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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Been rather frustrating around here past while and I just gotta vent for a bit. So the company my Woman works for has a contract with Dell for hardware. Employee discount, payroll deduction, and all that jazz. Since her computer was has been dying for over a year, figure use all that to get her a new machine. What kicked it off was that our hub died and we were in serious need of a router. So she's making up this list and checking things. How much RAM do I need? How fast? blah blah blah I tell her two things: make sure it has a DVD burner and make sure that the router is not wireless. Everything else can be bottom of the barrel and suit her just fine. She gets the new machine and is all happy and stuff. Brand new whizzer computer compared to her junky old glorified calculator. But it has Vista. She keeps asking me about where's this and where's that. I don't do Vista. Shut up and figure it out. It's supposed to be easy for users like you to figure out. She eventually figures out the basics and is up and running in a day or two. Yippie. The router... ugh. Yes, it is direct connect. However, it has wireless capabilities. She tells me this and I'm just shaking my head. We had the damnedest time getting it working. She eventually installs the software on her machine and she is the admin for the router. One less thing for me to worrying about. Good. A few days later she's all, "OMG, people keep trying to connect to our router and I'm getting sick of denying access!" I'm all like, "Dude, that's exactly why I didn't want wireless." She's all like, "You didn't tell me that!" I'm all like, "I told you no wireless." "Well...." Whatever. Eventually she suggests getting a laptop. We have zero use for a laptop like we have zero use for a wireless router. I suggest that I get a new computer instead of a laptop that we'll never use. She concedes and I get a new machine. Yippie. Being that it's factory, I know that I won't get as much bang for the buck. But I figure her discount will make up for it. And I very specifically asked for XP. Get it up and running and everybody is connected and all that jazz. I even set it up so I could move my junk over the LAN instead of burning every last little thing to DVD. That was nice. OMG I love my new monitor. Absolutely huge with plenty of room to move. And the HD has plenty of space for all of my resources and archives. Yippie. But I couldn't do any sensitive work with the monitor because the highs were getting seriously blown out. I mean really bad. Mess with the monitor settings. Mess with Adobe Gamma. Still getting way blown out. Just couldn't get the monitor and Adobe Gamma to play nice. I eventually found an extra control layer for Display buried in the OS. I found the dialog and the setting were just plain unGodly. GTFO! I doubled check the old machines and no such display settings layer was present. Isnt' that nice? Highs are still a bit high, but acceptable. Will take a bit of getting used to or maybe I'll try to tweak a bit further. Even if I don't completely nail it, at least I can get some work done. One thing I don't like about Adobe Gamma is that the little box thing is a little box thing. I opened up Photoshop, made my own pattern, filled the work space, and then opened Adobe Gamma. It was very nice being able to tweak with the monitor filled with checkered b&w with some 50% tossed in. If you've never tried this, definitely give it a go. OMG it made a big difference. I kicked that gamma in da nutz in no time at all. Bunch of other little things. The stock mouse that came with this machine blows chunks. OpenGL crashes hard. Pre-loaded software that I'm hesitant to unload because I'm not sure what it does or if it's integrated or needed or something. What happened to the good ol' days of Twain and a simple dialog to dump? Sometimes I really hate Kodak... or maybe it's the mundane users they cater to that I don't like. Much like the fighting with Vista on Woman's machine to get simple things done. It took me forever to open up one of her directories so I could dump her archives to it from across the LAN. Vista insisted on sandboxing her junk to Public and I was all like WTF? But I got a new machine on the cheap and the monitor is huge. I even took Filter Meister for a spin to test some calculation heavy ideas and it was far more whizzer than I was expecting. Just one of those weeks. And it's only going to get worse when she gives our wireless capable router to her dad. I shutter at the thought of him admining anything. Meh. Loading...
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