Search the Digital Impulses Blog!

My Photo

IM me

  • Google Talk:
    albertoslopez
  • ICQ:
    899000
  • Windows Live Messenger:
    albertoserafinlopez
  • MSN Messenger:
    albertoserafinlopez
  • Yahoo Messenger:
    albertoserafinlopez
  • AOL:
    AlbertoLisMCSE
Blog powered by TypePad
Member since 04/2004

My Flickr Photostream

  • www.flickr.com

What I'm Reading

Favorite Podcasts

Gear Sites

  • Jinx

Stuff I Use

  • Xobni outlook add-in for your inbox

Twitter Updates

    follow me on Twitter

    Google Analytics

    • Google Analytics
    Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

    « Dark Scrabble session SMS war with Bert part II | Main | Buying Aperture 2 »

    Tuesday, February 12, 2008

    VISTA / XP PC comes back from PC Club

    This evening after work, I drove to PC Club to pick up a network card for Claudia's old PC.  While I was there, Abdul stated to me that if I was willing to wait for a little bit, he would go ahead and finish up my computer also.

    So, I waited around and eventually paid $77 for the install of a CPU fan and an IDE cable and paid Abdul $20 for the fan itself (one that he brought from his car).

    POS PC rejects the Wireless NIC card
    I also paid $25.00 for a wireless nic for Claudia's ancient (Pentium 166Mhz, 80 MB of RAM with a 4GB hard drive) computer.

    Predictably, as soon as I installed the card in the one free PCI slot in this dinosaur, the PC refused to boot.  I tried another PCI slot with the same refuse to boot result.

    So, it looks like I will be relegated to copying her docs off of that PC via floppy diskettes.  God, what kinda shit is this?  2008 andI am SNEAKERNETTING documents from a computer via freaking floppy diskettes?

    OMG, the 90's called and they want their old school network back. 

    Ugh.

    TrackBack

    TrackBack URL for this entry:
    http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/22086/26105894

    Listed below are links to weblogs that reference VISTA / XP PC comes back from PC Club:

    Comments

    Post a comment

    If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account, please Sign In

    December 2008

    Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
      1 2 3 4 5 6
    7 8 9 10 11 12 13
    14 15 16 17 18 19 20
    21 22 23 24 25 26 27
    28 29 30 31