there's been a lot of posting and replyin going on here, so i figured i'd keep the trend alive. I boughtthis computer from dell and am lying in bed typing on it right now. I'm sore as hell from ultimate last night: I owned a couple guys in the end zone with some mad catches and blocks... but they tend to end in spine jarring landings on one's side and/or head.
Side note: with this stupid laptop, i feel like tom hanks in "you've got mail."
I guess the event of note is, i didn't buy a mac this time. It's odd to have it worry about viruses again, not to mention the fact that i spent the first 8 hours of ownership re-installing windows to free myself of all the crap software they package on a new machine. (here's one for gnome: you gotta check out this program called acronis trueimage: it creates a partitioned image of your entire operating system and all drivers and applications so once you labor over getting your system set up perfectly, you always have a completely recoverable set-up from boot. There's other benfits, check it out.) living with a hacker is very nice.
Finally, i'd like to point more attention to "brokeback to the future." damn that was funny.
Oh yeah, this guy seems to have it all figured out. If you've ever heard his rant about how the purity of the Olympics has been lost and how every American thinkgs you're a failure if you don't bring home a gold, you'll more appreciate what happened last week.
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I recently bought Tianna a Dell as well. I spent the first several hours wiping it and the backup partition and installing Win XP Pro. I then learned that Dell doesn't actually ship a Driver CD at all, instead you are to rely on the backup partition to get drivers. Too bad I had just wiped it out to claim the space for the fresh install!
So, then I had to spend another hour finding and downloading an ethernet driver using my work laptop (the only machine in my house with a working ethernet card and a web browser) and transfering them to an iPod so I could transfer them to the Dell. I learned from that mistake and made a Dell Driver CD for the machine so in the event of having to do a fresh re-install, I'll at least be able to get it connected to the internet right away.
I was also completely annoyed with all the god damn bundled software that came pre-installed on the Dell. The first time I started the machine to verify everything worked, I spent at least 20 minutes fighting through pop-up after pop-up asking me to register program X and sign up for mailing list Y and free offer Z.
Exactly.
I knew I would have to download the drivers and such from the website and had "copy" of windows and every other damn program i wanted lined up. What i didn't realize was this XPS had a 3rd partition for what is basically an independent OS for watching DVDs and Music without booting Windows.
Oops.
basically i called their support and was like "look, i reinstalled windows because you fucked me with preinstalled software and NO i will not sign up for AOL. so send me the disc and shut up." So they agreed to send me all the install discs including this "media direct" program.
I don't think I have reinstalled windows yet without haveing to call them for something. I have even taken notes everytime I do it. Somthing new always happens. It is like working on a car... no mater how long it takes... there will be some complication.
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