Gateway Lockup

Today my beloved Gateway took another step on the road from this life to the next.  The audio has been gone for sometime, but today I came into work and it was locked up.  Even the SAK reboot failed.

Powering down now.

OK, it booted and I didn't see anything unusual.  But it is hard to tell because I reboot it so seldom.

Monitor and Screen Resolution

For my 22 inch AOC flat panel monitor:  1680 x 1050

Gateway Laptop with 15 inch screen:  1280 x 800

HP 17 inch screen:  1440 x 900

Tablet Computer:  1024 x 768

Office Desktop: Outlook is broke :-(

Came into work this morning and Outlook was not coming up so I rebooted the machine.

However, that did not fix the problem. It is still hung up. I have put a 20 minute timer on it to see if it will come up.

Frank kill the process from the task manager and than it opened in a safe mode.

He said that I should update to Office 2007, but office 2007 has so many changes that it is hard to use.

Left it at 2003

Office Desktop: Yahoo Messenger 9.0

I am expanding this blog to put some of the things I am doing with my office desktop.

Need to email Mark about this and see what he thinks.

Here are some nice reviews:

http://www.download.com/Yahoo-Messenger/3000-2150_4-10029188.html

http://www.astahost.com/info.php/yahoo-messenger-9-beta-preliminary-review_t17424.html

http://blogulate.com/content/yahoo-messenger-9-0-released-new-features/

When Linux Locks Up

The following are some key combinations to get around a locked up Linux system:

• Shutdown X11: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
• Switch from X11 to text login: Ctrl-Alt-F1, F2, F3 (don't do with a dual monitor setup in XP, you will lose one of your monitors :-()

If the above don't work try the following steps to shutdown:

1. Ctrl-Alt-Del and wait 30 seconds for init to shutdown your computer
   
2. If this fails use SAK(?). While holding down Alt-PrintScreen (SysRq key Combo) press the following keys
1. 'S' to sync drives
2. 'U' to unmount drives
3. 'B' to reboot
3. If all this fail, then take your life in yours hands and hit the power switch :-(

Note: You may see some activity when you press the 'S' key and 'U' key, but you may not. Don't give up. Continue to step 3 and hit the reboot key 'B' and wait. Even when I have saw nothing for the sync and unmount commands the boot command has worked.

This was gleaned from the following link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221174

Sony VAIO

SONY VAIO AR Series VGN-AR710E/B
$1,149.99
Pentium Dual-core T2330 1.6 GHz
17" - 1550x900
2GB mem (4GB)
200 GB SATA
1000 Ehternet
NVIDIA 8400M GT (256MB)
8.3 lbs

Bit pricey and heavy, but nice machine.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834117662

Nice Machine

HP dv9820us
4GB Memory
Faster (AMD 64 X2 TL-62 2.10GHz)
250GB drive
17" ?x?
Ethernet ????
Graphics card ????
Express card ????


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834147660