My stupid computer

Last weekend I fogged my house for these crazy little fleas (ineffectively I might add) and I think that's what did my computer in. Now when I try and boot the thing, it will die on my in a few minutes, both in Linux and in Windows XP. I don't recall whether I shut the machine off or not when I fogged the main level, but it's dead now.

So I ordered a batch of equipment from Newegg. I got a new case (on sale, free shipping, and ROCKING!), a new motherboard (I've used it before, and like it because it's got integrated video and a microATX form-factor), a new set of speakers (mine were blown, didn't even work, I threw them away weeks ago and have been using my headphones), and because I ordered the motherboard I qualified for a gift, and chose a watch (I've been wanting a watch that's thinner than my normal Timex Ironman watch). I was hoping they'd come in today, but it looks like I'll see them on Monday or Tuesday.

So for the time being, I am writing this using an old motherboard I had lying around with a spare box that also had a dead motherboard which I haven't replaced yet (and apparently won't need to, as this motherboard is doing just fine though the processor is rather slow [913 mhz OC'd celeron]). I had a hell of a time getting this thing to work though. Many of the LiveCDs I tried in it didn't work, and JAMD didn't install and finally I got Libranet 2.7 installed. I know Libranet has a new CD out with 2.8 for free, but I use what I can get my hands on. I wish I had re-burned my Xandros CD after giving it to Srini; I doubt I would have had problems with that one and it's so very clean.

So the machine I'm working on now has an Asus motherboard, a 700mhz Celeron overclocked to 913mhz, a 30G hard drive, a geForce 3 AGP video card w/ 64M RAM, an SB Live! sound card, and a 24x burner. It's got Libranet 2.7 installed (I haven't run any updates yet to get it to a "current" state for the distribution) and it's good enough for me!