is fun, and is an area that I like working on. but I can’t really talk about work much. :\ other than work – I have been going places on the weekends still. I am not sure how much of this I want to put on here.. because idk it seems kinda weird to pore my life into some web-page that anyone can read.:P I have under a month left before I head back home.
