Nah, it's considered "unprofessional" here...because we work in a cube farm, we might disrupt the angry finance people if we play music too loud. On top of that, management is afraid we won't answer the phone when it starts ringing if we have headphones on. I find this slightly ironic, because I don't answer my phone anyway - I prefer to let the calls go to voice mail if it's important. This saves me a lot of time on phone support. :cool:

“Acer, Gateway, and eMachines are the same company now. Great! Now we just need a really big toilet, and we can get rid of all three at once.”

The only "bug" I've found is the lack of a functioning audio driver for my MoBo (but to be fair, the manufacturer didn't even release a Vista-compatible driver in the first place, forcing me to install the XP driver in compatibility mode. For some reason, that doesn't work in 7). Other than that (and a few minor issues that are mere annoyances at this point), it runs great on my older machine.

“Acer, Gateway, and eMachines are the same company now. Great! Now we just need a really big toilet, and we can get rid of all three at once.”

Hey now...I'm 22, and I was playing Pitfall on my brother's friend's 2600 up until about two years ago. Wow. That kinda sounds soap-opera-ish. :cool:

“Acer, Gateway, and eMachines are the same company now. Great! Now we just need a really big toilet, and we can get rid of all three at once.”

Shog9 wrote:

They don't advertise it much, but you can always walk in and order a cup - beats most gas station coffee (in price).

I'm staring at my 24 oz. cup from the gas station up the road - $1.09. Granted the quality isn't up to par with Starbucks, but I live and die by this stuff. I've even been thinking about starting a show called "Gas Station Connoisseur." :cool:

“Acer, Gateway, and eMachines are the same company now. Great! Now we just need a really big toilet, and we can get rid of all three at once.”

Time is relative. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. :)

“Acer, Gateway, and eMachines are the same company now. Great! Now we just need a really big toilet, and we can get rid of all three at once.”

Well, nowadays it could even mean going to the kitchen and opening a cabinet... :-\

“Acer, Gateway, and eMachines are the same company now. Great! Now we just need a really big toilet, and we can get rid of all three at once.”

It's just the grammar nazi in me, but I proofread everything. I've been known to spend upwards of five minutes rearranging/rephrasing a sentence to try and make it clear as possible. And yet, somehow...the meaning still gets lost. Every time. :doh:

“Acer, Gateway, and eMachines are the same company now. Great! Now we just need a really big toilet, and we can get rid of all three at once.”

Jim Crafton wrote:

You're sooo behind the times! In fact you're dangerously close to sounding like a Neo-Luddite! That was all soooo 1990s, now we're into Web 2.0 and we no longer ask questions. All you need to do is just throw some code against the cloud, hope pray assume it sticks, and then move on to something else! It's all about allowing the user to collaborate with rich socially interactive applications that create content mash-ups and real time distributed intelligence with synergistic use-flows.

I've never wanted to punch someone in the face as much as I do right now. :laugh: And my work day hasn't even officially started yet...

“Acer, Gateway, and eMachines are the same company now. Great! Now we just need a really big toilet, and we can get rid of all three at once.”

Uhh...yes? That's the entire point of the Finally... statement. :doh:

“Acer, Gateway, and eMachines are the same company now. Great! Now we just need a really big toilet, and we can get rid of all three at once.”

The one my boss uses that drives me up one side of the cube and down the other (and that includes through the open air above :) ): "Dialed in." Usage: "So, once you get that report dialed in, let me know so I can give you ten tons of other crap to do."

“Acer, Gateway, and eMachines are the same company now. Great! Now we just need a really big toilet, and we can get rid of all three at once.”

You have become my new hero. One of several, anyway. :-D

“Acer, Gateway, and eMachines are the same company now. Great! Now we just need a really big toilet, and we can get rid of all three at once.”

You could try this one [^] :-D But seriously, I think your goose is already cooked - they have you on their list(s). You're better off just requesting a new e-mail address if it's an account through your ISP. Otherwise, there's always the standard web mails.

Wouldn't it just be easier to get a new router? It's not like a decent one is very expensive. :doh:

Saturday: Change the oil in my car, performing the routine "3000-Mile Cleaning" of the interior as well. Do laundry. Play Starcraft for a few hours, wishing I had the cash to build a better computer that can run Starcraft II when it comes out. Drink beer. Other activities as I think of them. Sunday: Repeat Saturday, sans the vehicle maintenance. Monday: Wish it was next Friday. :-D

I've gone through my share of gadgets, but so far have currently settled on five: System Control, which is just flat-out nice to have; Multi-Meter, so I can tell how much memory Visual Studio 2005 has eaten up; Network Traffic, to keep an eye on our bandwidth-hungry application and smash it back into obedience when it goes too far; Digital World Clock, because I need to know what time it is in Malaysia when I'm performing updates on their end (link goes to Sidebar Gadget Gallery), and; App Launcher v3, to make it so I don't have to hit the Run menu to load the Character Map, among other things. I'll probably get more as they come up, but I don't spend too much time looking. -- modified at 12:49 Friday 9th November, 2007

Tried it...it still doesn't trump the true Breakfast of Champions: Pop Tarts and Mountain Dew. For the win. ;P

Nah, I'm just nuts. :cool:

Try going to your database and hitting the "refund" button. That's where all my time seems to go. :laugh:

Upon doing some digging after the latest crash (tried opening up a form in design mode -> X|), I found a rather disturbing anomaly in my system - the event viewer service has completely ceased to function. Trying to start it up lands me a sweet new error message: "Windows could not start the Windows Event Log service on Local Computer. Error 4201: The instance name passed was not recognized as valid by a WMI data provider." Searching the Microsoft forums landed this result, which tempting as it might be, will take a considerable amount of time to complete, not to mention it smells suspiciously like a hack rather than a solution. So...armed with this new knowledge, I kicked over a few more rocks, and I'm starting to suspect that there might be a common thread between this and a few other problems that I've been having as of late: 1) My right monitor will occasionally go completely black for a few seconds (Running an ATI FireMV 2250 card with dual-DVI monitors); 2) Our Proxy server has inexplicably cast me down to what I call "Uzar Akksess" level (i.e. restricted from accessing pretty much EVERYTHING), even though I have verified that my machine has been added to the exemption group, and last but most certainly not least; 3) There are two instances of Visual Studio 2005 installed on my machine, both Professional 2005 and some sort of "Premiere Partner Edition," even though I had performed an upgrade from a 2003 installation with a 2005 upgrade disk. In short, I'm not entirely sure if this is something that is wrong with my machine or just me. Again, these problems didn't crop up on my old XP machine. Odd, ne?

Okay...that explains a lot. My only question at this point would be if I need the 2005 upgrade disk or the original 2003 install disk (we install 2003, then run the 2005 upgrade).