Month: August 2006

My new computer is now setup. The software transfered, the scanner, webcam, external drives, printer, and speakers are all hooked up and working. The only hardware that was not compatable with the operating system was my photosmart p1000 printer. The driver would not work and there is no new one :(. Strange really considering my old computer was running XP home version. I guess I loaded the drivers under sp1 and not sp2 since the new computer is running xp media center edition. I gave up and purchased a new printer. It was to frustrating not being able to print out instuctions to reinstall my programs and transfer licenses.
It just amazes me when I think back to my first computers – (Commador Vic 20 and 64). I remember when a beefed up 286 was the bomb. This new computer has almost as many jacks on the back and front of it as my entertainment center edition.

I choose to set up the RAID at 0 for the speed rather than 1 for the backup redundancy.

Now I want to purchase LightScribe compatable dvd and cd disc’s – sound fun anyway.

Well here is the info on the machine: HP Pavilion Media Center

It is a fun machine not a work machine. Although it seems to handle MS Office with great speed.

Next: Convert to wireless network.

Yep, it always happens when you least expect it. My trusty desktop of over 5 years has finally decided to retire. It is not terminal I suppose but why purchase a few hundred bucks worth of repair parts, install them, and then sit around and wait for the next malfunction? Right now I have it running in short bursts using a home fan to cool it and when it shuts off I have a devil of a time getting it to come back on. The power thing is over heating, the fan – what fan LOL and it triggers my surge protector to shut off. I am running RAID and one of the drives is making those funny pre crash noises- so I decided to use this as an excuse to bite the bullet and purchase – gasp – a new computer.

My new computer is sitting downstairs waiting to take its place up here in the “computer room”. As I browse through the 160 so GB of accumulated files that are on my hard drive I wonder how it ever got to this point. Geez half the stuff is years old but I kept em just in case – ya never know. I do have 80GB of MP3’s on a external usb drive and another 160 or so GB on my 300GB external drive so I do not have to worry about copying them all over to the new puter. But what about all the nifty programs that I have to pay to use on another computer? Which ones are worth the money? I so hate these decisions.

I am making note of which programs windows is so kind enough to tell me I have not used in 4 years and those that I use everyday.

I am off to cyber land to make sure I can reset up my dsl, printer, scanner, breakout box etc. the gps software, …. all that fun stuff. I am looking forward to starting all over again. It is like saying goodbye to a car you have spent a decade making memories in. Strange.

Well if you do not hear from me in a while you will know why. I have already disconnected my laptop from my little home network and am about to pull the plug.

This is HC4X5R6S9.377856 Pentium 4 cpu 2.53Ghz signing off.

UPDATE:

woo hoo and yahoo I am back online with only of few minor cliches. My new puter is way cool. I can watch tv, movies, fm radio, etc on it – emmm although my television is on so I can type here :). This thing has way too many plugs and jacks for my little mind. The only snag is my photo smart p1000 does not have usb drivers for xp and the new puter has no parallel port 🙁  So I am going to use the printer on my laptop and find another photo printer.

I have to redo my bookmarks, load office, photoshopCS, and dreamweaver. Then all will be good for awhile.

Ok Billy,

Here you can see the largest salmon. As you can tell – it is all I can do to hold it up. I have a nicer picture of Bonnie, Rae and myself where I held the mid sized one and Rae held the larger one – cause I could not hold it all the way up so you could see it so-

Here is the one that was a bit over 30pds

Please note that the above pic was taken later on in the evening. The fish holder is tired, sunburned, and about ready to drop the fish!

Here is the better one showing all three fish after we cleaned them:

Rae was the only one that could hold the fish up long enough to take a picture 🙂

So Billy and Brandon – want to go fishing again – we know the right spot right now . …

Hee hee Brandon – eat your heart out (just kiddin).

Sometimes the obvious is not obvious. I have spent a lot of time searching the css code in k2 looking for the reason my links in my sidebar with the heading worhty places had a stupid dot in front of it. Augh. DrumNWhistles comments on my previous post reinforced my search for the illusive li or style class. I even searched the code in the sidebar widgets plugin thinking maybe it created a redundant li type thing.

Well, after searching the code again it dawns on me – yes – slow one that I am – that in the k2 sidebar options I had a “links” categorie block and four other “linkblocks”. DUH… I was using the old one “Links” and not the new ones that appeared after I loaded the sidebar widgets plugin.

Years ago after the death of a friend her son gave me her IBM286. I had a Commador something 64 at the time. I turned on the IBM and all there was on the screen was c:\. UMmm… I used Fortran in college so I typed in format(x,x) something along those lines anyway. The nice computer responded that I used the wrong form. Ummm so I tried various forms of format statements until I hit the jackpot – format – yes this nice computer responded are you sure? Well I was not sure but it was the only response the black screen had given me so – yep I pressed YES. LOL 🙁

I ended up buying DOS for the IBM and a book. Tonight the little dot controlled by css was my c:\ .