tombraidergirl's blog

Isn't the internet a cool place? You can display everything you are doing... which geocaches you have found, what you are listening to, how many trophies/achievements you have earned in games.

Here's my life:

My primary geocaching profile:



My PSN Trophies:


My Xbox live Achievements:


My youtube account:
http://de.youtube.com/user/tombraidergirlnet


What I'm listening to; my last.fm account:
http://www.lastfm.de/user/tombraidergirl

These are the albums I listened to most, at least according to last.fm

Kosheen - Resist 303 tracks listened to

D'espairsRay - Mirror 294 tracks

Delain - Lucidity 284 tracks

Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob 264 tracks

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black 249 tracks

Dir en grey - Withering to death. 222 tracks

Nightwish - Once 220 tracks

Nightwish - Tales From the Elvenpath 211 tracks

Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight 208 tracks

Nightwish - Century Child 207 tracks

Marilyn Manson - EAT ME, DRINK ME 200 tracks

Kaiser Chiefs - Employment 191 tracks

Tarja Turunen - My Winterstorm 191 tracks

Duffy - Rockferry 190 tracks

Within Temptation - The Silent Force 189 tracks

Hoobastank - The Reason 173 tracks

Dir en grey - Vulgar 171 tracks

Nightwish - Angels Fall First 160 tracks

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication 153 tracks

Within Temptation - Mother Earth 152 tracks

Evanescence - The Open Door 152 tracks

Kosheen - Damage 152 tracks

浜崎あゆみ - MY STORY 138 tracks

D'espairsRay - [Coll:Set] 138 tracks

A Fine Frenzy - One Cell in the Sea 134 tracks

Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts 133 tracks

Shakira - Laundry Service 129 tracks

Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway 129 tracks

浜崎あゆみ - (miss)understood 125 tracks

浜崎あゆみ - A BALLADS 118 tracks

Robbie Williams - Rudebox 116 tracks

Christina Aguilera - Back To Basics 111 tracks

The Cranberries - Bury the Hatchet 105 tracks

Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything 103 tracks

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 103 tracks


Alas the statistics are wrong in at least three cases (Two albums by D'espairsRay and Stadium Arcadium by Red Hot Chili Peppers must be in there.)

Auf der Suche nach einem neuen Netzteil - irgendwo muss man ja mit der Rechneraufrüstung anfangen, und das ist das einzige Teil was ich noch einzeln kaufen kann, da eine neue CPU ein neues Board braucht, auf dem nur neuer Speicher läuft und nur eine PCIe Grafikkarte nimmt - habe ich die Seiten von Alternate, VV-Computer, Grey und PC King durchstöbert. Das finale Ergebnis war, dass ich mein gewünschtes Netzteil von bequiet mit Kabelmanagement beim PC King (dank wegfallender Transportkosten, da ich leicht hinfahren kann) am günstigsten bekommen würde. 123 Öcken für ein Netzteil... Nunja.

Also sind wir nach einem kurzen Abstecher nach Hause - ich war mal wieder ohne 'Geld' unterwegs - in Siegburg vorbei gefahren und haben den 3 Kilo Klotz gekauft. Zuhause ging es dann ans Einbauen.

Schweren Herzens habe ich mich von meinem vorherigen Netzteil (leider nur 400W Leistung, sonst aber völlig in Ordnung) getrennt. Bei der Gelegenheit haben wir dann auch das Board und die CPU gegen Jans nicht mehr gebrauchte Hardware (Athlon 2800+ statt 2600+ und Board mit SATA Anschluss - der die extra Karte überflüssig macht) ausgetauscht. Also wurden erstmal alle Utensilien aus dem Board genommen und alles ausgesteckt, Board abgeschraubt, Netzteil abgeschraubt. Jan hat das meiste davon übernommen, begleitet von meinem ständigen "pass auf meine Soundkarte auf".

Nach kurzer Zeit war das Board dann eingebaut und ans Netzteil angeschlossen. Alle weiteren Kabel mussten nun erstmal angesteckt werden. Hierbei kam schon mal die Frage auf, wie man das am besten macht, wenn die HDD und SATA Anschlüsse quer durch das Gehäuse verteilt werden mussten. HDD für Grafikkarte, DVD Brenner und Festplatte 1, SATA für Festplatte 2, und möglicht nicht zu viele an ein Kabel. Zum Glück haben wir schließlich für alles das passende Kabel gefunden, auch wenn ein weiteres einzelnes HDD Anschlusskabel nett gewesen wäre, aber naja, das Netzteil ist nicht für diese alten Gammelteile gemacht und Kombikabel gab es ja genug.

Als schließlich (viele langweilige Steckaktione später) alles angeschlossen war, sah es im Gehäuse kaum aufgeräumter aus, als vorher und das obwohl bei der Aktion die SATA Karte, der Cardreader und eine Woche vorher schon das Diskettenlaufwerk rausgeflogen sind.

Warum ist in Rechnergehäusen eigentlich kein Platz? Ich habe doch schon einen großen Tower...

Nichtsahnend begebe ich mich heute ins FedCon Forum und was muss ich da lesen. Man hat es geschafft Edward James Olmos (Admiral Adama aus Battlestar Galactica) zu verpflichten. Daraufhin habe ich die Gästeliste auf der Webseite nochmal angeschaut und noch weitere Überraschungen gefunden. Viele meiner Gastwünsche fürs nächste Jahr scheinen in Erfüllung zu gehen. Das nicht alle kommen können war ja von vorne herein klar, dafür will ich zu viele Leute sehen.



Meine Wünsche waren:
Star Trek:
Patrick Stewart
Michael Dorn
Terry Farrell
Jeffrey Combs (erfüllt)
Casey Biggs
Marc Alaimo (erfüllt)
Roxanne Dawson
Scott Bakula

BSG:
Edward James Olmos (erfüllt)
Katee Sackhoff
James Callis (erfüllt)
Tricia Helfer
Grace Park
Richard Hatch (erfüllt)
usw. (erfüllt )


Stargate / Atlantis / Farsacpe:
Richard Dean Anderson
Amanda Tapping
Christopher Judge (erfüllt)
Ben Browder
Claudia Black
Joe Flanigan
Jason Momoa
David Hewlett
Rachel Luttrell


Star Wars:
irgendwer

Buffy / Angel / Firefly:
James Marsters
Anthony Stewart Head
Alyson Hannigan
Alexis Denisof
Nicholas Brendon
Charisma Carpenter
Emma Caulfield
Eliza Dushku
Amber Benson
Nathan Fillion
Morena Baccarin
D. B. Woodside


LOST
Terry O`Quinn

Three bloody years ago... I found an image of this lovely lovely Kazuya action figure on the internet (Namco's webpage) and I swore that I'd get my hands on one of these.

A lot of people got hurt in the process (see caption of the image of the old article), not to mention the poor cardboard box I shredded to pieces when it arrived today.


But it did arrive, can you imagine. Funnily it was Saturday, July 16th 2005 when I wrote the first article and it was Saturday, July 19th 2008 when I ordered the figure, after spotting it in the newly arrived catalogue.

Anyway, Lara has a companion now...

Inzwischen habe ich mich an die neue last.fm Seite gewöhnt, vor allem nachdem ich herausgefunden habe, dass man "Elemente" aus seiner Musiksammlung (der gescrobbelten) entfernen kann.

So bin ich jetzt meine ganzen falsch getaggten Künstler losgeworden, dafür bin ich allerdings 90 im Minus und wo ich gestern 1.255 hatte, sind es jetzt nur noch 1.165. Man kann halt nicht alles haben.

Aber beim Scrobbeln scheint man auch an Intelligenz zugelegt haben. Gerade höre ich "Don't Give Up" von Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush; bei mir waren diese falsch herum im Tag angegeben, das wurde aber bemerkt und korrigiert. Wäre also nicht falsch angekommen, jetzt stimmt es bei mir auch.

Da gehe ich nichtsahnend auf die last.fm Seite, um zu prüfen, ob die Liste der Artists aktualisiert wurde und ich meinem momentanen Ziel (einige nicht korrekte getaggte Künstler aus den 500 - Etappenziel:200 - zu verdrängen) näher gekommen bin, da schaut mich eine völlig neue Seite an. Die sich verdammtnochmal an ALLE Künstler (egal ob richtig oder falsch) erinnert. Miststück!

Und nun? Liegt mir trotzdem dran sie aus den Top 500 zu drängen? Habe ich kein Ziel mehr und muss jetzt unorganisiert Musik hören? Und das wo ich wie irre auf Last.fm sowie in Jans und meinen CD Schränken Künstler gejagt habe, die man 35 Mal hören könnte!

Oder verfolge ich ein neues Ziel, die Zahl meiner Gesamtkünstler (derzeit 1.225) nach oben zu jagen? Nette Alternative.

Und dabei meiden die Beatles zu hören? Oder habe ich die tatsächlich mal gehört und werde die nie wieder los? Ich fürchte wohl der Herr McCartney ist auf jeden Fall dabei (und wenn es wegen Live and Let Die ist - ich habe sie nunmal alle gehört die Bond-Titellieder).

Eine andere Aufgabe, die ich mir vorgenommen habe ist, Robbie Williams nach unten zu schieben, nur nicht so einfach, wenn die potentiellen Kandidaten für die feindliche Übernahme (Utada Hikaru, Shakira, Placebo, D'espairsRay, Sugababes) meine ohnehin starken Tags ( (J-)Rock, (J-)Pop, Alternative) weiter pushen würden. Ich glaube da bleibt nur: Marilyn Manson vor. Die dahinter befindlichen (Evanescence, Madonna und Delain) taugen ja auch wieder nicht.

Seite 2 verspricht mehr (Linkin Park [...] Kosheen); nur schade, dass ich von Kosheen nur eine Platte habe und der Abstand zu Robbie 185 Lieder sind. Hoffnungslos!

Eine weitere tolle Beschäftigung wäre es die Top 6 (die auf der Profilseite stehen) alle auf 1.000 zu pushen. Für Diru und U2 sicher kein Thema. RHCP wären schon etwas schwerer, aber alleine ihre letzte Platte war doppelt, ich glaube damit haben wir 5 im Schrank. Bei Within Temptation sieht es schon schlechter aus, da sind es nur 3. Die nächsten, die Kaiser Chiefs haben nur 2 - Zeit für was neues, Jungs! ... und dann kommen wir bei Robbie Williams an, ja, der hat viel, der gehört für mich gefühlsmäßig aber nicht sooo weit nach oben.

Da ist man mal ein paar Tage nicht im Fedcon Forum und schon gibt es Gaststar-Ankündigungen.

Christopher Judge Teal'c aus Stargate wird einer der Gäste sein. Da ich ja inzwischen richtiger Fan der Serie bin und auch alle Folgen incl. des ersten Filmes gesehen habe, freut es mich umso mehr - nach diesem Jahr, wo Daniel Jackson aka Michael Shanks - nächstes Jahr noch ein Mitglied des Main-Casts von SG-1 zu sehen.

Kate Vernon Der Name hat mich, wie so häufig bei Battlestar Galactica (Neue Serie), vor ein Rätsel gestellt. Allerdings ist ihr Charakter Ellen Tigh, die Frau von Colonel Saul Tigh, ja kein unbekannter.

Insgesamt ein guter Auftakt für die Gästeliste, etwas Stargate, etwas Battlestar. Es verspricht so interessant zu werden, wie dieses Jahr. Ob man das toppen kann?

Wenn Old Baldy (aka Patrick Stewart) kommt sicher. Daumen drück

Manchmal "erlebt" (hört, sieht, liest...) man etwas und kurz darauf erlebt man etwas, was mit dem zuvor erlebten zusammenhängt.

In dieser neuen Serie, die gleichzeitig der Auftakt der in Deutsch verfassten Artikel meines Blogs ist, werde ich von solchen Zusammenhängen berichten.

Der Auslöser war, dass ich gerade nochmal quer durch das Buch "The Eyre Affair" (Der Fall Jane Eyre) von Jasper Fforde lese. (Nachdem ich dieses Buch gelesen habe, habe ich "Jane Eyre" gelesen, welches eine wichtige Rolle in diesem Roman spielt, und nun schaue ich nochmal drüber um die Geschehnisse in beiden Büchern miteinander zu vergleichen.)
In The Eyre Affair arbeitet der Vater der Protagonistin Thursday Next bei der ChronoGarde und hat die Fähigkeit die Zeit anzuhalten. Eben diese Fähigkeit hat auch Hiro Nakamura einer der Charaktere in Heroes, einer Fernsehserie, die wir (Jan und ich) gerade (das bedeutet immer Abends ein paar Folgen) schauen.
In Heroes war letztlich eine Folge die in einer japanischen Karaoke-Bar spielte. Dort lief "I Want It That Way" von den Backstreet Boys. Dieses Lied ist eines der vielen, die Weird Al zum Opfer gefallen sind und aus ihm wurde "I Bought It on ebay". Vor wenigen Wochen hatte Jan dieses auf youtube gefunden und angesehen und seitdem bekam keiner von uns dieses Lied aus seinem Kopf. Und da war es wieder...



Zusammenfassend habe ich heute folgendes miteinander verbunden:
Jane Eyre - The Eyre Affair - Heroes - "I Want It That Way" von den Backstreet Boys - Weird Al

My goal for this months open mind index was to reach 110, instead I have achieved the unbelievable score of 121.

And all this just from listening to less Nightwish and less regular Rock or Pop.

The downside is that now I don't have a goal anymore.

So Jan had this silly idea to complete his frell-machine... we've watched way too much Farscape and Battlestar Galactica lately.

The Frell-Machine is a "program" that curses any entered subject (like your own name, someone elses name, Windows...) or just generally curses. It uses different curses from all kinds of TV shows, or other genres, like for example the word frell which is a placeholder for the f-word in Farscape, as is frak in BSG.

My most favourite curse right now is:
Frak the frelling shiong mao niao!

shiong mao niao was used in Firefly and means panda urine.

If you want to try out the frell-machine (please keep in mind that it is still being finetuned), follow this link:
http://www.janbeinersdorf.de/frell/

The new OMI (Open Mind Index) has been calculated and I have actually managed to improve mine from 97 to 101. My current goal of getting at least 100 was reached.

It was achieved by mainly reducing Rock and Pop. No new genre (like Industrial Metal) has entered the "My Musical Taste"-diagram yet.

"Are you one of the remaining five? Do you know this song?"


There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the Cylon who is chief
There's too much confusion
I cant get no relief

Viperpilots steal my time
Raptors scrap my earth
None will level on the line
Nobody of it is worth
Hey hey

No reason to get excited
The chief he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that Lee is but a joke but uh
But you and I we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
cause Balthar's getting laid
Hey

Hey

All along the Battlestar
Adama kept the view
While all the women came and went
Bare-foot cylon-bitches too, but huh
Outside in the cold space
A viper did growl
Two raiders were approachin'
And the dradis began to howl
Hey

Oh
All along the Battlestar
Hear you sing around the watch
Gotta beware gotta beware I will
Yeah
Ooh baby
All along the Battlestar





AND FINALLY

I always considered myself open minded, when it comes to music, then I met the OMI on last.fm.

Apparently you need an OMI of 120 to truly join the Open Mind Index group, which I don't have yet, damn.

I quickly found out how the OMI works:
Apparently it takes ones top 50 artists and looks at the genres they are in.

Unfortunately I have a loooooot of artists who are either in the rock or pop category. How helpful. Well yes, I know I should get for example Genesis and Robbie Williams and some other main stream artists out of there as they do not really reflect my musical taste, but what can I do. Also my "female vocalists" part of the pie is rather large. This is a really silly tag to take into consideration if you ask me. About 50% of my playlist are female artists, but most of them are nothing alike when it comes to their music; like Tarja Turunen, Christina Aguilera, Katie Melua and Mary J. Blige for example.

Well, well... to improve my rating I have been listening more to artists who have not been tagged as rock or pop so much, like Metallica, Linkin Park, Amy Winehouse, John Williams and Kaiser Chiefs.

My OMI for April was 97, I am now anxious to find out what it will be in May.

I think I have good chances to get the genres Nu Metal, Trash Metal, Industrial (Metal), Indie, Soundtrack, RNB, Soul, Electronica and Trip Hop, maybe even Reggae into my rating, sooner or later.

Nightwish has a new album, "Dark Passion Play", the first without Tarja Turunen. Are they still Nightwish?

My first answer would be "yes", but when listening to their new album closely, I am starting to have my doubts. While some songs are great, and in case of "The Poet and the Pendulum" fantastic, others do not match my expectations at all. Too many of the new songs are a bit boring or have annoying bits (especially lyric-wise). It is not so much the new voice that had ruined some of the songs...

The Good Songs
The Poet and the Pendulum (5/5)
I love the song and it is by far the one I've listened to most. It is very long with almost 14 minutes but never gets boring.

Bye Bye Beautiful (4/5)
Another good song on this album, however the background story behind it ruins the song.

Amaranth (4/5)
Amaranth is another song I like.

The O.K. Songs
These are the songs that are ok to listen to, they reach (3/5)
Cadence of her Last Breath
Sahara
For The Heart I once had
7 Days to the Wolves (even through this tends to annoy)
Last Of The Wilds

The Not So Good Songs
Master Passion Greed annoying lyrics
Eva plain boring
Whoever brings the Night repetitive, annoying
The Islander horrible, annoying, boring
Meadows of Heaven annoying lyrics

I was browsing last.fm, when I saw that the most popular songs of any artist (from the last 6 months) aren't always the same as my favourite song of this artist (based on how often I have heard it and the rating I've given it on i-tunes). So here is a comparison.

I only picked the artists that made it into my top 50 on last.fm. There are some problems when it comes to artists like Madonna, where new songs are at the top of the list... but nevermind, my song preferences are also "recent", and in some cases I might have given a "newer" song (e.g. Elevation) although I have a lot of older songs by the same artist I also like)

Here's my profile by the way:
http://www.last.fm/user/tombraidergirl/


1. Ayumi Hamasaki
Obviously I've been listening to a lot of Ayu since I joined last.fm...

Last.fm #1: evolution
My #1: Rainbow (no rank on last.fm)


2. Dir en grey

Last.fm #1: THE FINAL
My #1: THE FINAL
1st match


3. Robbie Williams

Last.fm #1: Angels
My #1: Advertising Space (9 on last.fm) / Let Me Entertain You (4 on last.fm)


4. Nightwish

Last.fm #1: Nemo
My #1: Dark Chest of Wonders (7 on last.fm) / Sleeping Sun (5 on last.fm)


5. U2

Last.fm #1: With Or Without You
My #1: Elevation (#10 on last.fm)


6. Red Hot Chili Peppers

Last.fm #1: Californication
My #1: Californication / Otherside
2nd match


7. Hikaru Utada

Last.fm #1: Simple And Clean
My #1: ... hm difficult choice. I like Simple and Clean, but I also like some of her other songs a lot... The fact that none of her songs made it into my top 50 although she's number 7 proves it, I guess.


8. Shakira

Last.fm #1: Underneath Your Clothes
My #1: Dónde Están Los Ladrones? (43 on last.fm) / La Tortura (of the more current songs) (23 on last.fm)


9. Evanescence

Last.fm #1: My Immortal
My #1: Whisper (11 on last.fm)


10. Placebo

Last.fm #1: The Bitter End
My #1: Every You Every Me (#2 on last.fm)

For days I've been working on a new design for my website, and it's driving me mad. I've never been that angry about css and html or even my server.

I swear, there is a troll sitting on the server, messing up everything I just created.

I first started with a very messy version with images mainly in the main folder and one external style sheet, using css formatting only, using no tables at all and everything worked fine, till I began to try and get the backgrounds of two neighbouring columns to reach down to the end of the site....

This failed as only the one with the "longer content" seemed to reach down to the end of the page. Then I tried using minimum-height, following a manual for it in every aspect, but it did not work...

After several tries, each time beginning from scratch, I gave up and decided to go back to tables, at which point Firefox decided it didn't like tables any more. And even though I could not find any reason, any error and had a valid code it insisted that there was "text" between my two "td"s - I swear, it was "td closed" "td opened", there was nothing in-between, not even a space.

In-between, whenever I had enough of the trouble with tables or floating divs, I got over to moving the images into a separate folder to get some order. This worked fine, till I tried linking them. I used the same method as on my regular Website (I must say, that the location where I'm trying all this is exactly like the one on the regular site, is is just another subfolder on the same server, they just have a different name and a different domain assigned to them) a link would look like this using the / at the beginning to indicate that it is relative to the main folder; this was I can use the same link in an include file without any trouble... or so I thought. This would not work...

Then suddenly a similar problem turned up with one of my includes... I normally use
include('includefile.inc.php');
or
include("includefile.inc.php");
to include a file in several pages that has always the same content... but suddenly include('head_d.inc.php'); was not good enough for my server and it took me 20 Minutes to figure out that it was because I used ' ' instead of " " which is very strange, as there was no conflict with other 's or "s....

Yesterday... It was suddenly the other way around and I had to exchange " and ' again... Silly server....

One other thing happened yesterday. I finally decided on accepting a compromise and using css. I already had a running version of how I liked it but with all image and stylesheet links (and content) a bit too messy for my taste. So I copied it and exchanged the links, then modified the menu and then tested it. Suddenly something I did not touch at all did not work any more. Just-like-that.... I tried to find the error, I removed all non-essential information from the page, I copied the working source of the part in question into my framework but everything was unsuccessful. So it must be something I used in one of the two surrounding divs... However I could not find anything that explained why something that was supposed to be at the beginning of the right column was at the end of it. There was no "clear" or anything...

So I started from scratch again....

At first this was just something I said when some friends repeatedly wanted us to watch NCIS. I said to my boyfriend: "I bet there is one TV show for each letter of the Alphabet I'd rather watch.

So here is my list:


A
ALF - I always watched it, when I was younger.

Ally Mc Beal - Alas I have never seen the end of it.

Angel - I think this would be my actual favourite in this category.

Atlantis - See Stargate.



B
Babylon5 - Decent sci-fi show.

Battlestar Galactica (New Series) - This is one of my absolute favourites.

Buffy - Hard to decide which I like more, Buffy or BSG... so I guess this makes two for B



C
I actually don't have a show with C I watch regularly or have watched in the past.
I have seen a few episodes of the following three.

Charlies Angles - Some time ago, well. I would probably watch something else before this.

CSI - I just watched an episode today, I am just a bit confused with all the spinoffs.

Charmed - I know that many people who liked Buffy also liked this, I however don't find it that special.



D

Dawson's Creek - The only show with D I watched more than once. It was alright I guess.

Deep Space Nine - Yes, I have listed it under Star Trek as well. Bad girl!

(actually in German we would have House here, as it is called Dr. House there, but as my blog is in English, I will leave that for later.)



E
Enterprise - Not as bad as some said. Not worse than the end of Voyager....

And if anyone says, that this belongs to S, as in Star Trek... If I had to, I'd watch George Clooney in ER.



F

Friends - definitely Friends. "We were on a break!"

Firefly - Alas there isn't enough of this show to judge it against Friends.

Farscape - or the prequel to the later Stargate SG-1? The series was great, but the end... no, I did not like it, it felt rushed... Like trying to find a quick solution to the problem of the open end...

Full House - This was good, when I was about 12 or so...

Futurama - I am not a big fan of these type of show but if any, then this one, I guess, or South Park?



G

Galactica - now that's cheating, isn't it? But it gives Buffy the B-spot.



H

Hercules - I always connect this show with Latin homework. Probably because it was always on on Sundays and I waited for the last moment to do my Monday- Latin-Homework.

House - I like the humour and it is the only medical series that's not boring.



I
I??? I've never heard of any of the shows listed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._television_series#I



J

JAG - This was on after Voyager for some time.

Joey - Not a brilliant as friends, but decent enough.



K

King of Queens - Quite alright if you need something to laugh.



L

L-Word - The same friend (or one of them) who wants us to watch NCIS also brought along this show. What shall I say. Love it or hate it.

Lost ??? - I must confess I have not seen it, yet. And I don't feel like just jumping into it, in the middle of the show. I have to rent the first season, I guess...



M

Magnum - Sexy man, at least that's what I thought a while ago. He's still alright, I guess.



N
Well, here we are, NCIS category....

NUMB3RS - I have seen about two episodes. I like it, especially since it has a lot to do with the stuff I learned at university. I'd watch more if I had the time. But there are other shows higher up in my priority list.



O
SKIP



P

Prince of Bel-Air - I love Will Smith!!! And yes, I cheated again, it is originally called The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air but not where I live, so... F was full anyway.



Q

Quantum Leap - Hello Captain Archer. Well this show is quite old-fashioned, but ok...



R

Remington Steele - I also love Pierce Brosnan.

Roseanne - Long time ago, but yes, I watched that too.



S

Star Trek ... - Oh I love TNG (Data and Riker and... well all of them), I hate Kirk, I love Sisko without hair and Janeway, well not a big fan of her and don't like her hair at all!

Stargate ... - I love O'Neill and Daniel Jackson, and Atlantis is alright too, my favourite there is Rodney McKay.

Please count Stargate SG-1 as I might use the other shows at A, D, E, T and V.



T

TNG - see Star Trek.

24 (Twenty-four) - I LOOOOOOOOVE this show, unfortunately I have to watch this alone, as my boyfriend gets too nervous when watching it. So I always tape it and watch it all in one go (using headphones), when he's busy, but he keeps asking what's happening so I usually tell him all the events of 4 hours in 15 minutes.



U
nope



V

Voyager - Decent series except for Janeway's hair and the finish...



W

Witchblade - I have only seen one episode as I never figured out if the show even made it to German television.



X

X-Files - Mulder and Scully, they are something...

Xena - I have not seen this as often, I preferred Hercules.



Y & Z
I had two for X so don't complain!

I named this article (1) as I suspect that I might write more than just this one article.

A few days ago I decided to force my boyfriend to watch TNG again, basically because he said he wanted to watch something we haven't watched during the last three months. (What he probably meant is that he is not willing to watch Buffy or Stargate again, damn...)

We have just watched the last two seasons of Voyager and all episodes of Enterprise (during some computer work we did...) And we also have watched all Battlestar Galactica (New Series) during the evenings.

So now we are watching TNG. I don't understand why everyone always condemns the first season of any series, as this was a quite good start - maybe that is because it was a quite good series. They had the best characters in my opinion and none of the other Star Trek series' had Data!

Now we have reached this silly Episode called Too Short a Season - this must be one of the worst Episodes... How boring, who cares about this silly Admiral getting younger and younger. We already have one Wesley.

Side note: This is a fight between two operating systems, me does refer to myself, not the other crappy MS product.

Phase 1: February 2007
I made a horrible mistake by installing Vista on my secondary hard drive.

As a computer science student I got a free version, as long as I only used it for studies, otherwise I would probably not have bothered, but doing what I do you need to know the enemy.

At first everything went well but when I started up XP for the next time I noticed that something was wrong.

The PC (under XP) started crashing.

Nothing unusual with any Windows you might say, but I never had a single crash on this PC my whole life and it has been running for over three years now, with the occasional swapping of single hardware items (none of them recently)...


What happened:
The screen went black and the PC rebooted.

When did it happen:
This was a reproducible problem occurring when for example I ran the following programs:
- Firefox (with several tabs opened)
- Graphics Program with a certain image
- winrar to unpack something.

As soon as I started the unpacking the pc died.


- As I said above I did not change a single thing about the hardware configuration of the PC recently. Neither was there any new software. (Not even a Windows update during the two weeks before it occurred and the first time it occurred. - Just updated of my anti-virus program)
- I did check for viruses, none found. (Besides: I have a few firewalls, did not read any emails on this system during the time and did not visit any dubious sites - I never had a virus on this PC so why start now?)
- I then cleaned out my hard drive (my boyfriend thought that the pc crashed because maybe 11/2 gig of free space wasn't enough - I told him that the weeks and months before there had sometimes been less....)
- I ran the windows update
- I then checked all my hardware (measured the power supply, checked the temperature, replaced the memory...) no error turned up.

The only parts that remained as possible causes were:
- Graphics Card
- CPU
- Main Board
as I could not simply replace them.

But there were several reasons against them being the cause:

- I could play Tomb Raider Legend and do another resource-consuming task (as long as it did not involve winrar, photoshop e.g. elements or itunes)

- There was not a single crash when I used Vista and tried to reproduce these events.



This was phase one, suddenly and without warning we entered phase two:



Phase 2: (still) February 2007
After one of the many reboots suddenly the ATI Control Centre claims that there is something wrong with my graphics drivers.

Which brought me back to the idea that maybe there was something wrong with my graphics card, but at that time someone told me that in fact Vista (if allowed access to the partition with XP) might mess up drivers found elsewhere....

And actually I then found that messed up graphics drivers on XP occurred everytime I booted Vista inbetween. So I locked out Vista and everything seemed fine for a couple of days (at least with the graphics drivers).


Phase 3: End of February - April 2007

After locking out Vista my problems changed again.

Now when I started up a graphics program while listening to music, I tunes would - after changing songs - complain that it could not save the library file.


When I closed the error message it would return every time and result in another crash...

When I instead closed my graphics program and then close the error message everything was fine.

This occurred every time a new song started, every time itunes wanted to update the library file.

I lived with this problem for quite a while (till beginning of April) and started to turn off music as long as I was working on photos....


Strangely enough I had another incident where the ATI Control Centre claimed something was wrong. Instead of reinstalling the drivers I ignored it and the result was that my screen sometimes went blank for a microsecond but immediately came back (without crash) I still could play games e.g. Tomb Raider Legend...



Phase 4: After Easer (April) 2007

I had finally decided on getting a LCD (22'' Widescreen, : 1680 x 1050, supporting HDCP).

I simply plugged it in and adjusted my screen settings.

Since then my problems seem to be gone. It's been ten days now and I can listen to music while working on images again... I did not do anything else....


I hope that's the end of it....