Tuesday, August 2, 2005

Pondering the Imponderable -- 11:17 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Well, I'm finally back home after a couple of weeks. I'm trying to get myself reacclimated. I reassembled my computer to discover that the fan on my northbridge chip has died. Not only won't it spin, but it's hard to move manually. Looks like I'm going to have to figure out how to swap it out. Joy.

I'm also toying with the idea of getting a DVD burner. The prices have dropped quite nicely lately. I'm looking at an LG GSA-4163B which has gotten good reviews but doesn't cost an arm and a leg. It's getting very hard to back up to CD-Rs these days. My Thunderbird directory is 411M alone. I can whittle that down to about 200M, but heaven help me if I need a message I tossed in the Trash folder.

Update! I ended up ordering one from NewEgg (no affiliation, yadda, yadda) for a pretty sweet price. I got the OEM version since I can't use the software in Linux anyway and I've already got more IDE and soundcard cables than I could possible ever use. I was disappointed to note that this drive (and every other DVD burner I checked) does not support Mt. Rainier format. A small thing, but still annoying.

News for 08/02/2005

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