Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
Loving Day -- in 1967 US Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia declared all state laws against interracial marriages unconstitutional
Magic Day
Multicultural American Child Day
National Automotive Service Professionals Day
National Career Nursing Assistants' Day
National Children's Day [AKA Children's Sunday]
National Jerky Day
National Peanut Butter Cookie Day
Race Unity Day!
Red Rose Day
Superman Day
World Day Against Child Labor
Write to Your Father Day
In 1240, arranged by Louis IX, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk [a Jewish convert] and four rabbis after the convert translated the Talmud from Hebrew -- the outcome was Christians stopped viewing Jews as people of the Old Testament and started seeing them as enemies of their faith, a change that was to have dire consequences. In 1550 the city of Helsinki was founded by King Gustav I of Sweden [Finland was still part of Sweden back then]. In 1560, in the battle of Okehazama, Oda Nobunaga defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto [the battlefield is a park in Japan]. In 1898 General Emilio Aguinaldo declared the Philippines'independence from Spain. In 1939 the Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, New York. In 1942 Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday. In 1967 Venera 4 launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data). 1972 the first Popeyes is opened in Arabi, Louisiana [gotta luv those biscuts]. And in 2016 @NASAVoyager is 18 hrs 37 mins 25 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2016:164:120000:1L)
While I can still get online, and do most things, tech support has finally agreed with me that my video card has gone bad. It is something that I have been grousing about for the past two years as my Alienware X51 just never seemed to perform as well as I thought it should [especially in Second Life and Diablo III] and I started calling the company and complaining. As annoyed as I have been with this particular computer, I have to say that the support offered has been exemplary as they methodically have worked through the problems. First they found a problem with the memory, and that was replaced. Then they decided it was a software issue -- Windows has been re-installed multiple times. The hard drive was replaced a few months back. Of course all that meant I had to restore my digital life from back-ups multiple times. And yet, the performance just wasn't there -- textures in game didn't seem to load properly, things kept lagging or stuttering -- and in the past couple of days I started crashing again. Hard crashes as in "oops, you aren't in this program anymore". The final straw was when the programs locked up the entire computer and I had to turn it off to get anything to work again. The final test tech support ran to see if it was the video card was to download and play a game called Heaven Benchmark 4.0 -- if you ever want to see if your video card is a problem, this is the program to use. The FPS [frames per second] should be around 100 and mine was bouncing around 3. So finally, the video card will be replaced!
Fortunately when I bought this computer back in December 2012, I paid for a three year full warranty. And when it expired in December, I paid for another year. I know that a lot of times buying a warranty seems to be a bit of a rip-off, but I am very glad that I got one. Total cost to me for these years of coverage was about $550 -- and considering that I have gotten hours [literally] of tech support, new memory, a new hard drive, and now a new video card -- I think that was well worth the cost. Especially since the hardware is installed for me, and I don't have to try to do it myself. And I don't have to try to disconnect and take the CPU somewhere, the tech comes and does it right here in the apartment. Now hopefully this computer should last for a while, neh?
Take the time to actually enjoy the 2nd day of your weekend!
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