Sophinisba Solis (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sophinisba) wrote2009-07-30 09:52 pm
sophinisba) wrote2009-07-30 09:52 pm
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Happiness days 27-29: computer stuffs
Here are three small pieces of computer-related happiness:
27. Computer parts arriving quickly
Sunday I was upset because my laptop battery, which is less than two years old, is such junk that it lasts about fifteen minutes, and my power adapter started getting fussy on Sunday so it had to be positioned just so in order to get it to work. So I sent away for new ones to replace them, and I am happy about how quickly the replacements arrived – the adapter yesterday and the battery today.
(Do they work properly? No. I thought I was buying Toshiba parts but they are actually cheap knockoffs, which makes sense since they were cheap but it still disappointing. The connection between the two parts of the adapter is a little loose and I read reports saying the manufacturer is junk and will probably start overheating in a few months. :( The new battery only seems to last for two hours and the very frustrating part is that it's stuck in the machine and I can't get it out, even going at it with the Phillips screwdriver. Aaaahhh! But still, they did come quickly in the mail and are probably better than nothing. So far they haven't made my computer explode.)
28. LJ and Dreamwidth stuff
a. ?style=mine is so great! I like it better on LJ because I think the default on LJ is easier to read, but the Dreamwidth one is okay, and it's nice that the same code or whatever works both places! I love style=mine because it allows other people touse whatever ugly and unreadable styles they want express their creativity with different layouts and still makes it easy for me to see plain black text on a plain white background. I miss style=mine when I'm reading on other parts of the Internet! I used to type it in at the end of the URL all the time but now I have this handy bookmarklet that I put on my browser so I can zap annoying layouts with just one click. Hooray! Lately I've also come to appreciate ?format=light because computer problems have been logging me out of LJ more often causing the ?style=mine not to work. Format=light isn't as pretty but it is still nice and clear. I'm glad that ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
metafandom and ibarw use them.
b. A couple weeks ago I let the Dreamwidth people know that the preview function wasn't working for me, and they got in touch with me and started fixing it right away, and now it works!
29. Watching TV on the Internet
Sometimes I do downloads but today I will just talk about how much I love legitimate ways of watching TV on the Internet, like hulu.com and Netflix. If you have a membership with Netflix there are also a whole lot of movies and TV shows that you can watch streaming on the Internet for free. I watched the whole first season of New Who this way and then I was hooked so I watched the rest on DVD. For a long time they only had this set up to work on Internet Explorer but now it works on Firefox too. Hooray! I watch The Daily Show on Hulu and have watched some other shows on their networks' websites, though those tend not to work as well. This works so well for me. The only TV in our apartment is a tiny one with bad reception in my roommate's bedroom, but when I watch on my laptop it's right in front of me and I usually wear headphones and it is just generally really convenient and nice. I love that I no longer have to pay attention to when my favorite shows are on or make sure I record them or whatever. I just go and get them whenever I want to watch them.
27. Computer parts arriving quickly
Sunday I was upset because my laptop battery, which is less than two years old, is such junk that it lasts about fifteen minutes, and my power adapter started getting fussy on Sunday so it had to be positioned just so in order to get it to work. So I sent away for new ones to replace them, and I am happy about how quickly the replacements arrived – the adapter yesterday and the battery today.
(Do they work properly? No. I thought I was buying Toshiba parts but they are actually cheap knockoffs, which makes sense since they were cheap but it still disappointing. The connection between the two parts of the adapter is a little loose and I read reports saying the manufacturer is junk and will probably start overheating in a few months. :( The new battery only seems to last for two hours and the very frustrating part is that it's stuck in the machine and I can't get it out, even going at it with the Phillips screwdriver. Aaaahhh! But still, they did come quickly in the mail and are probably better than nothing. So far they haven't made my computer explode.)
28. LJ and Dreamwidth stuff
a. ?style=mine is so great! I like it better on LJ because I think the default on LJ is easier to read, but the Dreamwidth one is okay, and it's nice that the same code or whatever works both places! I love style=mine because it allows other people to
metafandom and ibarw use them.b. A couple weeks ago I let the Dreamwidth people know that the preview function wasn't working for me, and they got in touch with me and started fixing it right away, and now it works!
29. Watching TV on the Internet
Sometimes I do downloads but today I will just talk about how much I love legitimate ways of watching TV on the Internet, like hulu.com and Netflix. If you have a membership with Netflix there are also a whole lot of movies and TV shows that you can watch streaming on the Internet for free. I watched the whole first season of New Who this way and then I was hooked so I watched the rest on DVD. For a long time they only had this set up to work on Internet Explorer but now it works on Firefox too. Hooray! I watch The Daily Show on Hulu and have watched some other shows on their networks' websites, though those tend not to work as well. This works so well for me. The only TV in our apartment is a tiny one with bad reception in my roommate's bedroom, but when I watch on my laptop it's right in front of me and I usually wear headphones and it is just generally really convenient and nice. I love that I no longer have to pay attention to when my favorite shows are on or make sure I record them or whatever. I just go and get them whenever I want to watch them.