Just spent the last hour or so trying to configure a lousy MySQL database to work. Followed a step by step instruction guide on how to setup a webserver. Heh, I blame myself for not reading thoroughly at times, needed a few runs to get most of the software packages working. The database package was much harder to get running as it wouldn’t allow me permissions to access it. This was no fault of mine as the author of the guide FAILED to write up that section, and it was only after I read the original article that it was based on that I figured you needed to do input some commands through the command prompt to get it running.

Heh, this reminds me of the good ole days when I was absolutely sure the software was just being bad tempered and refused to run. Quirks aside, they would run eventually, but the troubleshooting process is a painstaking one.

Think I’ve had enough for one night. Unsure why I have this sudden fascination with computers again.

Heh, computer technology moves at the speed of light. Friend was complaining about her cranky laptop being slow and her mouse going rabid on her. Me really hopes she gets a new PC. The thought of a dying computer gets me cringing. For me, computers don’t generally give me problems. I only buy a new one cause there’s always something better, faster that I want.

I just want to talk about the extra stick of RAM I just recently added to my PC. Yes, I’m the only person I know who has 1GB of RAM and while you may think that is excessive, I really do use up that much as I multitask like crazy, and that spans several computers (currently have 2 desktops and a laptop running simultaneously doing different things). Just testing computer setups now to see what I like the best. My ideal rig now would be a dually (dual processor system) with 2GB of RAM, plenty of HD space, a DVD burner and 2 x 17″ LCD monitors. This saves space and would probably be able to do nearly everything I do currently within an acceptable time frame. Heh, would still need a minimum of two computers. So I can play games WHILE doing online messaging.

I added the stick of RAM last night and this was on the high end of the spectrum. Today at the end of my workday, my boss decided to pull out some old carcass of a PC to see if it was still working. Heh, I’m always complaining to him on a daily basis how mesozoic his computers are. They are ancient dinosaurs by my standards (not more than 4 or 5 years old I reckon, but computer product life cycles change every 6 months, so obsolescence occurs fairly quickly).

So we dug out this ancient PC with a gaping hole in the 5 1/2″ bay. Someone must have yanked the CDROM out. I had to test two broken monitors before I found one that worked, and even that one was displaying a green tinge, plus the connector socket was lose, and you needed to jiggle the monitor a bit to get the circuit to connect.

Plugged the monitor in and great, found out that his ancient Celeron 366 actually still worked. MMX was a marketing buzzword back in the old days, heh and was tickled to see Win2k installed on this dinosaur. Had to rummage through a couple of prehistoric keyboards (now THESE were old, probably from the 486, early Pentium and before era, they were using PS/2 lookalike but bigger ports. After 20 min of testing, finally got the blardy comp working. Told my boss I deal with computers, and am not an archaelogist.

Hmmm.. a very meaningless rant.