All in all, I had a quiet weekend with lots of sleep, I used a lot of my time fully getting over jet lag, and I think I finally, am, horray.
There was two highlights to my weekend. Actually three. The first is see Wales not do so bad against South Africa. The score was flattering for the Springboks.
The second was I got a haircut. No pics so assumed it did happen.
The third was plugging in this bad boy.
Oh yes, after my last machine gloriously exploded in a mist of Electrical Stupendor, this has become it’s official replacement. It was kind of hard consigning my last computer to the scrap heap, as it saw me through university, and if only it could talk, the Rhys history lesson it could give would rival any of my blogs.
But that’s the past and this is now. Seriously, it’s so fast, the shit doesn’t even go on the shovel to fly off it. Couple that using the most stable operating you can use without having to go without deodorant or being an arrogant twat Windows XP, meaning that it’s more comfortable with resources than MS-DOS is on Deep Blue.
However, the only issues was my two IDE hard drives that I have, I managed to put one of them in (with a little bit of coaxing, seriously you can tell I didn’t build this computer, it’s so neat inside).
Yes, one of them I have successfully put in – the more important one, with all my sites, games and pornographic videos. The other one, a 40GB one, I has a few bits and pieces I’d like to get off it. Is there a way of connecting an old style IDE disk to either a SATA slot or a USB slot?
For those of you who have no clue what I said, kittens or bunnies?
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Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay. 
Rhys, there is a convertor thingie you can buy which converts IDE drives (2.5 and 3.5 inch) into a USB device, which normally include power adaptors. See http://www.usbnow.co.uk/Adapters_&_Connectors-USB_to_IDE_Adapters/c42_46/p52/USB_2.0_IDE_&_SATA_Cable_(with_Power_Supply)/product_info.html
Get them from Ebay though, that one is overpriced, paid around a fiver for mine including shipping if I remember rightly.
Kittens, even though I am allergic to them, definitely kittens
You can get an IDE to USB converter so you can plug an internal IDE drive into an external USB port. You can get it locally from Maplin but it would be cheaper buying it online.
You could also buy a drive caddy to turn the drive into a proper external USB drive.
Jon beat me to what I was going to say. You can pick up cheapy USB 2.0 hard drive caddies for about £8.
Am I the only person with an opinion on kittens and bunnies?
wow…i hate opening up my pc
Kittens! I love those cute animals. By the way, it all sounded like greek to me. Well, I hope you know what you are doing
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Stable operating system? OS X hands down. But to do that you need to come over to the light side. You should see the inside of my computer… I seriously don’t know how they managed to squeeze it all in there. No wasted space whatsoever.
the answers already been given so I’m gonna go with both – kittens AND bunnies! bittens and kunnies!!
“Flattering for the Springboks” is an understatement. Also no mention of the many, many decisions that ref got wrong, nearly all of which were against us. Jonathan Davies was on the radio 30 minutes later slating the ref, though I guess he’s just as biased as us…