Musings

Uh - oh… so much for my productive streak today… The Lock On: Modern Air Combat demo is out… See you later Oh and download of the 123 MB file was done in just about 30 minutes - thanks to my 1024/256 ADSL and BitTorrent

After all in all one hour on the phone yesterday with Dell support, flashing of the BIOS, unplugging and plugging the LCD cable and other chant and incantations, today a technician arrived with a brand new LCD panel and switched it for the old one. After switching on the laptop - the same display problems persist…. So it’s not the panel, but the graphicscard that is faulty. I’ll get a new one tomorrow morning - sigh… ...

I grudingly accepted a change in ADSL plan last week and was looking forward to 512/512 soon. Until 5 minutes ago, when I got a call from my ADSL ISP. The lady told me, that my phone lines wouldn’t be able to handle 512 upload, so I had the choice of staying (staying? You sent me a letter last week that told me I had to change) at 1024/256 - but for an additional CHF 100 per month. Or I could go to 512/280 (which seems to be the best upload speed I can get) for - get this - the same price as they are offering 512/512. ...

This is great: Answer twelve questions about a font you see, and Identify a font tells you what you are looking at. [via Pieter]

The display on my Inspiron 8200 has gone from slightly flaky to totally unusable in a matter of only two days. It started with odd colors during boot - it looked like the red has gone. Then some syncing errors cropped up. After a couple of seconds it would be ok… Now the display has gone compeletely nuts and the beautyfull 1600x1200 pixel display just displays white, out-of-sync lines. Couple that with an increasing number of Windows XP blue screens - and it means you are looking at a lot of trouble. XP blue screens right after booting - and I can’t read what went wrong. The secure startup mode still works, but network, USB and FireWire don’t work. ...

Ever been in an elevator? You know that there are security camers? See ElevatorMoods for what could happen in an elevator.