Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Blog Miscellany - 2010 Oct 27 WE

As you might have guessed from the absolute absence of any torrents yesterday, the computer problem I has experiencing turn out to NOT be intermittent network outages. What it eventually proved to be could, I suppose, be called a catastrophic hardware failure.

I am back with a temporary solution, however, the main downside of which is that I will only have access for a limited number of hours per day. I will of course be working to maximize that.

For a more permanent solution I am looking here:
http://www.pcexchange.com/IBM-ThinkCentre-M51-8143-Tower-Computer-p/2000-ibm-m51-t071.htm
My former employer did a lot of business with this company and seemed pleased. [With shipping and tax the total price for this item would be about $190 US, which seems like quite a bargain for hardware with a one year warranty. What do you think?]

Anyway, hopefully today things will return to something approximating normal. My main concern right now is my reduced ability to seed torrents, so I will probably be supplementing with direct-download links using services like megaupload.com.

Finally, while I am talking about things going on here, I would like to take notice of a new blog follower, "Dino." Welcome, and thanks for joining us. Things normally run much more smoothly.

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