Sunday, December 25, 2005
HELP?! (Calling all computer geniuses ou there!)
Good morning starshine, the Earth says Hello!!
Question: What's worse than blogging with a dial up connection?
Answer: Blogging with a dial-up connection in a Windows95 pc!!
Yes, Im typing this entry using my ancient, trusty, old but functional mean machine that runs under Windows 95. This not-so-baby pc is as old as my cousin who's now 10 years old. I was in 4th grade way back in 1995 when my aunt purchased this thing. High tech na high tech to dati. Back then, Freetel pa ang uso kasi wala pang MIRC. I can vividly remember when my aunt used to chat with people from around the world in a black screen and neon green letters. I was was always in awe as I watched my aunt type the night away.
Fast forward to 5 years later, the age of the laptops came. Since then, this mean machine has been nothing but a bulky thing that took up space in my aunt's office. So being the greatest fan of this pc, I begged my mom to allow me to bring home this computer and put it in my bedroom. After a while of bargaining, my mom finally decided it wouldnt hurt if I had my own computer in my room. After all, it wouldnt cost them a single centavo.
So there I was, happily enjoying my new found peace of antique. Until one day, the mean machine caught a very dealy virus that made it very ill. I made numerous phone calls to different shops whether they still repair a WIN95 pc. But to my despair, they either no longer have the right accessories or they simply just didnt consider repairing such an old peice of junk was worth their time.What made it worse was that this thing doesnt even have a usb drive! It wouldve been easy if it had one. I was about to give up when I made my last phone call to the last computer shop in town, and yey!! they agreed to take a look at this old thing. After a few questions, diskettes and one week later, the mean machine is up and running. I brought it back home and handled it with utmost care. I've had great memories with this thing, including making my first layout when I first started blogging. Pinagtiyagan ko talaga. But when school came, everything had to be in a rush, and it sometimes gets in my nerves when it takes me 5 mins to open the yahoo homepage and another 10 mins to show the search results. The mean machine just cant keep up with my hectic school life. So I decided to give the mean machine a long vacation. I went back to using our family pc downstairs. Dont get me wrong, I didnt plan to abandon mean machine, I just thought its better off resting for a while.
It's been almost 6 months now since I last said hello to this old thing. And i'm glad it still flashes its warm welcome when I push the power button on. :)
The reason why I'm back to my old habit is because I got our family pc busted the other day. I didnt do it on purpose, mind you. I was typing my school year end entry while the Mcaffee Antivirus Update was downloading. When the update was finished, bigla na lang siyang naghang. So I pushed the restart button, feeling annoyed knowing that my heartfelt entry was down the drain to nowhereland. The desktop wallpaper took a long whle to appear, so kinabahan nako. Much more when the desktop icons didnt appear at all. Instead, I got this message:
SYSTEM ERROR: Windows cannot read from Drive C: If this is a network computer blah blah blah. If this is a local disk, check the connection (or something like that).
What could I have done wrong? I cant say its a virus since I havent downloaded anything this week and the only pages I opened were gmail, blogger, tinypic, photobucket, my blog and blogs from my links. I cant think of any reason at all. My brother suspected it had something to do with the virus scan update. But after entering DOS mode and uninstalling the antivirus software, it's still not working. Now, he's suspecting there's something wrong with the hard disk. He'll try to have it checked by his technician friends on Monday, so that means no decent pc for me till then.
AND THAT MEANS NO BLOGHOPPING FOR ME THIS WEEKEND (until the computer gets fixed). SORRY FOLKS!
Question: What's worse than blogging with a dial up connection?
Answer: Blogging with a dial-up connection in a Windows95 pc!!
Yes, Im typing this entry using my ancient, trusty, old but functional mean machine that runs under Windows 95. This not-so-baby pc is as old as my cousin who's now 10 years old. I was in 4th grade way back in 1995 when my aunt purchased this thing. High tech na high tech to dati. Back then, Freetel pa ang uso kasi wala pang MIRC. I can vividly remember when my aunt used to chat with people from around the world in a black screen and neon green letters. I was was always in awe as I watched my aunt type the night away.
Fast forward to 5 years later, the age of the laptops came. Since then, this mean machine has been nothing but a bulky thing that took up space in my aunt's office. So being the greatest fan of this pc, I begged my mom to allow me to bring home this computer and put it in my bedroom. After a while of bargaining, my mom finally decided it wouldnt hurt if I had my own computer in my room. After all, it wouldnt cost them a single centavo.
So there I was, happily enjoying my new found peace of antique. Until one day, the mean machine caught a very dealy virus that made it very ill. I made numerous phone calls to different shops whether they still repair a WIN95 pc. But to my despair, they either no longer have the right accessories or they simply just didnt consider repairing such an old peice of junk was worth their time.What made it worse was that this thing doesnt even have a usb drive! It wouldve been easy if it had one. I was about to give up when I made my last phone call to the last computer shop in town, and yey!! they agreed to take a look at this old thing. After a few questions, diskettes and one week later, the mean machine is up and running. I brought it back home and handled it with utmost care. I've had great memories with this thing, including making my first layout when I first started blogging. Pinagtiyagan ko talaga. But when school came, everything had to be in a rush, and it sometimes gets in my nerves when it takes me 5 mins to open the yahoo homepage and another 10 mins to show the search results. The mean machine just cant keep up with my hectic school life. So I decided to give the mean machine a long vacation. I went back to using our family pc downstairs. Dont get me wrong, I didnt plan to abandon mean machine, I just thought its better off resting for a while.
It's been almost 6 months now since I last said hello to this old thing. And i'm glad it still flashes its warm welcome when I push the power button on. :)
The reason why I'm back to my old habit is because I got our family pc busted the other day. I didnt do it on purpose, mind you. I was typing my school year end entry while the Mcaffee Antivirus Update was downloading. When the update was finished, bigla na lang siyang naghang. So I pushed the restart button, feeling annoyed knowing that my heartfelt entry was down the drain to nowhereland. The desktop wallpaper took a long whle to appear, so kinabahan nako. Much more when the desktop icons didnt appear at all. Instead, I got this message:
SYSTEM ERROR: Windows cannot read from Drive C: If this is a network computer blah blah blah. If this is a local disk, check the connection (or something like that).
What could I have done wrong? I cant say its a virus since I havent downloaded anything this week and the only pages I opened were gmail, blogger, tinypic, photobucket, my blog and blogs from my links. I cant think of any reason at all. My brother suspected it had something to do with the virus scan update. But after entering DOS mode and uninstalling the antivirus software, it's still not working. Now, he's suspecting there's something wrong with the hard disk. He'll try to have it checked by his technician friends on Monday, so that means no decent pc for me till then.
AND THAT MEANS NO BLOGHOPPING FOR ME THIS WEEKEND (until the computer gets fixed). SORRY FOLKS!
Please understand that this mean machine isnt as mean as it used to be before. My blog doesnt even show the same colors when viewed on this pc. But I'll try my best to answer my tags and comments (if this thing doesnt breakdown yet :) )
Lastly, let me just greet my friends who celebrated their birthdays this month.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAUDETTE, KALOY, SUZZIE, KRINITZ and to all bloggers who are so many I cant mention you all!!!!!
To the rest, (we dont celebrate Christmas sa religion namin eh, so I cant say Merry Christmas), so ano, HAPPY HOLIDAYS NALANG! ENJOY YOUR VACATION!! :)
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