Friday, September 17, 2004
I have my new pc at long last :-)Sitting outside a busy shopping centre on a large box worth £800 while waiting for a taxi isn't my favourite way to spend the time, it has to be said. Anxious? You bet.
Anyway, once I'd got it home, moved the old amchine out of the way and got it all set up, I duly went about transferring and installing all the vital software like firewalls and virus checkers before geoing online and installing SP2.
It's a bit of a joke really that you can buy a brand new pc in the shops that simply isn't safe to take online without installing other software first. Ever since the advent of Blaster and other similar virus', you can't even log on without being at risk. Sure there are patches, and SP2 fixes all the (so far) known security risks, but since a brand new machine doesn't have those, they're still vulnerable. I can see a lot of people who aren't net savvy buying new machines, excitedly logging on for the first time, and finding themselves infected within minutes.
Anyway... the process of transferring stuff from my old machine continues.
I'm working my way through my emulator collection at the mo, which takes some time, being limited to moving everyting in no more than 64 meg chunks at a time using this usb storage widget.
As I'd hoped, the extra speed of the machine is really noticeable. A few emulated games that really rather chugged along before now go like a rocket. As for my amiga emulator... well... ever heard of a 670 mhz 68040 based amiga? LOL. The fastest 040 ever fitted in an amiga was only 25 mhz, and you could fry eggs on those.
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Steve 1:25 PM [+]
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