HBI's_girl's Journal: A sucessful night!

HBI's daughter (one of them) is having a birthday party tomorrow (rather later today as it is now almost 4am on Saturday). What she really wanted for her b'day was a computer that would run the Sims.

Being the techno geek that HBI is, he of course decided to build her a computer out of one of his older ones (hes now down to 5 running computers I think, not counting mine).

I have always wanted to learn to build a computer from scratch, and HBI was patient enough to walk me through it tonight. The computer just passed its first booting up test! So, tonight, I sucessfully put together my very first computer. I realize this feat means very little to most of the people who will be reading this, but it is an exciting thing for me.

Cool!

[bethanie]

But I think you totally underestimate how important this sort of thing is to /. readers. We are, after all, consummate geeks.

But I was wondering -- does she want it to run The Sims, or Sims 2 (which is just about to come out or maybe already has)?

In any case, congratulations on the 'puter, and many happy returns to the kid!

....Bethanie....

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Re:Hey, if it works for you....

[HBI's_girl]

Your perl scripts make me smile because the remind me of my first java programs from like... 1999? in college. I really think we did a radius program like what you posted a few days ago. And in the same sequence (make it work and then be able to change the radius).

Little triumphs are always great. :) Soon you will be posting scripts that are completely advance. :)

Congrats

[LPetrazickis]

You rawk. I wish I had enough money to build one right now.:D

Nice!

[sillypixie]

That is great!

Of course it isn't over, there is always technical support...
(-:

Pixie

Re:Nice!

[SiliconJesus]

Gah - tech support - the bane of all home built triumphs. I finally wound up just buying my mom a Dell and taking her computer back.