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! ;)

[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..