This is my
weekend log
We had a
company dinner on friday. My
boss and our
project manager got ridiculously
drunk, it was quite funny to see this 30+
women making dirty
jokes and proclaiming the
female revolution (or,
free love, they weren't too sure 'bout this point), it weas a funny evening. After the
dinner i met with my
friend Erik, who
moved to
Berlin on sunday to
start an new job as a
label manager for the
label of a quite popular
german band. We
talked quite a
time about music,
women and the rest of the world, i
showed him a web page a
scripted for a
friend of mine, who is a
quite good photograper. (http://natur.exit.de/zornja, she would surely appreiate it if she knew i posted the link here), we had a graet time.
Came home around 5:30 in the
morning.
The quest for a workstation
My
notebook broke down a few days ago. No problem, it's still under
warranty. I need a
pc at home anyways, and i decided i
wanted to run
OS/2 on it.
Well, i got a
486/66
SCSI system from a friend of mine, so i thought it would be no big
deal.
First of all, the
power supply broke down. Got another one, put it on a
box beside the
big tower case, retried. Next thing dying was the floppy
disk drive. OK, got one out of a
old 386, put it on top of the
case (everything
external as i was too lazy for building out the old one), re-started the installation. No big deal so far, but as
Warp requested me to put in Disk 2, the
keyboard controller on the
mainboard decided to
stop cooperation.
I threw away the
big tower, grabbed an old board with a
NCR SCSI
controller onboard, put it onto a
computer magazine, plugged the
cards in and re-started installation. After
trashing the original
boot floppy by plugging in the
fdd connector the wrong way round, creating a new one on my
flatmate's
linux box using
dd i had to find out that OS/2
lacks driver support for the
onboard SCSI
controller. So far, no good.
I got the
ISA Adaptec from the
Big Tower, plugged it in, deactivated the onboard
chip in the [BIOS and, today at 3 o'clock in the morning, the
second installation attempt
finally worked.
So, all that's left is to
make the
board recognize my
64 MB
EDO RAM modules to get
voice recognition working. It's on my
to do list for today, i'll let you know ;).