Didn’t post for the entirety of July, is shocked

Strangely enough, a lot happened in July. Mostly hinging around the new laptop I got. I purchased it in mid-July and got it a week later. A day after its arrival I came down with a really miserable cold. Hates colds. So I had to leave all the troubling issues with my laptop to the [...]

Struggling with Vista

Got a new machine over the weekend with Vista Home Premium (x64) and wanted to pull my hair out all Sunday evening. Spent 6 hours trying to diagnose why I could connect to the internet — yes, my router assigned an IP and I could ping/ftp/mail/https — but not do any updates or view http [...]