To Be Calimquim

Get ready to feast your on eyes on my latest laptop computer. It is an Alienware Area-51m 5550 that was delivered to me in June 2007, about two weeks after I placed the order online at www.alienware.com. If you didn’t know it already, my previous computer was an Alienware Area-51m 766, that I got in August 2004. Get the details in the My Tech Toys section of my website.

The 766 is still working and is a great computer, but I’ve gotten a few more BSOD’s (blue screens of death), in the past few months, which gets annoying after awhile. Most likely, I will re-format the hard drive and re-install Windows XP Pro. Hopefully, this will get rid of the BSOD’s, but if it doesn’t, then errors are most likely hardware-related. In that case, it is a good thing I got the new 5550 laptop, since finding replacement hardware for the 766 is next to impossible. Alienware no longer provides replacement parts and my 3-year warranty expires in one month 🙁 .

Oh well, let’s get to the fun stuff and the “unboxing” of my brand-new Area-51m 5550 laptop. Curtains please…

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I would hate to have to play behind a guy like this. It would drive me nuts! 👿

I wish I had these water hazard skills.

The cool plugin that I’m using to allow readers of this blog to post “star” ratings is GaMerZ’s WP-PostRatings 1.11. Even though I’ve downloaded the latest plugin update that was offered on June 6, 2007, it seems there are still conflicts with another plugin that I’m using, WP-Cache. The ratings were working fine up until a few days ago. As you can see from the latest posts I made in June, there are no star ratings on my posts, since they aren’t being saved. I may have to disable the post ratings plugin within the next few days. 🙁

By the way, the WP-Cache plugin reduced server CPU usage time so readers can view the blog pages faster. This is a very important plugin because WordPress is based on PHP, which is a type of programming language used to serve webpages or blog pages. For those that use self-hosted blog-sites, like myself, your “shared” webhosting provider places monthly caps on how much CPU usage that your website can use. If you consistently go over that cap, they may shut your site down or move you to a dedicated server, which can cost a couple hundred bucks per month.