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Back from the Blast furnace

I got back from the computer markets. Just under $100 bought me: a 40 Gb IDE drive; an 80 Gb IDE drive; a 4 Gb Media player (hopefully one that won't be nbusted with in a month this time); and some cables. All in all the trip was economical. I left at 10am, and was back home by 1:30pm, and in that time also had lunch at McDonolds (don't normally eat there but it was right next to the bus stop and air conditioned) and shopping at ALDI.

But what a day - here's the forecast:

29°C | °F

Current: Clear
Wind: S at 26 km/h
Humidity: 62%

Sun

30°C | 22°C

Mon

27°C | 22°C

Tue

31°C | 23°C

Wed

28°C | 21°C

Gasp! Maybe I should have bought am extra fan at ALDI for $15.

Coping with Depression after AVATAR?

I came across (and started participating in) a thread at the Avatar-Forums.com about people being depressed after seeing the film. Now this is not because say, they considered it shit (it's not), but, well you'll have to read the forum to find out.

This is maybe the most interesting movie forum I've been on since the Matrix Explained, because these folk are OBSESSED by the film. Oh, and if you'd like a customised Narvi Avatar that looks like you, Avatarize Yourself!

 

 

Progress

Well, I have now exchange the 160 Gb in the set top box with the 80 Gb I bought today. This means that I can extract some of the recording on the old disk (and will swap it back when done). I've also swapped the old 30 Gb disk (kaput?) in the media PC with a new 40 Gb disk. No, I could easily have put the 80 Gb in the media PC but it doesn't need it, as it has a second (SATA) drive in it for storage anyway, and playing video and the occasional use of SL on it don't warrent a huge system disk (yet).

Step 2 is done. The next steps will be

• Partition the Drive using a Linux boot disk;
• checking my Windows disks are usable; and if so installing WIN on the 1st partition;
• Installing Ubuntu on another partition;
• Installing drivers and programs to make it work.

In the meantime I'll examine the dud disk, and extract the videos off the other (according to a long and convoluted procedure).