| More money for Bill Gates :o( |
[Feb. 28th, 2003|07:42 am] |
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| | Bloody installation manuals... | ] |
Worked out how to deal with the unco-operative computer: ignored it and bought another. It's just a cheap stop-gap until we sort out exactly what we want for our planned home network (Windows or Linux? PCs or Macs?) but it'll do.
It's a jump from Windows 95 to XP for us so it's a bit disorientating but I've been busily changing all the settings from the aggressively cheerful XP look and feel to the old faithful 'trad Windows' look. So far the new machine is faster and preferable in all respects except the net connection, the whole reason for buying it. It will only connect at 21.6kbps, which sucks, and it unexpectedly disconnects and won't dial out again, which sucks and blows. But at least it works.
One working day until we go away on holiday! Yay!
Edit: the bloody thing just disconnected and reconnected at 19.2kbps...
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| Smoking is bad for you... |
[Feb. 28th, 2003|12:05 pm] |
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Oh yeah - forgot to mention the best bit about setting up the new computer... I got the power supply for the external speakers mixed up with the one for the modem on the old computer and set the speakers on fire. Well, to be more precise, grey smoke began streaming out of one and there was a foul smell of melting plastic and frying electrics. The speakers don't work now, of course. |
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