Comments on: Finally Friday http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/archives/2008/02/29/finally-friday/ Rumblings, Ramblings, and Ruminations Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:50:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Steve http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/archives/2008/02/29/finally-friday/#comment-3489 Steve Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:20:12 +0000 http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/archives/2008/02/29/finally-friday/#comment-3489 It was a Friday indeed. Mostly worked on getting new tablet PCs gong, but had a couple of quick "call outs" to fix some things in a timely fashion. Went OK, all told. Today I was doing some long-delayed (procrastinated?) computer chores here at home when someone called and I got to go help figure out sound configurations in Vista. What fun. Think I found the important things, and the person using it should be able to just "dial-in" the settings--something they don't need me for. Picked up a dead PC to check out--the one that was replaced by the new Vista machine. The new machine was nice--Athlon 64 X 2 4800, 3 GB of RAM, 500 GB HD, DVD burner, 22" wide-screen LCD (nice display!) and they had 70W RMS 5.1 speakers. Vista Home Premium, so stick a tuner card in it and record TV. If only it wasn't Vista. Something I DIDN'T get done before I left was figure out how to configure PCLinuxOS the way I want to. Gonna have to find some commands, I guess. Well, actually I DID find a list of commands in the Help section before I left, but did not have time to do anything with it. Need an updated video driver (will only do 800 X 600 at 43 Hz--43 Hz?) and even with 1280 MB of RAM certain things are kinda slow, which I think are video related. Tried to play a DVD, and Kaffeine gave me an error. Got to play some more... Well, from the smell, the "Brats-in-a-blanket" are getting done--better go check... It was a Friday indeed. Mostly worked on getting new tablet PCs gong, but had a couple of quick “call outs” to fix some things in a timely fashion. Went OK, all told.

Today I was doing some long-delayed (procrastinated?) computer chores here at home when someone called and I got to go help figure out sound configurations in Vista. What fun. Think I found the important things, and the person using it should be able to just “dial-in” the settings–something they don’t need me for. Picked up a dead PC to check out–the one that was replaced by the new Vista machine. The new machine was nice–Athlon 64 X 2 4800, 3 GB of RAM, 500 GB HD, DVD burner, 22″ wide-screen LCD (nice display!) and they had 70W RMS 5.1 speakers. Vista Home Premium, so stick a tuner card in it and record TV. If only it wasn’t Vista.

Something I DIDN’T get done before I left was figure out how to configure PCLinuxOS the way I want to. Gonna have to find some commands, I guess. Well, actually I DID find a list of commands in the Help section before I left, but did not have time to do anything with it. Need an updated video driver (will only do 800 X 600 at 43 Hz–43 Hz?) and even with 1280 MB of RAM certain things are kinda slow, which I think are video related. Tried to play a DVD, and Kaffeine gave me an error. Got to play some more…

Well, from the smell, the “Brats-in-a-blanket” are getting done–better go check…

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