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[lauralh]

My computer started doing that thing where it freezes for ten seconds, then works for five seconds, repeat until I either kill the net connection or the external hard drive. Or both. Whatever, I decided I was sick of it and pulled out the IntelliStation steve gifted me seven months prior. It refused to boot the XP disk from the CD drive, so I had to put the Zip disk in and run it from 2000. Which means it wasn't a "clean install."

The real problem was reg's worthless KVM switch. It was only switchable through a USB keyboard plugged into it, and as I am oldskool i do not own such a fucking thing. So I was just like "Fuck it" and copied all my crud that I might need onto the aforementioned external hard drive and then hid my old nasty computer forever. BYE BYE FUCKO.

Anyway this machine is five million times better than that outdated-in-2000 piece of shit. I am still missing Office and Nero but that will soon be remedied, yesss. Otherwise all is good, Soulseek and Trillian and Livejournal are beautiful, and that's really all I need for immediate gratification. Downloading music is my heroin. Booyakasha.

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if you can't find nero on your streetcorner of choice

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

when i did a recent reinstall I had a hard time finding my old nero CD and was impatient at getting it otherwise and instead found this awesome (and free!) replacement: http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

very nero-like, although it may prompt you to install the latest WMP codecs if you want to burn .wma files to audio cd or something. (i haven't run into that since i've already got wmp10 on this thing but ymmv).