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Watched Farhenhite(?) 9/11 tonight again on the dish. Ya just forget so much of what's on there. I gotta buy it so I can watch it when ever I want to feel like I know better than millions upon millions of American citizens. "Fool me once...."! Indeed.
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Work is busy again, would have been busier 'cept with alot of some southern states under water, not as many people are worried about what thier wardrobe contains. Funny, all of a sudden America cares about it's homeless and are providing clothes, shelter, food and money. People all over America need this kind of help every day and it takes a storm of biblical proportions - predicted well in advance, and I might add, with evacuation suggestions - to bind all of us together in an effort to help those who did not flee the face of certain doom. It's a shame.
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The Lighterside (of what??? or it's about time!)
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September's PC Jamboree
The Lighterside (of what??? or it's about time!)
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September's PC Jamboree
Building a linux box and I keep running into problems with parts being spread all over the house and the town. Couldn't install the power supply til I got a bag of screws from the old abode. Found then in a drawer under some ribbon data cable, spent the extra time looking for anything else I may need to get this project off the ground and walked away with an extra screwdriver (just incase).
It was late when I got home so, waited til the next night (tonight) to put it all together. After figuring out where to ground the power switch and securing the hinged fold out tray, after removing all 3 cards from the motherboard, I got the power supply installed, powerswitch hooked up and power to the board. When I attempted to hook up the drives I realized I was missing quite an important piece of the PC puzzle. The friggin ribbon data cables.
Too late tonight to continue with that, and got a busy day tommorrow so this may take sometime to get on the go. It's not reall a powerhouse anyway - Pentium 166. Hey! It's upgradable to a 266!! 64 Mbs of rockin SIMM RAM!! and the kicker....wait for it.....wait for it....a 3.4 Gig hard drive. Yes, 3.4G, I did not forget a zero. I installed XP on it the other day, before deciding linux would be a better fit - literally - and the XP took up pretty much half of the entire drive. Every thing else is great , at least they all work, no matter how slowly.
It was late when I got home so, waited til the next night (tonight) to put it all together. After figuring out where to ground the power switch and securing the hinged fold out tray, after removing all 3 cards from the motherboard, I got the power supply installed, powerswitch hooked up and power to the board. When I attempted to hook up the drives I realized I was missing quite an important piece of the PC puzzle. The friggin ribbon data cables.
Too late tonight to continue with that, and got a busy day tommorrow so this may take sometime to get on the go. It's not reall a powerhouse anyway - Pentium 166. Hey! It's upgradable to a 266!! 64 Mbs of rockin SIMM RAM!! and the kicker....wait for it.....wait for it....a 3.4 Gig hard drive. Yes, 3.4G, I did not forget a zero. I installed XP on it the other day, before deciding linux would be a better fit - literally - and the XP took up pretty much half of the entire drive. Every thing else is great , at least they all work, no matter how slowly.
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September's North Wall Jamboree
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September's North Wall Jamboree
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We were gonna simply skim coat some of the old plaster on the stair and the upstairs landing to smooth it out for painting and general asthetics, but decided to double check for insulation being only 300 meters from the Atlantic Ocean and prevailing -20 degree winter winds, not to mention the cost of oil these days.
Well, after a few hammers went into the wall it looked like we were lied to and there was nothing blown into those walls but hot air, so away we go ripping and tearing the plaster from the lath andfinding so much insulation that we are gonna be able to do the attic with it!
Yea, where we knocked holes happened to be just below where the confetti had bunched up and stopped falling.
But it went smooth and now we know for a fact, it's R20 on the coldest wall in the house and it's half hung with Gyprock already. We'll have it painted before long and finally have the entire downstairs, stairway, landing, bathroom, and two of three bedrooms finished. Me and the G/F can suffer in our late eighties, bowerytown, junkie/crackhead crashpad looking bedroom colored a pale crystal blue, speckled with chucks of 85 year old immoveable wallpaper and lightly spotted with bare plaster and lath. Groovy baby.
Gotta go.
Skinnylickingood.
Well, after a few hammers went into the wall it looked like we were lied to and there was nothing blown into those walls but hot air, so away we go ripping and tearing the plaster from the lath andfinding so much insulation that we are gonna be able to do the attic with it!
Yea, where we knocked holes happened to be just below where the confetti had bunched up and stopped falling.
But it went smooth and now we know for a fact, it's R20 on the coldest wall in the house and it's half hung with Gyprock already. We'll have it painted before long and finally have the entire downstairs, stairway, landing, bathroom, and two of three bedrooms finished. Me and the G/F can suffer in our late eighties, bowerytown, junkie/crackhead crashpad looking bedroom colored a pale crystal blue, speckled with chucks of 85 year old immoveable wallpaper and lightly spotted with bare plaster and lath. Groovy baby.
Gotta go.
Skinnylickingood.
