Hi there Hopper 393 and im your bosssss.
Okay, that explains your fast downloads, im your boss. (Hey, nobody's the boss of me! Heh heh.) I do music and videos and have had so much fun with both.
Is there no DSL locally that you can get? I was lucky to be living near one of Verizon's DSL hubs or stations, or whatever they're called. My friend, who lives two long blocks south of me can't get it.
Hopper,
I'll for sure check out the site on graphics. My card came with the system, and is fairly good, better than a lot, but certainly not for any serious gaming. And I'm not sure it's worth the 135 MBs of RAM it steals off the top of my 512, which is actually 490 now (some corruption maybe?) With the new stick I'll have 877 which is cool for me. eMachines told me my system will only take up to one gig. Last time I was in Best Buy, I drooled all over the video card displays, but the only ones I feel are worth tearing my system apart are financially out of my ball park.
By the way, when you mentioned upgrading your Java a while back, I flashed because I had just upgraded mine to the newest version. My screen never went gray, but it's mostly gray anyway, except in the middle where it's green. The graphics seem okay, in fact. What I get is the screens that only clear half away, and leave a portion inside another open window. Seems to me that would be resources, but I could be wrong, and usually am.
I was feeling grumpy earlier because I downloaded a whole 'nother porn movie instead of Crash...again. I couldn't preview it because of the codecs issue.
But in my rambling pursuit of the illusive miracle codec last night, I inadvertently downloaded DivX. And darn if the DivX player doesn't play all but one of the rascally files that failed on every other player. Pure blind luck. Wish I could fix something with logic, but I'll take what I can get.
Back a moment to the dozing LW: It's still going to sleep on me, but there are times when I leave on errands, come back an hour or so later and find it still on Turbo Charged. So I'll be grateful for that much.
And this is now officially novel length, or novella at least. Another aside: I have in a shared folder named eNovels under LW, the only novel of mine that never sold. Sci fi, horror, thriller book. I may have to put the eBook Reader download in there to make it easier to read, should anyone ever want to read it. It ain't bad. Honest. I know some of use guys read books, too.
Thanks for all the feedback, everyone. Forums are much more fun than I thought.
I'm outta here.