Spudtater's Journal

It arrived! This morning, way before I expected it.
Have been playing about with it all today, putting it together and trying to salvage old data from my last (now defunct) computer. Sadly one of the disks was completely beyond hope, taking with it my email inbox (aargh) and more annoyingly a lot of my recent programming. Will salvage what I can from university computers. This time I'm going to set it up to make automatic backups of anything I might miss!

My mp3s, though, (all 5GB of them) are now safely backed up on gominokouhai's hard disk. Much gratitude to scattergather, without whom it would have taken me about twice as long to do this!

Anyway, I can very definitely recommend Novatech.co.uk, as they're cheap and fast, with a well-designed web site, and a lot more reliable than the russian roulette service you get with dodgy companies such as Ebuyer.com

Unfortunately, I can't find the Windows XP disk I thought was around here, so I can't properly set up my computer yet. I expect to be acquiring one soon notinanyillegalwayofcourseI'magoodboyhonest.

Am looking at this computer. Happy fun good price, and with a DVD-RW as well!
Not sure about the motherboard, though. It has on-board audio and video chipsets, and I'm not sure it will work well under linux. Video is an SiS 741, which will work according to the hardware HOWTO. Audio is a bit of a "mystery card" melarkey, though; all it says is that it is "AC '97 compliant", which doesn't sound very specific. Hrrrmmmmm...

Temple of Doom bad.
Potato of Doom (scroll down) good.

I now own a potato of doom, thanks to gominokouhai and stormsearch! Woohoo!
Spent most of last evening bearing it aloft, proclaiming "POTATO OF DOOM!" to all in earshot.   8^D

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Randomness, to test out a) flocci.org website and b) vector graphics skills:
http://www.flocci.org/simplefont/show.html (A silly way of writing which I made up during particularly boring lectures.)