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Sep. 22nd, 2008 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nonethefewerI may buy a computer. One of the cheaper ones, naturally; they are all better than the machine I currently have. (Which has a hiccoughing motherboard, a busted fan, and 256MB of memory.)
I'll hold off until my next paycheck. I have bills and things; those come first. Plus![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jeremiahsb mentioned he'll be dropping off computer parts, so maybe I can cobble something together instead.
My notes. Public so's anyone can chime in.
* My wireless card is D-Link DWL-520, and it says rev. E. If that means E1, then I am scrood, else I am fine. Minorly scrood. More like inconvenienced. I'm not that worried, although a thousand thanks to the clerk-person at FreeGeek, who brought that pesky internets thing to my attention.
* I have an older Phillips camera. It uses a, and this is my not-a-hardware-person thing raising its head, 9-pin cable thing. If I am getting a new-to-me computer, then I can still use my current desktop for pictures transference. I'd rather get it working in Linux, though, if I can.
* Everything else I do is fairly typical. Word processing, email, the internets, listening to music. I do some db work (I can use MySQL), and I do some web page foo (I can learn PHP). I will miss keyboard shortcuts in Excel, but either I can make OpenOffice do my &%*$ bidding or I can try to install Excel on Linux using Wine. I suppose it depends on how batshit insane I'm feeling that day.
* Hey, I could get a printer! I completely forgot about this whole printer-owning thing. I would primarily use it for directions, knitting patterns, and resumes. Nothing special.
Why am I doing this?
...why not?
I'll hold off until my next paycheck. I have bills and things; those come first. Plus
jeremiahsb mentioned he'll be dropping off computer parts, so maybe I can cobble something together instead.My notes. Public so's anyone can chime in.
* My wireless card is D-Link DWL-520, and it says rev. E. If that means E1, then I am scrood, else I am fine. Minorly scrood. More like inconvenienced. I'm not that worried, although a thousand thanks to the clerk-person at FreeGeek, who brought that pesky internets thing to my attention.
* I have an older Phillips camera. It uses a, and this is my not-a-hardware-person thing raising its head, 9-pin cable thing. If I am getting a new-to-me computer, then I can still use my current desktop for pictures transference. I'd rather get it working in Linux, though, if I can.
* Everything else I do is fairly typical. Word processing, email, the internets, listening to music. I do some db work (I can use MySQL), and I do some web page foo (I can learn PHP). I will miss keyboard shortcuts in Excel, but either I can make OpenOffice do my &%*$ bidding or I can try to install Excel on Linux using Wine. I suppose it depends on how batshit insane I'm feeling that day.
* Hey, I could get a printer! I completely forgot about this whole printer-owning thing. I would primarily use it for directions, knitting patterns, and resumes. Nothing special.
Why am I doing this?
...why not?
