Final Cycles

[tracker7]

After 7+ years of service, my ol' desktop crapped out tonight.  At a guess, the power supply failed, and while that's not an especially expensive fix, anything I do to a machine I bought in '99 is probably going to be throwing good money after bad.  So, coming real soon now will be a replacement.  Will have to pull the second hard drive from this one to install in the new one, as there's a goodly amount of data there I'll want to keep (and, well, it's a perfectly serviceable drive).

I'm feeling better tonight than I have all day.  Still not anywhere close to good, but somewhat less bad.  I'm going to take it easy tomorrow and hopefully be ready for work come Monday morning.

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serendipity

[tegyrius]

While running around last night doing various and sundry things, I poked my head into KYTRade. Hardware pricing is competitive and they are perfectly willing to sell you a machine with XP, not Vista, installed. 2-year parts and labor warranty.

Re: serendipity

[spoe.livejournal.com]

I noticed last night that Dell has reintroduced XP to pretty much their entire line, not just the high end XPS stuff.

Re: serendipity

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

This is a pretty damning comment on Vista.

[spoe.livejournal.com]

Let me check. I think I've a spare ATX power supply laying around left from when I outgrew my last one. Unless you've already ordered the replacement. AT worst it keeps you going until the new one shows up.

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

That'd be awesome. I'll bring the ol' desktop to this weekend's game, if that's cool.