https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/ Rantings of a Bastard - Dreamwidth Studios Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:10:48 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios kierthos personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/607623/612623 https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/987529.html Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:10:48 GMT https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/987529.html <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/malware-may-knock-thousands-off-internet-monday-063924510--finance.html">On Monday, upwards of a quarter of a million computers might lose their internet access.</a><br /><br />You can go <a href="http://www.dcwg.org">here</a> to find out if your computer is infected and what to do if it is.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kierthos&ditemid=987529" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/987529.html computer stuff public 2 https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/972337.html Mon, 04 Jun 2012 03:30:59 GMT https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/972337.html So long Eudora. You don't seem to work under Windows 7.<br /><br />Using Mozilla Thunderbird instead.<br /><br />And downloading LotRO. City of Heroes, and the various Steam games will be after that.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kierthos&ditemid=972337" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/972337.html computer stuff public 7 https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/966314.html Fri, 18 May 2012 17:38:32 GMT https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/966314.html It's at that stage where getting a new computer might be cheaper then upgrading the current one. I'll have to talk to one of my friends about this.<br /><br />(To note, I would be upgrading for computer gaming purposes. I have the feeling, based off of my limited beta weekend experience, that The Secret World would run much better on a higher-end computer.)<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kierthos&ditemid=966314" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/966314.html computer stuff computer gaming public 0 https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/726154.html Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:58:39 GMT https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/726154.html (I think.)<br /><br />So, looks like one of my 1 GB sticks of RAM is bad. It has been pulled and further observational testing awaits. (In other words, if my computer doesn't crash in the next several hours/couple of days, I've probably 'fixed' the problem.)<br /><br />But it had to be one of the 1 GB sticks. It couldn't be one of the POS 512 MB sticks, noooooo.....<br /><br />P.S. Firefox, I'm still not happy with you, even if you do put the browser tabs in the right place. You're still a goddamned memory hog. I may download you again if you fix that.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kierthos&ditemid=726154" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/726154.html computer stuff public 0 https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/725772.html Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:24:04 GMT https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/725772.html Okay, something is still wrong with my computer.<br /><br />It's not Blue-screening any more. Nope. Just crashing outright. Just shuts down.<br /><br />I can restart it in safe mode, and then restart in normal mode from there and it works fine for hours, or even a day or more, but it does crash again... that's pretty much guaranteed.<br /><br />I guess I have to run memtest again, see if it is the RAM. It's possible that the test I ran earlier only checked the first stick of RAM.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kierthos&ditemid=725772" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/725772.html computer stuff public 6 https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/724544.html Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:32:56 GMT https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/724544.html but the computer crashing all the damn time seems to have been related to Firefox after all.<br /><br />I have uninstalled Firefox (using Chrome now), and it hasn't crashed since. Also, obviously, I am able to use Chrome, whereas earlier, it would just immediately crash.<br /><br />Now, I knew there was a huge fucking memory leak in the 3.6.* build of Firefox, but I had been using it for months before this problem.<br /><br />Bizarre.<br /><br />Oh, also, I do not have the flu. The doctor suspects it is just a very bad cold.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kierthos&ditemid=724544" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://kierthos.dreamwidth.org/724544.html computer stuff public 0