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Well I installed the "Intel Application Accelerator" yesterday evening and now my machine flies faster than a fast thing thats been strapped to the fastest rocket on National Fast Rocket Day in Rocketsville, Arizona. Or something...
Unfortunately, I've had to start reinstalling all my apps and drivers again due to the reformat (which I needn't have done!) and the machine is slowly coming back to normal. My new DVDRW can also burn at 4x speed now, which it wasnt capable of before, due to only being able to sustain 2x reading from the drive.
I ran the performance tests again last night (I use PerformanceTest V5.0) and the drives are faster than the ATA100 drive in the server, but not quite as fast as the striped raid array in the server.
What annoys me the most is Intel. Why provide the motherboard drivers in one package and the IDE drivers in another completely seperate package that seems to be something else, yet all it contains is the IDE stuff? Eh? How madcap is that? Its like releasing a spreadsheet program that is called "Kettle Monitor v7.0"!
Shell has improved dramatically over the last day or so. She slept virtually all day yesterday and thats given her body time to deal with it all. She woke up this morning (twice, which I shall come to shortly) bright eyed and bushy tailed. Still not 100% but miles better.
At 2.30am this morning, we were awoken by shouting coming from my house mates room, where Emma and Tim were arguing. We waited for a bit, in the hope it was short lived, but eventually Shell went down and had a go at them. It stopped and then they left the house! God knows where they went at 3am in the morning...
I'll get some links up later on, when I can be arsed to search out some weird and wacky ones.
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