If you fancy yourself at least slightly geeky you should definitely read this. Heck, even if you don't think you are geeky you should still read it. It's a comic strip and it's crack funny.
Yesterday I've been trying to build a comp out of a very old/very crummy PC-Chips MoBo and an equally dated PentiumII processor. It was fun. Since this MoBo model is not being manufactured anymore I had to look up a bit to find some way to flash its BIOS and make it "see" a 20GB HD... I managed to flash it but it still didn't see the HD correctly (well, at least I didn't ruin the MoBo for good!). I might try again tomorrow with Maxtor's software... my goal is to install FreeBSD on it, but when I try to it keeps giving me DMA-related errors. Debian just hangs while trying to load Linux-IDE drives.
It was pretty uncomfortable to flash the MoBo's BIOS without having downloaded it from the official site, and flashing only updated it to a 2001 version, but darn, I'll keep looking. I'll be contented if I can find a 2003 version of it (which I doubt) because I think it'd be easier for it to "see" the HD in its full size and work the DMA right (tbh, I suspect the DMA is to blame for all the headaches this MoBo is giving me). Anyway, it's been fun... makes some underexercized areas of my so-called brain work.
In other news, my sister's comp (running Win-ex-pee and AVG antivirus) claims to be infected by a certain trojan horse virus (dropper.small.24.L) that no antivirus except AVG can detect. (Trust me, I've run several online scans last night trying to confirm the trojan horse's existence.)
If any of you are having a similar problem, I'll recommend you to Not do anything, since this small.dropper thing sounds a lot like a false positive. The infected file is part of the OS and makes the language bar work, remove it and you'll lose the functionality.
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