i’m halfway to my conversion back to the evil operating system. i spent yesterday reorganizing, deleting, discovering files, directories and partitions. today, i picked up another 64mb of memory. it’s always funny how men treat a woman buying computer parts.
\nthe very lovely, blond, accented (i’m not sure if it was new zealander or south african) sales associate at future shop looked at the ram, looked at me and then asked “are you going to install this yourself?” i took a mental deep breath, smiled and said “yup. i build my last system.” i’ll give him credit, his eyebrows went up only a little. we bantered back and forth a little about installation and it’s possible problems.
\ni wondered why he was being so nice, then i remembered i was wearing mascara. men always seem to be more friendly when i wear mascara.
\nnow, i haven’t had to physically do anything to my computer in a long time. it’s run almost flawlessly since i built it two years ago. so, there hasn’t been any need for me to open up the case and poke around inside. well, i’m going to have to peek in there more often. two years worth of dustbunnies are *not* pretty. i first made the mistake of taking the compressed air to it while it was still on my desk. little tufts of fuzz went everywhere. at that moment, i mentally thanked nature for not bestowing allergies upon me.
\ngrumbling because i hadn’t wanted to disconnect everything just to do a memory installation, i started diconnecting everything to take it out on the balcony to finish the dusting. i sprayed it until the air can had frost on the outside and there were still<\/b> spots of fuzz on the power supply. considering it was a vast improvement on the state i found it in, i left the can outside to defrost and brought the box back in for the actual procedure.
\nsnapping the dimm into place wasn’t major surgery, but i was somewhat worried linux wouldn’t pick up the extra memory. although, i believe now i was mistakenly worried as it was known to not register memory above 128mb, not 128mb itself. not that it’s going to matter soon enough, i suppose.
\nsir mix-a-lot just came on. shake it! shake it! shake that healthy butt!<\/i>
\nthe procedure was successful, the improvement was almost immediate. i can’t believe i waited so long. this week i’ll find my new video card and set about finding my windows cds so i can finish this all off next weekend and then wait for the cable company to install me some bandwidth. mrawr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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