George Schizas Blog

That was weird!

My PC’s power supply burned up (it was really smelling!). I™ unscrewed almost everything and then I turned around part of the CPU fan, which seemed to be symmetric, i.e. this would not change anything. But of course it did!

Until now, my CPU was running on 68-78°C. Now it’s running on 38-42°C !!! This was a real shock! Furthermore the video out plug on my video card started to work. So I’m not buying a new video card 🙂

So much for “If it works don’t fix it”!

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I passed the last subject in my university! I’m only due my diploma thesis (which should be a lot easier than failing the damned exams every three months).

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It’s been quite some time… I’m back from vacations (which was in July), August has passed, I’m constantly staying up after 1:00 in the night to watch X-Files and I’m hoping I can remember to write to this blog more often…

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My last day on IT (?) Finally! Come Monday, I’m off to my “Home” company… 🙂

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It seems I’ve lost my IRC nick… again. Noone has taken it (thank god), but as usual, I lost access lists and whatnot.

I think I’m going to recreate the “scheduled mIRC” thing…

On other news, I now have TWO pc’s to fix, both belonging to the same person. Luckily the first one just needs to have an active partition.

I am also the (proud?) owner of a new DVD (no slot-in this time. I think I’ve learned my lesson 🙁 ) and a new tv/radio card. The TV/FM is rather useless, because my *real* problem is that the video in/out plug on my video card does not work. Oh well, maybe I’m going to buy a new video card 🙂 (there goes my tax return money!)

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My DVD-Rom broke down. No more Pioneer for me (even though the slot-in thingie is very cool, it seems to break down very easily – especially when out of guarantee). So I’m off to buy a very normal and standard one, and also a new Plextor 52x CDRW, if I find it, and it’s under 100€. I’m also going to buy a TV Tuner card, because the video-in on my GeForce Ti4200 seems to have given up. Ok, so I couldn’t resist any more 🙂

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I went to see the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 & Visual Studio .NET 2003 presentation today… I even got a webcam out of it 🙂 Nice, even though I felt I was ahead of everything. I mean, quite a lot of the things they presented as new and cool, I’m already using. Very cool though. And quite a lot of people! And furthermore, I got me a scandalous parking place, on the crossroads below Hilton.

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I finally got my car to the service. It seems that the engine fuse box was defective. It runs perfectly smooth now!

I went to the University to check on my grades. As expected, I didn’t pass the one remaining course, and I’m going to give (yet another) exam for it on July.

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I tried to take my Ibiza to the service, but unfortunately it’s not open on Saturdays. Back to the drawing board.

On other news, my neighbors PC seems to have a bad karma! It crashes randomly on installation. Seems to be the motherboard (it’s *that* random), but I don’t really know.

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Ok, first of all, yesterday we were not pouring water into the radiator but in the windshield wipers (duh!). Second of all, the radiator fluid was below the minimum. Third of all, the radiator ventilator fans were not working, except when turning on the air condition. It’s a good thing I was going to take it to service anyway (7500 km).

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