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terrycloth) wrote2005-03-22 10:01 am
terrycloth) wrote2005-03-22 10:01 am
Computer Troubles...
The hard drive cable came loose again, and this time it was reeeally hard to get it to go back in place so that the computer would realize it exists. It doesn't seem to stick in place like hard drives I've installed before -- instead it just sort of goes on loosely and hangs there if you don't jostle it. Maybe that's why those hard drives were on sale. /:3 I tried taping it in place, but it didn't help, maybe because the cable itself got in the way of the tape. That leaves what, glue? How could I glue the thing on without getting glue on the cables and ruining it, though?
Also, the phone line in my bedroom died, no longer getting a dial tone, which means I had to reroute the kitchen line from the laptop to the desktop. Which means the laptop, which has all my internet access stuff on it, currently only has internet access when the desktop is running. However, there is a line splitter being used that used to go to the cable box, but now goes nowhere -- if I get another long phone cord, I can use it to split the line to go to the laptop. Or, I can run the desktop passthrough to the laptop instead of to the Sega Saturn, which is probably a better choice as I've already got one wire going that route, and I'd like to minimize the number of wires to trip over.
On the other hand, I did manage to squeeze some City of Heroes in last night and this morning... this morning I spent a half hour doing a single mission with a random hero group. Even though our teamwork was crappy, we still took on huge groups of even-leveled people. Although the controller kept dying. From the strategy guide I read, I think it was my job as a scrapper to keep him alive... but honestly it was easier to fight groups of enemies without him, because he kept doing knockback (sweeping the enemies out of melee range, rescuing them) and these big stone claws that completely obscured everyone's vision.
Also, the phone line in my bedroom died, no longer getting a dial tone, which means I had to reroute the kitchen line from the laptop to the desktop. Which means the laptop, which has all my internet access stuff on it, currently only has internet access when the desktop is running. However, there is a line splitter being used that used to go to the cable box, but now goes nowhere -- if I get another long phone cord, I can use it to split the line to go to the laptop. Or, I can run the desktop passthrough to the laptop instead of to the Sega Saturn, which is probably a better choice as I've already got one wire going that route, and I'd like to minimize the number of wires to trip over.
On the other hand, I did manage to squeeze some City of Heroes in last night and this morning... this morning I spent a half hour doing a single mission with a random hero group. Even though our teamwork was crappy, we still took on huge groups of even-leveled people. Although the controller kept dying. From the strategy guide I read, I think it was my job as a scrapper to keep him alive... but honestly it was easier to fight groups of enemies without him, because he kept doing knockback (sweeping the enemies out of melee range, rescuing them) and these big stone claws that completely obscured everyone's vision.