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MM-xix Wednesday |
2000-01-19 |
Still cloudy but it is finally dry and a bit cooler (3°C). With the sun breaking trough the cloud for only about half an hour at noon (shining straight into my screen) it is not yet cheerful. I lost the day mainly in discussions with Ronny or Theo. Unexpectedly there were no trafic problems today. I started assembling an other computer with spare parts left over. The only new parts are the case and a network card. Now I ordered an A-Open case but there was none available when I got to the shop. As this was not going to be a vitally important box I just asked for the best case he had lying around. What I got was a featherweight box with some sharp metal inside. Yeah, that is called the cutting edge of computing. It is a mini tower with almost no internal supports. On the one hand this makes for a surprisingly roomy interior but on the other side for an exceptionally weak thing. For example the power supply, which is badly positioned over the memory and I/O connection of my AT size main board, bends the backside outwards just by its weight. The processor was one I got back some months ago, while I was assembling Aria. It was defective and I did send it back. After a few weeks I got a processor back as 'replacement' but I suspect it was actually the same part. Because I hadn't written the serial number down I was not sure and having completed Aria with another (faster) chip, I chucked the returned chip in the spares bin (well actually I inserted it on the mobo that I had as spare) untested. Adios |