Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.
Last week my car broke and that usually means: Spend an unbelievable amount of money to a freak who still knows how to repair those old cars but is a nerd otherwise. BUT I thought it might maybe only be the sparkplug and it actually was.
How expensive was it? Hold your breath!
A whopping 4,40 Euro!
w00t!!!!!!!
Nachdem ich gestern in dem Notebook-Laden ein bisschen laut werden musste um sofort behandelt zu werden, habe ich ihnen heute eine Dankes-Mail geschrieben um sie wieder gnädig zu stimmen.
[Quote] Betreff: Vielen Dank.Sehr geehrte Herren,
ich möchte mich für ihre schnelle und letzendlich unkomplizierte Hilfe am vergangenen Freitag recht herzlich bedanken. Es tut mir leid, dass ich auf einer sofortigen Bearbeitung bestehen musste, bin ihnen aber sehr dankbar, dass sie Verständnis für mein Anliegen gezeigt haben. Nach bisherigen schlechten Erfahrungen mit dem Service bei einer anderen Notebook-Marke (Apple*), bin ich sehr vorsichtig geworden, wurde aber von ihnen angenehm überrascht. Ich danke nochmals für ihr Verständnis und hoffe ihnen nicht zu viele Unannehmlichkeiten bereitet zu haben.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
xxx xxxpS: Es ging um das M5200N und das Formatieren der Festplatte.
* Die ganze Geschichte: [Link] [Quote]
I succumbed to the pleading inner voice at last and got myself a notebook. Kudos go out for my dad who just surprised me by extending the time he’ll pay my health insurance until the end of my studies! Yeehaw!
So I was pretty sure, that I wanted a 12″ cause I want a ‘portable’ computer – literally speaking. Apple was no option since I already made bad experience with their support. I too think that their 12″-displays are crappy and find two mouse-buttons very handy. Since I my budget was 2k the Sony pCG-V505Cp was the next consideration. I was torn though: Although this really looks like a sweet piece of gadgetry it seemed a little expensive and Sony’s customer service has a bad reputation too. A three year warranty is available – it comes for a price though: 250 €. Then I saw that Asus also is taking part in the 12″-Market: The M5200N is 450 Euros cheaper comes with a bigger disk, but integrated graphics ( v505cp has a Radeon 9200 ) and brings a mouse, a bag and a three year pick up warranty. So this is what I got yesterday…
While trying to install Xp I failed at formatting the HD. “Oh no. It’s broken!”, I thought and went back to the shop. They wanted me to leave it there and pick it up the next day, but I insisted that they have a look right now, which they did and managed to format the drive. Seems like only the quickformat is really working. All was well again and went smoothly from that moment. The main drawbacks seem to be: The Display is ok, but could be brighter. I really need a better battery, the one included holds barely power for two hours – but even if I buy the biggest it will still be cheaper than the Sony. The Fan is not very noisy but the sound is very high and getting on my nerves fast (only if their’s no other sound tho). Maybe I grow used to it or change it…
Hope this one lasts longer.
crosses his fingers.
I mean: Hello?
How can this be?
jeck goes and bangs his head against the wall.
jeck smiles happily.
…and if you look a little closer, you can see that he drools too.
Edited on Jan 29th 2004, 04:28 by jeck
What I wanted to do today:
What I managed to do:
Damn.
Thanks for taking the test. You are person number 237253 to take it.
Your type is: SAE. 3% of respondents so far fall into that type.
The numbers below represent percentage of how many times you selected a given suite when given the chance. Since there are 15 questions for each suite out of 30 total, the number will add up to 200%. 50% thus means average for each suite, and 100% is the maximum score.
Your answers were split as follows:
Socializer 66%
Achiever 60%
Explorer 60%
Killer 13%
people of type SAE play the following MUDs. Click on the name to see the MudConnectory entry, and on the profile to see detailed statistics from the database:
* Core 2649 (33% of 9 are SAE)
* AndorMUD (33% of 9 are SAE)
* Legends of the Darkstone (23% of 13 are SAE)
* Aldebaran (22% of 9 are SAE)
* SumuMud (20% of 20 are SAE)
[Bartle Test via Gossip]
Update: Also took the Reavus Test:
Thanks for taking the test. You are person number 8436 to take it.
Your type is: LSK. 3.4% of respondents so far fall into this category.
The numbers below represent percentage of how many times you selected a given suite when given the chance. Since there are 15 questions for each suite out of 30 total, the number will add up to 200%. 50% thus means average for each suite, and 100% is the maximum score.
Your answers were split as follows:
LOOTER 73.3%
SCAMMER 60.0%
KILLER 40.0%
THIEF 26.7%
Edited on Jan 27th 2004, 18:33 by jeck
Is it just me or is amazon.de down?
Update: Whatever it was, it’s gone.
Edited on Jan 27th 2004, 18:28 by jeck
It’s been 11 hours and 36 minutes.
There are 15 hours and 54 minutes left.
…that I’m either even more crazy than I suspected or that alpha conspiracy really did a hell of a ear candy.
Visit their website choose the second tune (little flash player at the bottom) and stop the time until it gets on your nerves.
It’s running for approx an hour here…
Maybe I should get treatment.
[via petrol]
While trying to post I got this error message:
[Spoilers] Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home/.francine/pjg/g-blog.net/class.usefulinc_xmlrpc.php on line 413
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to www.blogshares.com/rpc.php:80 in /home/.francine/pjg/g-blog.net/class.usefulinc_xmlrpc.php on line 413
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/.francine/pjg/g-blog.net/class.usefulinc_xmlrpc.php:413) in /home/.francine/pjg/g-blog.net/ping.php on line 66 [/Spoilers]
The post arrived safe nevertheless.
Edited on Jan 22nd 2004, 12:55 by jeck
While looking for a CD I hit myself in the eye with a hanger.
*Ouch*
How clumsy can one be?
Of course it was the right one again…
Grrr….
…I did another sampler:
Complete playing time: 1:07:43
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