geek question #587
I've been playingIt's a tad time consuming here and there, and I have to draw my boundries or I could turn into a FT HTML instructor via IM. But overall it's fun and it honestly makes me realize how much there is to know!
This week I've been having MAJOR issues w/ my mac. First of all, I messed up the keyboard. Don't ask me how - it's kinda embarrassing, but let's just say I am crossing my fingers that AppleCare fixes it. But it still works.. just missing a few keys & things. :/
Another slightly annoying problem is that my mac crashed at least 7 times today!!! Totally froze up!! And every once and awhile on restart, I'll get the gray screen as soon as I start it up!
I got new RAM a bit ago (upgraded to 1GB), but it wasn't working so hot when I first intalled it. So I took one out so that I could test which one is faulty. Well obviously this one's not doing too well. But thing is, I also didn't reset the PRAM after I took the 2nd one out.. do you think that makes a huge difference?
Any feedback is helpful.
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While I'm talking about crashing, let's discuss my Dreamweaver MX 04 that alone crashed like 6 times toNITE! And not just any crashes - every time it seems to wipe out code on my pages. Literally it tears out code to where even if I saved the file, it actually mildly corrupts them! I had to start pushing them up to the server just to have a saved copy w/o having to go back and redo my last 5 steps (even though I saved! >:|
There are some things I really like about DWMX04 - and other things, like hech hemm... *STABILITY*, that drive me crazy! While I'm at it: It needs to have the ability to save your panel layouts, too!
Oh, and I hate it in Fireworks MX04 the panels on the right won't close and keep the other one's open w/o changing the height of the whole panel (which is probably why I closed one in the first place, because I wanted to see the other one more).
Sorry, this probably makes no sense... I'll be lucky if even ONE of you knows what I'm talking about, but I just had to vent. Macromedia's products for Mac are suprisingly bad.
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Ok, while I'm talking geek. I've decided I want a higher resolution monitor. I neeeeeed one. (slaps wrist & cries for more!) Yup. I'm addicted to apple.
My friend Eric just got one of these and I think my feelings would best be described by reciting the line spoken by (the blond, I can't remember her name*) on "Not Necessarily the News" (1985), when I say "Luuuuuuuucky!!!"
*If anyone has more details on this reference, let me know. I haven't thought about that show in forever - remember Sniglets started there?
I loved Fraggle Rock, too. I loved having HBO! It was a lifesaver because I was home a lot watching TV by myself as a kid.
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I had some more geeky things to talk about, but I can't remember what they are. Night
