Well, my Dell died back in october 22, 2011, due to bad capacitors, a really dum way to go out if you ask me, lol. I ordered a new set to replace the baddies, but, after all was done, it was still dead. So now, I have the cpu, which I hope is still good, the 4 1gig sticks of ram, and the viddy card to move over to a soon to be built generic pc, which I now have all the parts, except for the I/O shield for the motherboard I got from a bulk sell off, grr. *note to self* "never buy bulk sell off items again" lesson learned and now I wait for the slow shipping of this little piece of metal, to begin assembling these parts into what I hope is a working pc, lol. My fear is the fact this mobo was once a bulk item put into storage (I assume) and could just be a pretty paper weight. Ya, that and the fact the 30 days return window has been running since almost two weeks ago, while I wait for the rest of the parts, has me bugging out more than I have been bugging without my puter!
So, now most would just say, hook it all up to see if it runs before installing it into the case. Umm, ya, I thot of that, but due to the recent desert dry weather we been having and the fact I get a shock from static each time I flip a light switch just scares me to bring out the mobo out of the esd bag it is in, *bzzzt* dammits! Soo.. my idea is, Im going to boil a big pot of water, maybe two pots, and boil for an hour or so, raise the humidity some and test on the kitchen table.
Anyhoo, why am I even typing this? and some would ask, how am I typing this?, Well, my best friend's dad sent over an old office dell pc that had a dead hard drive. Ya, another dell, lol, AHHHHH!! Well, I put in the original hdd from my deaded dell, since I wont need that , lol, and formatted and installed ubuntu linux, lol. To my surprise, it works, but, Im no linux fan, Im no MS fan either but, I know windows xp, not linux. And yes, I can learn, and yes, some ppl would argue till they are red in their faces and say I can do anything in linux that I cud do in winblows, NOT! Ya, I sed not, you cant run IMVU in linux, not even if you use wine, LOL. Wine? who names these things? must been drunk writing that prog, lol, who knows, it works for some stuff but, not for IMVU updated versions, I tried, it crashes, and no I will not follow some mundane process to fix it, when I cud simply uninstall in sindows and reinstall and all is fine in my life of puterville. Terminal install? , lol, well, it has its place, and its easier than what they had before in linux Im sure, but, no ty, I have not the inspiration to reformat my brain to learn a new OS that is far from mainstream tech compared to what MS has going on that I know how to run! MMHMM! :P And dont try to argue with me any points of linux justifications, Ill not hear you since my ears receive sound via winamp shoutcast, lolol . Oh ya!, winamp wont run in linsux, lol, my bad, lets try vlc, wait, Im downloading codecs, hold on, I gotta install in terminal, type password, *it aborts*, type password again, (why does it abort on first time u type the pw?) *cant find codec* , OK, so Ill try this...* double clicks file just downloaded* "gedit has not been able to detect the character encoding." wth? *hits cancel* no installing? , grr, ..... ya, this is easy, :P, wait... let me install winblows, at least Ill have shoutcast running sooner than I wud in lindorx. lol,
At least I can browse the web, read stuff, watch amusing silly videos on youtube, not netflix , cuz, *laughs* it needs silverlite watever installed that runs only on MS OS's! no netflix then, yet it continues to be paid to keep open my account, lol, ... Back to yootoob, cant watch in high def, cuz the driver issue with my uber sucky non-express regular-pci viddy card that has just 128 mb ram, and slow as can be clock speeds, runs slower than the onboard graphics, yet, the onboard lags worst, hence why I put in this pci old viddy card. OMGarsh! I wants my puter! ok, Im ok, mebbe, :P ...
Now, Im learning alot about linux, it has no benifits over microsuck "lose"-dows, except for the fact theres much less viruses and all the baddie stuffs written for MS OSs, lol It has its good points, and I aim to find them if I ever can get solitair to let me win , once, at least, geez, lol,... I can email, chat in fb, even get into sl, sorta. Second Life lags bad with this, this needs more graphics power and this viddy is no power card I sez! :P
I no complaining, exactly, well, ok, I am, but I have reason to, but its in contrast only to my life, not others, so, back off if you bout to tell me that others have it worst, cuz, I know that, , Im just bugged about all the work I done in my land in sl building Halloween stuffs and creating a big spooky place to have fun in and invite friends to, , but then, my puter done broke, and Halloween passed on, and now I cant even see the whole thing from one point, draw distance too low, cant see far, if I put it up, it freezes , crashes, etc. grrr.. I just hope this mobo I gots works out and everything goes in without problems.
Well , I need to stop for now cuz typing this out on this linsucky pc is irritating, because it freezes up as I type, and I continue typing, and it catches up, eventually, but if I typo and know it I like to correct it but I have to wait for like 5 seconds to see if I goofed, and most times I do, lol, but, come on!!, dum lag , grrr... Mebbe the capacitors are going out on this dell too, LOL... Im not sure if its best I just stick to watching tv or sleep until I get all parts needed to start up the build, lol, oh well, anyhoo, you all enjoy, Ill be around, may not be for a while still, if things go bad again, assembling the pc and finding I need more parts, lol, .. HAAALP!. Bye for now o:)
