Shackman
1. re your pc.
glad you got it sorted mate.
if you have no buks...another idea is to keep your eyes skinned
for a giveaway amd dual core system.
your gonna see more of em as folks n industry upgrade to quads initially
and then 8 cores. once they come out cheap.
for example you might get a "gimme" or under 100 buks dual core amd.
just slap a brand new 7200 rpm drive in with a big fat cache for 70 buks.
another alternative if your running a slow drive in that
amd single core of yours is to
find a friendly local pc tech and ask him to install a brand new drive
and see how much that helps things. try a 32 mb cache 7200 rpm.
2. re your dad.
fully understood. my heart goes out to you .
i'll share something with you n the other mates here.
i cried my guts out when i lost mine.
he was a huge comic, a brilliant engineer and my mum in uk still
religiously polishes his snare drum many years later.
he was also a fine jazz drummer. and was fond of saying..
"blinkin young drummers today dont know how to use brushes"..lol.
when i lost him in order to cope i decided to write a song in his honor.
viz the whole of london town is crying song on my mota site.
when i did the lead vocs for that i broke down in tears many times.
and if you listen closely you can prolly hear it.
its all about the cycle of life.
just a rough song cos i had no budget.
so look after your dad mate. and get tons of footage.
luckily we have lots of old black n white film footage of my dad.
includeing the queens visit to africa where my dad was working as an engineer
many moons ago. so i transferred the old film to dvd so my mum
now 91 and still as strong as an ox..amazeing woman..could watch it.
god bless.

retired puter engr....powertracks on amd......NICE !
"what is the black art of audio engineering ?"
my silly songs...motagator.com/bmanning
see my tips in the tips section.