Darragh Ó Héiligh blog and accessibility guides

Greetings all,

I just thought it would be a good idea to write a few words on this tonight because as I now have y self fully up and running in the new house, I’ll be doing a few more audio recordings.  I’ve just tested out some new cables that I got a few months ago that had been sitting waiting to be used and the quality that I get from them is just absolutely fantastic.   I had planned to do another audio review of Orca with the new Ubuntu 8.04 however I decided to leave it until tomorrow evening so I have some more time to prepare my self.  I’ll also listen back over the review and other recordings I did the last time I undertook this type of project to give me a few ideas. 

Oh, I couldn’t put into words how fantastic it is to have my nice big powerful desktop back up and running.  The responsiveness of the entire system is just excellent.  Now, if the sound card works reliably this time it will be even better again.  Oh, that’s right. The Blog hadn’t been born when I bought this PC.  Well, in short, I bought this computer back in August.  It cost me an absolute fortune!  I got it within about four days which was really cool but very shortly after turning it on I found that the sound card wasn’t behaving as it should.  I got it with a SBXVI platinum card so it has loads of bells and whistles but the stupid card didn’t work correctly.  I originally thought it was a Vista problem and the manufacturer of the PC didn’t disagree with this assumption.  However, after a few months of digging around, I found that it was actually a defective machine.  After some messing around and a lot of shouting and complaining, I finally got the machine sent back.  It was sent back to me in December however I haven’t had a change to even turn it back on until tonight!  I’m really relieved to see that it’s all working as it’s supposed to.  Touch wood anyway that it doesn’t start acting up again.  From what I can tell, they’ve replaced the sound card and the motherboard. 

OH, they also removed one of the power cables connecting the second Sata hard disk so I’m going to have to find one of those.  I’d ask them to send me a replacement but its more hassle than it’s worth.  It will only take me a few minutes to connect it up again.  I took the second drive out when I was sending it back as I had been using that to store files and music and I didn’t want it to be formatted on me.

That’s all for now.  If I feel like it tomorrow, I’ll tell you about the absolutely fantastic weekend I’ve just had.  It’s a real shame it’s over!  I want another few days off!