Wouter's Blog – Page 47 – On the cutting edge of cocking about.

XP on an Acer Aspire One

A while ago we bought Jessica an Acer Aspire One running Linux (this is the cheaper option, the XP ones were about double the price at the time).

She got tired of that and asked me to install Windows XP.

I tried following the tutorial , which involve putting XP on a memstick, but I gave up on that, borrowed the external USB CD drive from work, and installed from the CD. That worked well.

You’ll need to download the drivers here.

(I also tried installing Windows 2000 on my eeepc (I hate XP) but that didn’t work so well, so I’m running puppeee now).

2011-05-08 by wrm Computers Geek 1

I am not worthy

Between my brother and myself we have five and a half pinball machines.

This fellow has around 700.

In addition to collecting and restoring pinball games, Conger […] owns 15 classic cars (none of them running) and has a collection of more than a thousand nonadjustable wrenches. And somehow he still finds the time to be married.

(emphasis mine, of course :-)

Gorgeous eye candy. Thanks Roland.

2011-05-06 by wrm Pinball 1

Flattered

To prove that bribery and corruption is alive and well, welcome to the blogroll Salamander.

2011-04-19 by wrm Geek Guns 0

Alive

<me> Yay! The internet’s up again! *

<Tanya> Yah, but is it going to stay up?

<me> That’s what she said.

(you had to be there)

* Internet’s been down for a week. Telkom lines. And on a good day, internet is 384 kbps down and a whole lot less up ADSL. 1999 indeed.

2011-04-12 by wrm Farting around Geek 0

Posted without comment…

… but a translation is available on request.

Basically it involves my brother, his girlfriend, a new-year’s eve party, and my brother’s girlfriend’s father’s shotgun.

2011-03-25 by wrm Farting around 1

Tamara’s on the money again.

Solar’s a supplement at best, and wind turbines are nothing but prayer wheels for suburbanite Buddhists. In the long term, it’s either get comfortable with nukes or continue servicing King Abdullah, your choice.

2011-03-15 by wrm Farting around Geek 0

A good example…

… of a bad example.

Take a hermit living in a big house all by himself, add winemaking as a hobby[1], and before you know it he’s rolled up the carpet and planted a tank in the living room.

Gotta love my bro, he sets the bar low so I can shine :-)

[1] Or maybe obsession.

2011-03-11 by wrm Farting around 0

Much needed waterworks

This is something I’ve been planning for years, finally figured I’d get Frank to do it since I’m not getting around to it myself.

15mm black irrigation pipe, on brackets, running all the way down the side of the house and around the corner. Once I add microjets, I’ll be able to water the whole stretch at the turn of a tap. Ain’t technology awesome?

2011-03-11 by wrm House 0

Rosemary Chicken

Went to the Fishhoek Pick & Pay looking for vegetables, found chicken at R19.99 a kilo. Probably genetically engineered and so full of hormones I’ll start growing breasts, but hey, the price was good.

Made a marinade mix using 3/4 cup olive oil, six teaspoons lemon juice, lots of garlic, two teaspoons mustard powder, half a handful of fresh rosemary and a couple of grinds of black pepper. Marinaded the chicken in this for a day or so, then put the chicken and sauce in a corningware dish, added a handful of cherry tomatoes, and stuck it in the oven at 180 for an hour or so.

Very good.

2011-03-06 by wrm Foooooood 0