The Secondary Is Now The Primary
Mar 3rd, 2006 by Don Ray
After a few frustrating days of working with Linux on the new motherboard, I decided to take a new approach. It seemed a shame to dedicate the most power I have to Linux and not take advantage of all the increased memory, improved video, improved audio, increased speed and built-in firewall that I had on the new motherboard.
So yesterday, I installed Windows XP from scratch and moved all of my applications to the new PC. Everything went pretty smooth with the exception of moving the data from Microsoft Outlook. I have moved from one PC to another before, so I wasn’t expecting problems, but the new PC did not want to accept the Outlook pst file.
After an hour or so of cursing, ranting and raving, I finally got it installed. It is so nice to have an XP system running after a clean install. I can really tell a difference in speed moving from my Athlon 1200 to the Athlon-64 3500.
After I give this a few days to make sure there is nothing I have forgotten and get to the new DVD writer that I ordered installed, I will put Linux on the old PC and see if I can get farther with that project. At least I won’t be thinking that I have a lot of power that I am not using.
Maybe when Vista is released, I can buy a new motherboard for the old PC and it will once again be the primary PC.
With that plan in place, I think I will refocus on the problem I have with Coppermine on my Web host. I am about of the mindset to uninstall it and reload the entire set of photos on the latest version. There is probably an easier way, but my old motto is “Hard is Better”.
This Your article was so refreshing to read:)
Everything seems so familiar, even Your motto. Mine has been:”The more difficult the better”. And :”The human being learns everything, what he/she wants - except perhaps to speak French”. Now my children have learned that too, so …
Well, I know French is not anything I want to tackle. Unless it relates to kissing.