09.03.05
Stuff (and a very short story)
My GPU has been fixx0red! Thanks to Pointman, who advised me to decrease my AGP speed from 8x to 4x. I still think it’s stupid that my brand new video card must run on half the speed it was built for in order to work, but now I can actually play Deus Ex, which makes me very happy indeed!
Speaking of computers, I’ve been working on no less than 2 computers this week. I’ve more or less got my dad’s machine to work, all that’s left now is to get him a new IP address so he can go online and download Windows Service Pack 2, and then I gotta install an antivirus program and a firewall on it, then my work is done. The other computer belongs to one of his colleagues. She heard I was putting a PC together for my dad, and so she asked if I could fix hers. She had some problems with excessively long load times etc. while just working in Windows. I’ve formatted the whole thing and reinstalled WinXP. Now I gotta install Service Pack 2, Office 2003, Works, a little package of maintenance utilities I’ve put together, and put the backups I took of all her stuff back on it. I even went out and bought her a new RAM block and a USB pen drive that she asked me about. Her machine had 128 MB of RAM before, which is not really enough for a WinXP system, now she has 512 megs, which should give her a considerable difference.
Another thing of little relevance to anybody but myself is that I discovered Netradio today! Right now I’m listening to a channel called Modern Rock and wondering why the Hell I didn’t do this long ago. By the way, I do think it’s about time for the last chapter of TOOL. You know… I’m really not kidding when I say I’d like to get some feedback. Any feedback will do, really. I would go so far as to accept a simple “nice”. And if you feel like flaming me for wasting your time with my untalented blabbering, go ahead! I promise I won’t be mad. Please?
