{"id":248,"date":"2001-04-27T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-27T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=248"},"modified":"2001-04-27T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2001-04-27T10:14:00","slug":"broke_but_zippy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/broke_but_zippy\/","title":{"rendered":"broke but zippy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/A> off the shelf and went to the check out.
\ni 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.
\ni 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.
\ni 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!
\n*sigh* i’m such a geek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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