Posted By Russ Emerson on March 27, 2009 at 3:18 pm
The new PC is set up. It screams.
I’ve managed to get the important apps installed and most of my data transferred from the old machine, though I’m still tweaking a lot of settings to get it to behave the way I prefer. Which reminds me just how much I hate Windows. With a fierce burning passion.
The cabling is slightly less of a mess than it was before, though nowhere as neat as I would have liked. There has to be a better way to wire a home office, there just has to be.
Maybe I should invent something.
While setting up the machine, a certain pain-in-the-butt cat decided he wanted to help… if you define “help” as broadly as possible… up to and including flopping on the keyboard.
Teasing Kismet with the mouse pointer probably wasn’t too nice of me, but that’s what he gets if he’s going to park his butt on my keyboard.
Posted By Russ Emerson on March 23, 2009 at 9:10 pm
I picked up the new PC a couple of hours ago, and have so far managed to wrestle it to the base of the stairs. Since it’s boxed, sliding it up the stairs will be comparatively simple.
I had a super-quiet power supply installed, and the cooling fans are the larger type, which can run slower and quieter for the same effect. No more blender-like noises.
The hard part is going to be the rebuilding of my office area. I’ll have to tear things down, of course, before I can re-do everything. Along with the new PC, I’ll be replacing my UPS with two bigger/better ones I picked up for a song at Circuit City before they folded. I’ll be replacing the 19″ Dell CRT I use for work with a new 22″ LG flatscreen, said flatscreen also acquired from the late Circuit City for a song.
I’m drooling just over the specs on this new box. Intel i7 920 Quad Core 2.66GHz processor, 2 Seagate 500 GB hard drives, nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB video card, 6 GB of 1333 MHz memory, XP Pro (yes, I know XP can only address 4 GB of memory, but eventually there will be a worthwhile 64-bit OS, which Vista definitely isn’t) and a DVD burner and a second DVD drive. For the first time, I’ve skipped having a floppy drive. I haven’t used a floppy in I don’t know how long.
So, let’s recap: new PC, work laptop, two big flatscreen monitors, router, cable modem, UPSs, keyboards, mouses, speakers, printer… the wiring is going to be a nightmare. Maybe I should put a bit of thought into the cabling before I set things willy-nilly on the desk.
No, that would be the smart thing to do. No sense changing my ways at this late date.
Maybe when I get everything together and in place I’ll take a picture.
I’ll be offline until Thursday, I expect. I don’t know if I can handle the withdrawal, but I have plenty of DVDs to entertain myself with, if I feel the need to look at a screen for that long.
But nevertheless, I feel like Navin Johnson getting his hands on the new phone book… the new PC is here! The new PC is here! I’m somebody now!
Let’s just hope there isn’t a sniper looking for me.