building a good computer
sounds like a crazy thing to regret but... i really do regret it.

after my old compaq broke down after almost 6 years of usage, my mother wanted to buy a new one from Costco (a warehouse retailer in the USA). i shuddered at the thought of getting one there since they don't carry good products. so i told her that i'll buy the parts and build one... which i did.

i would have loved to install a Linux OS on it but the family has no clue of how to use it. so i settle with windows XP. of course, windows just HAD to give me problems! in the first week, it suddenly had problems booting up; it wouldn't even go to safe mode. so i decided to redo the computer.

a couple of months passed and everything's going well. i'm back in school after the holidays and yesterday, my sister called me. "the computer is being weird. it hangs after i log-in." i asked her what she did differently before this error occured. she ran ad-aware and she claims that it deleted some sort of protocol. O_O

after hours and hours of trying to walk her through a solution, she was finally able to log-in (although there's still an issue of waiting time). but now she doesn't have access to the internet...

more problems and i still have yet to resolve them.

so what's there to regret about this whole building a computer business when it's software/program issues? well... my mother said, "see what happened! if we had just bought a normal computer, we wouldn't have all these problems! it's a waste of money!" >_< what a bitch! i bought all the good parts and over-clocked the system. i even bought the best heatsink out there that every nerd would drool over!!

i regret building my family a good computer. v__v

sorry if this turned out to a ranting/raving post.. but it's partly related. o.o
(kodomo_ja_nai fuck it, Sat 7 Oct 2006, 22:00, Reply)