Posted by bob on May 7, 2000, at 13:46:59
In reply to Re: Ignore previous post please, posted by grrrilla on May 6, 2000, at 20:22:45
> > > bob...Did you switch to Desipramine? How ya doing?
Overworked, too little sleep. The four web design courses I've been teaching weekends and evenings for a NYC university have finally ended, tho, so I may get some rest this month (next round begins in June).
Yep -- I made the switch to the desipramine. Too low a dose. I see my pdoc Monday (5-8), so that should be remedied.
Thanks for asking. I guess after my three-month drop-out a while back my recent quietness may be of some concern, but I'd just like to reassure my friends out there it's got far more to do with work and brain surgery than with my mood.
cheers,
boboh ... not MY brain surgery, tho at times I'd like to trade it in for a newer model. My computer's brain surgery. It's been suffering from a severe case of CUF (cascading upgrade failure ... I've been trying to find some way to change the name of that syndrome so I can reverse the acronym).
[for those technically minded and interested, I'm starting off with a Mac-clone that is basically a Performa 6400/200MHz, 48MB RAM, 4gig internal SCSI and 2gig internal IDE hard drives.]
First I get a cable modem. Then I need an ethernet card to deal with it. Then my CPU starts choking on the 2MB downstream bandwidth, so I go for a processor upgrade (a Sonnet Tech G3/L2 at 250MHz + 512k backside cache). Then, the whole thing's as stable as a house of cards in a tornado, so I install MacOS 9 over 8.1. During the installation process, it crashes and takes out my 4gig internal HD ... which subsequently interferes with any attempt to start-up from the OS9 or my Norton CD ... it would prevent the desktop from loading. At this point, I thought I had lost the patient and was ready to head to the store, Amex in hand, dreams of a G4 in mind, when I came up with an open case surgery procedure -- unplugging the drive's power cable until after the whole system had booted, pluging it back in, then formatting the drive. The procedure was a success, but now the long, slow healing (reloading of all my software) process has begun. To top that off, OS9 has only marginally improved the stability, so I'm pumping up the RAM as high as it'll go (being a Umax C600 and how f*ck*d it's motherboard design is, that's 80MB tops ... *if* I'm lucky and these DIMMs actually work) and considering a PCI video card. Not that I have the time (or reflexes or purchasing power after all of this hardware expense) to play any of these new 3D-enhanced games, but it'd sure help my graphics design work plus I'm hoping it'll take some of the processing heat off the built-in video support (which s*cks) as well as the new CPU and RAM.
The house of cards keeps growing .... ;^)
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