02.28.09
POPI POPI PO POPI PO
09.24.08
This message brought to you by the horrors of MyITLab
Okay, so I haven’t posted anything in over a month, generally because I don’t really care. But I need to let out a good rant here about how utterly BAD this system my university has set up for my entry-level computer course. In turn, this will probably lead to other, more worthwhile posts, but whatever.
Okay, so the class is COMP100, generally ‘How-to-use-Microsoft-Word’, and a bit more. For all of our tests/exams/practice exams, we use this online setup thing called MyITLab. It’s a system that keeps all of your assignments posted online(fine), organizes them by due date(also good), and runs them in a simulation/parallel operating system-type fashion(HORRIBLE). Now WHY is this horrible? Because computers cannot comprehend COMMON SENSE.
Most of the assignments are generally “Open this MSWord document, and do the stuff the instruction panel tells you.” The first time I began to realize how horrible the system was, I was told to highlight a block of text, and make it bold faced. So naturally, I highlight it with the mouse, and press Ctrl + B.
“INCORRECT ACTION”
Wait, what? I’m pretty sure I hit the ‘B’ key. Oh well, let’s try it again!
“INCORRECT ACTION”
What the hell? Wait……do the seriously want to tell me I NEED to go find the bold button in the menu and use that? Well, lets try that…
“CORRECT”
*sigh*
And that was an easy one. Today I’m told to make the header of a paragraph’s font color purple. Okay, highlight, click the color selection panel, and hit the shade of purple it told me. Nope, that was wrong too. This one, unlike the bold-font one, I never figured out. But after the 10 tries it allows you were up, it does it for you, and SURE ENOUGH, all it wanted was purple font. Also, apparently using the “X” button at the top of the window you’re looking at right now is the incorrect way to close your browser. So when you’re done, make sure to use file -> exit. I’m sure that’s the way everyone does it. That X button is so horribly inconvenient.
In the end, apparently I don’t know how to use microsoft word, or even MAKE MY FONT BOLD for that matter. See, I tried to make the ‘MAKE MY FONT BOLD’ bold by pressing Ctrl + B and it didn’t………………oh wait.
08.11.08
Wireless USB internet adapters SUCK
Never in my life has my internet connection made me so pissed off as the past month that I’ve been using this thing. Besides randomly disconnecting me, ocassional crappy reception(that’s more or less solved, although it’s still kinda there), and saying my computer can’t read/recognize the adapter at times, there’s no way in hell I can torrent anything for more then like, 5 minutes before my computer either freezes or blue screens on me.
Now, I know it’s not a problem with the download rate being too great, because I can download through IRC (those of you fansubbers who allow IRC downloads, you are godsends), and I’ve gotten 800-900kbps and had no problems. But I get 20kbps on a torrent and suddenly it blue screens on me. Now, I don’t fully know how torrents work, so I might be a little misinformed here, but to my knowledge, torrents suck up every bit of resources your internet connection has in order to attempt to get a better download rate. So I guess that regardless of my download speed, it’s trying to pull in a lot more information then that, and it overflows my USB port (on the bluescreen, I get the error ‘DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL’ or something to that degree). If anyone reading this has any suggestions, let me know, I’m about to just buy a long-ass piece of ethernet cable and run it across the house to where the router is.
tl;dr: More fansubs on IRC please.
06.10.08
It’s hot
Like fucking REALLY hot. And none of the room’s here have AC in them, so it’s humid as all hell in every one of them. I’ve got lunch next too, so a room of even MORE sweaty hot people in a sunbathed room is going to suck. It’s so humid that I can’t even fucking draw; the ink in my pen dosen’t DO anything unless I really grind it into the paper and make insanely dark lines. No pencil either :( I still suck at drawing, but i’m somewhat practicing in school. Need to convince myself to practice at home too, but once I get home all I wanna do is vegitate in front of the AC. Maybe I’ll scan some doodles I’ve done in class if I get any I really like, but for now they’re all pretty meh.
06.08.08
My Ninja Gaiden 2 disc is FUBAR
After playing Ninja Gaiden 2 for the past few days, I was all ready to do a write up on it; my thoughts, opinions, etc. I can still do that, since I beat the game, but I don’t want to because MY DISC IS FUCKED. Had it for 4 days and there’s a huge-ass circular scratch around the whole thing, freezing the game any time it gets to a ‘now loading’ screen. And to make it worse, the receipt to return it is probably in my neighbors trash somewhere, since we brought it right back to his house after picking it up, and I didn’t bother to take the bag with me back home.
So, I’ve got the game I’ve been waiting for most of all for about the past 3 years already fucked up beyond belief, and unless by some miracle I can find the receipt, I’m probably shit out of luck. *sigh* :(
I’ll give my in-depth thoughts on the game some other time when I cool down, but overall it was pretty fucking win.
