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Oct 24
2009

Fix: No Composite Input Signal Blue Box (Dell Ultrasharp Monitors)

So today I noticed all of my touch buttons on my Dell monitor on, which should only happen when I’m near it.

I figured some dust was on it and activated the buttons or something, so I wiped my hand across the buttons. My monitor turned off and turned back on (as it does when switching input modes) and when it came back on it had a big blue box in the bottom right with an error saying, “No Composite Input Signal.”

The rest of the screen was OK, I could still use my PC and switch to my Xbox and it was all good, except for this giant blue box in the bottom right.

So I went to Google
 
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Listening To: Dub FX - Made
Aug 2
2008

MP3 Players in Australia

As some of you may know I’ve recently been on the lookout for a new Portable Media Player.
After much research I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m going to get a Creative Zen 32GB. I say “going to” because NOBODY FUCKING HAS THEM.

I’ve been to every shop in town that would have them, except for Tandy’s because it doesn’t fucking exist. Seriously I’ve been up and down Charles street ten times, inside David Jones and in the fucking mall. IT DOESN’T EXIST. It’s a LIE.
Nobody has them.
I’ve been to every shopping mall in South Australia, the largest sized MP3 player that wasn’t an iPod I found
 
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Listening To: Sleeve Channel - Give A Little
Mar 9
2008

Dismayage

What ever happened to getting games with your video card? I remember bringing home my shiny new ATi 9600XT. I unwrapped it, pulled out the driver disc and out fell a game. In that case I believe it was one of the Tomb Raider games. Sure they weren’t the best games at the time, but they were quality and really good. Another classic game I got with one of my video cards was Black Hawk Down. That was way before all the Battlefields and Call of Duties flooded the gaming market with World War II clones of each other, so the war game genre was still pretty new to me.

9600 GT Packaging

9600 GT Packaging

 
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Listening To: Jamiroquai - Feel So Good
Jan 18
2008

New Monitor

New Monitor

New Monitor

I just went out and bought a 22″ widescreen monitor to finally replace my old dying 19″ CRT that’s so big it hardly even fits inside the house.
I was going to put a “yo momma’s so fat” joke here and replace the mums with my monitor but I can’t be bothered.
Since the old one was so freakin’ big I now have about 5km² of desk free to use as I please.
After two decades of education it’s come to my attention that humans are visual creatures, and therefore I have supplied an image to suit your curiosity.

Everything looks so much better in widescreen.
The
 
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Listening To: Mylo - Sunworshipper
Aug 10
2006

Is wireless the new standard?

As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I’ve been having some ‘net grief.
Nothing wrong with my ISP, it’s my router (Billion BiPAC 7202A). It’s so budget it keeps losing the connection every now and then. Just long enough to timeout of everything, MSN, Games, Websites. Everything suddenly ticks over to “Connect Connect” or I get kicked from whatever game I’ve got going.
Another thing that I don’t quite understand, is that my router takes freaking-forever to connect to. You type in the IP, log in, and sit waiting for a few minutes. The only logical answer I can gather is that it’s loading something from the web. Why? I have
 
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Listening To: Hybrid - Sineqanon
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