One of my dads friends wanted me to "put together" a new computer for him. Before he could go on, I was already thinking about hard drives, motherboard, all the components needed...then he told me that it was all in boxes, and he didn't want to put it together. Some background on this gentleman before I proceed: this guy is about 5'6', Italian as the pope, and he owns and operates a "Disposal Facility" (Dump).
So, I get to his home, meet his charming wife, then get down to business. All really easy stuff, monitor plugs into tower, dsl modem plugs into NIC, etc...the only sketchy part was agreeing to the Vista EULA, but I figured if Microsoft tried anything on this guy, someone'd get their knees broken.
After I finished setting up his new computer (which is crap laggy), I inquired about the status of his old hp 500Mhz "never obsolete" box. He said he'd think about it, and called me today saying I could have it. When I go to pick it up, the first thing I'm going to do is wipe the hard drive, just in case the feds come looking for information about him, ha ha.
If anyone's wondering about the other box I was posting about earlier, I did a reinstall, and everything is working great, so I don't know what the problem was, but it's gone now (or for now, at least)!
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hellooo
I saw you'd been "speaking to no one" for a while, so I decided to go 'head and comment.
1. Good Blog: nice niche topic (that'll go away if you give up on the polyphasic sleep thing)
2. Your posts about Linux are honest and reflect the thoughts of an average everyman rather than a Linux guru/pundit/fanboi/link-baiter.
3. Your most recent post that broke into Digg, was quite amusing and did not reek of blogspam.
Well, after reading all this, you may ask, "Who's this guy and what qualifies him to say something about my blog?" (or not)
My answer is that I'm something of a blogger myself, but more of a reader than a writer. I have many moments of deep thought about various subjects, but am usually too lazy to type all of it in my blog. God, I wish I had a tablet for handwriting recognition/good headset for speech recog!
I suffered through a similar phase of "writing to noone". However, I have eventually garnered two, yes two, comments and a referral from ArsGeek so far (hurrah!). My blog has been around for nearly two years though... (and has had about 300 unique visitors [probably spam-bots] in the past six months). However, my posts do show up on a Google front page well-enough, so...
anywho, the real reason I was here is LINKSPAM........................
not.
best,
Lituus
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