Baby Yayer ;)

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I'd like to officially introduce everyone to my new baby. I told my parents that their second grandchild had arrived; they were not particularly amused. :)

Processor Class: Intel Pentium 4 Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz Bus Speed: 533 MHz Cache Size: 512 KB Memory Speed: PC2700 Installed Memory: 512 MB Hard Drive: 7200RPM 80 GB* CD-ROM Read Speed: 52X 6 USB 2.0 ports (4 back, 2 front) Built-in NIC and sound Sucky ATI graphics card CD-RW*

*We kept the hard drive and CD-RW that I already had. We also didn't buy the monitor, mouse, keyboard and all that We didn't intend to buy a graphics card, either, but we ended up with another cheapo ATI in the end, which isn't ideal. I really hate it, actually.. it's flickery. But we're going to try my old card again and then we'll stick this piece of crap in my old computer. It sucks that we had to (long story) buy another one, but we'll live. It was cheap. Anyway, I don't need a particularly good video card, or sound, either, for that matter. And, best of all, we spent quite a lot less than if we'd bought a similar system directly from a manufacturer. Yay. :)

I've spent the majority of today getting all my ducks in a row, figuratively speaking, and I think I have most of the essentials installed and working now. I'm so anal about it, though, so I'll probably still be working on it somewhat for days. This is the part I've always liked best.. making things run exactly as I want (or the Windows equivalent of exactly as I want, anyway.) I really should be a Linux user, I know. :) I've tried it more times than I care to discuss, but it's the little things that always get me. I suppose I just don't adapt well to change. :)

I realize most of you aren't particularly techy, so I do apologize about the boringness of this post, but I had to get it out of my system somehow!


The inside. Well, before the graphics card and CD-RW went in. We actually took this picture to compare Jim's style of computer building (angled and orderly cables, with Magnus's, which is NOT quite so pretty. *grin* It's a little unfair, though, because this thing is huge.. it's a server chassis, really. It's also, surprisingly enough, extremely quiet.

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It holds five, actually, which is perhaps overkill.. can't even have more than two as it is now. *grin* I agree, though, it's always nice to have options. ;)

My last real backup was a ridiculously long time ago before this week. I hate backing things up, it gives me hives.