User:Maybeoneday

MAYBEONEDAY

Intro

Hi everybody,

52,damned handsome, (read damned,period)and declining rapidly, mentally & physiclly(not that the start point was so high anyway). Plasterer/joiner/jobbing builder 'till 10 yrs ago when I "retired" thro a back problem.Tight fisted, impecunious, (ie skint)and an inveterate whinge (and wind)bag ; I was brought up on a diet of Arthur C. Clarke, and the BBC's "Tomorrows World", the moon landing and the decade of promise, the '60s:A Commodore C64 emasculated me (as far as computing was concerned-too many peeks, and as a teenager I was more interested in pokes !) then came an IBM ps2-genuine,complete with MCA and 2meg of ram....£50 later and an extra 2meg it FLEW.....for 30 seconds at a time , untill BSOD

STILL, win3.11 AND A MOUSE  !!!! what a godsend for a bloke with fat fingers ! 10 years on, I still get disappointed :- even the present Q6600 ISN'T Hal.... hence the name....

                 Maybeoneday....it will be like Hal,or even better have a "Eureka" moment and be a Sarah  (untill now  all my pc's have been more like the one in "Dark Star"

Having built a few (50+) windows boxes,I decided it was time to actually get one or two to actually do some usefull work, and having allways had a dream of getting all media on one pc,and having abandoned my 2 ,yes 2, All-in wonders to the spares box long ago,I lumped up for some decent kit and gave Vista a whirl,then myth,followed rapidly by numerous others:

THEN I SAW THE VIDEO......IT WAS THE DAY

15 months later,I still know next to nothing , and each little advance I make seems like I've climbed everest, BUT what a rush ! (did I mention I was a sad old man !) Life story over...for now.

KIT

(all in flux)

Intel q6600 sata dvd rw 120 maxtor ide (350 and 250 with media waiting ) onboard intel graphics runs 720 thro vga no prob not tried hdmi yet(waiting for 810) Onboard sound-analogue 2gig corsair Gigabyte GA G33M-S2H (occaisionally freezes, maybe PSS) Nova T 500 dual dvb-t Pvr 150 windows mce remote (and keyboard- partially works) usb- nic dongle usbuirt Dusky 2 port Sky controller..serial... cli only at moment, integration (by CHT) imminent 2x Sky+ sattelite boxes Lynksys spa3102 ATA(not yet integrated) Cambridge Audio R540 v2 -onboard rs232 not supported-v3 is

                        - controlled  thro control bus (rca to mini jack to usbuirt--discrete ir codes direct in -sweet

various generic web/analogue/firewire cams--not explored yet Sharp Acquos LC46X20E..46" LCD..rs232 to usb/seril converter various vhs/dvd recorders

old athlon 2200? sempron3000 ..both sktA both work well as cores and md's(with agp Nvid 7200)