We Break Easy
Last weekend I saw Davod for the first time in over a year and saw his son for the first time. I saw people that I haven’t seen in years and spent the time explaining who I was. I feel I look the same but I have mellowed a lot. Or it could be I am not memorable. Juliette looks just like I remember her. She hasn’t aged a day in 8 years, even after the baby. Davod looks the same as his dad, just with fewer white hairs. His sister looks an elfin teen. I felt undistinguished and liable to age badly.
I have upgraded the computer. I may go into it in detail (mind numbing, spirit crushing detail at that) later, but the basics are:
Many SATA 2 drives have the facility (through jumper settings) to allow the user to force them to work as SATA 1 drives, this means they are effectively backwards compatible with a lower data transfer rate without corruption while enabling you to reuse them when the motherboard is finally replaced.
I have read a lot on short stroking. By using the higher capacity of a drive at an exterior edge compared to the inner portion of the drive for distance traveled by drive head I can get much faster seek and transfer times for data. Oddly Windows loading doesn’t benefit massively from this. Loading applications within Windows and general responsiveness does benefit though. Some programs load instantaneously and typing faster than the refresh of the computer can handle is a thing of the past.
Dual boot Ubuntu. Which I will be taking advantage of once I have an internet connection working with it. The idea of being able to code PHP and see the effect instantly appeals to me greatly. I know a WAMP implementation is possible but it feels more right, more proper, this way.
Google Sketch now works. A soft benefit as much as anything else.
I bet on Middlesbrough to stay up. I thought 16 to 1 was impossibly generous odds for such a result. They weren’t.