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Running on XP on XP

PC tribulations continue: Took my memory into the office to test it on a machine there. It worked. Borrowed some PC2100 RAM from work to test on my machine at home. That also worked. To conclude:
  1. My motherboard works
  2. My PC3200 DIMMs work
  3. The exact memory I have is certified to work with the exact motherboard I have by the latter's manufacturer
  4. My RAM doesn't work with my motherboard
Hopefully work won't want this memory back until I've figured out who to complain to...

Invariants Xmas party tonight - usual quiz fun, I did particlularly well on the Bond Themes round, came second overall (out of 3 - 1 team knew a disturbing amount about Steps' song titles). Also got to play some No Limits Texas Hold 'Em. Unfortunately, I didn't have the best of cards - the best being a pair of sixes that were easily beaten, a hand I folded on the flop which would have been a straight (arrg!) and finally the K/Q of clubs - on which hand everyone else folded, so they never got to see my Ace-high straight. In the end, five player, only 7 hands, so not much of a game. I did end up slightly ahead on small slips of paper, though...
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jiggery_pokery

December 3 2002, 17:46:10 UTC 18 years ago

Nearly got to play some Texas Hold 'Em myself at the Games Club tonight. Ended up playing D&D instead. Swings and roundabouts, really.

Very typical set of experiences at THE, FWIW. I've been playing poker by e-mail in a poker-by-e-mail tournament and it hasn't been very exciting. Folded all but two of my hands very quickly indeed. Kept one because it made an up-and-down straight draw after the flop and called someone's moderately large bet because the pot odds looked reasonable, but it didn't improve on fourth street so I couldn't justify betting again. Bet AK (off-suit) before the flop and called someone's re-raise. Flop missed, but I bet it large anyway and induced the fold. "Bluffing with the best hand" as Barney put it.