Yay! I got a new toy! She's a beautiful AMD Duron 750MHz, and she comes with 128 primary mem and a CD-RW drive!!!!!! I bow down to the digital gods. All hail All hail. I must make a shot out to the very patient tech support guy at Comp USA, I went there on Saturday and all my networking knowledge just blanked out on me. I had to get stuff to hook the three PCs (486 not included) up and I just somehow forgot all about routers and hubs. I felt like an infant. It also didn't help that I had forgotten my deodoranat. So let me bore you with the events that have taken place while trying to network the computers, which I have not accomplished yet. I got two Linksys NICs and a Linksys Etherfast cable/dsl router. I only needed two NICs because my new toy (the AMD) came with her very own. It seemed so easy I had free PCI slot on my old toy which is a Pentium running at 200 MHz with 32MB primary mem. All I had to do was add the NIC card to it right? Oh no not a chance. For some reason no matter how hard I pushed the friggin card would not stay in the slot. So I decided to take the ADSL modem out of it and use its slot, just to see if it was the card or the slot. It was the slot. The card fit right into the slot I was using for the ADSL modem. So now all I had to do was put the ADSL in the AMD. Oh boy was I wrong. I skipped one important ingredient. In order to get the ADSL modem up, I had to first install the 3Com software that came with it, that is, before I installed the modem itself. Somewhere along the line my VPN networking got knocked out of existence and I got a nice long message about a missing ndiswan.vxd Aaarrgh!!!!! So I set up the modem properly, and the NIC is installed properly on the Pentium, but guess what???? The friggin monitor or video card went out on me. I think. Anyway no matter what monitor I hook up to it, it doesn't recognize it. I haven't even gotten to the third machine yet... which is "run" by my father. Can you say sledgehammer? So now I have to re-insert monitor card on one machine, I still have a NIC to install, I have not gone job hunting yet, I completely neglected all the projects I was working on and I wish that some wonderful genie will just pop up and do it all for me. Not a chance. That's not all, Sunday I went grocery shopping and got depressed. Why? There were all of these couples, old and young, and there was I , alone, single, lonely, un-loved, un-cared for...(violin plays softly in the background)... I tried not to burst into tears as I pondered on which orange juice I wanted. My only conclusion is that maybe Im just too horrible a person for anybody to fall in love with. Even though I try to be docile, maybe they can tell that inside I'm really angry at the world and want to kick some ass. Then I tried to comfort myself with rationale, Ursula, you don't have time for falling in love, how are you going to fit that loved one into a schedule of networking 3 rowdy computers, studying chinese/german/dutch, and learning C++? My puppy loves me, but only when I take her for a walk and feed her roast beef.Doh!
posted by Lady Ursula at 12:46 AM