Friday, October 31, 2008

I heart computer geeks

This week, I got more tutoring students! One of Laurent's co-workers has a son who apparently is terrible at English, so he agreed to send the boy to me to see if I could fix him. He came over on Tuesday for an hour and a half and it went rather well. He and his parents seemed pretty happy. The next day I get a phone call from a mom with a daughter who is also terrible at English, saying that I had been recomended by the other mom. Turns out, the mom of the first student is a hairdresser and spent all the next day gabbing about her awesome new English tutor! Yay! So, this morning I had my first session with this girl. Hopefully I'll be getting some more phone calls when school is back in session in another week.

Right now, I'm in Pau being an innocent bystander to a Lan Party in Pau. For those who are not familiar with a Lan Party, it is where a bunch of people (in this case about 500) who love computers and the accompanying games drag their computers to a giant room where they exchange ideas and above all try to kill eachother in their little vitual worlds. I have no real interest in this weekend-long event, so I brought two books and hopefully it will stop raining long enough for me to take a walk downtown tomorrow!

3 comments:

Andrew Hagglund said...
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Andrew Hagglund said...

Hey! Can you get Laurent to advise me on why the computer I'm assembling does not work?

The power supply is hooked into the motherboard in two spots, the 24 pin and 4 pin.

The motherboard is conntected to the front panel. I don't have the hard drive or CD drives in yet.

When switched on, the PSU does not spin. It provides power to the front LED light, but when the power button is pushed, nothing happens.

I know the PSU functions, because when it was hooked into the old mobo, it DID spin. I think the Mobo is good, because the LED light lights up.

So why won't the computer even start to fire when power is pushed? Any help would be great!

Betty H said...

Hi HOney, my hotmail account is currently not working, so I won't be able to check in with you.