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andrewducker) wrote2003-05-01 10:44 pm
andrewducker) wrote2003-05-01 10:44 pm
Ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim!
Yesterday Hugh handed me a small pile of CDs containing 20 episodes of Invader Zim. I mentioned that this would cause Sana to haemorrhage internally from sheer joy, so I'm supposed to hand them to her next time I see her. I may just dangle them in front of her nose instead.
Meantime, I spent half an hour copying the contents onto my hard drive - I mean, what's the point of having 60Gig of space unless you're going to make a vague attempt to fill it up? So that's 2.5Gig taken up until I get around to watching it all.
I also discovered that for some unearthly reason my motherboard and CD drive won't communicate using DMA. For the non-technical among you this means that rather than CDs being accessed quietly in the background, the CPU has to transfer each byte by hand - thus causing everything to go slow - literally imn the case of the music I was listening to earlier. This means that either my motherboard is so old that it's not detecting things properly or it's slowly going wrong. Either way, it's a good excuse to replace the motherboard/CPU. I've currently got a 650MHz Duron, which means I could buy a new motherboard/CPU for about £110 that would make my machine about 4 times faster. I should have £110 sometime around 2004. Still, something to look forward to - I'll see if I can upgrade in time for Doom 3!
Meantime, I spent half an hour copying the contents onto my hard drive - I mean, what's the point of having 60Gig of space unless you're going to make a vague attempt to fill it up? So that's 2.5Gig taken up until I get around to watching it all.
I also discovered that for some unearthly reason my motherboard and CD drive won't communicate using DMA. For the non-technical among you this means that rather than CDs being accessed quietly in the background, the CPU has to transfer each byte by hand - thus causing everything to go slow - literally imn the case of the music I was listening to earlier. This means that either my motherboard is so old that it's not detecting things properly or it's slowly going wrong. Either way, it's a good excuse to replace the motherboard/CPU. I've currently got a 650MHz Duron, which means I could buy a new motherboard/CPU for about £110 that would make my machine about 4 times faster. I should have £110 sometime around 2004. Still, something to look forward to - I'll see if I can upgrade in time for Doom 3!
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