((Actually) short) update journal
16 years ago
General
First matter of business, my compy. After six or seven years of it being reliably unreliable, we're finally putting the poor, old machine down. It's just time. Plus, it's started making a very troubling whiring sound on start-up, followed by a sickening whine the entire time it's running, even on idle. And will no longer run L4D without randomly crashing the whole computer, which until about a week ago, it ran like a dream with never a complaint...
So, yeah, old compy is finally getting retired in favour of a newer gaming PC. 8 GB RAM, high-end video card, 1 TB of storage... Should be good times.
And with a new PC, it turns out my old scanner (which my dad still hasn't figured out isn't working after the last reset) will also need to be replaced. In this case, because there are no drivers for it on the Vista OS. I'm not a big fan of Vista, but I've heard it's not SO horrible since the service packs, so... Here's hoping. And for a good scanner this time.
... And speaking of TF2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2huUZG_LIA4
... Dunno. Just figured someone else would get a kick out of it. It just works so perfectly with his new backstab animation too...
Also, still no job. It's starting to seem a lot like there won't be one. There's just no job market anymore...
I feel like there's more I want to say, but I can't think of what...
Darn...
So, yeah, old compy is finally getting retired in favour of a newer gaming PC. 8 GB RAM, high-end video card, 1 TB of storage... Should be good times.
And with a new PC, it turns out my old scanner (which my dad still hasn't figured out isn't working after the last reset) will also need to be replaced. In this case, because there are no drivers for it on the Vista OS. I'm not a big fan of Vista, but I've heard it's not SO horrible since the service packs, so... Here's hoping. And for a good scanner this time.
... And speaking of TF2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2huUZG_LIA4
... Dunno. Just figured someone else would get a kick out of it. It just works so perfectly with his new backstab animation too...
Also, still no job. It's starting to seem a lot like there won't be one. There's just no job market anymore...
I feel like there's more I want to say, but I can't think of what...
Darn...
FA+

That's certainly a lot of space.
I'm looking forward to having some actual performance ability, though. that'll be awfully nice...
I hope the new computer works out though. I don't know much about computers, so other than the storage space, I don't really know much about what those statistics you mentioned amount to.
Vista feels like it is controlling you... maybe that's how Skynet will start.
On a related note, I'm off to go learn Jarate.