so, on the way home from work last night i stopped at london drugs and hmm’d & haw’d over the modems, mice, microphones and monitors (must have been an m-day). i wasn’t once interrupted by a sales person, even though there were at least 15 various staff members in that very tiny department. i finally bit the bullet and picked a 3com usr performance pro modem off the shelf and went to the check out.
i got it home, ordered a pizza for dinner and set about to install yet another piece of hardware. i won’t bore you with the details, but for about twenty minutes i thought i was never going to get the computer to boot up again. ever. but a little jiggling and wiggling and everything was hunky-dory.
i now get well over 5 k/sec in my downloads! what that means, in practical terms, is that a 3-4mb mp3 takes about 10-15 minutes to download instead of 45-50 minutes. yeah. i’m screaming now.
i was half tempted to buy a webcam while i was there, but stopped myself before i went completely insane. next purchase will probably be a bigger hard drive so i can scrap one of my old ones to make room for a burner or dvd player. now with the dual head video card i can play dvds on my tv!
*sigh* i’m such a geek.
Mmmm, pizza.