{"id":58,"date":"2004-06-19T23:31:32","date_gmt":"2004-06-20T03:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/19\/disappointment"},"modified":"2007-08-30T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T10:01:02","slug":"disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2004\/06\/19\/disappointment","title":{"rendered":"Disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_sad.gif\" alt=\":sad:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><br \/>\nI bought (or Dad, I&#8217;ll pay when I get my pay) Radeon 9600 Pro today (wheee, the &#8220;special offer&#8221; was a Pro!!) but we didn&#8217;t get it working yet. Simon (my computer) is quite old, 3&frac12; years give or take and I haven&#8217;t updated it much (other than Windows and virus scan stuff; only new driver for Geforce 2 when Splinter Cell wouldn&#8217;t work) so there was some glitch and the computer started beeping when we started it (after replacing Geforce with Radeon). Probably the problem is with the <abbr title=\"Central Processing Unit\">CPU<\/abbr> to <abbr title=\"Accelerated Graphics Port\">AGP<\/abbr> controller&#8230; or how could I know&#8230; Dad found some service pack which I installed, but we didn&#8217;t try changing the card yet (it&#8217;s sauna night and I understand that he doesn&#8217;t want to crawl on the floor fresh out of shower). So, I&#8217;m still holding my thumbs up (as we in Finland do; or keeping my fingers crossed as it is in English) and hoping all will be well tomorrow. Oh yeah, Simon&#8217;s gutted <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\":D\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> His left side is wide open, I can see his intestines!<\/p>\n<p>In fact, now I don&#8217;t have ANY graphics card installed. <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_surprised.gif\" alt=\":eek:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> Or, <abbr title=\"GeForce 2\">GF2<\/abbr> is *in* there (I wouldn&#8217;t have anything to plug the monitor in if it wasn&#8217;t&#8230;) but the configs have just a <abbr title=\"Video Graphics Adaptor\/Accelerator\">VGA<\/abbr> driver and no fancy stuff.<br \/>\n(Oh my goodness, that big-eyed smiley is hilarious!)<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I&#8217;ve been doing new buttons to fit my new layout. I don&#8217;t have any affiliates yet and I doubt I ever will, but a girl can hope, right? No one probably ever reads these anyway (except for Mum, hey Mum! *waves* <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" alt=\";)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> ). Well, if someone does, they never leave anything behind which is a shame.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230; I wonder if the word &#8220;disappointment&#8221; comes from someone cancelling an appointment; the person they should&#8217;ve met would&#8217;ve got disappointed. I only have a Finnish etymology book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought (or Dad, I&#8217;ll pay when I get my pay) Radeon 9600 Pro today (wheee, the &#8220;special offer&#8221; was a Pro!!) but we didn&#8217;t get it working yet. Simon (my computer) is quite old, 3&frac12; years give or take and I haven&#8217;t updated it much (other than Windows and virus scan stuff; only new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-and-gadgets","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}