Scumputer II: Son of Scum

12:08.48 - Wednesday 28th January 2004   (Link to This Entry)

Taking advantage of a recent upgrade order, I've started on the sequel - if that's the correct phrase - to the 'Scumputer' that I knocked up some time ago. This time it's a 533 Celeron with onboard graphics and sound, plus only 64MB of memory to play with, so I'm gonna have to scrape around for some more bits. I've got a 'Bag-o-Ram™' here with a few DIMMs in which may or may not be of use, so I'll go through that lot later.

The machine I'm upgrading needed a new PSU (for the new DVD Writer) and so I ordered a case and simply swapped the PSUs in them. I now have a nice, low-power Celery machine in an OK-looking case.

Oh boy... it's snowing again.

I scraped four inches of snow off the car at 7:30 this morning - not being able to get the car in the garage because of the damned great skip that's blocking the driveway. Still, it fired up first time like a trooper (leaving it's trademark mucky-diesel-exhaust splat on the crisp white snow) and I took it round the block without problems. Hurrah.

Investigative Reporting

13:20.29 - Wednesday 28th January 2004   (Link to This Entry)

While in the newsagents picking up a copy of the Sun (no I don't read it - M wants it for the Free DVD offer) I couldn't help noticing that the Mirror had an almost identical headline - "Hutton Report Leaked!". Both 'newspapers' were claiming the story to be a world exclusive. It was kind of funny seeing them sitting there, side by side.