Netgear

It's great when a product actually works and is worth the price. However, when the companion software that comes with the product doesn't work, all the frustrations in the world cannot explain this until one has experimented with it.

I recently got a netgear wnda3100 usb for my desktop because my computer was too far away from the modem. I was recommended to plug and play by my friend, but I didn't have access to the internet, so I didn't get any drivers that way. So I decided to go ahead and install the software that came with it in the box. The software had an update, so I got a super long ethernet cable to plug into the network jack to get an update on this software. As I was using the software, it would only give me "Limited connection". I didn't understand why it wouldn't connect me to the internet. I must be doing something wrong. So finally I experimented on my laptop with any software and used the existing internet connection on the laptop to get the drivers.

And windows vista actually got this to work. Wow. It was a lot simplier than installing some darn vendor's software. So I remove the software from the desktop, hook up the desktop by ethernet, and got the drivers. Now it's working great without the software.

In hindsight, why didn't I just hook up it first to get the drivers? Because it was a hazard. I didn't think I needed to drag out the hundred foot long cable. Although if I had done that in the first place, I would have been a lot happier and a lot less frustrated. But now I know vendor's software fails.

It was probably incompatibility between vista and the software, but I see it as the vendor's fault as they should have had an update for that. Failed.

Halloween

I must have been the only one bored that night. I had guests over whose son was trick-or-treating with my brothers. I was on sentry duty for our house.

On reflection, I should have been finishing my homework. How did that happened? How did my homework ended up not being finished? I feel very confused. I will end this and try to finish what I can. I feel so pathetic. ;(

scary~

I was at the library when some random guy comes up to me as I was walking down the stairs. As another person walks down the stairs, the random guy asks what time does the library closes. So I tell him and move to another floor to look for books for research. The random guy finds me again and explains to me that he was embarrassed by the other person coming down the stairs. That he actually wanted to ask me for money. He tells me his life story about how he only get $75 per month from his parents. He has his cellphone out and mumbles something about getting my number to pay me back later. I replied to him after all this that I'm not carrying cash. Then he asked if I could go with him to pay for some food and I replied that I have to finish my research tonight. I thought that was the end of that, but then he saw my laptop on the nearby shelves and asked about whether it was a Compaq. It was an HP which is the same company. Then he proceeds to tell me about his old laptop and asked if I wanted it. I replied that I did not. I apologize and he seems to have left. I stayed there for another hour and a half before gathering what I found and leaving.

It was scary....

forgot

such a major report and I forgot. :/ noooo.

off to finish it now.

cats!

I came today to find cats in my basement. The truth is that I've been expecting them since my roommate announce that he was getting them. 4 kittens to be exact. They're so shy of humans currently. And their purrs are like low soft motors. They're kind of cute. I hope they become house trained soon.

sunday, start of a new week?

It is Sunday. It is time to clean my schedule up. I made too many priorities to random stuff. Such as tribalwars. I thought an hour a day would be enough. But it is too much. It's time to cut back more. Perhaps to half an hour a day? Or maybe an hour every two days?

Scheduling time to read, clean, and play is tough.

I have to find time to clean up all the cardboard boxes, practice chinese, finish papers, sell some extra stuff, and get the rooms filled out. Life is simply impossible. Well, how does one improve time management?

nothing but a tool

I was driving when I reflected back.
Frustrated by the urgency
and the lack of time.
should have planned better
i blamed myself

then i remember
that i was measure by
the cost of expenses incurred
i was nothing but a tool

an object to follow orders
else be cast aside

Why?

Why have I become so lazy? Is it because I "burned" out? From what? Am I just too ambitious? It's not clear. I have no logical standpoint.