September 2007 Entries

My baby is going to graduate college this December with a graphic design degree. This morning we set up her web site and portfolio. She's very talented. And in need of a job! If you need some design work, you should give her a call.

http://www.KariMcLeod.com

This has *got* to be one of the ugliest NFL games I have ever watched!

But it looks like a W for the Lions! Woohoo!

...does not take as long to start boiling as a 70 gig hard drive takes to format. I can't imagine what a 320 or 500 gig takes. Go on vacation and come back!

I am really lovin' gubb.net being the list person that I am. Very cool.

Update: And the more I'm using it? The more I'm liking it!

I'm color blind. I hate it. I couldn't even see the hyperlinks in my posts even though they are a different color than the rest of the text. So I decided to underline the links inside the post text.

Are you color blind? Wanna find out?

I'm also a little obsessive/compulsive. I've edited this little post about 5 times now!

Gayla and I when to Beaver Creek for dinner tonight. A commercial for Energizer batteries came on the TV. I told her I don't buy Energizer batteries because of that stupid bunny. I hate those commercials! I hate that freakin' bunny even more! God they're annoying. Seriously. I won't buy them because of that. She thinks I'm stupid. Hmph!

Damn. I wish I was knew how to put one of those circles with the slash through it on another image. I suck at Photoshop. Oh well, you get the point. What the hell is that thing called anyway?

I played euchre at Jake's tonight with my mother-in-law. I had a good time. I didn't think I would because I was really tired when I got home from work. It was fun though. I didn't score a lot of points. It was cool. I won $5.50 of the euchre pot by random drawing. Hard to beat that. I'll probably play again next week.

THIS, is what I'm talkin' about!

  

Bought this nice 6' x 9' area rug at Sam's Club today for the basement. It was only 30 bucks! Looks pretty good I think. The hope is that it will warm (temperature wise) things up at Big K's Pub. It tends to get cold down there in the winter.

Hmmm. I just heard about Flickrvision. Too cool.

I've blogged about it before, but I still think TwitterVision is very cool. The bad thing is, it depresses me. It reinforces my belief that I'm on the outside looking in.

I'm spent most of my Labor Day, and much of the entire weekend, trying to install Windows 2003 Server on an old Dell Optiplex GX1 computer. I've not had much luck.

First I tried to install a version of Windows XP Pro on a 4 gig harddrive. Installing Windows and the BAZILLION updates to it pretty much ate up the entire 4 gigs. I couldn't do a damn thing with it. So I decided to buy a new harddrive. I went out and bought a 320 gig Western Digital Caviar HDD. After installing it, I decided I had enough room to throw Windows 2003 Server on it.

Windows setup found the drive just fine and was able to format the whole 320 gigs. Then after copying the installation files and a reboot I found that the BIOS didn't recognize a drive that big. Next, I downloaded an upgrade to the BIOS thinking that would fix the problem. The BIOS was still erroring out on reboot. The error was a "read error".

The Fix

I decided that since this a computer that my mother-in-law is just going to be using for email and very little Internet surfing, I could go without using all the space on the disk. So the first thing I did was use my Windows 98 boot disk to clear the existing partition on the disk and create a new FAT partition. I ended up with 175 gig partition which is TONS more space than my mom needs. This allowed the BIOS to recognize the disk. Then I installed Windows 98 Pro. I was A LOT faster installing with the extra space. When I only had 4 gigs to work with, it was a nightmare! So now I'm on to the 93 upgrades to install and then taking it back to my mom.

The machine is surprisingly fast for 400 MHZ PII. I do have 384 megs of RAM in there tho' so that's got to help.