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Flickr: too late to complain guys

Oct 24
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They’ve had long enough.

Ages ago I uploaded a bunch of photos from college onto my Flickr account, and told some of the people from college to get on and check them out, and spread the word to the others about them. I kept them set to private for the purpose of allowing them time to request them to be removed. Time’s up I’m afraid.

Judging by their slow reaction, I’m not going to bother keeping the photos private next time I upload them, I’ll just have to get a premium account so that I can have all the photos at once. There’s more than the basic account allows for and i want to be able to see all of them at once.

Forgot to add: the link to the photos is Flickr tag EDHCC.

Posted in EDHCC, Flickr

Windows Migration pt11

Oct 22
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Third laptop.

So now I’m onto the third laptop. This one doesn’t have dead pixels.

Now the reason I’ve got a third laptop is because I found out on Thursday that the wireless card was faulty. All the stress built up from having to wait a month to get what I wanted got to me and I just became too ill to attend my last lecture on Thursday- and missed Friday’s, mostly due to illness and partly due to having to wait in for UPS to pick up the laptop. DHL already came round to collect it earlier in the morning, but I didn’t request them to do so as I hadn’t finished sorting things out with Novatech.

I can’t check if this has a working ethernet/wireless card yet, as the battery hasn’t finished charging, and I don’t have a wireless access point at home. So I’ll be having to wait till Monday. Annoying thing is, at Uni, it was someone’s brilliant idea not to allow the students to have a secure wireless connection (there are two secured connections, and one unsecured one- just for the students). I might see if me and Anth can figure something out to fix that problem.

Posted in Internet Shopping, Novatech, Windows OS, service migration

Windows Migration pt10

Oct 18
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New Replacement laptop arrived.

XP Pro is installing on the laptop right now, but there is now a totally new problem. Dead Pixels. Right in the middle of the screen (off center, but in main viewing area). I could stand it if it was off to the edge etc, but this is just annoying. The laptop with the broken DVD drive didn’t have DP, and the working laptop has a damaged monitor.

I don’t care what manufacturers say about their acceptable fault limits, it’s the equivalent of getting a glass coffee table with a scratch in it, or a CD with a small scratch in the middle of a track. Bloody annoying. ^Has requested a copy of Novatech’s DP policy.

Posted in Internet Shopping, Novatech, service migration

Arriva Hassle pt1

Oct 18
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Student Bus Passes.

Ordered a bus pass on the 9th. Only received it today, but I can’t used it as it has the sleeve missing.

A flaw in their ordering system lead to the delay. A flaw in their staff also lead to the delay (email regarding order should’ve been sent on 10th, wasn’t sent till the 13th).

Will be posting all emails when situation is resolved.

Past problems with Arriva.

  • Buses are regularly filthy (more so the Durham garage not the Tyne & Wear buses).
  • Seats are regularly uncomfortable (missing or worn padding).
  • Seats are occasionally not attached to bus (free floating, just plopped on the bench).
  • Drivers occasionally got things wrong (ticket prices, understanding what New Deal passes are for).
Posted in Arriva North East

Google Cache bookmarklet

Oct 17
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Needed to search the Google cache today.

I was looking for some stuff on Second Life, and the site I wanted to visit was down, so I thought of using the Google Cache. A quick web search and some editing of the del.icio.us “remember this” bookmarklet led to the following creation: the quick and easy Search Google Cache bookmarklet.

Posted in Google, Second-Life

Windows Migration pt9

Oct 17
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Nearly there.

So I’m on XP now, some things are still a little shakey- like my calendars didn’t migrate fully, so I’m going to be trying some things using the ghost image i made of my old C drive soon.

Posted in Windows OS, service migration

Windows Migration pt8

Oct 15
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Firefox has been migrated.

I’ve managed to import the important stuff out of the disk image: bookmarks, history & saved passwords. Had a little hassle with the saved passwords but a quick google fixed that.

Posted in Firefox, Windows OS, service migration

Windows Migration pt7

Oct 15
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XP installed!

So they still haven’t fixed that annoying thing where windows defaults to being in Tijuana, but the install went fine. The only problem I’ve had so far appears to have been caused by that damn annoying 256MB module. It’d have been nice to have the full 768MB, but not at the cost of stability.

Now all I have to do is get into the Norton Ghost file I made of the C drive so I can get all my files back.

Posted in Windows OS, service migration

Windows Migration pt6

Oct 14
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XP arrived.

I’ll be spending the next few hours fiddling with a nice clean install of XP Pro. Aside from the slight screwup over payment/shipping, GenStar have been helpful in correcting their error.

See you in a few hours.

PS:upgrade details.

I’m currently running win98SE, but the install is slightly buggy, what with it being win98 and all. There’s the fact that myself and other software has screwed around with the install so much it’d just be easier to wipe it.

Posted in Internet Shopping, Windows OS, service migration

Windows Migration pt5

Oct 13
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Pissed off even more.

First Novatech screwed up (although only slightly, but still by far the most inconvinient screwup so far), now GenStar screwed up.

I am formally revoking any positive opinion of the GenStar company.

Once I have recieved my copy of XP, or in the event they read this, take a hissy fit and decide to cancel the order on me, I will be posting the emails (censored of personal info of course). If I forget to do so, someone post a comment on here and I’ll get round to it.

Posted in Internet Shopping, Windows OS, service migration
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