Posted by Jim at July 12th, 2004

Finally got the toasted XP Box fixed/replaced.

Since then I’ve been installing the programs that I need. This takes more time than you might think. Among other things it involves downloading various programming languages and IDE’s, preferred mp3 players/cdrippers, and migrating email over.

Migrating email is a massive pain. Why? I’ve had two boxes die in the last two years. One of them was 5 years old and had a crummy motherboard. The other was pretty new. In both cases I’d made no backup of my files (stupid, yes), but I did keep the hard drives.

Today I moved everything over. I’ve yet to mess with the email as that involves moving a mixture of Netscape 4.x and mozilla stuff over into Firebird/Thunderbird. I anticipate a certain amount of frustration in the process.

In any case, here’s an observation:

If after many hours of configuration, you look at the monitor and find that the windows are wobbling, you do not necessarily need to worry about monitor problems.

It may just be your eyes.