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Happy Fun Chat Time

I've been saving amusing snippets from chat every now and then for the past few years and figured I'd put them in a post instead of just letting them sit in a text file on my hard drive. I'll update this with new ones as I go. Now in revers...

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Stonking Great Tweets

I finally got myself a Twitter account. Go follow me @Desbreko145. Yes, numbers, like my AIM nick. Some guy actually had the nerve the register Desbreko, and he hasn't even tweeted anything.

Oh yeah, and I guess you can comment or bug me elsewhere about following you, since I'm too lazy to hunt through people's profiles for Twitter names.

Family Tech Support Is Suffering

Yesterday, I was over at my grandma's place to help set up her Christmas tree, and while I was there, she asked me for help with her printer, which wasn't working. So she turned on her PC and tried to bring up the web page she was trying to print... and the PC hung for at least ten seconds before responding to anything — even single keystrokes. All the while, the hard drive was grinding away. Something was obviously wrong.

After waiting, like, five minutes for Task Manager to open, I managed to figure out that AVG Antivirus was completely choking the system while updating. So I opened up AVG's control panel, which took another few minutes, and got to its update tab. Now, by this point, it had been at least twenty minutes since booting the PC and the update progress bar was only about 3/4 full. Clicked cancel... and waited a good ten minutes for it to happen.

So then I could finally do stuff at only painfully slow speeds instead of excruciatingly want-to-throw-the-computer-out-the-window slow speeds. This was still unacceptable, so I headed to the Windows control panel to uninstall AVG. The thing was crippling the PC as bad as any virus, so why not? That ended up taking another fifteen or so minutes, but eventually that bloated piece of ass was purged from the system.

Before rebooting to complete the uninstallation, though, I went into the system settings and there I found the reason AVG was choking it so incredibly bad: It was a 1.7 GHz Celeron with only 384 MB of RAM and ~500 MB of HDD space allocated for virtual memory. I bumped the virtual memory up to 2 GB and rebooted. Finally, the PC was running smoothly. Still slow, given the slow CPU and tiny amount of RAM, but smoothly.

I went and started downloading Avira Antivirus to replace AVG while we tried to get the printer to work. No dice on that, since I think the printer's shot and would need physical repairs of some kind, but I got Avira installed. Incidentally, Avira installed, updated, and ran a quick system scan in less time than it took AVG to uninstall, and the system remained usable all the while. Some of that improvement was due to more virtual memory, I'm sure, but still...

tl;dr AVG sucks, especially on low end PCs.

Continue? Insert Coin

Was going to edit an episode of Astarotte and watch the last two episodes of Fushigiboshi no Futago Hime. Ended up spending all night watching Extra Credits on Penny Arcade TV instead.

Finally upgraded from Firefox 4 to Firefox 7. Noticed that it chops off the http:// in the address bar. Took all of one minute to Google for the option name for it in about:config and make the change. At least when there's a dumb change in Firefox, there's usually an option to revert it.

Might stream something tonight. Possibly Super Metroid if I don't feel like starting FFVII.

Late Night Chat and CCS

To redj, with love. ^_^

- saved on Sat Nov 07 2009 01:12:30 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) -
Desbreko: CCS is so very screen shottable. http://img193.imageshack.us/i/sakurasweatdrop02.jpg/
SunfallE: lol
SunfallE: that it is
Desbreko: Why does this make me think of redj? http://img517.imageshack.us/i/jump01.jpg/
Desbreko: http://img8.imageshack.us/i/jump03.jpg/
SunfallE: XD
SunfallE: I don't know, but it does. XD
SunfallE: you should show him sometime. lol
Desbreko: http://img8.imageshack.us/i/jump04.jpg/
SunfallE: oh the irony
SunfallE: that it's so... small
SunfallE: XD
Desbreko: It wore itself out and shrunk back to normal size. :p
SunfallE: XD
Desbreko: LOL http://img132.imageshack.us/i/jumpaggressivebutstupid.jpg/
SunfallE: hahahaha
Desbreko: I think I'm going to have to save this log and post it.
SunfallE: XD
SunfallE: you should, it's so redj that it's making me laugh, a lot.
SunfallE: like Indi's post dressing him up did