Upgrade
About to go from:
2400 1G 9600p 0.4TB IDE
to:
3800(64) 1G 7800GTX 0.7TB SATA RAID
If the numbers mean little, then you are not a computer nerd, but know that they are pretty special numbers.
So my weekend is going to consist of much surgical PC work, a lot of dust, and most probably lots of profanity.
I once said "130 megabytes - I can't see any reason why anyone would need more hard disk space than that."
To the twats that decided on the various ATX standards, especially the 20/24 pin plugs, a big bird flipped at you on that one. Several rails with the same voltage? A PW-OK pin was necessary? Or perhaps more power supplies need to be made redundant?
And to the corporations that I hold responsible for the gibibyte/mebibyte/kibibyte fiasco. Computers are binary and do not operate in any way to the power of 10's. Binary is to the power of 2, and giga/mega/kilobytes would have stayed that way had companies not abused the situation in order to claim 1024 is the same as 1000. It's not - no one says gibi - because it sounds stupid.
posted by Larry Bonewend @ 10:45 am
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Is there some sort of Google 'Techie to English' translator I could pump your blog through.
All I got was a sense of outrage. Am I close? :)
Have fun with the re-build.
Yes, lots of outrage, and more post-upgrade as well.
Firstly, to Microsoft - will they ever release an operating system that allows you to use a CD-ROM instead of a floppy when you require RAID/SCSI drivers on an install?
You have to hit F6 within a few seconds of the start of the process, and if you forget, you have to wait for it to load every driver under the sun before you get another chance.
'Please insert the disk provided by your manufacturer' - since when did any motherboard with onboard RAID ever provide an actual floppy disk?
Wouldn't be much of a problem, if the missus' PC didn't have a dodgy floppy cable and claim every disk I tried hadn't been formatted, or if it did read it, it would only write about half of the files properly. (That was a painful process.)
MS - you know they have a CD-ROM, they're installing from it, let them use the driver disc you monkeys.
Oh, and a massive fuck you to the otherwise good folk at Nvidia, who made a firewall with their mobo chipset, which, like other firewalls, blocks internet traffic intelligently. Except, unlike other firewalls, CORRUPTS EVERY DOWNLOAD YOU MAKE.
A bit of an oversight, and from what I can find in forums, hasn't been fixed yet. Twats.
Wow man, I can feel you rage.
I love how Microsoft allows things like DLL files to go missing and for your computer to tell you that on a frequent basis then crap itself.
I love the fact that old Bill is pumping his $$$ into worthy causes. But if he could just see his way to also putting out a stellar product - that'd be great.
Mutter grumble.
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