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I’ve decided to tidy up my little nest.
The first step didn’t go so well.

I wanted holes in my desk for my cables.
Naturally my cordless drill battery died half way into the first one leaving me with more of a mess now that I have sawdust everywhere. My changer took twenty minutes to find.
My charger takes a good two hours to fill the battery.

I wait twenty minutes and again fail to drill a complete hole.
Another twenty minutes charging and I’m through.

The next one only took an hour and two tries. The battery was completely drained to begin with.

I now have two holes, one behind my pc, one in front of my monitor.
Feeding them.

*Keyboard.
*Mouse.
*Ethernet.
*Power.

Might see if I can also back mount my power boards and switch.

Sometime I make things.

Update: Finished!One ancient P166 notebook.

One $3 frame from an op shop.

20mins with a screwdriver and plyers.

Lots of tape.

Success

I’m not sure why the most simple things become painful for me.
I just wanted a laptop, seems simple enough right ?

My old laptop served me well, it’s an old IBM P166 that I bought second hand about two years back. I paid $200 for it and while it was kinda gay it did the two things I asked of it.

1. Web browser and remote control(vnc) for those days when I’m absolutely not getting out of bed.

2. Wireless testbed, with a power inverter and a homemade antenna it was very usable for war driving.

Last time I went for a drive though I took the opportunity to update my connection software to the latest version along with a new netstumbler.

One problem though. It’s a P166 it was unusable.
After hours of searching trying to locate old version software I gave up and decided to buy a new laptop.

…..

Naturally even though I have no money having just gotten back from Thailand I had to have it immediately. So I check ebay, some forums, trading post and eventually find one I want.

$615 for a P3 800 with printer, bag, burner, external floppy.
After spending almost two hours driving to the pickup the seller called telling me he has sold it.

Well I was an hour late, driving around in circles lost didn’t help.

ASS.

So the next day I find a Presario 700, I haggle the guy down to $750, its a 1.2GB duron, 256mb ram and some ass video card.

So I buy it.
Seems fine initially but after awhile it started shutting itself down.
Worked out it was probably overheating, cleaned it with compressed air.

Happened occasionally still, didn’t really bother me because by this point crack-ho had found it had the sims on it so I never had a chance to use it anyway.

The yesterday morning it started up, windows was really slow and odd, would not connect to the network and upon rebooting it windows was corrupt.

Any attempt to reinstall from the recovery cd led to it shutting down and it was blowing really hot air from its little vent constantly.

It overheated while I looked at the bios, it was screwed.

So I check Google. “presario 700 overheating” and find scores of pissed customers, its a common problem.

Ass.

I tried contacting the seller. No answer or reply yet. A hour or so after my googleing I decided to fix it myself. Flemmington swap meet is crap but it had thermal grease.

After a nap and two hours buried in laptop parts and grease it works fine and is much cooler than before. I hate working on laptops, spring loaded screws interlocking parts, not fun at all.

Edit: Seller never got back to me. Fucker must have had the same problem with it. It’s ok though it cost me $2 to fix and has been solid ever since.

Yesterday in a supermarket not too far from here I strange lady gave me a book her friend wrote…in exchange for some pocket change.

Some of my favorite moments:

Street preacher who breaths fire:

“In the car, scumbag!” one of the policemen ordered, and he kneed Rayford in the back.
“Hey, take it easy!” he protested, as he fell to the ground and turned to rub his sore back.
“This isn’t the movies, chum!” the policeman responded. “Just do as we tell you.”
“NO!”

It happened again. But there had been no warning this time. Rayford did not even feel particularly angry. The word just came out of his mouth as he sat on the ground looking up.

As he spoke the word “No”, a ball of fire reached out and enveloped all three police officers. This was far more serious than a flash of light and a few bruises on the victims, as had happened at Neville’s.

Rayford could see that he was in big trouble if he didn’t move quickly. As soon as the word was out of his mouth, he jumped up and ran. He was around the corner before the crowd realized what had happened, and even then they were not inclined to chase after a man who could breathe fire.

Email in the afterlife:

“You know how we were able to send and receive email without a service provider?” he said. “Well, it was all being processed through a control room up here. This whole place can disappear into another dimension; so it was out there all that time, tapping into the worldwide web to process all of our mail. That’s why we never received a bill from Web Wonders after they destroyed it.

Good hosting too. Tate should use them:

“We’ve put some of the world’s best hackers on the job, and they’ve all hit dead ends,” Dangchao lamented to Pius when he had finished reading the report from Rome. “Everything indicates that Web Wonders, their service provider, does not exist. And yet their web site continues to function. We seem to have no way of blocking it.”

In fact, the Twelve Tribes hit counter was spinning wildly. And it increased in momentum over the next few months. Each time another media report on Dangchao came out, thousands more would visit the Twelve Tribes site to get an update from the Two Witnesses on what they had to say about what was really happening.

It’s the best book ever it has nuclear war, tidal waves, comets a giant glass space ship full of holyness.

http://www.jesuschristians.freeservers.com/survivors/index.html – Book
http://cust.idl.net.au/fold/ – Their homepage.

I’ve read some of the other stuff from they site, the sydney binraiders one is interesting. Religious zelots