Slow in fact due to the fact that the countdown has commenced – 161 hours and 40 minutes (as I type this) until the damn cast comes off (not that I’m counting mind).

The boss is chirpy this week – he’s got his first order of the year – about half as much as my total thus far, AND mine are more profitable.

Managed to get the new machine up and running (mostly anyway) at work – it’s not connecting to the bankline though, so everyone will have to be paid by cheque until Corina comes in and divulges our customer ID and password (no-one will talk to me without those – bastards). I even spent a few hours trawling files on the old hard drive looking for a clue. That and showing the boss how EVERY site visited is stored in the index.dat files, and THAT’S why I religiously clean ALL the computers every week, prior to making a backup.

System administrators love backups – it’s a great excuse to randomly move people on and off different machines (for no real reason other than the power trip) with the comment “I need to backup data from this one now…” (yes, before you all say it – the machines are all networked and everything can be done from my machine – network name ‘God’ – but I don’t need to let them know that…)

To jump off on a tangent…my mobile phone really needs to have the firmware updated: the menus are scrolling very slowly, and that’s annoying. I’m hoping that the newer firmware will allow me to change the SMS tone too – why the hell Samsung made them fixed on the D900 I have no idea – seems everyone moans about this.

Jumping back to the work machines: I took the old system that’s been upgraded home in the hope I can make something out of it – even a low powered file server (I’ve been impressed by Damn Small Linux, and have had it running very nicely on my old 233mhz PC. Yes, 233 – you heard that right. And let’s face it, do the majority of 3.5ghz+ processor owners actually NEED that raw processing power to surf porn?). Anyway, I digress. The poor machine is in a sorry state, the reason it was having trouble turning on/off is now apparent – someone has broken off the pins connecting the buttons/LEDs on the front to the motherboard. I have no idea who could have done this, but I’m suspicious of an ‘event’ that happened during the christmas/new year break…

I already grabbed the RAM and shoved that into another work PC (mine uses DDR not SDRAM, so I couldn’t have it – sigh), the hard drive (all 13gb of it) has also been slotted in a spare IDE slot (my PC is ATA). NICs are always useful (and I already have a boxful at home) so that’s gone into the spares box.

Now, is it worth saving the case?