hardware
i now have 1.25 GB of RAM. and a fresh copy of XP that boots in
under 10 seconds. it feels good. for users of itunes, beware of
installing a new windows operating system and trying to keep your
music library. i tried to copy mine over to my new hard drive and
kept getting an "access denied" error. nothing i tried worked. so,
i had to use linux to bypass whatever security policy itunes put
on that folder. i still haven't finished moving everything. i had
to make a fat32 partition on the remaining space on my old HD, then
move as much as i could (4 GB at a time) to it. Then, i'd boot up
windows, move that bit to my new hard drive, delete everything on
the fat32 partition and boot back to linux and move another 4 GB.
repeat. repeat. i should have one more repitition left.
other than that, the transisition was pretty easy. i still haven't
reinstalled all my software. but i guess i'll just do that as
needed. so far it's java sdk, itunes, nero 6, winrar 3.4.1, and
my sound card drivers. i can predict needing azureus and xvid
pretty soon. probably besweet and avisynth, too. actually, autogk
will take care of most of my video/audio tools. i'm trying not to
install too much unnecessary software, so my system will stay fast.
i think maybe after i finish moving my music library and installing
codecs i'll use norton ghost to back up an image and keep a copy of
that somewhere safe. if anyone has ever used that program and knows
anything that i should keep in mind, let me know. thanks.
-- [the weekend] --
friday night i crashed at like 9:00, 9:30. worked saturday until 4:30.
mom kept reuben, so angela and i went and saw robots. there was a
star wars III trailer. it looks pretty good. robots was cute. very
much a kid movie, though. sunday was church and nap. then shopping,
while the sky fell. when we got back from brookshire's there was
massive amounts of hail covering the yard. we didn't drive through
any, though. the clouds did very strange and beautiful things both
before and after the rain, and we saw a rainbow, too. at brookshire's
we told reuben he could pick one toy, and guess what he picked? a
fork and spoon set!!! we tried to get him to pick something else, but
he REALLY wanted that fork and spoon. we went home and ate chili dogs,
and he got to use them. he's so funny sometimes. -- now i'm waiting
on my professor to release his test data that he says will blow up
out cache programs. personally, i don't think it will, unless he didn't
clearly specify some cases. given his reputation, that may be true.
today at work is slow. waiting on letters to get printed. i know we'll
probably end up working til six. but right now, there's not much going
on at all. just cleaning up, getting ready for the luncheon.
off to school...
under 10 seconds. it feels good. for users of itunes, beware of
installing a new windows operating system and trying to keep your
music library. i tried to copy mine over to my new hard drive and
kept getting an "access denied" error. nothing i tried worked. so,
i had to use linux to bypass whatever security policy itunes put
on that folder. i still haven't finished moving everything. i had
to make a fat32 partition on the remaining space on my old HD, then
move as much as i could (4 GB at a time) to it. Then, i'd boot up
windows, move that bit to my new hard drive, delete everything on
the fat32 partition and boot back to linux and move another 4 GB.
repeat. repeat. i should have one more repitition left.
other than that, the transisition was pretty easy. i still haven't
reinstalled all my software. but i guess i'll just do that as
needed. so far it's java sdk, itunes, nero 6, winrar 3.4.1, and
my sound card drivers. i can predict needing azureus and xvid
pretty soon. probably besweet and avisynth, too. actually, autogk
will take care of most of my video/audio tools. i'm trying not to
install too much unnecessary software, so my system will stay fast.
i think maybe after i finish moving my music library and installing
codecs i'll use norton ghost to back up an image and keep a copy of
that somewhere safe. if anyone has ever used that program and knows
anything that i should keep in mind, let me know. thanks.
-- [the weekend] --
friday night i crashed at like 9:00, 9:30. worked saturday until 4:30.
mom kept reuben, so angela and i went and saw robots. there was a
star wars III trailer. it looks pretty good. robots was cute. very
much a kid movie, though. sunday was church and nap. then shopping,
while the sky fell. when we got back from brookshire's there was
massive amounts of hail covering the yard. we didn't drive through
any, though. the clouds did very strange and beautiful things both
before and after the rain, and we saw a rainbow, too. at brookshire's
we told reuben he could pick one toy, and guess what he picked? a
fork and spoon set!!! we tried to get him to pick something else, but
he REALLY wanted that fork and spoon. we went home and ate chili dogs,
and he got to use them. he's so funny sometimes. -- now i'm waiting
on my professor to release his test data that he says will blow up
out cache programs. personally, i don't think it will, unless he didn't
clearly specify some cases. given his reputation, that may be true.
today at work is slow. waiting on letters to get printed. i know we'll
probably end up working til six. but right now, there's not much going
on at all. just cleaning up, getting ready for the luncheon.
off to school...