Compy Fun
(Y’all may have noticed I’m mostly avoiding politics/current events for the last few days? Good reasons, among them my disgust with the electorate for being stupid enough to validate the current crop of presidential candidates with their votes.)
Well, it had to happen eventually. The ten-year-old computer (ten years old? Yep) I had running the most stable windows OS in the house finally started developing some… glitches. Yeh, it started out as a Win98 comp, but Win2KPro was soo appealing (for a Windows OS. I had retired WINNT 4.0 off an earlier computer gladly; Win2KPro–WinNT 5.0–proved to be a bird of a different feather) I switched the OSes out fairly early on in the computer’s life.
Anywho, last week, Win2K began complaining the MOBO on which it had happily resided for no few years was not fully ACPI compliant and told me to update the BIOS. OK. Found an updated BIOS and attempted the install. Oops. My German isn’t that good. *heh* Back to the drawing board.
I may just decide to retire the comp… or convert it to Ubuntu or PCBSD. Probably the former for the old guy. I do need to maintain one Win98 computer for my fav music transcription software, but it dowsn’t have to be on that comp.
Or maybe I’ll find another BIOS update elsewhere.
Still, a 10-year-old MOBO (with a slightly newer processor, granted) still doing credible work on things that don’t require much processor-intensive stuff (web, email, word processing, etc.) tickles my tightwad side. It’s not like I don’t have more “modern” comps with other OSes (like the one I’m writing this post with) to handle other tasks.
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Posted: February 13th, 2008 under Compgeeky, FWIW, Linkfests.
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Time February 13, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Hezbollah’s Imad Mughniyeh has been blown to bits…
Israel’s military forces have crushed the second most dangerous man who led the Hezbollah, who was also one of the culprits in the 1983 attack on Marine HQ in Lebanon. According to this further news, he even had ties with al Qaeda:…
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Time February 13, 2008 at 7:14 PM
Imagine that, I Actually Agree with Al Sharpton…
Anyone who reads this blog knows that I do not care for Al Sharpton because he is a race baiting poverty pimp.I believe that he only takes up causes that will get him in the spotlight and when a black person is the victim. He ignores non blacks in the…
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Time February 13, 2008 at 7:39 PM
From Stratfor.com: “The Lone Wolf Disconnect”…
By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart for Stratfor The idea that a lone individual will appear seemingly out of nowhere to launch a horrific terrorist attack sends shivers down the spines of public security planners and law enforcement officers —…
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Time February 13, 2008 at 8:08 PM
SaY NO to FootbathS…
They will be in bed with the Commies, the drug dealers of Mexico, and the whackjob of N. Korea and China. Pelosi will be Secretary of Lies and fraud, Al Bore will pen a brand new Constitution and how much ya wanna bet he and the “Izlam is a Religion …
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Time February 13, 2008 at 9:36 PM
You Must Assimilate…
I really like Dennis Prager, the radio talk show host, but he said something this morning that I disagree with, and I think it’s an important issue. This morning Prager was discussing the story out of Colorado about the little……
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Time February 13, 2008 at 9:37 PM
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Time February 13, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Scholarship for Bloggers…
The Daniel Kovach Scholarship Foundation is giving away $2000 in the 2nd Annual Political Blogging Scholarship. I am letting readers and students know about this opportunity in order for the Foundation to find the best applicants. The 2nd Annual Politi…
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Time February 13, 2008 at 10:26 PM
It Is That Time Of Year, After All…
Valentine’s day is breathing frosty puffs at the door, men. It’s time to take the special lady in your lives to a romantic movie, something that will make her say “Aww that’s so sweet,” at least twice, and if you……
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Time February 13, 2008 at 11:33 PM
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Time February 14, 2008 at 11:02 AM
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Time February 14, 2008 at 11:37 PM
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Time February 15, 2008 at 12:05 AM
What IS This Guy Singing?…
Doesn’t make much sense at first. Sounds like some unique songs sung in a foreign language. But you’ll recognize the song about halfway through the video. This is quite amazing.
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Time February 15, 2008 at 5:20 AM
Berkeley vs USMC: The Face Off- on Video…
I have spent the last three hours processing and scanning about 6 hours of video form the 2-12 Berkeley City Council Meeting.
I’m exhausted. Mentally, ideologically and physically.
Tomorrow morning I will post the videos of the Council…
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Time February 15, 2008 at 9:30 AM
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Comment from Angel
Time February 15, 2008 at 12:13 PM
hiya David..as u know compy and “fun” dont go in the same sentence for me..haha
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Time February 17, 2008 at 9:40 AM
Reverse Speech of Barack Obama sex and drug allegations…
Sinclair’s claims have been analysed by the controversial forensic technique known as Reverse Speech, the practice of playing speech in reverse to reveal unconscious thoughts of the speaker. He is telling the truth.
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Time February 13, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Almost missed this: NY introduces legislation to p…
This news was published two weeks ago, but is still important to mention: it looks like NY’s legislation has finally taken steps to protect authors like Rachel Ehrenfeld against libel tourism (Hat tip: Solomonia and American Congress for Truth):…