Dead end...
Apr. 19th, 2005 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpIt occurred to me that having a utility to track CPU temperature would be nifty on my old VAIO (the one with the sluggish fan that jams from time to time), but in attempting to install the software I previously installed on my desktop, it turns out there is no setup for the VAIO's motherboard. This is disappointing, especially since the fan, um, didn't start when the rest of the VAIO did, requiring me to blow forcefully into the exhaust vent to get the impeller moving.
The sucker's noisy once it does start to spin, to boot. (Yeah, that's me: complain, complain, complain...)
Then again, a sluggish fan is not the least of my problems, as there are some keyboard problems on the unit as well (though no show stoppers, as this post demonstrates).
I'm going to have to put on some music and to turn the volume up high when I go to bed in a few minutes, so as to overpower the sound of the wind blowing outside. Earlier, when I tried to let the cat out, it took two steps out the door, hunkered down in the face of the strong wind, and decided an evening spent with yours truly was to be preferred, setting a new agility record coming back inside. I am duly flattered.
My previous observation about paper in Moleskine journals needs amendment. Apparently, either a higher quality of the paper is used in the journal with lined paper (fountain pen ink doesn't bleed as much as it does in the unlined paper journal), or the plain-paper journal I have - and no, it's not the sketchbook, either - just came from a lot of books that were made using inferior paper. I've devoted a large unlined paper Moleskine to be my translation notebook, and with the exception of the ugly bleedthrough, I've found it easy to get used to.
Tomorrow's a busy day. Sales tax returns are due, along with a couple of assignments (and invoices, natch), and I need to call around and track down some client checks that haven't made it to these parts.
G'night.
Cheers...
The sucker's noisy once it does start to spin, to boot. (Yeah, that's me: complain, complain, complain...)
Then again, a sluggish fan is not the least of my problems, as there are some keyboard problems on the unit as well (though no show stoppers, as this post demonstrates).
I'm going to have to put on some music and to turn the volume up high when I go to bed in a few minutes, so as to overpower the sound of the wind blowing outside. Earlier, when I tried to let the cat out, it took two steps out the door, hunkered down in the face of the strong wind, and decided an evening spent with yours truly was to be preferred, setting a new agility record coming back inside. I am duly flattered.
My previous observation about paper in Moleskine journals needs amendment. Apparently, either a higher quality of the paper is used in the journal with lined paper (fountain pen ink doesn't bleed as much as it does in the unlined paper journal), or the plain-paper journal I have - and no, it's not the sketchbook, either - just came from a lot of books that were made using inferior paper. I've devoted a large unlined paper Moleskine to be my translation notebook, and with the exception of the ugly bleedthrough, I've found it easy to get used to.
Tomorrow's a busy day. Sales tax returns are due, along with a couple of assignments (and invoices, natch), and I need to call around and track down some client checks that haven't made it to these parts.
G'night.
Cheers...
