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Journal Chocolate Teapot's Journal: Back from a long holiday 3

Journal by Chocolate Teapot
Well, it's been over two years now since I returned to the UK, and I finally got around to getting an internet connection again. I must admit that not having even touched keyboard in all that time has been refreshing - I did indeed have a life outside of the tech industry, just waiting for me to go and find it.

True to form, within 24 hours of picking up the phone to order broadband the bullshit began all over again. Six weeks and several visits from British Telecom's engineers to sort out their wiring and I am online again.

Now came the fun bit. Isn't it funny how you can pack computers in so many layers of reinforced, shock-absorbant packaging so that a laptop is encased in something the size of a shipping container, and a server requires the police to close roads to traffic so that you can transport it. Upon arrival at it's new home, you carefully unpack everything and check inside the cases for dislodged heatsinks, loose cables, illegal immigrants etc... The bundles of cables that you lovingly labelled and bound with cable ties appear to have had some kind of orgy and now resemble a popular pasta dish.

The care invested in packing however, seems to have paid off. You plug everything in and it still works! Silly me. The problems start when you attach said computers to the network. Hard drives fail. CPUs start to slowly cook themselves. Strange beeps emanate from the speaker on boot, which sound more like techno music than anything in your motherboard documentation.

Oh yes! I have really missed computers.

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  • How's it going? I hope everyone is OK on zoo.net (both electronic and flesh and blood).
    • Hi Dusan.

      Everyone is fine, at least, that's what they tell me. We have actually moved twice since we returned to England, and will probably do so again before too long. A bit of a PITA but there you go. OldPeculier just died and one CPU failed in Godzilla but it still runs on one. Socket A CPUs are completely unavailable now so it may be cheaper just to buy another mobo. I just bought a Netgear router/ADSL modem as a stop-gap measure and am in the process of getting mail up-and-running again. I do have a h

      • Hey,

        I don't believe OldPecuiler died (BTW, I found the best beer yet: Sleeman Drought, it's new on the market)! Too bad. Are you sure CPU died in Godzilla and not the socket (swap CPUs to test)? You can get a second hand mobo/CPU easy (ott.forsale.computing or just ebay). I can get you a gmail account (beats Hotmail any day). I had moved too (traded my condo for a townhouse near Merivale and Baseline) but I don't think I'll move soon again. Bell sucks: my DSL had been cut off twice this year (3 week and a 2

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