What a Bugger

I had a very bad week with my PC. Unfortunately I have to report that it passed away after several years of use. Fortunately, thank to my parents, I now have a new EMachines PC - with a 2.8ghz processor, 512MB of DDR Ram, 128MB ATI Radeon Graphics Card, DVD +/- RW Drive, 120GB hard drive, Front Media Card Readers, 4 rear USB ports and 1 front, network card, 56k modem and sound, complete with front headphone and microphone sockets. It runs Windows XP home.

The hardest part has been getting my data from the old computer to the new computer. I went to PC World today to see if they had some sort of Hard Drive caddy, however they did not, but as I was leaving I noticed on a wall an advert for a computer fair in a hotel. Now I don't usually like going to a computer fair as I think they are very dodgy, but in this case decided to risk it. I'm glad I did as for £37 I found a hard drive caddy, that would enable me to connect it to my computer via USB 2, which means that all my personal and business data has been saved.

The problem with my old PC was that it started to freeze when I was in Linux or Windows XP, and got to the point that when I turned it on, it could not complete the boot process, it just kept rebooting itself. Thankfully I explained all of this to my parents and they agreed to loan me the money to get a new PC.

I have decided that during the warranty period I am not going to install Linux, as that might cause a problem with the warranty, but readers of this blog will be kept informed about my Linux exploits as my parents now run SuSE Linux personal 9.1 on their PC, replacing Windows 98a

The S+ARCK has landed

Yep, I have bought myself a new S+ARCK mouse by Microsoft. Created by the world famous designer Philippe S+ARCK, it is brilliant. I don't have a mouse with loads of extra buttons, just a left and right one, plus the scroll wheel, which lights up, and is integrated in a blue light band which goes down the whole of the middle of the mouse! If you would like to find out what it looks like, visit Microsoft's Hardware site by clicking here You can even buy the mouse with an orange light rather than a blue one!

Changing the subject completely I hate British Airways as they have cancelled the flights I was traveling on with my mates to France for a 5 day trip to Disneyland Paris! - British Airways said that 0.5% of flights had to be cancelled due to staff problems (a load of bull I think) Now I gotta change airport from Gatwick to Heathrow, and from British Airways to Air France!. I don't mind apart from the fact that the inbound flight now leaves 2 hours earlier than the original flight time. The outbound flight is fine - leaves 5 minutes earlier than the original!