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Unread postby Kalah » 17 Mar 2008, 20:36

My ex complained I was spending too much time on my PC. I then agreed that I would spend only as much time as she was spending on hers, doing emails and working for the SPCA. The result was that I could spend more time on my PC. :creative:
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Unread postby Ethric » 17 Mar 2008, 21:03

You stopwatched her? I'm sure that was popular... :creative:
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Unread postby Kalah » 17 Mar 2008, 21:12

Well, not exactly. But she spent a lot of time on the couch with her laptop, arranging the re-housing of cats and such, and it's not like that was a relationship-helper either.
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Unread postby Ethric » 17 Mar 2008, 21:48

Quite. And I bet those cats weren't one bit grateful either.
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Unread postby asandir » 17 Mar 2008, 23:14

Mel doesn't play a lot of games, though she does play on some forums a bit .... that's why I have a playstation! :)
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Unread postby ScarlettP » 18 Mar 2008, 00:10

Hubby always complains that I spend to much time on the computer. I complain that he hogs the entire living room and the remote control watching crap that bores me.
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Unread postby asandir » 18 Mar 2008, 04:32

I do that, and play the playstation at the same time

I try to make it a habit that I don't complain too much about anything that Mel does, mostly cause she's a good cook and I know my place in the overall structure of things
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Unread postby ScarlettP » 18 Mar 2008, 12:35

Now, it is TOTALLY UNFAIR to monopolize TWO things at once. Around here, you get the TV or the Computer, but you can't have both.

(The only Play Station is back in our son's room... so that doesn't count.)
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Unread postby Panda Tar » 18 Mar 2008, 17:37

Unless, you're using your TV to play computer games, since Playstation is out of bounds. :D
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Unread postby asandir » 18 Mar 2008, 21:12

I meant tv and playstation :D
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Unread postby ScarlettP » 19 Mar 2008, 02:03

Well... you do sort of need a Screen. It's not much fun to just sit and watch the disk go around in the box.
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Unread postby darknessfood » 19 Mar 2008, 22:49

Kalah wrote:Yeah, or games. Games take up a lot of time too... That's why we need to find girls who can play games with us, so we don't have to cheat on them with our computers :)
Working on that one. Put Heroes 3 on my girlfriends laptop, now just let het play the tutorial and i think she's gonne like it :devious:
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Unread postby Kalah » 19 Mar 2008, 23:06

Played BG: Dark Alliance on PS2, and my ex loved that too. Playing games together is always a way out :)
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Unread postby Ethric » 21 Mar 2008, 12:17

So while mucking about with network settings yesterday, the connection stopped working. I naturally assumed it was my mucking about that did it, and started mucking about some more, ending in a reinstall to factory settings (this is on my laptop). The problem is further compunded by me having no direct access to the wireless router, as it's in the livingroom of the people where I rent an apartment (on the ground floor, they live on the two next floors). And they are away, coming home today. Not ideal to not be able to restart the router for testing purposes, but I saved the installation costs this way... man I regret not shelling out to have it installed directly into my apartment.

Anyways, not getting the net to work on my laptop, I dig out my old pc from a closet and put in a wireless adapter I have spare, and lo and behold it has the same problems. So I call the owners of the house, asking when today they are home, and unfortuntaley I get the wife of the couple, who is... less than intelligent. I was going to ask if they'd mind if I borrowed the keys to their door to go up and restart the router, as I knew where the neighbour who were watching their flowers etc had left them. But she prattled on and I never got to ask as she claimed not to hear me (though I heard her perfectly). Bugger this I think and go borrow the keys, restart the router, and then the net works again.

So either my mucking about on my laptop coincided with a hiccup in the router (whch has run stable for more than half a year now), or my tinkering on the laptop caused the hiccup in the router. Is that even possible?

And now I really think I ought to get my own private connection with a router I can reach without problem... and I wonder if I ought to tell them I borrowed their keys to fix it. Best not to, since I did it without asking, but if I'm to start getting my own connection it helps as an argument if I can say that the router was indeed the problem.

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Unread postby asandir » 21 Mar 2008, 12:47

wow Ethric, just wow :D
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Unread postby Corribus » 21 Mar 2008, 13:31

My router does that all the time. i have to reset it at least once a week.
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Unread postby Kalah » 21 Mar 2008, 16:06

Ethric wrote:So while mucking about with network settings yesterday, the connection stopped working. I naturally assumed it was my mucking about that did it, and started mucking about some more...
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Unread postby Ethric » 21 Mar 2008, 16:37

Corribus wrote:My router does that all the time. i have to reset it at least once a week.
Sounds like a poor router if it's THAT often. Not that I know much about it, but sounds annoying.

And yeah Kalah, was that not the sensible course of action? :creative:
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Unread postby Kalah » 21 Mar 2008, 17:53

Indeed. :)
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Unread postby asandir » 22 Mar 2008, 10:10

some routers are known to shut down the ethernet connection on occasion ... so that could be it as well

anyway ..... FOOTY IS ON AGAIN!!!! :D
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