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07/07/2001 Entry: "Dead Computer and a Keeper"
Ben, in Perl looks to be a kepper. Smells a bit like jessamyn.com, but with source code. Sweet. Got to it trolling sites from the twenty things project, which also has keeper-potential.
On other fronts, my Windows machine has died. I got sick of having two sets of keyboards and mice on the desk and swapping the monitor cable everytime I wanted to switch machines, so I went out and got some black box that everything connected to and all I had to do with push a button. After getting the box and all the extra cables (and a good book on Z, damn myself) I ended up having to shell out $200.
Everything worked like a charm, I got both machines up and running with the black box. But then I got greedy. I figured, "Hey, Now that I've got all this cabling, why don't I move the CPU's over to the other side of the desk so I have some more room....." Well, picking up the old box was enough to kill the hard drive. I poped it open, playing around with the BIOS settings for a while, and then the graphics card gave out. Poof. Dead computer. No more Windows games. No more Quicken. At least that's all I was using that machine for. I could probably get the harddrive installed in the Linux machine, but I'm not risking it now. The dead computer will sit where it is for a couple weeks, until some rainy weekend I poke around with it again.
At the very least, it could have given me some sparks or a shock before it died. Some smoke maybe. Something that would say "Hey, we're through. The past couple years have been fun, but really where is this relationship going ? I've got to move on to other things now." Things like, I don't know the scrap heap. Sigh. How bad is it when you start anthropomorphizing break-ups with things like computers and cars ?
That all said, I will be moving over to Moneydance this weekend. It's not GPL'd, but at least it works on Linux. Plus it looks like it supports electronic funds transfers. What more could I ask for ? Certainly not the yearly bloat from Intuit.
Also in the news: The pwan OCL project has been raised from the dead ! Version 00.00.02 is out, after a year of inactivity. The whopping changes ? The removal of a bogus file from the CVS repository, and a renaming of the installation directory. Maybe version 00.00.03 will have some source code changes. Hopefully it will be out before 02002.
I can't explain the recent increase in the post lengths. Perhaps it's because they're being posted from home instead of from work....
