{"id":88,"date":"2006-08-15T19:47:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T19:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=88"},"modified":"2006-08-15T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T19:50:10","slug":"into-the-belly-of-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Into the belly of the beast…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it’s nice to get your handy dirty, without getting them actually dirty. Tonight was “put new bits in a PC” night. Always a fun and rewarding time. As long as I’m home alone when I’m doing stuff like that! Being interrupted when things aren’t going well, and I’m trying to remember where 4 different cables are meant to go does not<\/em> go down well!<\/p>\n

I’d finally got sick of running out of space on my Linux desktop box, as I’d re-used an older small drive in there while I was “just playing” with Linux a while ago when I built that box. Now that that machine gets turned on far more often than the windows box, I thought I’d better add some more space. (By shifting the home directory to a new drive, for anyone geeky enoughto understand that!) But I thought I’d add it in a removable drawer so I can rip it out easily and…. Do something with it, I guess! Not that much harder than adding a normal drive, but a bit more fiddly.<\/p>\n

And while I was planning to do all that I thought I’d fix the case fan that used to start up so loudly that you could hear it from downstairs. As sure sign that something is really not right! But I think that I could be on the start of a big long slippery slope because of that. The only fan that size that my usual supplier (i.e. the one that generally has enough is stock that I can get things delivered the next day and just get on with it) was one that had cute blue lights in it that make a nice glow up the wall now.<\/p>\n

I know there is really no need for all sorts of lights in a PC, but I reckon they have to go faster if they have lights. A bit like a racing stripe on a car!<\/p>\n

Luckily today everything went fine, the patient lived, and the box ended up better, faster (I wish), and more prurdy than before!<\/p>\n

And, like usual when delving into the belly of a beast, I came away with a sense of satisfaction. And relief!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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