Verified:
Ethernet cable good.
PCI slots good.
All four IPs are set up and active on AT&T Broadband’s end.
Conclusion:
My 5-year-old ethernet card has kicked the bucket. I must stop by Discount PC for a new card. Mother beetches.
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Crazy.
I didn’t go to the club last night. I went grocery shopping and then fucked with Linux so I could write my paper. UNTIL 2 AM. First, printing. That took about an hour. Found out that lpd didn’t like the tab in the hosts file. Fixed that. Then, the word processor that came with the damn thing forgot where its fonts were. Looked in the directory, the fonts were all there, but the font.dir file was missing. Just *poof* gone. Fuck it. I stopped trying to fix it around 2 am, and went to sleep. I got up at 7 and came in to work to write my paper, then went to class.
When I get home, I’m opening up RedCarpet, and uninstalling that fucking word processor. Then I’m installing OpenOffice.org, because I KNOW it works.
Ok, that out of the way, everything else about Linux has kicked ass so far. Once I get the word processor shit fixed, I need to open up the damn case (maybe before I get the word processor fixed) and re-seat the network card. It’s only five years old, it shouldn’t be failing yet. :)
Time for that will have to be sparing, because I’m going to go study, do my exercises, then have a late dinner after work. THEN I’m going to fuck with the computer.
Serial vs. USB
Is it bad when I can tell the difference in response time in a USB mouse vs. a serial mouse?
Is there even a difference, or am I hallucinating?
Sigh of releif and pleasure.
My iMac (with the DVD drive) is now hooked up through my satellite speakers and my subwoofer. Lansing Altec. Oooooh good lord.
New Toy
Yup. I got the iMac. It made me smile.
Being up at 1 am doing laundry, when I know I’m gonna pay for it tomorrow makes me smile more.
Good lord, what would I do if I didn’t storytell at least once every other week? What would I do if I didn’t have a regular game to attend at all? Would I spontaneously combust? Holy shit… I’m considering it.
Laundry’s almost done. Tired.
Hi, my name is Dave, and I like Macs.
I am buying one of these:
Yup. I’m buying a used iMac DV, Indigo, G3 450, DVD player, 312 megs of RAM, etc etc. It’ll be in my grubby paws by next Friday.
And I’ll still have enough money left over from my bonus to upgrade the shit out of my PC.
EVIL! MANSERVANT HECUBUS!!