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Fifteenth post, hardware eulogy (Update)
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Believe in fate? Karma, maybe?
Friday 29th.
The last parts arrived. I spent a long weekend studying documentation, watching videos, carefully assembling step by step my last machine. Hardware doesnt evolve as much as it once used to, there are five, ten-year-old processors that play and photoshop almost as good as modern ones, if you wanna run old software in it. I hastly got an OEM copy of Win10 Pro (thats what they sell in Brazil) for a hundred bucks, and a hard drive to install it in the Monday before.
Tuesday 4th, night.
She posted. Windows installed. My room was such a mess, I forbade anyone from coming up in. I almost lost that little thumb-sized sticker with the second most expensive string ever (I paid a FORTUNE back then for a copy of Win 7). It installed. I named her Amerikana, in honor of her guts -- mobo, CPU, memory -- being entirely smuggled parts. I slept,
Friday 6th
I was reinstalling Windows. I somehow broke the Control Panel, and Skype. Had a little trouble activating, but MS gave me a digital copy. I never registered it to myself, I was too focused on getting it all working a second time, Photoshop, Discord, moving files, formatting the Only thing that survived the wait from Norse, a single hard drive. Playing that paperclip game while I waited. I did other things to, but this is what I was Doing, changing silly network settings, and... getting her to work. To perfection.
Tuesday 11th
I was changing a hard drive. Removing a broken one, leave just the good one; another causality of that last weird winter. Caviar Green Akimbo, once a pair in a mirrored RAID, now was Caviar Green. I left the machine, got distracted, ran it open later because testing.
Weird smell. So I opened it up to see what was wrong.
A big crawled into the cooler, it was torn apart by the fan, and made a mess of the heatsink assembly. Took it out, cleaned, took the CPU out, cleaned, thermal paste, reinstalled, closed, power button. Nothing.
Boot device led. Or so it seemed? Unplugged the drives, rebooted. Same LED. Now that was weird, see. It booted diskless the first time. So I booted and watched the LEDs go and nope, it was actually the DRAM LED. MemOK button. Took the clips out, swapped, tried others. Went lunch.
Took the CPU assembly apart again. Retrace the steps, make sure it was all OK.
CPU PCB corner bent. Might have been before. Just noticed now.
Rest was a blur of panic and reattempts. I can only pray for warranty. I have work to do. Possible motherboard damage, a row of pins shine strange, probably bent. Maybe from the first installation? I never had steady hands. I have games to play. I had a terabyte of free space between two drives, ready to move my files in, it was all done. Perfect. I went trough the motions. It booted. Once. Didnt see one of the two DRAM clips. Booted again, had to be sure. DRAM LED.
DRAM LED. Never white. Never red. Never orange. Second LED. DRAM LED.
The case is well-ventilated (Antec P100). It was open for a half-hour, tops. And I was near it.
The CPU was a sale, 300 USD; Motherboard was 150. Both survived dangerous, extensive travel, and were bought because they would. In Brazil, thats 2500 BRL for both; 800 USD. Plus a new copy of Windows, OEM.
Amerikana died after a week. She sleeps at a corner in my room.
I caused 800 USD of damage because of a bug.
So I ask, do you believe in fate? In Karma, maybe?
Update: Thursday 12
The series of events that make up my life led me to this sentence.
My mother put Amerikana back to work with an embroidery needle.
Its Saturday and Im still shocked that worked at all.
Friday 29th.
The last parts arrived. I spent a long weekend studying documentation, watching videos, carefully assembling step by step my last machine. Hardware doesnt evolve as much as it once used to, there are five, ten-year-old processors that play and photoshop almost as good as modern ones, if you wanna run old software in it. I hastly got an OEM copy of Win10 Pro (thats what they sell in Brazil) for a hundred bucks, and a hard drive to install it in the Monday before.
Tuesday 4th, night.
She posted. Windows installed. My room was such a mess, I forbade anyone from coming up in. I almost lost that little thumb-sized sticker with the second most expensive string ever (I paid a FORTUNE back then for a copy of Win 7). It installed. I named her Amerikana, in honor of her guts -- mobo, CPU, memory -- being entirely smuggled parts. I slept,
Friday 6th
I was reinstalling Windows. I somehow broke the Control Panel, and Skype. Had a little trouble activating, but MS gave me a digital copy. I never registered it to myself, I was too focused on getting it all working a second time, Photoshop, Discord, moving files, formatting the Only thing that survived the wait from Norse, a single hard drive. Playing that paperclip game while I waited. I did other things to, but this is what I was Doing, changing silly network settings, and... getting her to work. To perfection.
Tuesday 11th
I was changing a hard drive. Removing a broken one, leave just the good one; another causality of that last weird winter. Caviar Green Akimbo, once a pair in a mirrored RAID, now was Caviar Green. I left the machine, got distracted, ran it open later because testing.
Weird smell. So I opened it up to see what was wrong.
A big crawled into the cooler, it was torn apart by the fan, and made a mess of the heatsink assembly. Took it out, cleaned, took the CPU out, cleaned, thermal paste, reinstalled, closed, power button. Nothing.
Boot device led. Or so it seemed? Unplugged the drives, rebooted. Same LED. Now that was weird, see. It booted diskless the first time. So I booted and watched the LEDs go and nope, it was actually the DRAM LED. MemOK button. Took the clips out, swapped, tried others. Went lunch.
Took the CPU assembly apart again. Retrace the steps, make sure it was all OK.
CPU PCB corner bent. Might have been before. Just noticed now.
Rest was a blur of panic and reattempts. I can only pray for warranty. I have work to do. Possible motherboard damage, a row of pins shine strange, probably bent. Maybe from the first installation? I never had steady hands. I have games to play. I had a terabyte of free space between two drives, ready to move my files in, it was all done. Perfect. I went trough the motions. It booted. Once. Didnt see one of the two DRAM clips. Booted again, had to be sure. DRAM LED.
DRAM LED. Never white. Never red. Never orange. Second LED. DRAM LED.
The case is well-ventilated (Antec P100). It was open for a half-hour, tops. And I was near it.
The CPU was a sale, 300 USD; Motherboard was 150. Both survived dangerous, extensive travel, and were bought because they would. In Brazil, thats 2500 BRL for both; 800 USD. Plus a new copy of Windows, OEM.
Amerikana died after a week. She sleeps at a corner in my room.
I caused 800 USD of damage because of a bug.
So I ask, do you believe in fate? In Karma, maybe?
Update: Thursday 12
The series of events that make up my life led me to this sentence.
My mother put Amerikana back to work with an embroidery needle.
Its Saturday and Im still shocked that worked at all.
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Fourteenth Post, swimming
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Because when something is up since bleeping 2007, its time for replacement.
Its no secret that in my current employment (if it can be called employment), I spend most of the time sitting. Occasionally going downtown and beyond for an errand. Of course, I accumulated some weight from that.
Maybe eight months ago, I was talked by my mother into picking up swimming again. because its an all-around exercise that'll get me to spend some energy and lose this fat. Thing is I know why I'm heavy. I eat like a pig. You lose weight by eating healthy, and as much as my mother is a living testament to that I like snacking on street food randomly when I go downtown. That might be why I even have enough stomach to down half the crap I eat. So no, I couldnt care less about whether my clothes fit.
I swim because I failed to jog two miles in 20 minutes eight months ago. I know it sounds stupid, but being able to get around by foot and bus anywhere, its kind of a pride for me. And bikes are... not portable. (Rollerskates sounded like a great idea up until it met my clumsiness). Besides, there's a bakery across the place that has some awesome donut-like things.
I am aware I am not supposed to reward myself with gluten and sugar right after exercise. I dont care. I have a simple objective; have enough physique to randomly burst into speed, anywhere, anywhen. Not needing an entire new wardrobe is just a benefit.
And no, I cant pull two miles yet. Not in 20 minutes. When I do, I might start aiming for four.
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Tirteenth Post, I'm it.
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Sssssso, I was innocently browsing DA and got 'tagged' by 
's viral journal message. Well, here it goes:
1- I draw because I suck at writing.
2- Today I did over 30 visual / logical puzzles in what I believe it was 20 minutes (the doc didn' told me my time, it wasn' serious measuring), and found sequence on what looked like a series of abstract arts. I'm starting to believe I'm not that dumb >.>;;
3- Deep down, I wish I was a little girl -- so i could do all kinds of silly stuff without looking like a moron.
4- I have a strange habit of talking to myself completely meaningless stuff -- like "Target. No target.", "Good game. Great game.", in a way that sounds mantra-ish. Usually happens when I'm walking from A to B, and no one is looking.
5- I never add anyone to my watchlist simply because I hate when I have metric tons of unread messages waiting for me; rarely check my mail and left Orkut for similar reasons. I visit semi-regularly everyone watching me tho.
6- Terranigma affects me pretty hard. I get all shaky when I hear Crysta's song. I cry whenever I try to tell the story to people.
7- I'm always working on a project to keep the mind active. At long term, I can arguably handle two projects at same time, tops -- be it a comic, game, story, series of drawings, or school. School tends to get the shaft in the priority list.
8- I have a taste for small bits of raw fridgestuff, like cheese, cooking butter and uncooked (but salted / spiced / seasoned) meat. Sausages in special tend to miss a piece or two around midnight.
WHO I'M TAGGING: Anyone who reads this and cares entering the chain (don't know any active blogging persons in DA)
RULES OF THE GAME:
1. post these rules
2. Each person tagged must post 8 random (hopefully interesting) facts about themselves
3. Tags should write a journal of these facts
4. At the end of the post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named
5. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them that they're tagged.
's viral journal message. Well, here it goes:1- I draw because I suck at writing.
2- Today I did over 30 visual / logical puzzles in what I believe it was 20 minutes (the doc didn' told me my time, it wasn' serious measuring), and found sequence on what looked like a series of abstract arts. I'm starting to believe I'm not that dumb >.>;;
3- Deep down, I wish I was a little girl -- so i could do all kinds of silly stuff without looking like a moron.
4- I have a strange habit of talking to myself completely meaningless stuff -- like "Target. No target.", "Good game. Great game.", in a way that sounds mantra-ish. Usually happens when I'm walking from A to B, and no one is looking.
5- I never add anyone to my watchlist simply because I hate when I have metric tons of unread messages waiting for me; rarely check my mail and left Orkut for similar reasons. I visit semi-regularly everyone watching me tho.
6- Terranigma affects me pretty hard. I get all shaky when I hear Crysta's song. I cry whenever I try to tell the story to people.
7- I'm always working on a project to keep the mind active. At long term, I can arguably handle two projects at same time, tops -- be it a comic, game, story, series of drawings, or school. School tends to get the shaft in the priority list.
8- I have a taste for small bits of raw fridgestuff, like cheese, cooking butter and uncooked (but salted / spiced / seasoned) meat. Sausages in special tend to miss a piece or two around midnight.
WHO I'M TAGGING: Anyone who reads this and cares entering the chain (don't know any active blogging persons in DA)
RULES OF THE GAME:
1. post these rules
2. Each person tagged must post 8 random (hopefully interesting) facts about themselves
3. Tags should write a journal of these facts
4. At the end of the post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named
5. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them that they're tagged.
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Twelveth post, staleness
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... is kinda sad that tle lastest thing I really did and finished in six months was www.deviantart.com/deviation/1…
And took three hours, including the time to get the hang of the MSKLC (that I'll prolly never use again)
And took three hours, including the time to get the hang of the MSKLC (that I'll prolly never use again)
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Eleventh Post, P2P Propaganda
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It was a nicey cloudy night, while I was reading some comics at www.robertvalley.com/ (note: not for children, not erotic but still is adult) and trying to put Kazaa to work at same time. A mildly successfull attempt was achieved so I decided to search for something rather generic.
Among tons of results, a little 400k .swf identified as "lesbian orgy gay" (in its description) shown up. I downloaded and ran it -- from the thousands of filenames in the web, .swf is one of the few secure ones, at least in MX version and in a standalone player.
After a automated animation that looked like a loading screen, came the words "Your company needs webhosting as it needs a phone number."
Webhosting ad. When I noticed, I already closed and deleted it.
Keh. If it wasn' a classical misclassification, I think I discovered a new type of spam.
Among tons of results, a little 400k .swf identified as "lesbian orgy gay" (in its description) shown up. I downloaded and ran it -- from the thousands of filenames in the web, .swf is one of the few secure ones, at least in MX version and in a standalone player.
After a automated animation that looked like a loading screen, came the words "Your company needs webhosting as it needs a phone number."
Webhosting ad. When I noticed, I already closed and deleted it.
Keh. If it wasn' a classical misclassification, I think I discovered a new type of spam.
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