Kill The Messenger

Walking through the city the other day i came upon three computers in the trash by the curb.. two were the typical white office workstations, nothing on the front, not much to them, but the third was a Dell optiplex, one of the small format ones, kinda low, could go sideways, and i picked it up, nah, put it back down, and went to the bar.

walking from the bar i was going past the trash again, and well, couldnt help myself, i snatched up the dell, brought it home, and went to bed. The following afternoon, after work, i broke it up, and looked inside. It of course was missing the harddrive, that was to be expected, what kind of fool leaves a harddrive in a computer after throwing it away, not many anymore. So i again went to town with the contact cleaner and shopvac, got it looking all sparkly inside, and put it in front of a fan, and went to bed.

A couple days later it was the wekend again, so i went to the flea mart, and hit up the junk guy for a power supply. i didnt need the power supply, the PS in the tower worked fine, what i wanted was the end, when they removed the harddrive they just snipped the cord instead of pulling it out.

So i got some bugs out of my work van, my meter, checked polarity and power, snapped the bugs on to the power lines, and ta-da, i had a working end again.

So i went into my box of shit, and pulled out a harddrive i knew was on its way out, and had already yanked everything off of, like a year ago,, and i slapped it in, to give it a shot. Zipppp powered up. Nice.

So i went to bestBuy bought a 320 gb 7200 harddrive, and i priced out memory. this board in the dell can take up to 4gb of ram, nice, thats better than what i was already running. But i didnt buy the memory yet, i dont have 64 bit OS, so i couldnt run beyond two gigs anyway. It had 512 in it as trash picked.

Brought it home, downloaded the BIOS and all the drivers off the internet, put on an OS, and zoooom it works.

YAY.

so i have a machine pretty much ready to kick ass as a DAW. Oh, i forgot what i did today, i put in my pci-324 card for my MOTU and i put in a firewire card form another computer at home. That fucker hasnt worked yet thoough, The computer initially sees the 1394 card, but thats it, cant get to the WD drive i got on the other end of it.

im sure ill get it eventually, but im still kinda sick, my alergies are acting up hardcore, and i feel like garbage, so i took a nap., IM up now, but just cuz i had a phone call with raverjim. Anyway, im going back to bed.

well, im probably gonna browse over to tiger direct, but then straight to bed, i swear