fuck microsoft and fuck my computer. For those of you who don’t know, here at college i have my old computer. My parents won’t let me bring the new one cause they think it will get stolen. My computer ran like shit, and they told me upgrading to XP would make it run faster. So i download Windows XP Professioanl (450MB in 15 mins ), burn the ISO to the CD, and install it. installation takes 90 minutes. Then i gotta download and install all the updatesand Service Pack 1. installation was hell. it downloaded the stuff in minutes, but installation took hours. grand total of 4 hours 55 minutes just to upgrade from Windows 98 to Windows XP Pro. Next day, i find out Norton Antivirus isn’t working, so i’m like, what the fuck. i to tech support, and the find out i have 4 viruses on my computer. I’m pissed cause i ran a system scan before i installed XP. then i found out that i was hit by 4 viruses (the infamous Blaster worm included) between the time in finished installation and the time i installed the Service pack and updates. Gayness. Add 3 hours to fix my computer from the viruses and reinstall Norton. grand total: 7 hours 55 minutes.

Anyway, my computer still runs like shit. So i call up gateway asking for a memory upgrade. a few years ago i had upgraded the memory from 32Mb to 96 MB (i added 64). well, the guy pulled up my file to see what i needed, and all of a sudden he starts laughing. so i’m like, “is there a problem?” and he said he was just sorry that i had this computer. So he tells me that my computer isnt fit even to run Windows XP properly. Solution: buy two 128MB RAM chips, pitch the 32, and install the 2 128s, so i’ll have 320MB of RAM. since my computer is so crappy, i can’t put more than 384MB of RAM, or 3 128s. the guy was laughing as he was telling me this stuff, cause he couldn’t believe i was actually able to operate the computer. Now, that the RAM was done, i needed to upgrade my video card, cause obviously, an 8MB nVidia Vanta isn’t supported by any software after 2001. So i ask what he can do for me, and this time he doesn’t laugh. he says the best video card i can give you for your system is a 64MB DDR Geforce4. and i was like, sweet! cause 64MB DDR is like havinf a 128MB geforce4. So we put that in. Grand total: $236.25. Before we finished, he laughed again. I asked him what he was laughing about this time. He said it was the current trade-in value for my computer: $26.50. I bought this piece of shit for $1000 in 2000, and now its worth as much as buying 2 CDs.

Bottom line, never buy from gateway. So i’m pissed cause i had to waste so much money on this fucker. Well, spending $300 is worth it. I’d rather waste $300 rather than having a $2000 computer stolen.

JEDI ACADEMY IS FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!! (heh, i got it to work for approximately 5 minutes and saaw that it was awesome. but then it died. computer can’t support it)