Not Quite Castle Frankenstein
Dec. 8th, 2006 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianIt's alive! IT'S ALIIIIIIIIIIIVE!
I booted up the Frankenbox this morning, and after resetting my desktop preferences, it's absolutely fine. Well, at the minute, anyway. I am currently treating the C drive to a virus scan and disc error check. I'll probably do the same to the E drive, just to be on the safe side. It shouldn't need a defrag - I only did that last month. Still, I am now just refusing to underestimate the power of a good bit of hardware maintenance and a shutdown at least once a month, just in case.
Well, that's one less thing, anyway. After the various scans and my bloody trip to the dentist (probably literally), I can go back to my potentially abortive attempts to set up YaBB on CoC. The good news is that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dodgyhoodoo has some other fab shots of London that will do quite well for the rest of my Settings page. The only other thing I can think off off the top of my head that I'd still want is a few shots of Shad Thames and maybe some Brixton photos. Most of the other areas I've put down as Settings are ... really very expensive, and of the places I can think of where people making just an average salary (or less) live, Brixton's one of the few that really deserves photos. Brixton Academy and all that, y'know? Plus most Borough high streets look about the same and, while they all have a different flavour in the residential aspects, I think I can afford to be a bit vaguer about that sort of thing. Of course, Wimbledon'd be nice too, but frankly there are limits.
And now what I'm going to do is dump some more music on iStress (Bush and Pearl Jam have just made it into my collection, as well as some Bob Dylan that I think I'm going to listen to at home first; not really my genre but I had one of those whims, y'know?) and do the webcomic perusal until it's time to leave for the dentist. Whoopee.
I booted up the Frankenbox this morning, and after resetting my desktop preferences, it's absolutely fine. Well, at the minute, anyway. I am currently treating the C drive to a virus scan and disc error check. I'll probably do the same to the E drive, just to be on the safe side. It shouldn't need a defrag - I only did that last month. Still, I am now just refusing to underestimate the power of a good bit of hardware maintenance and a shutdown at least once a month, just in case.
Well, that's one less thing, anyway. After the various scans and my bloody trip to the dentist (probably literally), I can go back to my potentially abortive attempts to set up YaBB on CoC. The good news is that
dodgyhoodoo has some other fab shots of London that will do quite well for the rest of my Settings page. The only other thing I can think off off the top of my head that I'd still want is a few shots of Shad Thames and maybe some Brixton photos. Most of the other areas I've put down as Settings are ... really very expensive, and of the places I can think of where people making just an average salary (or less) live, Brixton's one of the few that really deserves photos. Brixton Academy and all that, y'know? Plus most Borough high streets look about the same and, while they all have a different flavour in the residential aspects, I think I can afford to be a bit vaguer about that sort of thing. Of course, Wimbledon'd be nice too, but frankly there are limits.And now what I'm going to do is dump some more music on iStress (Bush and Pearl Jam have just made it into my collection, as well as some Bob Dylan that I think I'm going to listen to at home first; not really my genre but I had one of those whims, y'know?) and do the webcomic perusal until it's time to leave for the dentist. Whoopee.