Sunday, 15 December 2002

Ahh...

I just did part of my christmas shopping. At this time of day on a Sunday! (*) Online. Yay! You gotta love the internet.

(*) Stores are closed in Germany on Sundays.

The only reason I am still awake is my laptop:

The laptop has started to crash more and more frequently in the past weeks. Two days ago we wanted to watch an episode of CSI that we had on the computer (we use the laptop for this because it has a TV-Out) and the damn thing crashed whenever you clicked on the movie file. Before, it would only crash when you surfed the net. So we decided to find out what is wrong with it so I could precisely tell the IBM tech support what the problem is because otherwise they will just make you do stupid tests that won't help at all and it'll take you weeks to convince them of your problem. So we spent all night low-level formatting the hard drive, running all kinds of diagnostic tools for all kinds of things and didn't find anything. The new Windows installation works fine so far. I hope it stays that way and it was just a screwed up OS.

We're currently downloading new drivers. Bah. This is so much work. I hate it. My next laptop will be an Apple!

  Posted by Edda at 07:47 CET