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[atomicduck]

I nearly had a stroke the other day when I thought I broke my laptop... in exactly the same manner I broke the previous one. I knocked the monitor against a chair and the monitor's colours went all screwy-- the black parts of images displayed as green and the white parts as pink. No physical damage to be seen and when the output was externally

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[o_glorianna]

Ahaha. You sound so hilariously and properly British in this. Also, 'sellotape' - whoa, does that bring me back.
Glad to hear that the computer is all fixed up! I think mine is on its last legs as well. And then I realized that it was only so slow because there was all sorts of csrap that it had picked up that a good virus scan could clean up. I think I'm investing in a good scanner this week. sigh
Hope to see you tomorrow!

[o_glorianna]

Also, please to be noting my much improved typing on the iPad. It's still slowish going, but no more gibberish! Hurrah!

[atomicduck]

you have an iPad now??? Or do you mean your iPhone?

heh, if you mean the sellotape, well I have no problems calling commercial products by their brand, since that's what both sellotape and scotch tape are! there's a bit more resistance in adopting other things like the pronunciations of "vitamins" and "aluminium", lol.

I use AVG for virus-related stuff and it's pretty good! It's free, last time I checked and will scan webpages as well. Then I also use adblock to prevent any advertisements from popping up from sites I visit.

[o_glorianna]

iPad! I gave into consumerism and bought it a few weeks ago for clerkship. Reading reference materials on it is a dream. If the iPad were animate, it'd be an amazingly attractive best friend who is infuriatingly bullheaded in certain areas who you sort of wish you could make out with.

I have Malwarebytes and it's been good. But I think my firewall is shot.will have to reconsider that and clean the dust out too.

Congrats again! ♥

[vampyrichamster]

Awesome! And money-saving. :)

[atomicduck]

Yep! The relief that washed over me when I turned the computer back on after I took it apart was indescribable, lol.

[bloodymarry]

That's really amazing! Mine just shut down out of nowhere (never happened before) and I wouldn't even know how to disassemble the thing :|

(I'm back in London now btw!)

[atomicduck]

is it overheating? some things shut down when they get too hot to prevent an fire hazard.

and YAY! you're finally here! safe and sound. :) do you have some time to meet up on a weekend or evening? it'd be awesome to finally hang!

[bloodymarry]

Hmm, it might have been. I just hope it doesn't happen again!

Yeees, finally made it over :D I should be free most of the time, don't have a job yet and at the moment I'm just busy with trying to sort things. So I guess whenever suits you and I'll see if I can make some time!

[atomicduck]

Well, I've got typical work hours, so how about a Friday evening? This week or next? Whereabouts are you living, or do you know yet? I work in (veeeery) northeast London, but we could meet up easily anywhere in central town or east London (e.g. Whitechapel).

[deadtree]

awesome! Go you!

[atomicduck]

:D mainly relieved it won't be another expense this month!