Before I do that, though, I mean to buy another new hard drive to install it upon. That drive in there that holds the Windows installation is only like 10GB.
I once again looked at the large copper heatsink with doubt, as I always do. There were several reasons why I didn't particulary like it. One, it was heavy. Not too heavy but just enogh that I worried about it. Secondly, the custom made clip for it never really held it on tightly. Third, the bottom part, that contacts the chip, was very 'unfinished' in that it wasn't nice and smooth.
I decided to use a smaller copper heatsink that I now had avaliable to replace it. The smaller one, although not possessing the fins and surface area of the current, would be more than sufficient for the task. Plus, as I found out while installling it, the clip holds it on very tightly without any play in there.
You could say that the stock aluminum heatsink was more than enough. I mean, the G3s/750s don't put out a lot of heat themselves. I just like 'upgrading' my 'ole G3. More cooling never hurts.
The Knock. It is still there. It seems that either the Seafoam didn't do anything or else something else didn't go right. Figures.
I think that whatever is wrong is beyond my ability to fix. There should have been a lot of smoke coming out of the exhaust when we used that Seafoam. I don't know why there wasn't.
This has just been a week of epic failures. Nice.
The new Gardens of Aiur is located at Gardens.serveblog.net. Be sure to stop by and post here on how responsive it was, eh?
To just let everyone that uses this server know, I'm going to begin the cancellation process on the 12th or 13th of this month. I've already downloaded the latest site backup, but it is only for September. Any changes made since then would not be backed up, obviously. So, I would suggest getting anything you absolutely need off before then.
The new Gardens of Aiur is coming along nicely. It feels nice to be hosting it off of the G3 Server. There is a certain nostalgic charm to be using MacHTTP running under Mac OS 9. Plus, writing all the necessary CGIs in Applescript is quite fun. Mind you, Applescript isn't really obselete since it is still developed for OS X. Still, that's the only real way to do some of the more dynamic things on this server.
More good news is that the new layout doesn't use tables to do the layout. It's almost pure CSS/XHTML. It doesn't look half bad either.
I do remember the first few weeks/days where I had my house just the way I wanted it. Empty of anyone except for me. Those were the good days. Yep, just me. Nice.
It sucks getting what you want and then losing it not long after. That's what I get for being nice, I suppose. Figures. I need to learn to more mean/assertive.
