Month: March 2006

I HATE AOL with a passion. AOL HighSpeed is the suckiest service ever. Having to open AOL is absurd. It’s even more complicated when you want to connect a Mac, in which the software won’t connect. I can’t imagine what would happen with Linux. I’ve talked to about 8 people at AOL now. All passing the buck. I’ve been disconnected at least 2 times. Don’t ever get AOL. I will despise you.

I have been trying to set up a RoadRunner Lite service for a clients mother. The RoadRunner sales people are idiots. I have explained several times now that the service is here in Winter Haven, and the bill is going to Colorado. They do not seem to be able to understand this. I talked to a Nick two weeks ago, and all he ever did was get the account started. Never did anything after that. I finally talked to his supervisor today, and she was even worse! She’s asking me for my clients social security number. HELLO! It’s not for me! I am handling this for someone who lives out of state! If you ever talk to a guy named Nick at RR when you are ordering service, ask for someone else.

I’ve decided that when I go running, I’d like to listen to music. Well, my music library (actually, its mostly Jessica’s CD’s) is in OGG format. I also run Linux. This limits my choices for an OGG player. However, I do believe I have found one that would be alright for me. It’s a Samsung YP-MT6X. It’s a 512MB flash-based (they do have a 1GB player, but this one is blue) media player that also has an FM tuner built it. Which I’d want to so I could rebroadcast my XM over FM and then listen to it while I work too. So someone should get it for me.

I am avoiding work today (obviously, I can’t stop posting…). But anyway, I’ve been playing with Inkscape, and have worked on coverting logos to SVGs… just for fun.

companylogos.svg

I saw this truck while going to Winter Haven. I do believe I have to agree with him. Nextel sucks.

I have uploaded the pictures for my two mini-vacations:

St. Augustine

Clearwater Beach

I still need to work on the captions a little bit. I am also posting this one for Jessica, the Grammar Nazi:

On all the computers* that I have worked on, I have never had to deal with a STOP error that had to do with “bad memory” (other than one that I installed that was bad to begin with). Today, for the first time, a STOP error starting showing up on a computer because the chip is going bad. I am about to find out if it was just “seated” wrong. But still. I always read “check the memory” and it NEVER turns out to be that. Well, today, that has changed.

*Edit: s has been added to satify Jessica Grammar Naziness

Well, my week vacation is over. And the day after I get back… right back to work. I was feeling it at the end of the day too… I was about to fall asleep. Today has been hectic as well. In fact, it is going to be pretty hectic till Thursday so far. I’ve got about 5 or 6 computer here at the house in various stages of repair. I am also meeting with a lawyer tomorrow about the girl I saw keying the car. We’ll have to see what thats all about. Anyway, back to the computers.

I’ve actually got a decent older Mac now. It an iMac slot loading, the DV Special Edition. Its the graphite color. It has a 400MHz processor (I could buy something that would upgrade to a 550 G4). I stuck two 256MB RAM modules that I bought for another computer that didn’t work. And I found a brand new IBM/Hitachi 40GB hard drive just laying around and stuck it in their. It is unbelievebly quiet. I am running OS X 10.3. Now I can take my older iMac and put Linux on it!