Retarded Kids

A few months back I helped a friend in need build a PC of his dreams for around 500 USD. He was a WOW junkie and needed a new PC to play on. His old PC seemingly bit the bullet. This friend is not very computer savvy so I thought his old HP Pavillion might be worth the effort to salvage. Wanting to build a MythTV box for some time, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to build such a box.

Being the friend that I am, I decided to cut any profit on the custom PC I was building for him in trade for the HP Pavillion. Seemed fair enough to me. Although, hindsight now tells me that I should have had foresight in mind before I was blindsided by the stupidity in which I have unleashed upon myself. Final note on brief setup, I haven't heard back from the friend I built the machine for, so his machine must be doing well.

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