Jun 26

I sure did get knocked for a loop this week, computer-wise

saturday i had to boot windows, and it was crashing terribly.  I figured it was time for a drive wipe and reinstall (stupid windows, i hate doing that…I’m just glad linux doesn’t need such stupid babysitting).  I got the drive cleaned off and proceeded to reinstall.  the reinstall kept on crashing….that’s bad.  I went into linux cause i was sick of it, and my computer just restarted out of the blue (that doesn’t happen in linux unless you’ve got bad hardware).

I wrestled with the computer for a while and eventually it was restarting in a 2 or 3 second loop…and i decided it was dead.

Rebooting + windows blue screens on install = bad motherboard … probably.

So I bought a nice but low-feature motherboard…which needed a new processor (cause my processor could have been bad, and I need this machine for getting work done)…and i had to buy all new ram because my old ram is a different type.

so….that was $250.  I got it all in my box on tuesday and wednesday.  rebuilt my computer, started to reinstall windows….failures.  I figured out the drive was bad…..argh.  but that doesn’t explain the restarts, so I’m still hopeful that my motherboard /was/ bad and i didn’t waste $250.

I pull an unused 20 gig drive out of my server and put it in my machine, and get windows installed.  I get windows up and stuff I need installed, and everything’s going great, I’m happy….and the machine restarts.  I just wanted to cry.

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got my power supply out, open it up (don’t do that, it can kill you)…and it has blown capacitors.  so really all that I needed was a $40 blowout sale thermaltake power supply.  by this time I really needed my machine, so I bought the $20 overnight shipping….argh.  so $310 and a week later my machine is finally running great with 8x agp and half a gig of ram (which i need to swap for 2×256 or get another 512…dual channel goodness please)…but now I gotta figure out what to do with my abit kt7a-raid + 1400mhz tbird…put it in my server (and worry about cooling…my 333mhz p2 is fanless and silent)…give it to my parents…try to sell it…which i probably couldn’t…

anyway the only reason i post this is cause i should be doing homework…yes to have done before saturday…i hate school.

one good thing, though, is that i’m now listening to the new taking back sunday and it is pretty good.

Jun 17

ok now that I’ve been using my awesome Gmail account for a few days (thanks thom!) I gotta write a review.

EXCELLENT

The searching is lightning quick, I’ll be able to store years’ worth of data without ever having to delete (I have years’ worth in my current mailbox and it’s only 86 megs…less than 9% of Gmail storage), the conversation message view is awesome, the keyboard shortcuts are quick and efficient, the address auto-completion is 31337, and the labels (like folders but better) leave a good taste in my mouth.  The spam catcher is at least as good or better than SpamAssassin on my machine.

Things it needs:

  1. Ability to save drafts
  2. Remote API for new mail notifications
  3. partial word search (searching for “supp” won’t find “support”)
  4. Ability to import mbox files.  I want to move 3 years worth of mail to gmail
  5. Konqueror support
  6. GPG support…at least signing and checking sigs

Anyway, I think it’s gonna be my primary email account now.  Sad but true.

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Jun 14

The good life sure is gonna be here, making my day bright. or dark. it will be excellent either way.

Like my new shirt?

aak

Jun 06

Cheesy gordita crunches are by far the best thing to happen to fast food since $.79 cheeseburgers @ burger king.

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