Phew. I’ve had an… interesting few days. They have been spent almost exclusively in front of the computer. But not in a good, fun way. No, in a frustrating, hard way. I decided that Windows 7 was just not going to cut it for me. I just couldn’t get it to work as I wanted it. I have had 10+ years on XP and I don’t like change. And a lot of the new features of Windows 7 where not good for my eyesight issues. So I was really rather unhappy with it. I wanted my XP back. But XP does not support 16 gigabytes of RAM as is in my new supercomputer (a computer that was bought very much because I wanted to try out Windows 7… oops).<\/p>\n
So XP can’t use all that memory. UNLESS. You get the 64 bit version of XP. Which is completely obsolete and inferior. And so naturally I went and got that. It cost a lot. You can’t buy it in the shops anymore. It cost twice what Windows 7 cost me. So that’s kinda stupid. I have spent a lot of money on this computer and now on XP Pro 64 Bit Edition. And I have spent A LOT of time getting it to work right.<\/p>\n
Mainy the problem was my SSD drive. A super cool and fast thing, but it doesn’t work well with XP. I spent a couple of days working almost nonstop to get it to work. Just a couple of food and Star Trek \/ Doctor Who breaks. While the disk drives formatted. And a little pissing about on Facebook.<\/p>\n
Anyway, this is all terribly boring I know. The short story is: I deleted Windows 7 and am now running Windows XP Professional 64 Bit Edition. And very pleased with it I am. Now I have to restore everything once again, get all my programs and files back. And then it should be smooth sailing. Hopefully.<\/p>\n
I did manage yesterday to go and spend some time with the goats. And that was really good for my mental health. Wiped the slate clean and all the troubles away. With the sweet goats. Good times in the warm weather.<\/p>\n
Magnethe’s boy is the little prince of the hill now. He’s very sweet. I think the castration has left him a little calmer than before. Or maybe it’s just because he doesn’t have four other boys around to get into trouble with. But it seems to me that he’s happier now to just stand still and be scratched. And if I pick him up he’ll sit in my lap and enjoy the scratchies. Before he used to be very quick about jumping up and running around. He’s still got a nice, faint buck smell though. And it probably won’t be too long before he starts bossing the old ladies around.<\/p>\n
Now back to the computer work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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