Geekboy(Wizard)'s Journal: *poof*

Hmmm...my laptop's hard drive died recently. :( I'm getting an IBM Travelstar 40G 4200RPM drive to replace it. I'm also getting real network cards to replace my crappy 3com cards (Netgear GA302T for those of you keeping score).

[rant] I hate crappy hardware. That's it, no more. No 3com ethernet cards, no NVIDIA video cards, no no-name componants. Now its only high quality kit for me. I am sick and tired of my gear going down because I saved $15.[/rant]. [rant part=2] It's Linux, not GNU/Linux. The GNU/ part is silent, you don't write it, or say it. Cause we all wish RMS would just shut up, and go away.[/rant]

Network card of choice: 100baseT: Intel/DEC 21143. Gig-e: Netgear GA302T. Harddrive: IBM or Maxtor. (So far, I have been fine with motherboard ide controllers, but so help me if I have to replace that too). Video Card: Matrox or ATI. Monitor: NEC, or Sony. RAM: Micron or Kingston. Mouse: Logictec optical wheel mouse. Keyboard: IBM. Soundcard: Soundblaster Live. I don't have very much experiance with motherboards, but I'm not very happy with ASUS. ABIT, Tyan, and Gigabyte all look promising. I don't think I'll get another i386 system, Macppc, Sparc64 or x86-64 (AMD Hammer) look excellent.

I can deal with broken software, I'm even helping to fix that, but no more broken hardware.


(Note: the Linux portion of my rant is to piss off GNU people. Has no relation with the rest of my post)