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Saturday, September 16, 2006
Wasting money left and right.
Possibly my latest waste of money was buying a new 80GB hard drive for HSRESQ here. It came with a small hard drive, and with a second one of those, I could have been just fine. But you can't buy small ones at a store anymore. So I burned $60 to get a new 80GB hard drive by Western Digital. I should have liked to have had a small hard drive. Then it would actually be ready to go by now. It's formatting itself. (It's about a quarter of the way done.) My next adventure will be to make the case have a working CD burner. If I install one, I'll have to remove one of the knockoff plates that covers the drive bays, in addition to the blanking plate.
Installing the hard drive was a major pain. I had to remove the entire FDD/HDD cage to install the drive into the cage, then I had to work smart and unplug the ATX connector and the FDD cable. Luckily I was smart enough to set the jumpers BEFORE I installed the cage into the case again. The case is surprisingly cramped for how big it is. I like the cases we're working with at school. The hard drive bays are rotated 90 degrees... SO much nicer for swapping/installing hard drives. I'm suprised at how easy it was to find an IDE hard drive. With almost all the new PC's phasing towards SATA, I'm suprised that they had some just sitting out. Of course, it's always best to stay behind the cutting edge technology, because the SATA drives of the same size cost more than their IDE counterparts.
Also suprising: DIT out by Target near my house closed! We were going there to get the drive and there was no sign above the door and a "For Lease" sign in the window. Disappointing.
I forgot my A+ homework on the table here on Thursday. I had to do a new one. It had the same clues but the teacher rearranged the words. It was fun tring to remember the IRQ questions. And yes, I'm learning the IRQs and DMAs, even though IRQs are becoming more and more shared by the PCI devices, and the DMAs are just plain confusing to me. I've got the first chunk of the IRQs down.
Yay! The formatting is about 50% done! Whoohoo!
The T key on my keyboard tends to stick now. It's weird, because whenever the receiver unit for the keyboard gets power, it seems to like to keep its light flashing until i push the T button. It's very odd, because there has been no trauma to the T key. That's obvious because the T key is working now. Now if the F1 key stopped working, I wouldn't be surprised. The F1 key has been hacked upon. I was using it to make a remote coin switch type thing for when I was that obssessed about StepMania, which I still am, but not to that extreme.
Whoo.
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