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I think the PC is finally dead.
Mar. 12th, 2003 08:38 amI know I'm beating a dead horse about this, but the saga with the PC continues. I boot up the PC this morning, and it's unable to find the hard drive - and this is with the new drive! I threw out the old drive! I think it was actually perfectly good! I'm thinking the motherboard is bad. Which means I may just let the PC die here and now. I am so tired of spending hours and and hours making the damn thing work. The only reason I keep it is for gaming, but Alice I got the mac-only version which works out pretty well.
I what know C-mage's first comment will be: "If you were running XP this wouldn't happen." Well, no, it would still happen because this is a hardware-level problem. XP is software. If it can't find the hard drive, how is XP going to have anything to do with it?
Anyhow, if it is a motherboard issue, I can't afford to replace the MB right now. The one I have uses PC133 RAM, and all the new stuff uses DDR RAM.
New Motherboard: $100
New Processor: $200-300
New RAM: $200
Total: $500-$600 that I don't have.
In other news, I saw Erin from Brocade last night. She seemed pretty social and the fact that Brocade were being blockheads never came up - I was good and never brought it up. However, she still didn't have my recommendation letter she promised. I'm starting to think that I never will get it. We'll see what happens Thursday.
I sent messages to all the FC staff mailing list management addresses that I wanted to be unsubscribed from all the FC mailing lists, and either the lists have all gone quiet, or they've finally (two weeks later) taken me off them. I still don't want to be a part of FC next year, because I'm sick of being their unappreciated secretary. I felt unappreciated at Brocade, and at FC - I'm no longer at Brocade, well I don't want to be a part of FC anymore. The only person who thanked me for all the time I put into FC last year - getting up early on saturday mornings and sitting in meetings that lasted all day long until 5 at night - was ChipUni. And he wasn't in charge of anything last year - except FCTV. I'll attend the firing party on saturday - to stick it out until the end - but I will be very honest about how I felt. I'll certainly attend FC in the future - I've never been to AnthroCon or ConFurence, but FC is the better of the cons I've been to. I won't go to ConFurence - not after Darrel Exline's recent stupidity on the newsgroups. I'd like to go to AC, but the reason I don't go to AC is the same reason I can't go to Gargcon this year (which I really really really really really wanna go to!), in that it's on the east coast. I just can't afford to fly out there.
Playing Alice easy difficulty through several times to get more practice in, because on normal difficulty I start getting clobbered right around the Pool of Tears. I'm amazed how much better I've gotten at the game. I can play all forty levels through in a day (8 hours). I've perfected my rope climbing and steam gliding skills. Just working on melee combat. That's where I seem to get weak. The jackbomb doesn't really work like I want it to, but the Eyestaff toy is surprisingly effective for it's will cost. But you don't get that until late in the game, meaning the jackbomb and jacks are my main toys.
I've been looking for ICQ/AIM alternatives for Mac OS X and haven't had any luck so far. Crissa suggested Trillian (PC only), GAIM (can't find the Mac OS X download), and FINK (directly conflicts with the antivirus software). Having them in one program would be nice, so I'm not running iChat and ICQ on the mac at once. iChat is really really flaky software, because it keeps disconnecting in the middle of a conversation. I've been looking for an iChat feedback page, but haven't found one yet.
I what know C-mage's first comment will be: "If you were running XP this wouldn't happen." Well, no, it would still happen because this is a hardware-level problem. XP is software. If it can't find the hard drive, how is XP going to have anything to do with it?
Anyhow, if it is a motherboard issue, I can't afford to replace the MB right now. The one I have uses PC133 RAM, and all the new stuff uses DDR RAM.
New Motherboard: $100
New Processor: $200-300
New RAM: $200
Total: $500-$600 that I don't have.
In other news, I saw Erin from Brocade last night. She seemed pretty social and the fact that Brocade were being blockheads never came up - I was good and never brought it up. However, she still didn't have my recommendation letter she promised. I'm starting to think that I never will get it. We'll see what happens Thursday.
I sent messages to all the FC staff mailing list management addresses that I wanted to be unsubscribed from all the FC mailing lists, and either the lists have all gone quiet, or they've finally (two weeks later) taken me off them. I still don't want to be a part of FC next year, because I'm sick of being their unappreciated secretary. I felt unappreciated at Brocade, and at FC - I'm no longer at Brocade, well I don't want to be a part of FC anymore. The only person who thanked me for all the time I put into FC last year - getting up early on saturday mornings and sitting in meetings that lasted all day long until 5 at night - was ChipUni. And he wasn't in charge of anything last year - except FCTV. I'll attend the firing party on saturday - to stick it out until the end - but I will be very honest about how I felt. I'll certainly attend FC in the future - I've never been to AnthroCon or ConFurence, but FC is the better of the cons I've been to. I won't go to ConFurence - not after Darrel Exline's recent stupidity on the newsgroups. I'd like to go to AC, but the reason I don't go to AC is the same reason I can't go to Gargcon this year (which I really really really really really wanna go to!), in that it's on the east coast. I just can't afford to fly out there.
Playing Alice easy difficulty through several times to get more practice in, because on normal difficulty I start getting clobbered right around the Pool of Tears. I'm amazed how much better I've gotten at the game. I can play all forty levels through in a day (8 hours). I've perfected my rope climbing and steam gliding skills. Just working on melee combat. That's where I seem to get weak. The jackbomb doesn't really work like I want it to, but the Eyestaff toy is surprisingly effective for it's will cost. But you don't get that until late in the game, meaning the jackbomb and jacks are my main toys.
I've been looking for ICQ/AIM alternatives for Mac OS X and haven't had any luck so far. Crissa suggested Trillian (PC only), GAIM (can't find the Mac OS X download), and FINK (directly conflicts with the antivirus software). Having them in one program would be nice, so I'm not running iChat and ICQ on the mac at once. iChat is really really flaky software, because it keeps disconnecting in the middle of a conversation. I've been looking for an iChat feedback page, but haven't found one yet.
