{"id":867,"date":"2010-01-18T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/01\/18\/tyecam-is-offline\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T08:25:00","slug":"tyecam-is-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/01\/18\/tyecam-is-offline\/","title":{"rendered":"TyeCam is Offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from my problems with the webcam software crashing about once a day, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Lenovo computers are shit.<\/span>  I know that comes as a surprise to no one, but I just had to get it off my chest.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, after <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/913622\">a bunch of research<\/a> and then <a href=\"http:\/\/chris.brandlehner.at\/Brandlehner\/cab_blog.nsf\/d6plinks\/CBRR-6YWBNV\">cleaning up my Windows XP registry<\/a> to fix a problem with my power management profiles not working, I also updated the <a href=\"http:\/\/www-307.ibm.com\/pc\/support\/site.wss\/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4gxpeg\">power management drivers<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www-307.ibm.com\/pc\/support\/site.wss\/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-70602\">and utilities<\/a> on my laptop.  Today this hunk of junk kept going into standby mode&#8211;even though I explicitly disabled that function, because it kills my wireless networking.  (No idea why.  Started happening in 2008.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/2009\/01\/two-years-until-retirement.html\">Repair shop couldn&#8217;t fix it either.<\/a>)  Now I&#8217;ve uninstalled all the Lenovo crap, and explorer.exe has started crashing.<\/p>\n<p>Yay.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s time for that Windows 7 upgrade after all.  I didn&#8217;t want to go through all the trouble of reinstalling a whole damn operating system before, but at this point I&#8217;m just about ready to salt the fucking earth.  I know, I could install Linux, but that would just be a different set of maintenance headaches.  And I wouldn&#8217;t be able to run most of the software I want.<\/p>\n<p>Some days I really hate computers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from my problems with the webcam software crashing about once a day, Lenovo computers are shit. I know that comes as a surprise to no one, but I just had to get it off my chest. Last night, after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[64,24,32,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky","category-rant","category-sci-tech","category-tyecam"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}