You may notice from the title that I like my new graphics card. I got it set up yesterday when it came in (right after getting my hair cut). My computer now has no issues at all rendering any game I play, and I'm thinking it's time for a few more mods to get the rest of the system up to snuff... all in good time.
You should see my hair.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Time for an Upgrade
I've been saving up a little and decided it was time to finally upgrade the graphics on my desktop. Here's what I picked out: BFG 7950 GT (factory overclocked wiht half a gig of GDDR3). That should be a nice improvement over the dual XFX 6600s (stock with 128MB of GDDR) I had before. Should arrive tomorrow. I can't wait!
That photo
Monday, January 15, 2007
c0mpu13rs r f1 (Computers are Fun)
1337! I'm having fun with my computers again! I've not played World of Warcraft the last few days, and it's been really nice. I miss the guys, but I'm having more fun shopping and working on my computers.
I finally got the BIOS flashed on my old trashy 400 MHz Celey. Turns out the program is case sensitive on telling it where the update file is located. DOS and Windows don't care at all about character case, so that threw me way off. It was like working on Linux or Unix or something like that! Now I can use DBAN ( Darik's Boot and Nuke ) on drives larger than the 30GB limit on the old BIOS.
Speaking of Linux, I'm about to install Darwin on one of my systems (not sure which one yet). It is basically all the open-source (free and thus must be released freely) components Apple uses in OS X (and it is actually most of the system, no wonder it only costs $100, they didn't write much of it themselves to begin with).
Related to that last comment is the fact that I still wanna get my main desktop running Ubuntu/other Linux flavor soon so I can get it folding the SMP client asap. The SMP client is much faster than the default Windows client, but currently only works on Linux based kernals (Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X). BTW, Folding@Home is a public "distributed computing" program run by Stanford ( folding.stanford.edu ) aimed at curing diseases/furthering medical research by using my computer when I'm not (anyone who wants to can get involved and let Stanford use their computer, just it's called distributed computing). I have three systems running 24/7. I'm hoping that their cancer research in particular succeeds (those of you who know about my dad will understand why).
Speaking of my dad, I wen to Mom and Richard's yesterday after attending a concert at her church in the evening. I set up her printer that I gave her for Christmas so she can print her own photos now. While we were finishing the setup, she asked if I could show her how to print something off, and as we where looking through all the photos, I found one that I want to enlarge and frame. It's a picture of my nephew D.T. at my dad's grave. he's standing there directly beside the headstone and is bent down just enough to be touching the W in our last name. I'll try to post it when I get home tonight or before work tomorrow. I just can't explain how much that photo means to me. That one picture represents everything to me. Life, death, and the coming new birth. The hopeless darkness and lostness that exists and yet the pure, perfect innocence of guiltlessness are summed up in a single moment, beautifully captured.
I miss Dad.
I finally got the BIOS flashed on my old trashy 400 MHz Celey. Turns out the program is case sensitive on telling it where the update file is located. DOS and Windows don't care at all about character case, so that threw me way off. It was like working on Linux or Unix or something like that! Now I can use DBAN ( Darik's Boot and Nuke ) on drives larger than the 30GB limit on the old BIOS.
Speaking of Linux, I'm about to install Darwin on one of my systems (not sure which one yet). It is basically all the open-source (free and thus must be released freely) components Apple uses in OS X (and it is actually most of the system, no wonder it only costs $100, they didn't write much of it themselves to begin with).
Related to that last comment is the fact that I still wanna get my main desktop running Ubuntu/other Linux flavor soon so I can get it folding the SMP client asap. The SMP client is much faster than the default Windows client, but currently only works on Linux based kernals (Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X). BTW, Folding@Home is a public "distributed computing" program run by Stanford ( folding.stanford.edu ) aimed at curing diseases/furthering medical research by using my computer when I'm not (anyone who wants to can get involved and let Stanford use their computer, just it's called distributed computing). I have three systems running 24/7. I'm hoping that their cancer research in particular succeeds (those of you who know about my dad will understand why).
Speaking of my dad, I wen to Mom and Richard's yesterday after attending a concert at her church in the evening. I set up her printer that I gave her for Christmas so she can print her own photos now. While we were finishing the setup, she asked if I could show her how to print something off, and as we where looking through all the photos, I found one that I want to enlarge and frame. It's a picture of my nephew D.T. at my dad's grave. he's standing there directly beside the headstone and is bent down just enough to be touching the W in our last name. I'll try to post it when I get home tonight or before work tomorrow. I just can't explain how much that photo means to me. That one picture represents everything to me. Life, death, and the coming new birth. The hopeless darkness and lostness that exists and yet the pure, perfect innocence of guiltlessness are summed up in a single moment, beautifully captured.
I miss Dad.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Monday, January 8, 2007
Saturday, January 6, 2007
Brrrr!
Nothing like waking up freezing. No, the heater isn't broken, my one roommate just prefers having it at about 60 degrees. I think we're gonna have to have a talk about the electric bill and how ridiculous this is this time of year. If they really need it to be that cold in here, there are these things called windows they can open and at least save me some money.
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