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jackofallgeeksI woke up this morning and before I even dressed and coffee'd, Unicron was at it again, complaining about how her C: drive didn't have enough space, and that Windows likes 200megs of space to play with, and it only has 143megs, and if I didn't do something, Bad Things would happen -- like she'd keep complaining.
This has been going on for some time now, and while it really gets under my skin, it's not really her fault. Several months ago, I decided to partition Motherbrain (Unicron's C: dive) in two -- Motherbrain would hold the operating system, and Hindbrain would pick up her slack. I figured "it's only an operating system, how much space could it need?" I mean, we've had operating systems since before hard-disks was more than a few K big! So I partitioned Motherbrain at 3gigs and figured that'd be fine.
Not so, as became apparent. And so after cleaning Motherbrain several times a day, and uninstalling every unneccessary component, and even moving some necessary components to other drives, I caved. Unicron and I sat down and had a nice long chat, and after getting everything sorted, I formatted and re-partitioned (or rather, re-partitioned and formatted) Motherbrain and Hindbrain. (It's worth note that neither Ridley nor Kraid were touched in this, so most of my data didn't know anything was up.)
Then the trouble began. First because I'd forgotten to move my video-card drivers onto Ridley before the wipe. So I had to go online -- but wait, no internet access. I'd forgotten to move my wireless drivers, too. This is a little matter; I fired up Azrogs (my laptop) and had him download the drivers from the website onto Grasshopper (my flashdrive), and everything was peachy. Except when I found that the drives I'd downloaded were corrupted (and remained corrupted regardless of how many times I re-downloaded them) and that my card was old enough that it's no longer supported, meaning those corrupted drivers aren't going to be fixed any time soon. So, I headed out to BestBuy for a new wireless card.
Now, the plan was that I'd get a new wireless card because I needed one. I would then get a nice new video card and a massive new hard disk because I wanted them; if I was going out, I was coming back with some new toys. Unfortunately, BestBuy sings at a price roughly 3x what I could get online (shipping included), so that didn't happen. Disappointed, I stopped by Subway. It didn't help much, but it was tasty. I should have held out for Quiznos.
I did stop by Circuit City, though, and get a male-to-male stereo cable. the reason I did this was several-fold: (1) Unicron's DVD drive is on the fritz. Sort of. It'll read CDs and DVD-ROMs and the like, but it simply will not play DVDs. Part of me wants to say it's a software issue, but a clean uninstall-and-reinstall didn't fix it, so who knows. (2) Azrogs plays DVDs fine, except that his monitor and speaks leave a little something to be desired: namely quality. I didn't get him to be pretty, I got him to be portable. (3) My monitor, who I now feel I must name, is able to take multiple inputs. If you actually read this far, especially if you go on to finish the piece, comment to let me know. Unicron is using her Digital Video, which leaves two bits for regular video inputs -- one of which Azrogs can use since I have an extra cable laying around. So that fixes Azrogs' display issues. (4) With this connector, I can plug Azrogs' sound directly into Unicron's board, and since she has Surround Sound...
Now all I need to do is get one of those hookups so that my mouse and keyboard can interact with both Unicron and Azrogs... I'm thinking that it's not really Unicron who will become So Much More; it's looking like So Much More may become something of an amalgamation of both Unicron and Azrogs (with maybe Grasshopper and Nightingale, my mp3-player, thrown in for good measure).
This has been going on for some time now, and while it really gets under my skin, it's not really her fault. Several months ago, I decided to partition Motherbrain (Unicron's C: dive) in two -- Motherbrain would hold the operating system, and Hindbrain would pick up her slack. I figured "it's only an operating system, how much space could it need?" I mean, we've had operating systems since before hard-disks was more than a few K big! So I partitioned Motherbrain at 3gigs and figured that'd be fine.
Not so, as became apparent. And so after cleaning Motherbrain several times a day, and uninstalling every unneccessary component, and even moving some necessary components to other drives, I caved. Unicron and I sat down and had a nice long chat, and after getting everything sorted, I formatted and re-partitioned (or rather, re-partitioned and formatted) Motherbrain and Hindbrain. (It's worth note that neither Ridley nor Kraid were touched in this, so most of my data didn't know anything was up.)
Then the trouble began. First because I'd forgotten to move my video-card drivers onto Ridley before the wipe. So I had to go online -- but wait, no internet access. I'd forgotten to move my wireless drivers, too. This is a little matter; I fired up Azrogs (my laptop) and had him download the drivers from the website onto Grasshopper (my flashdrive), and everything was peachy. Except when I found that the drives I'd downloaded were corrupted (and remained corrupted regardless of how many times I re-downloaded them) and that my card was old enough that it's no longer supported, meaning those corrupted drivers aren't going to be fixed any time soon. So, I headed out to BestBuy for a new wireless card.
Now, the plan was that I'd get a new wireless card because I needed one. I would then get a nice new video card and a massive new hard disk because I wanted them; if I was going out, I was coming back with some new toys. Unfortunately, BestBuy sings at a price roughly 3x what I could get online (shipping included), so that didn't happen. Disappointed, I stopped by Subway. It didn't help much, but it was tasty. I should have held out for Quiznos.
I did stop by Circuit City, though, and get a male-to-male stereo cable. the reason I did this was several-fold: (1) Unicron's DVD drive is on the fritz. Sort of. It'll read CDs and DVD-ROMs and the like, but it simply will not play DVDs. Part of me wants to say it's a software issue, but a clean uninstall-and-reinstall didn't fix it, so who knows. (2) Azrogs plays DVDs fine, except that his monitor and speaks leave a little something to be desired: namely quality. I didn't get him to be pretty, I got him to be portable. (3) My monitor, who I now feel I must name, is able to take multiple inputs. If you actually read this far, especially if you go on to finish the piece, comment to let me know. Unicron is using her Digital Video, which leaves two bits for regular video inputs -- one of which Azrogs can use since I have an extra cable laying around. So that fixes Azrogs' display issues. (4) With this connector, I can plug Azrogs' sound directly into Unicron's board, and since she has Surround Sound...
Now all I need to do is get one of those hookups so that my mouse and keyboard can interact with both Unicron and Azrogs... I'm thinking that it's not really Unicron who will become So Much More; it's looking like So Much More may become something of an amalgamation of both Unicron and Azrogs (with maybe Grasshopper and Nightingale, my mp3-player, thrown in for good measure).
