'Effin machine

[thebitterguy]

Trying to open a rather large PDF right now. My PC is making a noise like a WWII era lawnmower desperately trying to catch. I need more RAM and possibly a fan.

Ah, well. At least if it explodes now, I won't have to worry about expo stuff.

Comments

[kinra.livejournal.com]

IS IT AGOT?!?!!!!!1111eleven

OMGWTFBBQ!

AGOT?

[thebitterguy]

You mean the Game of Thrones PDF? Nah, it's a Posthuman supplement eyebeams wrote.

I'm not gonna bother to TRY openning the GoT pdf. I'll just wait until my mega-huge hardcover version arrives, lovingly embossed by GRRM.

[rentagurkha.livejournal.com]

On the "bright" side, good computers are astonishingly cheap these days.

[thebitterguy]

A replacement seems kind un-necessary, though. I figure a cleanup & memory/OS upgrade would probably get me another couple years out of it.

Although I'm contemplating a Mac Mini. Or is that not what you meant by "good computers"? :)

[rentagurkha.livejournal.com]

Do what you gotta. But if you're contemplating a Mac, you might want to wait for a month or so (http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000457054732/).

Fans are cheap!

[atomiks.livejournal.com]

If you need me to perform some soldering skillz, let me know - power supply fans suck up all sorts of dust, and eventually it gets into the bearings.

Which is why I advocate a quarterly dismantling of the machine, and blowing out the dust with a duster.

I've done the fan replacement about 4 times - Gary's one of the vict^H^H^H^H patients.

Re: Fans are cheap!

[thebitterguy]

Sure, that would be cool. Would you be able to make it out to precambrian Milton?

[terminal-pariah.livejournal.com]

Until the upgrade, PDF SpeedUp (http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/PDF-SpeedUp/3000-6675_2-10307091.html).

[thebitterguy]

Oh, must get. Gracias for that heads up.

You just have the neatest stuff.

[terminal-pariah.livejournal.com]

Woah! Sorry, didn't realise that it was a reg-only download. Stupid ZDnet.
From the author (http://www.acropdf.com/photosu.exe)

It's pretty easy to disable the plugins yourself, but if you're going to go to the trouble of mucking about...

aw hell, just get a Mac Mini. They're sweet.

[thebitterguy]

That's okay. I registered anyway.

The mac Mini does sound like a good idea, though. I'd just need to figure out how to keep my wife away from it.