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On Friday night, Christine and I went to some new friends (Natalie and Anila, if memory serves me correctly) for a get-together of dinner (hamburgers and cheese-sausages, yum!) and Firefly. Now, I've seen Serenity (the Movie) several times now, but after seeing a pair of episodes of the Firefly TV show (the pilot and second episode), I'm impressed and want to see more. (Ysa, Christine is becoming a fan, too. :D)
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I picked up a few more fish for my fishtank. It's looking very healthy right now, and I'm happy about that. :) I now (in total) have an Angelfish, a trio of strawberry-pink and blue-jay tetras each, 6 red-fancy-tail guppies, a plecostomus, and a pair of siamese algae eaters (of which I have not been able to see both at the same time, it's really bizarre). I also got this neat plant that resembles clovers, and when it grows correctly, it spreads under the gravel and sprouts up randomly, and it looked incredible in the fishtanks at the Aquarium store. I only hope I can duplicate it in my tank. ^_^
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Well, I'm finally (eventually, believe me this time! :P) going to get a new computer. I'm looking at Canada Computers' Office@Home system which has a good amount of horsepower under the hood. After talking with them, I'm likely to be voiding their warranty right off the bat by adding any piece of my old computer into the new one (of which I want to add at least my soundcard, hard drives, firewire card, and CD-RW). I could get them to add them as well, but of course it costs extra. Maybe I'll burn it in for a month first and then add the other parts if I need to. (It may have all I need without an extra boost from, say, a sound card.)
I have to admit that I'm still scared to upgrade to Windows XP, and even moreso to Vista. (Have I mentioned that I downloaded the Vista Upgrade Advisor, and surprise surprise, it needs XP to run? Reminder to self: remove Microsoft's .NET framework). Windows 2000 is a nice, stable system that is not being targeted as much as XP is, and that damned Windows Genuine Advantage annoys me when I want to upgrade anyone's computer (as I hardly know anyone who has a "genuine" copy). I'm considering Linux, as long as I can get some serious support for it. Hm, now that I think about that, I should check to see if the old hardware I want to install in my new computer would have drivers for Linux, otherwise it wouldn't work very well, would it? :P
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I picked up a few more fish for my fishtank. It's looking very healthy right now, and I'm happy about that. :) I now (in total) have an Angelfish, a trio of strawberry-pink and blue-jay tetras each, 6 red-fancy-tail guppies, a plecostomus, and a pair of siamese algae eaters (of which I have not been able to see both at the same time, it's really bizarre). I also got this neat plant that resembles clovers, and when it grows correctly, it spreads under the gravel and sprouts up randomly, and it looked incredible in the fishtanks at the Aquarium store. I only hope I can duplicate it in my tank. ^_^
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Well, I'm finally (eventually, believe me this time! :P) going to get a new computer. I'm looking at Canada Computers' Office@Home system which has a good amount of horsepower under the hood. After talking with them, I'm likely to be voiding their warranty right off the bat by adding any piece of my old computer into the new one (of which I want to add at least my soundcard, hard drives, firewire card, and CD-RW). I could get them to add them as well, but of course it costs extra. Maybe I'll burn it in for a month first and then add the other parts if I need to. (It may have all I need without an extra boost from, say, a sound card.)
I have to admit that I'm still scared to upgrade to Windows XP, and even moreso to Vista. (Have I mentioned that I downloaded the Vista Upgrade Advisor, and surprise surprise, it needs XP to run? Reminder to self: remove Microsoft's .NET framework). Windows 2000 is a nice, stable system that is not being targeted as much as XP is, and that damned Windows Genuine Advantage annoys me when I want to upgrade anyone's computer (as I hardly know anyone who has a "genuine" copy). I'm considering Linux, as long as I can get some serious support for it. Hm, now that I think about that, I should check to see if the old hardware I want to install in my new computer would have drivers for Linux, otherwise it wouldn't work very well, would it? :P
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BUY A MAC
DO IT
;)
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And yes, so am I. But I'm not easy. :P
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:D
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The fastest way to see if any of your hardware can run on Linux, burn a copy of a Live CD distro. Because Live distros don't install on your hard drive, a test drive means you aren't committing yourself to anything - remove the disk and it's a Windows computer again. Knoppix is a good, all-round one that fits on a single CD. Puppy and Damn Small are two that only require the smaller, "hockey rink" and business card type disks (of course you can burn them onto a regular size disk).
You can download the Knoppix OSI here.
Alternatively, you can check out your hardware here.
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I was coming to say that I figure with Chris & Gary & Matt in my life, I've got all the Linux support I'll ever need. I imagine they'd give you the same help…
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You have long-time Linux-user friends, and linuxquestions.org has lots of answers. Also, if you go with Debian (which is hands-down my recommendation), I can vouch for the fact that the debian-user mailing list provides top-notch tech support... many times better than you'll get from any proprietary software vendor I've ever heard of.
And yeah... XP is kind of ass... this WGA spyware bullshit is just the beginning, and Vista (if it ever makes it to market) is going to be a bloated hulk that makes a Hummer look sleek and efficient. And that's before you get into the fact that DRM and spyware will be built-in system-level features. I don't want a product whose design goals include preventing me from doing what I want with my computer (including preventing lots of legal things) and reporting my activity to somebody without my permission.
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And yay Firefly-watching! *^^* *approves* (I'm jealous of how cheap it--and all of Buffy, for that matter--is now. $25, where I think I paid more like $40 ON SALE. *cries*)
Quality... Nazi... taking over... CAN'T CONTROL ITtttttttttt
- Socket 775 = pain on your hydro bill. And if this one isn't, it's only because you're getting the low-end version with a slower FSB.
- Integrated Graphics will be ass for AMVs (especially with only a half-GB RAM that has to be shared for it) and anything else graphic-fancy unless you've got a PCI-X card handy.
- I went to the Canada Computers @ Pacific Mall on Monday and asked about the mid-tower case it comes with. The guy said it can be any $30-40 case, usually the one in the picture - and those (he said) usually don't have a fan or ventilation holes near the hard drive bay. And you're gonna have the 80 GB SATA it comes with plus how many hard drives from your old system in there? I know you've got air conditioning, but don't forget Jen's drive meltdown.
Is your budget for this capped at $500? (as you can see, it won't get ya much >_<)
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I'll keep looking into things. Thanks!
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Keep in mind that I don't play too-intensive games at all, and the modified Sapphire Radeon 9000 (I think, and I had to remove the fan because it seized up) is perfect for anything I'm doing these days with my old system (Half-Life 2 looks nice for me).
Do you think it'd be easier for me to buy it piecemeal and assemble it myself, too?