{"id":29160,"date":"2011-05-09T10:21:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T14:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=29160"},"modified":"2020-06-26T10:21:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T14:21:58","slug":"the-kind-of-weekend-i-wont-have-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=29160","title":{"rendered":"The kind of weekend I won\u2019t have for a while"},"content":{"rendered":"

I stayed up late on Friday and Saturday nights, and slept in on both Saturday and Sunday mornings.\u00a0 I got my new computer on Wednesday, and finally had the opportunity to wipe it clean and get it up and running.\u00a0 This is the first new computer I\u2019ve purchased literally, since like 1998.\u00a0 As far as the rest of the weekend went, it was pretty much just that; messing around with computers, and watching baseball.<\/span><\/p>\n

I actually feel quite accomplished on the computer front.\u00a0 I had a general idea of what I wanted to accomplish with my brand new machine, as well as the older LEAURNING machine, and although altogether things didn\u2019t go as smoothly as I had hoped it would have, I think I managed to overcome and figure out all obstacles that got in the way, and in the end result, I seem to have accomplished everything I had set out to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Predictably, the new machine wasn\u2019t really an issue; the only genuine hang up I ran into was the fact that I had mistakenly loaded a 32-bit version of Windows 7 onto it, forgetting that it was a 64-bit machine.\u00a0 Once corrected, the true potential of the machine was tapped, and hopefully I\u2019ll be able to get at least 1-2 good years\u2019 worth of productive output from it before I grow frustrated with it and want something newer and sleeker.\u00a0 I ran into one nuisance of an Adobe problem, due to the 64-bit nature of my system, which basically made InDesign files indistinguishable from generic system files, but it was nothing that I couldn\u2019t ultimately figure out through sniffing around Google for the answer.<\/span><\/p>\n

LEAURNING on the other hand, was the challenge of my weekend.\u00a0 Ironic how I spent more time dicking around on the obsolete older machine, when I had a nice new one begging to be played with.\u00a0 But LEAURNING isn\u2019t a bad machine in its own right, so I still felt that it could still be useful, as long as it was utilized correctly \u2013 meaning I had to get Windows 7 off of it, and get it back to an XP machine.\u00a0 Simply put, every part of the hardware was saying NO to Windows 7, but I didn\u2019t discover this until after I had already gone too far, and installed it anyway.\u00a0 I leaurned the hard way of all the speed bumps and walls run into to get it back to an adequate working XP machine, but having overcome everything, I feel accomplished and better off for the experience gained in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

First off, I leaurned that once you install Windows 7, or even Vista, you are not supposed to go back to a preceding operating system, therefore, they will not let you.\u00a0 Inserting a Windows XP disc while running a newer version of Windows will only result in inaccessible setup files.\u00a0 So that being said, the only option at this point is to do a clean install, which is the methodology I prefer anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, LEARUNING is running a SATA\/150 PCI card, to which XP standard installations doesn\u2019t install the drivers for, upon initialization.\u00a0 Meaning, it doesn\u2019t see any hard drives to actually install an operating system onto.\u00a0 Upon further research, I leaurned that for XP, such drivers have to be manually loaded from a floppy drive, and obviously, I do not have a floppy drive and have not since like 2002, and even then I haven\u2019t used one since 1997.\u00a0 So at first, I thought I was fucked, and that I would either have to acquire a floppy drive and floppy disks in order to get through this, or I would have to settle with reloading Windows 7 on a machine that really did not want to be running Windows 7, in order to have a functional machine.<\/span><\/p>\n

This weekend, I learned about the process of slipstreaming, and created a new Windows XP installation disc with the necessary PCI card drivers pre-loaded onto it.\u00a0 The feeling of learning and applying knowledge to something new to me was such a gratifying feeling, and the emotion of successful victory upon seeing listed hard drives, ready for an operating system to be loaded onto it, was a magnificent feeling.\u00a0 I felt like nothing was going to stop me from my ambition after overcoming this obstacle.<\/span><\/p>\n

And nothing did.\u00a0 Things certainly tried, from the wireless card constantly resulting in a blue screen of death when trying to initialize, to my 50\u201d plasma not accepting the screen resolution set by the machine.\u00a0 Both were minor problems overcome by doing some simple research, and discovering that one of my sticks of RAM was going bad, and upon removal, the wireless working again, and leaurning that my television doesn\u2019t want to run output from a computer unless it was set to 1280 x 768.\u00a0 Odd, and slightly discouraging that I have to run at a stretched resolution in order for it to work, but at least it\u2019s working.\u00a0 I\u2019ll hopefully tweak and figure out the semantics at another time.<\/span><\/p>\n

But in the end, my weekend of rest and computers was successful.\u00a0 I have a brand new computer that is running great in my room, and LEAURNING is back to running the more optimized for its hardware XP, and is downstairs hooked up to the plasma.\u00a0 When I had to assign a profile name for LEAURNING, I couldn\u2019t think of anything right away, but then for some reason, the jingle from the\u00a0cougarlife.com<\/a>\u00a0radio spots rang in my head, and then it couldn\u2019t have been more appropriate \u2013 an older machine that still has some life in it, and just wants to have fun, and is willing to be used for nothing but fun.\u00a0 I dub thee \u201ccougar<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I stayed up late on Friday and Saturday nights, and slept in on both Saturday and Sunday mornings.\u00a0 I got my new computer on Wednesday, and finally had the opportunity to wipe it clean and get it up and running.\u00a0 This is the first new computer I\u2019ve purchased literally, since like 1998.\u00a0 As far as … Continue reading The kind of weekend I won\u2019t have for a while<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,25],"class_list":["post-29160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-og","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29161,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29160\/revisions\/29161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}