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New computer
Finally! After more than eight years of (ab)using my good old Cube PC from Spaceworld, it was replaced by a new desktop. I have wanted this for a long time, but the old faithful just kept on performing to my utmost satisfaction (supporting USB, ADSL, etc.). So why buy a new one when the old one did just what it needed to do. It was Marjolijns need for a heavy duty PC to be able to use voice-recognition software to support her in her studies that triggered our buy of this new wonder machine. It took some research but after a couple of weeks I was ready to put together the different items that would make up our new workhorse. Together with Jonathan I picked the parts at the quite well-stocked and cheap Internet-shop Informatique. After several price-comparisons and studying the offers I had outstanding at some Computershops in Utrecht, this was the place to be. Furthermore for only € 5 the whole order would be delivered to our frontdoor.
A couple of days later the delivery service knocked on our door with a large package. Neatly stacked I took all the parts and the casing to my friend Jonathans place and together we assembled the whole thing. Only hours later I had a new system up and running. Cool! Now we're ready for the next ten years. And together with our new 3072kB / 1024kB ADSL line from Speedlinq hopefully we will be able to host our new CFML-driven weblog at home. All thanx to our free DNS-provider ZoneEdit!
Updated 08 July 2009, by Sebastiaan Naafs - van Dijk
After almost five years our computer is on lifesupport, most of the time in a deep coma, only waking up now and then to provide us with its services.
It freezes regularly, shut downs spontanously, needs a couple of reboots before starting up properly and often tells me there is a DISK ERROR or that I have a serious USB-FAILURE.
Time to buy a new one I guess. I found a link over at Tweakers that will give us a good budget system, meeting most of our requirements.
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