January 22nd, 2009
I got totally owned today by the extremely crappy UNISA credit card payment form. Today was the last day that I could register for my second year Bsc (actually a mixture of 1st and 2nd year modules) and it was also the last day that you could pay for your studies.
So to make a long [...]
January 9th, 2009
Routers in the current household I am living in generally only last a few months before they either get hit by lightning (yes they are on a UPS and we also try unplug every time there is a storm) or they just randomly pop. In the last year we went through I don’t know how [...]
January 6th, 2009
You may have read my post last year about My Hanns-G experience. Unfortunately, things got worse.
Just to recap quickly for those too lazy to read the original post, I bought a 19″ Hanns-G monitor and after a while it started giving me trouble and I took it back to the shop, eventually I got it [...]
January 5th, 2009
I tweeted about this earlier today.
It sometimes can really suck to be a geek. Why? Well because everybody you know, including the older grandparent generation (99% of which simply cannot grasp how to use a computer) calls on you when they have a computer problem!
You are the goto guy (or gal) when all computer hell [...]
August 16th, 2008
UPDATE: I eventually got my monitor replaced, but it wasn’t easy. Read more here.
So, a while back I was looking purchase a widescreen 19″ LCD monitor to use as a second display for my laptop. Having a second display really helps me be more productive. The reason why I decided on a 19″ and not [...]