Of old friends and new.

[docwebster]

A few weeks back, I got a Shiny New Computer. I finally got it running this week (was missing some necessary stuff).. and not three days later, I'm back to this current machine.

Why?

I never could put my finger on it, and I can't even now, but I was never comfortable with The Shiny New Computer. It.. well, I just felt uncomfortable with it. Maybe I've gotten hidebound in my old age, but I just *like* this machine. It's the first one I ever built with my own hands and.. well, I just like it better.

Yeah, the other machine was the fastest, most powerful machine I've ever had and could convert an avi to DVD mpg in 8-9 hours that on this machine would have taken an entire day.

Whoopteefreakingdo.

It did NOT help that the BIOS on the Shiny New Computer (Award BIOS) is the most cantankerous, stubborn excuse for a BIOS I've ever seen. Hard drive pin settings that on any other machine I've ever used worked, *didn't* on that one.

So sod that for a lark. Welcome back, old friend.

Comments

[j0fo.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling... If my other hard drive hadn't given out right when I got this computer, I would still be on it and using this one for my games that need the speedy processor and music.

[graveyardgreg.livejournal.com]

GIVE ME THE COMPUTER! ;)

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

If I hadn't paid over 200 bucks for it, El Geeko Grande, I surely would.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

You know, the way I look at is this. A computer is a tool, [a damn complex one, but a tool.] If you were a woodcarver, and had just gotten used to your handtools after, oh, a decade or so, would you trade them in for some spiffy new power tools ?
Nope, nor would I.

here's what you do

[katharinakatt.livejournal.com]

with a new computer never have all the parts in it you need. So you take your old parts from the old computer...drives...ram even..etc and put it in the new computer. same keyboard..mouse..monitor. So now what you've done is modified your old computer into something new. That way something old is always with it.

Something old, something new...something blue..

Re: here's what you do

[http://users.livejournal.com/_duncan/]

... which worked great until win2k, when mickeysoft started storing things about the processor and motherboard on-disk and refusing to start if the platform was swapped out under the installed OS.

Even with a cablemodem connection the idea of downloading every little app I use is not appealing, partly for the hassle and partly because the latest versions are often the biggest, slowest and least feature rich.

If you have both, compare the windows media player that came with windows 98 with the heavily promoted wmp-7 (or 8 or 9). When decoding a heavily compressed movie the former displays a double digit number of frames per minute, the latter is lucky to show a single digit number of frames per clip. Missing entirely is the ability to mark start and end points and copy the enclosed clip segment reference to the clipboard.

That version can't play from a URL but v6.4 can, and does it more efficiently than v7.1.

Did you try the older machine's drive as a boot disk in the new one?