Speedy Is Dead
Oct. 15th, 2005 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dxmachinaSo, it turns out it was more than just the power supply that went on Speedy, my 1.8 GHz P4 machine, the other night. I got a new power supply last night, but installing it did no good. The machine powers up, but nothing happens. Whatever happened must've taken the processor with it. Bother.
I'd been thinking about getting a new machine. Speedy had finally met a program it wasn't powerful enough to run optimally (Flight Simulator 2004) a few months back. For a change, I was thinking about just ordering a Dell rather than building the machine myself. Dell runs some really good deals, but in the end, I decided to wait. Buying a new computer just for the sake of one game is a little extravagant.
Now it's no longer so. I'm typing this on Flash, the PII-350 I built in 1997. I've done some upgrades to it over the years, but it just won't do as a long-term solution. The question now is whether to buy a Dell, or rebuild. Rebuild is more attractive at this point, because most of Speedy is probably still good. I'll have to replace the motherboard, processor, and RAM (probably), but all the drives, and the video and audio cards are probably fine. I'll have to haul the machine into work tomorrow to test them all. Of all of them, the only thing I might want to upgrade is the video card, but I'd have to do that if I bought a Dell, too. Need to do some component pricing.
Still raining outside. Anybody know how long a cubit is? I have this boatbuilding project I'm thinking about...
I'd been thinking about getting a new machine. Speedy had finally met a program it wasn't powerful enough to run optimally (Flight Simulator 2004) a few months back. For a change, I was thinking about just ordering a Dell rather than building the machine myself. Dell runs some really good deals, but in the end, I decided to wait. Buying a new computer just for the sake of one game is a little extravagant.
Now it's no longer so. I'm typing this on Flash, the PII-350 I built in 1997. I've done some upgrades to it over the years, but it just won't do as a long-term solution. The question now is whether to buy a Dell, or rebuild. Rebuild is more attractive at this point, because most of Speedy is probably still good. I'll have to replace the motherboard, processor, and RAM (probably), but all the drives, and the video and audio cards are probably fine. I'll have to haul the machine into work tomorrow to test them all. Of all of them, the only thing I might want to upgrade is the video card, but I'd have to do that if I bought a Dell, too. Need to do some component pricing.
Still raining outside. Anybody know how long a cubit is? I have this boatbuilding project I'm thinking about...
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Date: 2005-10-15 12:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-15 01:45 pm (UTC)Bwah! I was just talking to my mom who said we're 10 days in, only 30 more to go...and then made a comment about how'd she miss the memo about the building project.
Sorry about Speedy. So impressed that rebuilding is an option. I'd just order the Dell :)
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Date: 2005-10-15 01:51 pm (UTC)http://www.sover.net/~rc/deep_secrets/cubit/
We learn that:
"The Royal Cubit, as employed during the Old Kingdom, is generally understood to have been 524 millimeters +/- 2 mm ( 20.63 inches) in length."
Huh, cubits are bigger than I thought!
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Date: 2005-10-15 01:52 pm (UTC)Ha!
I had my first encounter with bad flooding just now, on my way into work. Don't know how familiar you are with the East Bay, but Running River was overflowing over at the E. Providence line. It's usually a *trickle*. Now I want to go driving around some of the neighborhoods I've been interested in Barrington to see how bad it's gotten there. Hampden Meadows is probably a swamp, but I'm curious what it's like over near the bike path.
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