*clings to internets*

[windandwater]

FINALLY.

I got kicked offline by the Blue Screen of Death about 9pm, and have spent the time since them trying to fix things. Restarted after I was first kicked, signed on, promptly got another Blue Screen of Death. At which point, I unconnected my modem and started to fiddle. I've burned off all the anime on my harddrive to CD, which freed up quite a bit of space. Then I ran Disk Cleanup and Disk Defrag of both my C AND D drives. Also got yet another Blue Screen of Death.

T__T I fear that Solo has come up against his warranty, as it has been 3 years since I bought him, and he's been through alot of abuse. I don't know if it would be worth it to take Solo in to a computer place to get looked at. If I was back in Mo Val, I would ask the Techie Boy for help, but alas, I am not. I can only hope Solo lives and stays online until August.

*weeps*

Now I shall exploit the internets as much as I can, before things die again.

BUT!

I WAS able to watch TV while I was offline. I am going to pimp out one of MTV's new reality TV shows, called: "MTV's 70's House." Basically, a bunch of people are put into one house... but the house is totally 70's. They have to stay in-character as if it is still the 70's; that means dress, language, and attitude. *giggles* It's soooo funny. There's no cellphones, computers, CD players... but there IS a record player, 8-track player, they have Pong! And fondue parties!

And, every time a certain bell rings, they ALL have to drop what they're doing (on the phone, sleeping, hanging out, whatever) and DO THE HUSTLE. The music plays, too. I LAUGHED AND LAUGHED when the bell went off and one guy jumped out of the SHOWER, wrapped a towel around his waist, and joined everyone in the living room to disco.

Watch it just for the funny. It's great.


EDIT...

Kicked while trying to post this. How ironic. x___X

Comments

[kayoko-chan.livejournal.com]

have you tried running your antivirus and then the spyware/adware removal software?

maybe it's a program conflict, have you installed anything recently?

*hugs in comfort*
i've had lots of blue-screen-of-death and windows crashes -__-;;;;;;

[windandwater.livejournal.com]

I;ve run my spyware, and my virus program is ALWAYS running. The only thing I've installed recently is to upgrade from AOL 8.0 to 9.0 Optimized. I THINK that might be the problem, but AOL was acting funky and such even before that.

Maybe it's because my laptop is 3 years old and has taken a lot of abuse over the years. x__X

[aurorn.livejournal.com]

I have to ask, as they've mentioned this at work:

Have you seen all the HP commercials and HP products that are apparently all over the house in that show?

I don't get that channel so I have no idea if it's true or not....

I work too much ;_;

[windandwater.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not the products are all over the house, since the house is 70s. But the prize for the winner is a WHOLE lot of HP stuff (like a computer, printer, PDA, MP3 player, etc.), and a new 2005 VW Beetle.

[chaoticmikey.livejournal.com]

So I'm assistant store manager and head tech at PC Club now. If you can get Solo down to me in Riverside sometime, I'll see what I can do.

[windandwater.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Congrats on that! *hugs* And I should be heading back to Mo Val in August, after the Bar. Though, I think Solo might be something of a lost cause... or it IS AOL fucking up everything. x__X If Solo is too expensive to fix, I'd rather get a new laptop entirely.

[chaoticmikey.livejournal.com]

My two cents? Get a couple-years old IBM Thinkpad. The motherfuckers are TANKS, i've owned three of them and they never let me down. They're titanium-cased, usually fairly light, and have decent battery life for two-year old laptops. Look for something in the T2x series (T20, T21, etc) and it should be five or six hundred dollars lightly used, plus maybe a memory upgrade to 512 total memory (maybe we can salvage parts off Solo, too) and a new battery to add to the one it comes with and you're not looking at too much money.

They were often used as corporate laptops for execs and as such, were usually babied.