After all this time, my heart still belongs to AMD and Linux.

Windows this, OS X that, Shareware this, Nag-Screen there, - I just started to get sick of it all, and got a bit “home sick” (Home = Linux).

I looked around and saw a decent Motherboard/CPU combo that turned out even sweeter - an AMD Sempron 2800+ CPU and a Gigabyte K8 Triton Motherboard along with 256 MBs of RAM for around $160. Not a blazing system but it gets me “home”! Plus I can upgrade the CPU to an AMD64 later,albeit not to dual-core.

I tore out the guts from my old PC and installed the new hardware - everything SEEMED to be fine, but I somehow expected to be able to use the SVideo output connected to my EyeTV as a monitor, but that didn’t work. I ended up strapping it in a box behind my scooter and taking it to the office to set it up there. It was then that it dawned on me that I didn’t have any current Linux installation CDs at the office (or any current OS for that matter), took forever to download an ISO of Ubuntu 6.06, found an old blank CD that ended up failing… ARGH! Fine! I installed 5.04 (leaving some empty space to install another OS later), upgraded to 5.10 then 6.06.

A few hours later, “Frankie” (Frankenstein - as in it has parts from various systems) was alive and running beautifully! Altho it’s still at the office waiting for me to pick it up along with an old, little CRT.

Now, what gives with the SVideo cable? I was under the impression that I could use that instead of a monitor.