Day: September 21, 2005

Okay. I made a mistake. I installed the nVidia drivers which previously worked fine and drove my nVidia TNT2 card just fine. Why? Because DVD playback sucked.

They made the machine crash.

So, I uninstalled them, rather hopefully expecting the thing to go back to the microsoft supplied windows TNT2 drivers. But no. They’ve now gone.

So now I have no driver.

I have a huge monitor which will now only do very low refresh rates, or 640×480.

This does not bring me the greatest joy.

The new nVidia driver, now that’s cunning. That won’t install at all, saying that my TNT2 card is a banana on a stick, or something equally unhelpful.

*sigh*

y’know, I may not have much in the way of spare cash, but I do have something much more important.

– I’ve got bloody good friends.
– I’m doing a degree I enjoy to get a job I love
– I’m living with my partner who is the most fantastic girl in the world :-)
– I’ve got my little moglet which makes me very happy, even when she breaks
– I’ve got a motorbike, which may be scattered about the garage in pieces, but when together puts a smile on my face that makes me look like some kind of grinning maniac
– I’ve got a big green bed that looks way more expensive than it is, and is the kind of bed I always wanted (even if the frame’s starting to bend quite badly!)
– I live in a nice house with a great housemate
– They had The Strokes on the radio this morning, and Rachel Stevens, and Jem. How cool is that?!
– My dad’s old digital monitor is now adorning my desk, and y’know what, it’s big and gorgeous quality. I think it might even be a trinitron tube. Uh hu. And it’s got my BNFL Mutant Fluffie and my British Aerospace fluffy on top (feel free to send me cute and interesting fluffies)
– I’ve found a huge bunch of papers for my dissertation. So yes, it is going to be on “Does sexuality influence the quality of healthcare received?”
– I’ve got half a grapefruit and a cup of some-kind-of-fruit tea on my desk (why are they all purple? That’s what I don’t understand!)
– I went swimming this morning in an Edwardian Pool, and didn’t swallow half the water :-)
– The world is, verily, a good place today