and we frolicked about

It's like my computer knows I'm starting to search for something new to replace it. It's getting slllooooooowwwwww. It'll be a couple months before I do because I have to wait to have enough in my savings bonds first but I've already kind of picked out what I want. I'm actually going desktop-free, I think, for the first time. I have a laptop but I don't use it more because I HATE making graphics on it. I find the screen is too high contrast and makes everything more vibrant and hard-edged, if that makes sense.

So with the new laptop I'll keep my keyboard and monitor and just dock it so I can work off my monitor. I think that should work out nicely. Then I'll sell the desktop (which is still actually a good system for someone who doesn't use it as heavily as I do) and my laptop which is basically brand new, despite being 4 years old. I don't know how much I'll get out of them since computer systems don't resell as well as they once did but I would imagine I'll make a couple hundred. Hopefully, anyway.

In other news I've just drunk almost a litre of water and want to go right to bed. FFFFFUUUUUU.

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Pardon the absence from LJ in the past little bit. I've been sick since last Thursday and have been pretty much just playing games on the computer and coughing up a lung.

I haven't figured out the PS CS3 thing for my computer, either, so I'm using a trial version of CS4, although I got some info that will (in theory) make it a permanent thing. I've tried to call Adobe support about the issue but after sitting on hold for 30+ minutes, then being told to uninstall my AVG to correct the problem, it NOT working and then not being able to REINSTALL AVG I'm a little hesitant to call them back for fear of more things fucking up on my computer.

This is a brand new computer and yet I've already had to do a couple system restores due to the AVG issue, and something about my Catalyst something or other fucking up, which I think was due to me installing a desktop widget it didn't like, I don't know. I'm really liking Windows 7 but I continue to eye the computer warily.

Now, onto the real reason for this post: Finge.

( When did they move the eps to Monday?! )

I'm hoping that when I'm back on track health-wise I can get back into the swing of things, especially since my second job isn't working me three days a week anymore but I can't promise anything. My icon-foo is broken (I'm trying but it's not working) and I'm floating in fandom stagnation at the moment.

I started a complete Alias rewatch over the weekend and it's awesome.

OKAY! I need help!

I have successfully done the restore and everything's backed up (as far as I know, anyway!). I had to find a few things that I didn't even know were missing and ANYWAY. Here I am, trying to dl the updates I need for XP (joy) and whatnot but holy shit.

MY MONITOR.

It's a brand new, 17" HP flatscreen. Plug and play. But it/the computer won't let me set the resolution above 1280x720 and this requires 1440x900. The current setting in my display is only 1400x1050 or something, which I can't even set. So now everything is SQUISHED and terrible.

HELP?! I don't know what to do. My computer was built for me so I'm not even 100% sure what to search for as far as drivers so, but I DO have a breakdown of the specs, if anyone can help me out.

If you have the add on Foxmarks on your computer I'd strongly recommend not updating to it right away. I had my computer on for a couple days and had a lot of intensive programmes running so I had to restart to make my computer stop lagging.

When I did I had updates for my add ons, easy peasy. One of them was for Foxmarks that is now going by X Marks or something now.

HOLY SHIT. When I tried to load my tabs after it took forever. The pages never continued to load and wouldn't let me stop it and I couldn't scroll down the page or use my computer without tremendous lag. It adds a "page info" icon to your address bar and then tells you all the links listed on the page or links that are relevant to your interests based on what's on the current page, idek.

Then, when I tried to switch between the two windows I have open it would keep jerking me back to the main one. I couldn't even open my add on window up to uninstall it; it kept minimizing everything else and taking me back to the main window. I had to close FF and do a search for the files on my computer and delete them from there to make it go away.

So, yeah. I don't know if other people have had problems with this add on or not but I wouldn't use it for now or update until the thing starts working or gets exorcised or something. I don't even know why I need it, honestly, since I don't use my laptop THAT much. Everything goes on Delicious, anyway.

**Has anyone been watching In Plain Sight? We're a week or so behind the states, I think, and I missed the first episode, I THINK, but I'm watching what I THINK is the second episode and it's pretty good! A little hokey and uneven, and the script is pretending to be tough in a PG-13 way (Mary calls a guy's dick a 'wee wee' when she's trying to bully info out if him), but parts of the main character (Mary) remind me a lot of Veronica from VM. It's kind of like what might have happened if season 4 of the show had been set with Veronica in the FBI, only she's a US Marshall working for witness protection.

**Work kind of sucks right now. If I could work from home it would be amazing. The atmosphere is... not plesant.

**"Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls is totally a Bella/Edward anthem. I re-read "Twilight" last week.

**I've finally started editing my Big Bang. What? I've got a week before I post. *shifts nervously*

**I'm reading "Veronika Decides to Die" right now. I bought it before I knew it was being made into a movie starring Sarah Michelle Gellar Prinze. So far the book is very... it rings true in a lot of ways. It's very insightful and written beautifully. It's short but I usually read on the bus or on breaks so I'm only about half way through right now.

**I found out last night that my laptop came with two remotes. First of all, a remote? Really? and second, TWO? One was in the box when I unpacked the thing and the other one was IN my computer that I just found last night when I was poking around. I haven't really figured out all the features this thing has, LOL.

**I cancelled my membership to zip.ca last night. I watched the second Resident Evil last night but I've had it for a couple months. I've had Syriana since JANUARY and another one for awhile, too, so I figured there was no point in continuing to pay. The selection wasn't the best anyway and you had to wait forever for the movies you really wanted.

**I've been updating my Twitter more. I'm Marishna over there, too, but I have no idea how to do those daily Twitter update summary things that get crossposted to LJ automatically (I think it's automatic?). My feed is here, if you're interested. It's pretty boring so far.

I did a lot of looking last night at some sites and looked for reviews and compared prices on laptops. At this point I'm really looking for price over flair because I'm keeping my desk top for anything big. I want a laptop for convenience, really. I think I'll get myself to bed earlier with a laptop. If that makes ANY sense at all, LOL.

Anyway. I fiddled around on Dell (which I wouldn't normally look at in the least but they still have XP available until June 18th!) and came up with three computers here. They're all the same, basically, and creation goes from bottom to top so each time I went through it I made it cheaper.

I don't know anything about laptops. Nothing. I know brand names are better than no names with laptops and that they're easier to drop. That's about it.

Future Shop has refurbished computers here. sockherder has had good luck with HP in the past so I was leaning toward one of those but they all have vista and they're refurbished so I don't know exactly what that means. I mean, I get it, but I don't know what sort of quality or shape they're going to be in.

I know Dell does refurbished, as well, but I can't seem to find anything like that on the Canadian site.

Time is sort of of the essence here, as the date on those prices for the Dell computers expires June 12th and they stop carrying XP on the 18th.

Can you share with me your laptop make and models, your laptop stories, your experiences with different brands and, if you know anything about them, if the ones I've linked above are half decent? I don't need it to hack into the Canadian government security system (hahahahahahaha) but I'd like something that in six months I'm not going to throw against a wall in frustration. Although, really, one could argue that that's ANY computer, so...

And now... work. :P

[ETA] 8 hours and all the comments later I should have thrown in that I refuse to go Acer. I have heard good things only from people who sell them and my roomie had one for about a year and a half now, and it's already spazzed out on her twice. I work on Macs all day through my job and I'm not fussed over them. I don't think they're any better than a PC and I'm speaking as a graphic designer, likely the ONLY one who will ever say that. And I know Gateway is the debil.