Well this is a pain in the arse that nobody told us about until now….
I had to flog a huge TV for next to nothing a month ago because it wasn’t “digital”, looks like the same deal is going to happen with cars in 5 years time as their radios no longer work and replacements will cost £200-300… crazy legisation…
I have been thinking for a few weeks to change our huge 32″ dolby la de daa bass subwoofer thingy on top built in JVC telly to something a little more LCD, same size is OK as we are modest people and don’t have the hugest of houses.
Week and a half ago we had a walk around the big outlets to see what the picture looked like on the main brands, I thought Toshiba looked good with their “regza” thing (current buzzword BS), samsung looked shite, and LG looks wooOooO very nice. But the ones that looked good enough were around the £500 mark which I wasnt prepared to spend on a 32 inch telly nowadays. I told my mum and wife that it would be pretty easy in this economy to get a £500 telly for around £350, in the following week low and behold the group that encompases currys, PC world, pixmania put the 32LG5570 that usually retails for £499 for sale for the bank holiday weekend for £348, 32 inch full HD rated 8.9/10 overall by shitloads of reviewers across several sites and I knew this was the perfect upgrade. I placed my order online quickly from work that day as I knew this would be a sellout once the word got out (I find out about good deals pretty early with my network of sites and retailers contacting me directly).
I was expecting delivery the following thursday, after bank holiday weekend and all was set, just sit back and wait for free delivery. Then I thought to go to PC world and see what this set looked like for real to see if the stats matched up with the real deal, and yes it is indeed a great box with a really nice picture. I got home then thought hmmm why not go to the store cancel the online order by phone and just take the thing home today… then I read about people getting stuck pixels on TVs and such and it’s far easier to get your money back without the hassle of testing etc if you just get it delivered.. so I left it for Thursday.
Right at the end of the bank holiday weekend (one hour high street trading left) I got an email from PC world saying there was a problem with payment… ring your bank… which I did.. they said nobody attempted to take payment.. so I called PC world and the show begun… ending up me realising I typed by credit card number into their site incorrectly (FFS a little verification would have noticed that on the spot, hole in the website me thinks..).
So I went to PC world once the guy on the phone confirmed there were still 3 in stock there. Now if you are in the UK and have ever graced a PC world store with your presence then you will realise they are painfully understaffed, all of them… if you ever get to speak to a sales assistant in PC world you are in the minority.
20 minutes of stringing along begun that I wont bore you with except to say that they did not have 3 in stock (centralised stock control fail) but they had “4 on display”… now WTF would convince a store manager to take so much stock of a great deal and stick it on the friggin shelves on display….
I got this guy to check currys and to cut a long story short I drove over there like a maniac and snagged the last one in west London.
Had it resting on the other telly all week enjoying the crisp clarity of the LCD picture and ordered a wall mount from ebay, which arrived thursday… today I drilled the wall and mounted the telly… and it really is a nice sight :), now all I have to do is flog the JVC, I put an ad in the loot.com website for £150, seems that is towards the upper end of the second hand market pricing scale for this type of TV… so I can see myself dropping the price to just £100 to free up some space in the living room this week when I try to resell… damn that seems like such a cheap price for a big TV with great sound.. but then we as humans must constantly upgrade…
If you are considering getting the 32LG 5570, go for it the picture, even standard non HD broadcast is great!
“Hey lets fly a jumbo jet in an unusual manner over NYC today.”
“Yeh that sounds cool”
Pointless thing to do, worst place to do it.
So I have ubuntu la de da 9 on my vista laptop courtesy of a virtualbox partition so I don’t have to worry about fucking up by beloved windows laptop that I have setup to do anything I need so I can do business online.
And time after time I get the same shit with linux (which I have been having a stab at once every couple of years since ages ago), you want to do something, so you must find out a program that enables you to do it.
You look around google for people that wanted to do the same thing and you end up with a program name that means nothing to any normal human being, which you then install through a command line using lots of “flags” that again mean nothing to anyone that does not do this sort of shit all the time.
So you think, great, now I got my program, it’s even open source and thats amazing… but wait a second, the installer fucks out because you didn’t have some other stupid thing installed, so you go to some ugly wiki shit to get that, work out how to get hold of it and put it on, but then oops… that shit needs you to install something else from some other place.. and so it goes on and on and on… until yet again you go mwahhhh fuck it, I will just stick with windows where I can actually get stuff done rather than pissing about with installers and getting nothing actually done.
For those wondering what the hell I am trying to do, I’m wondering how to crack WPA wifi network passwords with ubuntu and aircrack-ng.
And have lots of things installed that may or may not be related to eachother, but ultimately from all these shitty youtube tutorials made by people who do just spend their lives on the command line rather than producing things that are intelligible to someone new to linux… anyway.. I have achieved nothing so far.
But at least I have a work in progress that I can choose to go back to whever I can be bothered to have another stab, at least I found that this virtualbox thing is a nice way to virtualise an OS to play around with.
Well we loved series 1 and 2, cracking edge of the seat thriller of confusion, now in the UK I think we are on the current series 4, and what a loadddddddddddddddddddd of shit it is – nothing makes any sense anymore it’s all just wishy washy out of sync, totally incomprehensible shit that needs to be taken off the air as it has become nothing more than a filler with a history of quality that only acts to encourage Virgin Media subscribers to get Sky 1 on their package…
Utter crap, knock it off the air and put something worthwhile on.
