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tammaiyaIt's really just as well I didn't make a post last night. It wouldn't have been pretty. I've calmed down now, though, so I think I can make an entry that is normal rather than filled with all capital letters or none at all. *g* (Dude, I seem to have 3 modes; complete apathy, complete hysteria and weird zen.)
So anyway, yesterday was a harrowing experience where I spent 13 hours trying to make my computer work. This is what you get for buying excessively large hard drives, being lazy, and not shelling out the extra cash on new everything else. Learn from this. Basically, I installed the new hard drive at about midday. I wanted to transfer my files directly over instead of burning to CD (see: too lazy). The two hard drives wouldn't run simultaneously, because the old one had Windows 98 on it and the I'd installed Windows XP to the other one, so my computer was schizophrenic and confused. I could run one or the other if I pulled the cords out, so I had to have the side of the computer off. Insert here a whole lot of horrible disasterous attempts to delete Windows 98, thus uninstalling it to the point where it did not in fact WORK but still made the computer confused, being the worst possible result. Spent several hours attempting to install Windows XP onto it instead only to have it freeze at the same point every time and go back to reinstalling Windows 98, which I feared would delete my whole hard drive with all my fics, mp3s etc. It didn't. Thank GOD. However, my internet wasn't working and neither was Nero, neatly cutting off all options for transferring files.
Eventually found the CD for Nero and spent another few hours burning all my things. Note that there was added Japanese-related panic, as I still have half the reading to do and I need my computer to do it.
Anyway, after all that I went back to the new shiny hard drive and transferred everything over, only to find that my sound card is too old to be recognised by Windows XP. I also fear I may need a new motherboard/chipset, which is the expensive part of the computer.
This... isn't really a big thing, I guess. It's not good, but it's not the end of the world. And I'm fully aware of that- NOW. It's stupid that something like that can cause me to have a full-scale breakdown, but it did. I actually started sucking my thumb, which I haven't done for GOD knows how many years, and that shows that you never do kick a bad habbit. XD Anyway, for some reason that breakdown led to hysteria over uni, the meaningless of life the universe and everything and the fact that everything grows old and dies.
Isn't it lovely when all your insecurities randomly and rather irrelevently come out to bite you?
I'm so pathetic.
Whichever way, no need for sympathy or anything because like I said, I'm good now. As much as I like the night, clearly it isn't good for me. ^^; I just feel kind of bad because a lot of other people have real reasons to be upset and they cope, whereas I lose it over something little. I have a lot of things that make me happy, like friends and writing. I just... forgot that. Well, not exactly forgot, but right then it didn't seem to matter.
Dude, I SO need a sense of perspective.
So anyway, yesterday was a harrowing experience where I spent 13 hours trying to make my computer work. This is what you get for buying excessively large hard drives, being lazy, and not shelling out the extra cash on new everything else. Learn from this. Basically, I installed the new hard drive at about midday. I wanted to transfer my files directly over instead of burning to CD (see: too lazy). The two hard drives wouldn't run simultaneously, because the old one had Windows 98 on it and the I'd installed Windows XP to the other one, so my computer was schizophrenic and confused. I could run one or the other if I pulled the cords out, so I had to have the side of the computer off. Insert here a whole lot of horrible disasterous attempts to delete Windows 98, thus uninstalling it to the point where it did not in fact WORK but still made the computer confused, being the worst possible result. Spent several hours attempting to install Windows XP onto it instead only to have it freeze at the same point every time and go back to reinstalling Windows 98, which I feared would delete my whole hard drive with all my fics, mp3s etc. It didn't. Thank GOD. However, my internet wasn't working and neither was Nero, neatly cutting off all options for transferring files.
Eventually found the CD for Nero and spent another few hours burning all my things. Note that there was added Japanese-related panic, as I still have half the reading to do and I need my computer to do it.
Anyway, after all that I went back to the new shiny hard drive and transferred everything over, only to find that my sound card is too old to be recognised by Windows XP. I also fear I may need a new motherboard/chipset, which is the expensive part of the computer.
This... isn't really a big thing, I guess. It's not good, but it's not the end of the world. And I'm fully aware of that- NOW. It's stupid that something like that can cause me to have a full-scale breakdown, but it did. I actually started sucking my thumb, which I haven't done for GOD knows how many years, and that shows that you never do kick a bad habbit. XD Anyway, for some reason that breakdown led to hysteria over uni, the meaningless of life the universe and everything and the fact that everything grows old and dies.
Isn't it lovely when all your insecurities randomly and rather irrelevently come out to bite you?
I'm so pathetic.
Whichever way, no need for sympathy or anything because like I said, I'm good now. As much as I like the night, clearly it isn't good for me. ^^; I just feel kind of bad because a lot of other people have real reasons to be upset and they cope, whereas I lose it over something little. I have a lot of things that make me happy, like friends and writing. I just... forgot that. Well, not exactly forgot, but right then it didn't seem to matter.
Dude, I SO need a sense of perspective.
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Date: 2005-02-28 10:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-28 10:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-28 10:19 am (UTC)XP is a good OS, it is even incredible that was made by Mirosoft XDDD be careful with security patches and viruses though, XP has lots of security holes, but I asssume you bought it with everything well installed yet... just in case you must reisntall anyday...
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Date: 2005-02-28 11:44 pm (UTC)A very long and loud PFFFFFTTT to that.
As for the computer, they need to advance to the point that threatening them with a hammer is a viable option for making them work.
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Date: 2005-03-01 10:28 am (UTC)*contemplates* I wonder whether that would constitute assault?
AUGH MY BRAIN HAS BEEN INFESTED BY TORTS. *headdesk*