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Well, the time had come to finally do something with the rapidly growing pile of components on my floor. They had been stacked neatly against the wall, but in the last few weeks they’ve been falling over and getting caught under the wheels of my chair.
So, I braved the rain and drove out to the delivery depot where the case I’d ordered had ended up after the postie had been unable to deliver it earlier in the week. It was early, but the traffic was terrible, and it took a good 15 minutes to drive what should have taken 3 or 4.
Brought it home, put on a film and sat down with a mug of coffee to organise all the bits and pieces on the lounge carpet. PCs are certainly getting earier to build. My first took half a day. The one after that, about four hours. My last one just slightly less than that, and this one barely half the length of Moulin Rouge.
It switched on and booted first time around and is very VERY fast. It talks happily to my network and is chattering away nicely to Mr Wint and Mr Kidd, the XP and Linux machines as though they’ve known each other for years.
Only the sound card is sulking. It’s been detected fine. Windows can see it, and it’s loaded the drivers, but in spite of various motherboard software upgrades it just refuses to start when the system boots. Oh, well - it can be a ‘project’.
Out to Trevor and Jon’s mid afternoon, for tea and cake and chats. And attempts to fix their picky DVD machine. It objects to American Beauty and plays it in fits and (slow) starts, without sound, which rather spoils an otherwise first-class film.
Cooked a Thai green curry, for eating in front of Six Feet Under (video catch-up), then a respectable bed time to read my notes for tomorrow’s show. It’s going to be a busy one, but it looks good fun.
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