So, right now I'm at my boyfriend's house pouting because I really wish I had my own laptop. If you saw the nice little machine my boyfriend owns and was kind enough to leave here for me to play with during the day while he's at work... you might wonder why I'm pouting. He has a pretty nice 17" Apple laptop (forgive me for not knowing exactly which one it is, but it's got a nice metal casing and a 2.6ghz core 2 duo processor, and OS X 10.5.6). I shouldn't be complaining, it's a nice machine, but everything is configured all wrong!
He's got an extension installed on Firefox that completely and absolutely kills the ability to pop links out into their own windows (yet somehow I still get pop up ads for some websites I visit ?!?) so I can't throw my Google Talk chat windows out of my Gmail inbox screen into their own window, Firefox forces them into a new tab. For whatever reason he doesn't like Open Office, and he has two other office suites installed on here... so even though he'd let me install OOo on a previous stay, he had since removed it claiming it was doing things to bother him. But I hate throwing my fiction writing back and forth between office programs as it usually frells up my formatting in small stupid ways that most people wouldn't care about, but bother me a great deal.
These are just some of the reasons why I dislike borrowing someone else's computer, as everything is set up all wrong, but I can't really do anything to fix it because it is not my computer! Then, knowing I am such a nit pick about these things... I'd bought myself a nice little 16GB usb flash drive, to set up a live kubuntu drive on, and when I plugged it in to try to boot to it on his laptop? It didn't go. And when I'd said I was going to try this on his computer over IM, he didn't warn me there I probably had to hit the option key to get to the bootloader screen in order to tell the laptop to boot from the drive! He only mentioned this after I waited through the long ass boot up time back into OS X and came back to Gmail (which of course gave me an error with the chat the first time I logged in). Bah humbug.
So, anyone else want to share their woes on being stuck borrowing someone else's computer, or how they've managed to cope with doing such?
He's got an extension installed on Firefox that completely and absolutely kills the ability to pop links out into their own windows (yet somehow I still get pop up ads for some websites I visit ?!?) so I can't throw my Google Talk chat windows out of my Gmail inbox screen into their own window, Firefox forces them into a new tab. For whatever reason he doesn't like Open Office, and he has two other office suites installed on here... so even though he'd let me install OOo on a previous stay, he had since removed it claiming it was doing things to bother him. But I hate throwing my fiction writing back and forth between office programs as it usually frells up my formatting in small stupid ways that most people wouldn't care about, but bother me a great deal.
These are just some of the reasons why I dislike borrowing someone else's computer, as everything is set up all wrong, but I can't really do anything to fix it because it is not my computer! Then, knowing I am such a nit pick about these things... I'd bought myself a nice little 16GB usb flash drive, to set up a live kubuntu drive on, and when I plugged it in to try to boot to it on his laptop? It didn't go. And when I'd said I was going to try this on his computer over IM, he didn't warn me there I probably had to hit the option key to get to the bootloader screen in order to tell the laptop to boot from the drive! He only mentioned this after I waited through the long ass boot up time back into OS X and came back to Gmail (which of course gave me an error with the chat the first time I logged in). Bah humbug.
So, anyone else want to share their woes on being stuck borrowing someone else's computer, or how they've managed to cope with doing such?
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