Two steps forward...

Not only did I get to pick up my new PC yesterday, I also got the car taxed for the next year. Well, I had this hour's parking in Ely, and with the funfair in town there's one less car park, so Saturday will be hell. So a quick walk up to the Post Office, and one cheque for £165 later I have my tax paid for the year.

The situation with the new PC was less satisfactory - Ely Computers were supposed to move the data from the old hard drive to the new one as part of the build process. And they hadn't. Fortunately(!) I'd picked up the dead PC at the same time as there might be bits I want for something else in it, and I like to know where my data's got to.

So their hardware guy suggested over the phone that I should try installing the old drive into the new machine. Which is what I was going to do anyway, but this made it his fault if anything went wrong.

But it all went smoothly... So now I have 60Gb in place of the 40Gb I was expecting. And most (all?) of my old data is now on both drives. Tonight we shall mostly be burning CD-ROMs for backup.

Ameol is installed and talking to Cix again :-) IE will talk to ntl: :-))

But I still don't like WinXP.

Two steps forward...

Not only did I get to pick up my new PC yesterday, I also got the car taxed for the next year. Well, I had this hour's parking in Ely, and with the funfair in town there's one less car park, so Saturday will be hell. So a quick walk up to the Post Office, and one cheque for £165 later I have my tax paid for the year.

The situation with the new PC was less satisfactory - Ely Computers were supposed to move the data from the old hard drive to the new one as part of the build process. And they hadn't. Fortunately(!) I'd picked up the dead PC at the same time as there might be bits I want for something else in it, and I like to know where my data's got to.

So their hardware guy suggested over the phone that I should try installing the old drive into the new machine. Which is what I was going to do anyway, but this made it his fault if anything went wrong.

But it all went smoothly... So now I have 60Gb in place of the 40Gb I was expecting. And most (all?) of my old data is now on both drives. Tonight we shall mostly be burning CD-ROMs for backup.

Ameol is installed and talking to Cix again :-) IE will talk to ntl: :-))

But I still don't like WinXP.