{"id":1082,"date":"2007-09-07T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bibik.org\/blog\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2007-09-07T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T17:14:00","slug":"oh-god-how-did-this-get-here-im-not-good-with-dells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/2007\/09\/07\/oh-god-how-did-this-get-here-im-not-good-with-dells\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh god how did this get here I&#8217;m not good with Dells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bad dork.  For the first time since my parents bought a Tandy 1000 and then some Acer with a Pentium 60, I&#8217;ve purchased a computer instead of building my own from parts.  I&#8217;ve been running my last homebuilt computer for over five years now and loading a simple video now takes five steps:<\/p>\n<p>1)  Shutdown all other programs<br \/>2)  Fire up Task Manager<br \/>3)  Kill any rogue process that is taking up more than 10% of the CPU (I&#8217;m looking at you, trustedinstaller.exe!   Hey, svchost, pipe down!)<br \/>4)  Fire up the video and pause it after it thrashes for 20 seconds like a fish outta water.<br \/>5)  Promote the wmplayer.exe priority to High, but NOT real-time.  High allows the player to suck up enough resources to play a video properly, real-time seems to override the scheduler causing&#8230; problems.<\/p>\n<p>After watching the first four seasons of The Sopranos in this fashion, I decided enough was enough and started trolling for deals on new computers.  After realizing that buying a pre-made system was cheaper than assembling one, I focused on Dell deals.  Finally, I picked up this system for only $520:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Core 2 Duo E6550 (2.33 GHz)<\/li>\n<li>1 GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>80 GB SATA drive<\/li>\n<li>DVD-ROM<\/li>\n<li>20&#8243; LCD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That processor stuffed in a mini-tower with those other components sorta seems like stuffing an AMG 6.2L V8 into a Festiva (&#8230;if only engines were free, I&#8217;d have a great LeMons car there) but my old computer has a DVD burner and I&#8217;ll upgrade the new computer over time.  That processor retails for $200 on its own, same with the monitor!<\/p>\n<p>I barely booted the computer before reformatting the drive and installing a fresh copy of Vista Ultimate.  So far, I&#8217;m happy with the box and the 2 GB of RAM I have coming my way will only improve the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bad dork. For the first time since my parents bought a Tandy 1000 and then some Acer with a Pentium 60, I&#8217;ve purchased a computer instead of building my own from parts. I&#8217;ve been running my last homebuilt computer for over five years now and loading a simple video now takes five steps: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}