Make sure you have enough staff on-hand to assist with that. ;)

I am so happy for you though. This is right up your alley! (Not to mention almost in your backyard!) :)

Ethel and Lucy must make a visit- congratulations!

Did a major upgrade of on the desktop computer today. We have plans to eventually move it out of the spare room and into the living room. For that to happen the thing had to be a lot quieter than it was.

New power supply, new CPU cooler (Scythe Katana 3 'cause I know Matt will ask), new case fan. What a difference! Barely a hum anymore. Muy pleased.

Oy!

Had a horrible "oh sh*t!" moment last night as I was drifting off to sleep. It suddenly occurred to me that I hadn't removed the protective plastic liner from the heat sink before installing it onto the CPU. Had to jump out of bed and power the server down. Fortunately it was pretty well idle since I'd powered it up so I doubt it got hot enough to do any damage (the AMD Athlon 64 X2 runs amazingly cool anyway).

Gotta pick up some more heat sink paste and hope the plastic didn't melt onto the CPU. :rolleyes:

FYI...

If you are considering eventually going to Windows-7 you can pre-ordered at 1/2 price until Sat.

Hmmm, that's tempting.

The server continues to run beautifully with Vista, so I'm not touching that. But the laptop with Vista is declining. So I'm debating whether to go with XP. But now that seems like a pretty good option. HMMMMMMMM.

I have to ask what the reviews are on W7, as I haven't kept up on that.

You'll have to decide for yourself, but here is one review I found helpful.

When did this turn into the rocket science thread? ;)
I feel lucky just knowing how to turn it off and on.

Heehee.

Rocket science makes us totally seriously happy. :)