14/02/2004 @23:26:31 ^01:05:00

I will not celebrate meaningless milestones

I will not celebrate meaningless milestones
I will not celebrate meaningless milestones
two years of
I will not celebrate meaningless milestones
shitty
I will not celebrate meaningless milestones
I will not celebrate meaningless milestones
updates

That was supremely fagtastic but I'm leaving it in

not more crap with fans

About a month ago I was swapping my CDROM drives around again. When I rebooted baron, its CPU fan was making an awful racket. It quietened down again pretty quickly but it wasn't right. We decided it was probably wearing out, even though I don't think it's anywhere near the mean time before failures or whatever they call it.

I thought, what the hell, I'll get a replacement. At the same time I noticed they were selling Duron processors at 1.4, 1.6, even 1.8GHz now which confused me because I thought they only went up to 1.3GHz or so. I bought one of the 1.6GHz ones more out of curiousity than anything else, although I tried hard to make sure that it would work.

Anyway I performed the upgrade today and it was fine, so I've doubled the CPU speed of my machine and put in a nice quiet 80mm CPU fan. It was the easiest fan to put on that I've ever done, I hardly had to press down at all.

It means I have a spare 800MHz duron, unless I put that into my server, then I have a spare 600MHz duron. Who knows, sooner or later I might have enough bits to make up another machine! Okay maybe not but you know.

PS The BIOS reports the fan speed correctly as around 2600RPM half the time, and the other half of the time reports it as zero(!)