Blogger Beta...eh?

I have converted my blog to the new Blogger Beta style. Spiffy eh?

I even managed to code back in my 'trademark' left and right sidebars.

Still a few tweaks required...but I like it!

Google owns the world.

Weird Computer Problem - The End!

See Part I and Part II.

It's ALIVE!

The beast is alive, once again. Hear him roar!

It was the power supply. Damnit! Twenty dollar fix, that's it. Now I have an extra motherboard--socket 478--and nothing to do with it. Socket 478s are pretty useless now, especially AGP ones. Bah!

What did I learn? Always, ALWAYS go with the cheaper option first. Especially if your certainty factor isn't all that good. Also, power supplies are pieces of shit. Expect them to fail. And when they do, expect them to fail in a way that you would never assume is a power supply fault.

Oh well. Lesson learnt.

Weird Computer Problem - Part II

My desk right now.

See Part I here.

So I got my new motherboard. A very similar mobo to my old one. Moved my P4 chip over to the new motherboard. That took a little work. I had to clean the thermal gunk off and reapply new gunk. That was after I used my dissecting scalpel to pry it loose from the heat sink. Then plugged in the power supply. And...NO GOOD. Still acts the same way.

Great.

135 bucks WASTED.

Now I'm thinking it's the power supply. At least power supplies are cheap.

Weird Computer Problem

I have a curiously odd computer problem: my motherboard will not power down. I have stripped my system down to just the power supply, motherboard, and chip. The system will not turn off! If the power cord is in and the switch on the back of the computer is in the ON position, the computer stays in some weird, vegetative, on-like state. It is non-responsive, and has no video output - it's in some kind of computer-coma.

So, the culprit could be:
1. Power supply is screwed
2. Motherboard is screwed
3. Intel chip is screwed

Or, perhaps, it is a combination of those three. Or maybe aliens are screwing with me. As exciting as that option might be, I doubt it.

By the way, those three options are in my order of 'preference'. Power supplies are cheap; the motherboard isn't cheap but it's still not a killer; the same P4 chip, however, runs a couple hundred bucks. Ugh.

I hate it when technology fails.

Thank God the iBook is my main computer.

*knocks on wood*

Welcome to the Digital Age

Yes, finally, the Digital Age is ushered in on the Afra family. We now have a digital camera: a nifty little 6MP Olympus.

I got my Flickr account working. You can find it here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kafra/

For those of you who don't know about Flickr (I assume 95% of you), it's a really cool, easy to use, online photo directory. It has a nice program that I've downloaded, it lets me upload batches of photos to custom photo sets; and I can add descriptions right here on my computer. Then all I need to do is click the little 'Upload' button, and it's all done. Easy to use, organized, free - cool.

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Have a great New Years Eve everyone,
Kev