After an excruciating week of just staring at my new computer, still in it's boxes, I was finally able to set it up. This means we got into our new apartment, but I'll share more on that later. My computer (see the specs) rocks. Well, it at least rocks in the sense that, well, it's turned on. I haven't had a chance to do much with it yet and all my high-powered graphics software is still in transit from Fairbanks.
My 17" flat panel LCD monitor seems to be really nice. The colors are very bright. I haven't begun to tweak any of the settings. The unfortunate thing about my monitor is that it came with only one sentence of set-up information which was basically 'plug the monitor into the computer.' What it didn't say is that I'm not supposed to plug in both cables (video & DVI) coming from the monitor, but just one... of my choosing I guess. It also didn't say that there are two separate power switches (which makes sooooo much sense, naturally). You'd hate to accidentally turn on the power without an entire ritual of reverence to the Samsung gods now would you? After a day and a half of thinking my monitor was broken, and going through many levels of technical support... I got the right combination of cables and buttons. It works. I'm happy.
Now I can surf the internet, post on my blog, find jobs, and work on resumes without the in-laws hovering and trying ever so diligently to make me feel loved. Sadly my printer won't be here for awhile so I'll still have to go to their place to print. I can handle that... I think.
| May 24, 2004 11:34am | 
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