But golly, would I ever like one. Especially since my dad has been on some sort of shitty music kick lately. Apparently he gets them from some Chinese site where entire CDs are put up for download, and then removed after a certain number of downloads. What this means is that there is never any good music available, and instead he has been filling up the shelves with CDs such as Tribal Mozart and Handelian Lute Concertos for Synthesizer and Little Mongolian Girl Sings Repetitive Songs in Mandarin and then again in Mongolian While Her Uncle Talks in the Background. I asked him to keep it off the new computer but apparently the sound on the old one is broken. And then there’s the porn. He burns it to CDs for some reason to watch on the good computer, maybe so nobody can stumble across the files later. But guess what? They still show up on the recent documents list! And with such descriptive file names too! Christ on a bike, porn music sucks. You don’t need to listen to it. Avast recently found the first virus on this computer since we bought it. I wonder why. You know that feeling you get like you’re sharing a house, but one housemate keeps walking through wearing muddy boots? I’m trying to think of a tactful way to tell him to keep the crap off the good computer. Failing that I think I will stick a post-it on the monitor with “NO PORN. NO SHIT MUSIC.” written on it in large letters.
Just thought I’d share my frustrations. If anyone wants to donate money, I prefer Australian dollars.
Ya know, they have these new-fangled inventions called CD-players, right? Ya don’t need a monitor, or keyboard, or even an internet connection anymore. Amazing piece of technology.
The Dell Outlet has really cheap stuff. For $350 total (incl tax & shipping) you can get a celeron 2.4, 256 ram, 20 gig hd, 17" CRT, 56k modem, and Windows XP home. Look for the Dell Outlet tab on the dell website.
Bear in mind you’re talking USD, which still means it’s a good few hundred more for poor ole FRM who is in Australia. And that would only be if the companies in question would ship to Australia - which for computer equipment is highly unlikely.