The Sweet Sound Of Silence…
Okay, time for my semi-annual Geekily Useless post, as my dog lies beside me at this 11:55 PM in his basket, snoring, coughing in his sleep and yipping as he dreams.
Yesterday I yanked my computer to pieces. This was fun and served to fill an hour or so when I otherwise could have been doing homework. Bad Adrian. Bad. Sue me, I was taking a break. I’ve been working almost non-stop for the past three-and-a-bit weeks. One week to go, just one. Then I’m free for a month. Time to start studying ahead on Semester 3 CCNA.
Anyway, the torn-apart computer. Having my baby in pieces before me, I decided to finally replace the video card and put it all in the lovely new LanBoy case kindly given to me on the occassion of my 21st birthday by Drewboy. This is a very nice case all up, I must say. Light, compact, stylish; and with a handy-dandy carrying strap for taking it around to all those places one may take a computer (Lan Parties, friends’ houses, the gym, the dentist, you name it). Upon starting it up (after the usual, and expected, re-assembly woes) I noticed something. My already noisy computer has managed to get even louder; a fact much complained about by my father, who can usually find something to complain about in almost every situation, even though he had a point in this case.
Tonight I replaced one of the fans in it, which turns out to have had some verily broken bearings. Eep to that, I say. Everything is much quieter now. Where it used to be my computer would boot-up with a rising-tone whine, now it barely purrs. Aaah… the sweet sound of silence. How I’ve missed you. Finally, I have a computer that I know — once I finally move out of here — I can safely leave on all night and not be kept awake by it. Not that computer sounds have ever managed to keep me awake; it never hurts to be sure.
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