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Unwinding.
My daughter is cutting her spring break short to go back to school tomorrow and help a robotics team she's mentoring. Before she goes I enlisted her to help me build a PC. I've been collecting components for a little more than a year -- an Antec 100 case and power supply, a Gigabyte brand "media center" motherboard, DVD drives, etc. -- but I was never in too much of a hurry to put it together because my old IBM ThinkCentre Windows XP box just kept limping along.
But, now that Microsoft has announced plans to kill off XP, it's time to get serious.
It's sad when the biggest obstacles to building a PC involve not being able to make out the tiny numbers and letters on the motherboard, not being able to contort your back while snaking cables through to their matching sockets, etc.
It's 95% done, now. I should be running Windows 7 on a new build in a week or so.
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