Christmas is nearly upon us! Run away!
I’m actually looking forward to it though. My dad is driving out from Michigan with a U-Haul full of fun stuff for the apartment. He’ll be here from Saturday to Christmas. Christmas day looks a little tricky though, Andrea and I are supposed to be at my parents house in the morning for breakfast (late morning) and then over to her parents for dinner (early afternoon.) Might have to see if schedules can be moved around a bit.
For the weekend after that, I think I’ll try and get a LAN party together. I hope absinthexl will be back in town, and jtn should be free too. Maybe invite Bweebo along, since I havn’t seen him in a while. Could be fun. Dave R. said I could put a CS server on one of the spare machines here, as long as I don’t open it to the general public.
oooh, and I got a free lunch today, Cirtronics (one of the other companies in the building) had a catered Christmas lunch, and SimPro was invited. Very tasty indeed. mmmmmm
Well, so far I am nearly 100% happy with my new computer. Over the weekend Matt and I played some CounterStrike and Unreal Tournament, both of which run amazingly well on my new system, as they should. I also played around with Red Faction, Return to Castle Wolfenstein (single player demo), and Medal of Honor, all of which look great. Ah, but I said nearly 100%, not 100%. “Why?” you may be asking. The answer is simply. I chose to install Windows XP on my new computer, and it’s having an odd issue with my USB ports. When I was using a USB mouse, CPU usage would jump to 70% when I moved the mouse. It seems to be a driver issue, since it was working fine in 98 SE (which I had installed briefly.) This will probably affect my USB CD-RW drive, which would be bad. I hope I can get it working right soon.
Finally, I have all the parts for my new computer. They are assembled, and it is running wonderfully! I am very happy indeed. Now I just need to decide on an operation system, and I’m all set. I figure I’ll put Windows 2000 or XP on for games, and FreeBSD 4.4-R on for everything else I do. The chassis is nifty and shiny, I’m happy with it. Once I get it all buttoned up, I think I’ll snap some pictures of it.
