BSSC

My run at having just a single computer in the house didn't last as long as I expected it would.

I was given another train wreck of a computer by a guy at work who was moving and didn't want to take it with him. You'd have thought I'd have learned by now, there's a reason people give computers away, but that seems a lesson I just don't learn quickly.

I've dubbed this thing BSSC, which stands for Big Stupid Silver Computer. It's a train wreck of a computer that I think at one time might have a supposed "gaming machine", it was FULL of stupid blue lights, and many more fans than I've seen in a single computer for a while, there were hard drives and CD drives that were disconnected and held in with a single screw and it was like nothing I've ever seen. I pulled out five fans, one of the hard drives and one of the CD drives, and ALL of the lighting and when I turned it on, I could still have a conversation in the room without have to yell over the roar of the who knows how many fans from within that case.

When I got enough of the hardware out that I thought I could live with it, I put it back togehter and installed Windows XP and everything seems to be working! There are a few errors in device manager that I can't locate drivers for but that's just because I haven't taken the time yet, but that'll come eventually. For the time being, I've got a moderate Windows XP box, but I think it's going to be one that would actually serve a useful machine fo a short time if the Mac has to back to the hardware Apple store for some extended length of stay.

But for now I think it's off to bed with me. More on BSSC a bit later.