I am a little pissed of at the moment. Things aren’t working how they should be, people aren’t doing what they should be, things should be happening that should be and people are doing stupid things they shouldn’t be. Sounds complicated, well really its simple, my wireless adapter isn’t working, hp online support didn’t help me, hp call support works only in business hours and some asshole decided to rar a bunch of rars, all these things have pissed me off.

I was using the wireless in my bedroom about two hours ago, it was going fine. All of a sudden the connection dies. I try to reconnect to my home network. Oh god! BSOD! An error message about a driver or something. I let it do its thing and restart. I don’t see my network, for a matter of fact, it doesn’t find any networks, none of the random ones in the neighbourhood (default and linksys.) Something is not right. I do to device manager to have a look at the network adapters and my wireless adapter is not on the list.

I decide to communicate to HP support. I took the online support rather than the phone support due to the fact that there could be a possibility of talking so a foreigner with an accent hard to understand. I though I would skip the pain and frustration of that if I could. I talked to a support guy, gary was his name. He was kinda helpful in the sence of not asking stupid questions and skipping straight to the part where my options are to take it out and put it back in or ring NZ support to figure out how to get it fixed.

I decided to call the HP support number but later realize that I need the Compaq support number.I don’t get why HP support doesn’t give the the option to redirect to Compaq support or at least use the same support center. I ring the right number after getting it off the internet. I am greeted by a familiar voice, the guy from HP Support Line. The hours of Compaq support are between 8:30am and 6:00pm. I don’t get why, chances are they use an international support center because its cheaper, if this is the case, I should be able to call anytime of day. This is stupid and means I am going to have to fit them in between 4:30pm and 6:00pm, else I will have to wait till a few days.

Not having wireless is very inconvenient. You don’t realize how great it is until you are reduced to using wired. Its great being able to ly in bed with the internet on your lap. Its wonderful. I decided that I will connect to a wired connection to download some TV shows to watch in my bed since I won’t have any internet. The first show I download, the fool rared a folder full of rars. Why couldn’t he have un-rared it and re-rared just the individual file. People are stupid, things are stupid! I am having a shit day! Things shouldn’t just randomly break, support should be 24/7, and people shouldn’t do asshat things. If all these though could happen, the world would be a better place!

It had been 11 months since I bought my last external hard drive. All the drives in my house were close to maxing out. Between the 3 hard drives, the external, the one in the desktop and the one in the laptop, there was 30gb of free space combined. Some people would think that is a lot of space, others would say that it is time for a new drive. I knew it was definitely time for a new drive.

The past week, I have downloaded heaps of TV shows due to the releases of the new seasons. I ended up downloading about 25 different shows this week. If each episode is 350mb, thats about 9gb for the week. I would definitely be needing another drive if I planned on downloading full season of each of these shows.

This morning, we were going to the local computer shop to pick up a monitor for the old computer. The previous one had died (and smelt bad too I may add.) We got a nice 19″ LCD monitor, a major upgrade from the 5 year old 15″ CRT display. While picking up that, I grabbed an external drive off the shelf, a Western Digital My Book 500gb. This hard drive will be plenty of room for the next 11 months, hopefully. I currently have plans on getting another drive of double capacity in 11 months time just to start a nice trend.

I copied all the TV shows, movies, and PSP games from my old drive to the new one, leaving only documents and video podcasts to take up space on the old external drive. I really like this external drive too, it is much better than any other one I have seen and tried. It looks very nice and words nice too. The best feature of the drive is that there are no buttons, no switches, it turns it self of with the computer or if you safely remove the drive. This means that I don’t have to worry about powering the drive and such. This would be perfect as a second storage drive for a desktop computer as it would power up and down with the computer without the user having to do anything.

The total of all drives at home now reach 1000gb, which sounds like a lot of storage but really it isn’t. I could easily use it in a short period of time. I am extremely happy with my purchase and would definitely recommend a Western Digital My Book to anyone looking for an external drive. Now I just need to download more TV shows to store on it and need more time to watch everything. Then in a year or so, its time for a terabyte drive for me!