Sunday, November 12, 2006
man it is GOOD to have my computer back!
i guess technically, i should say it’s good to have a new computer. my little tiny one finally died from the daily use/abuse that i put it through - basically, i had it with me 24/7, at home, at school, anywhere else, and in my backpack especially, and sometimes it just wouldn’t hibernate when i closed it, etc, so that the screen finally died. you could barely make out anything on that screen anymore, and plus, it had been dropped by a student, etc. it’s actually a wonder to me that it didn’t die earlier.
at any rate, i’m back in the land of the internet with my brand new dell inspiron 1405. it’s 2 inches larger than my last laptop and must i say it seems HUGE to me! i sorta miss my tiny one but i wasn’t about to pay twice the price for a smaller computer, plus, this one has a lot going for it, so i’m trying it out. i’m still trying to get all my settings correct - i downloaded firefox, found some decent tab extensions for it, got thunderbird, google talk, OpenOffice. so that means i have a browser, a mail client, an office program (just like word, excel, powerpoint, etc, but it’s all free and legally free!). i still have to get trillian (a chat program that integrates aim, yahoo instant messenger, msn messenger, and icq) and a few other things.
on that note, does anyone know how to uninstall msn messenger? and get rid of all the other crap that these computers get preloaded with? i’m trying to make my computer more efficient and get rid of all the programs i don’t want/need, like all those things that start up when i turn on my computer, or all the internet service provider ads built into my computer. ugh… there’s so much work to be done here!
anyways, i was gonna say that i’m happy to have a computer of my own again… soon, it will be configured the way i want it to be, and i’ll be back, posting semi-regularly =) see you soon!