More study, less work.

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I did do a minor portion of the dishes.  I may do more.  Running slow as my body sorts medicines out.  I did read the manuals that came with the motherboard and video card.  Wow, that was a lot of nothing.  The motherboard offered some information, but raised far more questions than not.  Especially regarding configuring the bios.

It would suggest things you could turn on or off but give no reason for doing either.  '"In the next step, set Auto-deconformation to 0, 1, or 3.  If, while booting, the computer screams at you in French, you will know this is the problem.  Go ahead and power the system back down, unplug the power source, then use the jumpers to delete the memory.  Then, while the system is still powered down, reset the switch to one of the two remaining choices.  Repeat until the system stops screaming at you in French."'  Yeah, only, actually, they give you no idea if you will know if you did it wrong or not.  The thing is, some of these might be key to fully utilizing some of your system.  And there is no guarantee that default will work.

Oh, no worries.  I'll figure it out.  I figure I will do just fine.  It will be a step by step walk through having everything up and running, using testing software to square off the areas too rounded, or round off those parts that are too square.  Oh, about the raid 10... I will be using four inexpensive 120 gb ssds.  They aren't the absolute blazing fastest, but are good enough, as is.  With a raid 10, I will end up with 240gb at double their rate, which will make them safer, faster, and sum total no more expensive (and probably cheaper) than an equal top of the line 240(ish) gb ssd.  With a raid 1 2tb hybrid for actual mass storage, that should be good.

Yeah...  I am excited.  I just need to do a few last things.  I can get most of the machine arranged before the ssd's arrive.  Those can fit into trays really easily, and be a snap in if I have the connections and power cords arranged as if they were here.  Then just pop them in and install the OS.  I may setup the drives to allow partitions for several linux systems.  I know you can dual boot, choosing linux and a win OS, not sure if you can do three systems.  Though, I bet if you went thumb drive, which I am hoping to do for another version of linux anyway, it... might could work!  *pop, fizzle, crackle?*  We'll see.  Though the thumbdrive might be used on another system first.

Oh, and I best try to order those geese.  Two this month, two next month, if at all possible.  Three will be bigger, one will be slightly smaller.  Oh... but before I order those, I need to see if the recipients even want them.  No matter how nice something is, if you aren't set up to cook it...  It might well be like handing a bachelor two or three live lobster.  Urhm, most bachelors.  I actually have what it takes to cook up to, say, four, all at once... more in rotation.  Most can't, bachelor or not.  Well, no five pounders mind you, just pound to pound and an halfers.

Later, or good night.  Later, probably.  :p