It’s Tuesday!

It’s Tuesday again, so you know what that means! That’s right! It’s time for Andy to realize that it’s been a week since he last posted and make one long post that has a bunch of stuff in it.

Saturday was a double movie day for me. First, we went to dim sum in Oakland to celebrate ‘s graduation from fashion school. After that, I followed home to get some stuff from her that she was borrowing. Ended up going to see Dodgeball with her, then hung out at Bay Street for a bit. I bought a used Game Boy Printer for ten bucks at the EBGames there, and a pair of the in-ear headphones at the Apple store. A woman there started going crazy when she saw my Warhamster T-shirt. Then had dinner at Rubio’s. Then drove over to SF to see The Terminal, and went home.

Sunday was “voluntarily descend into technology hell” day. On Friday, the new case and new 160GB hard drive I had ordered finally arrived, so I was all set. The only things I were transferring (or so I thought) were the processor, the memory and the video card. Well, while installing Windows 2000, I started getting page faults. A quick rant in IRC brought me the reply to try lowering my front-side bus speed from 133 to 100. That worked, so I reinstalled from scratch again, and it worked. After that, I installed the drivers for the video card, then discovered that the onboard sound wasn’t working.

I tried reinstalling the drivers… I tried flashing the BIOS. After flashing the BIOS, I was able to get a very small amount of sound, but it was obvious that it wasn’t working correctly. So I ended up taking my old Soundblaster Live! from my old case and putting it in the only PCI slot.

I should probably investigate why it wasn’t working, but I wanted to get FFXI working again and didn’t want to wait.

Edit: I forgot to mention that I also got the $50 802.11b kit, which fit very nicely into the case without taking up a PCI slot. I then discovered there’s a $75 802.11g kit available as well, and I’m kicking myself for just figuring that out now, because I would have much rather had that for future use… and I might end up buying it anyway, wasting the $50. But not until I actually have a 802.11g AP, I guess.