Techno Gladiator

I might not be the greatest computer tech. Strike that, I'm NOT the greatest computer tech. Okay, strike that too. I'm not a computer tech at all. And whatever building a handful of computers and doing a few upgrades makes me, I'm out of touch timewise for sure. My knowledge of hard drive installation was sorely lacking.

Got a bunch of good parts to build mom a new machine and yesterday was d-day. I learned some stuff. The new world of hard drives is blindingly fast. I like that. Even though they serve no purpose whatsoever in the world of read/write CD-ROM, you still have to have a floppy drive or things get really confused in the BIOS. I didn't like that. The twelve hour bulldog approach still works, but it is physically and mentally draining. I'm not sure if I like that or not.

So, end result. I'm at my mom's computer, which is working like a champ. I now have no working computers, since this one is a hybrid of some of her new parts, parts from both of my machines, and even some parts from her machine that broke down to start this whole mess. Today's task is to take the three carcasses and get two working machines out of it. This machine is a huge improvement for her, and I expect I will upgrade both of my machines in the process as well...hopefully without the twelve hour bulldogging.

Once more into the breech my friends!