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I've finished Harry Potter, and lack anyone to talk to it about so I thought I'd see if I could link up Dad's laptop to my phone over bluetooth and then use that to get to LJ and see what everyone else was saying about it.

45 minutes of playing later I came to the conclusion that his laptop doesn't actually have a bluetooth dongle in it. It took me that long because I've never used Vista before and never tried to set up bluetooth before, so I couldn't tell if I was just missing some setting.

Having given up on that I decided that installing his Father's Day present (Company of Heroes) would be fun - I've not seen it, but I'd heard good things about it. I got as far as the first of the install screens and it asked for the serial number. Checking the back of the manual I discovered that the serial number space was entirely blank.

Which just left me feeling tense, stressed and on edge, which I know are three different descriptions of the same thing but I want to be sure I'm getting my feelings across here...

I hate things not working. I'm sure that a lot of my computer skills stem from my experiences as a teenager, when I'd break something and then be totally focussed on fixing it for the next hour (or two, or eight) until I'd got it working again and the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach had gone away.

It all ties back in with my love for order, reason and organisation. With wanting to understand why things are the way they are and exert some control over them. I want the world to work the way I expect it to. And when it doesn't I want to be able to understand either what I did wrong, or where my understanding is lacking.

None of this is as bad as it was. Nowadays I have the world firmly (if fuzzily) divided into things that can be argued and things that can't, as well as into things that I've heard the arguments over 500 times, and things where I might hear a new argument. I no longer feel the need to understand (and thus feel a measure of control over) everything. And by and large I feel much happier because of this.

All of which notwithstanding I'm not going to be happy until I've got the damned game installed and working.

Or what about

Date: 2007-07-22 10:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] robhu.livejournal.com
3438-fdf3-fd15-7fa6-94b7 ?

Re: Or what about

Date: 2007-07-27 12:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] robhu.livejournal.com
You're trying to run games on Vista?!?!

Re: Or what about

Date: 2007-07-27 12:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] robhu.livejournal.com
Then my prayers (even though I'm an atheist) are with him.

He'll need them.

Date: 2007-07-23 06:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i-ate-my-crusts.livejournal.com
Yes. Yes. Yes.

And totally on the last line. I am ugly and horrible to be around when I can't get networking-related things working. (most other computer things I can bang into shape, given a bit of space and no-one asking me questions in the middle of tweaking.)

Date: 2007-07-23 09:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] channelpenguin.livejournal.com
With me part of the stress is fear of failure. If I am confident that I will succeed in the end (even if it's by a roundabout route and takes ages and takes a lot of puzzling etc.) I am not stressed. I think most people have a touch of that, maybe.

(of course if it's TOO easy, then it becomes boring...)

The more uncertain success is, the more stressed I get. Combine that with perfectionism and you have a recipe for torture.

Date: 2007-07-23 04:33 pm (UTC)

Date: 2007-07-24 12:35 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] darkoshi
"...so I thought I'd see if I could link up Dad's laptop to my phone over bluetooth and then use that to get to LJ and see what everyone else was saying about it."

that, less than 5 hours after "For the next week the internet will be write only :-)"

You sure didn't last long. And you even had a smiley there, as if you truly were looking forward to being cut off from civilization.

At work, we can generally type in all 1's for the serial #s when installing things. Not sure if those are special corporate versions, or how come it works.

Date: 2007-07-24 01:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aberbotimue.livejournal.com
Set up a comunity called "I finished Harry potter and need to talk" and then you and all the other spead readers out there can talk nice together..

It has taken me a little over a yeasr to get half way through the golden phenix ones, so I won't be ready to talk to you for a few years yet...

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