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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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wherein the PC saga continues....
Today is Sunday, the 1st day in a new week. It is the 12th day of the 6th month, the 164th day of 2016, and
- Abused Women and Children's Awareness Day
- Crowded Nest Awareness Day
- Ghost in the Machine Day
- Little League Girls Baseball Day
- 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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