Broadband, baby!
Mar. 26th, 2007 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
We've got DSL now, and I've been celebrating by, you know, looking at YouTube videos and downloading music and doing all the stuff that normal people have been doing for the last seven years. (Anybody got any Caetano Veloso they think I'd like? Or any Dan Bern for someone who adores "Jane" but has never heard any of the other songs?)
Also, I have a new e-mail address, which is in my LJ profile, in case you wanted to e-mail me anything.
The spouse bought a new Windows laptop, which is making him swear a lot. The spouse is the classic absent-minded professor sort, and he really just wants the computer to read his mind and provide him with content so he won't have to remember that, for instance:
- "that little colorful round thing" at the bottom left of his screen is the Start icon, or that
- tech support can't help you if you use the words "thing," "icon," "button," "checkbox," "document," and "program" interchangeably, or that
- laptops have batteries that need to be charged occasionally.
Which makes me the in-house tech help. Huh.
When I get an alert on my Mac, I pretty much always know what it means. But Windows computers are always popping up alert boxes that say incomprehensible things ("Warning! You have begun to arglefrast the whoopthruster without first unhembling the manifrost! Continue or Cancel?"), and from what I've seen, Windows people just seem to be in the habit of clicking the little X and going blithely on.
These mixed marriages are always complicated.
Also, I have a new e-mail address, which is in my LJ profile, in case you wanted to e-mail me anything.
The spouse bought a new Windows laptop, which is making him swear a lot. The spouse is the classic absent-minded professor sort, and he really just wants the computer to read his mind and provide him with content so he won't have to remember that, for instance:
- "that little colorful round thing" at the bottom left of his screen is the Start icon, or that
- tech support can't help you if you use the words "thing," "icon," "button," "checkbox," "document," and "program" interchangeably, or that
- laptops have batteries that need to be charged occasionally.
Which makes me the in-house tech help. Huh.
When I get an alert on my Mac, I pretty much always know what it means. But Windows computers are always popping up alert boxes that say incomprehensible things ("Warning! You have begun to arglefrast the whoopthruster without first unhembling the manifrost! Continue or Cancel?"), and from what I've seen, Windows people just seem to be in the habit of clicking the little X and going blithely on.
These mixed marriages are always complicated.
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Date: 3/26/07 04:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 3/26/07 04:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 3/26/07 08:00 pm (UTC)Thanks for this!
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Date: 3/26/07 05:55 pm (UTC)The spouse is a fool to leave Macs behind. Windows is not only not user friendly, a PITA to learn and use, counterintuitive and unstable but it's vulnerable not only to attacks from the web but to your own user stupidity and ignorance. I remember switching to Windows for the first time going - omg! I can screw up the operating system without warning? What idiot designed this thing?????
I have to use Windows for my work & I can't WAIT to be able to afford an intel Mac & run the operating systems side by side. Gimme back my Maaaaaaaaac!
But hey - welcome to the world of BLINDING SPEEEEEEEEED :D It's addictive!
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Date: 3/26/07 06:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 3/26/07 06:31 pm (UTC)Good luck with the mixed marriage. ;-)
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Date: 3/26/07 08:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 3/26/07 08:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 3/26/07 07:53 pm (UTC)But just in case you missed this (non-fannish music vid): The "Okay Go" treadmill video is at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5OODfMo_0Y
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Date: 3/26/07 07:54 pm (UTC)unhemble the manifrost first, it usually does what you beat it into doing. Just not what you want it to do...
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Date: 3/26/07 11:04 pm (UTC)Spouse = hilarious.
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Date: 3/27/07 12:40 am (UTC)I have to admit, though, that being able to download gay porn? Is WICKED COOL! *g*
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Date: 3/28/07 02:59 am (UTC)Ile Ale (http://www.box.net/shared/lrdjv7o3hl)
Queixa (http://www.box.net/shared/97pjx5y1px)
Now you need to join something like
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Date: 3/28/07 03:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 3/28/07 03:12 am (UTC)Brazilianer,world, uh, all kinds of music to share.(no subject)
Date: 3/31/07 07:09 pm (UTC)But yeah, Windows people just go straight for the cancel...