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BlogI got
this jewel passed to me from an associate of
Brian and felt it must be shared with the world, or at least the billionth of a percent that see this blog. With lyrics like "I put my glow plug in your socket" I'm betting it was a hit when it came out in 1982, which translates to closer to 1992 for Russia. I listened to this the entire day at work and was significantly more productive as a result.
Yesterday MSDN finally put the
64-bit Vista ISO back up for download, so like any good nerd I installed it tonight on my
NEUTRON machine. Unlike
Keith's experience, mine went off without a hitch, and I setup a Windows XP
dual boot to boot. My
last adventure in a 64-bit OS didn't yield spectacular results, particularly in the area of drivers, but to my surprise Vista automatically downloaded the few drivers it didn't have out of the box. Even my RAID was recognized without the need for a lame floppy disk. I'm keeping my XP partition in case I run into compatibility problems, but when I rebooted back into XP to make sure it worked, I felt a little sadness creep over me. Yes, they really made Vista that much more fun. On to the nerd stats: my
system info window confirms I am indeed a 64-bit ub3r h@x0r. My
experience index indicates that I am exactly .7 better than
Keith. The experience index is a calculation of your total worth as a person, and your ranked place in society, 5.9 being the highest possible score. Want further details?
You got it. Of course no install documentation is complete without a
full frontal. I do like the Aero interface, it brings the clown from XP to a whole new level. How did I get Vista so soon when it doesn't officially release until January? Take a look at my experience score again and you'll know why.
My
addiction to Battlefield 2142 has slowly been growing in strength, but now that my
user profile is viewable online it has increased exponentially. The best motivating factor to play a game online is for bragging rights, which translates directly into how hardcore a person you are in real life (don't ask me to explain all the hardcore 12 year olds). Needless to say I'm currently on the bottom of the bragging rights totem pole so my need to play has never been greater. Lisa has also indicated her preference for the higher ranking players and informed me I have only few weeks before she starts interviewing them for possible fiance upgrades.
My last project before moving to Fathead was a
team commercial. Since I knew I was leaving soon I had no problem spending the time to write the script and assemble the building boxes (with some Canadian help). Mix in some ad-lib and the results are perfect. I'm sure nobody will get it, but it was alot of fun. Unfortunately our commercial came in second place but after watching the first place commercial I had to concede it was a better production.
Having been
kidnapped by the flatlanders more than a month ago, Butt the Gnome was finally returned to his rightful porch today. A visit to Ohio for Jaird's
birthday party gave Lisa and I the opportunity we needed to infiltrate the flatlander enclave and retrieve the gnome. We escaped without any major injuries but my RC Car sustained significant frontal damage and Lisa was hit with a temporary
neural disabling device. Happy to be free again, Butt is content to sit on my freezing porch once more.
Today was my last day at
Quicken and Jennifer organized a
goodbye lunch for me. My new job at
Fathead is in the same building, in fact it's owned by the same parent company, but what better excuse to have a group lunch.
An upgrade to the
Asus A8N-SLI Premium and
BFG 7600 GT OC finally brought me out of the AGP dark ages. The ability to play a game at high resolution without having my machine lockup or reboot was a refreshing change. The main reason I bought this motherboard was for the RAID 5 support, but I soon discovered the parity striping makes the disk access dog slow. I then reloaded using the same SIL 3114 controller in RAID 0 before settling on the
nVidia Controller in RAID 0 which blew away the SIL 3114 in the burst category. For anyone else who buys this board the RAID 5 option makes you feel nice and secure about your hard drives, but if you're impatient like me skip it and go directly to nVidia RAID 0. I also added another drive so now it's 3 time more likely my entire array will fail compared to a single drive. Surprisingly my old motherboard RAID beat my new one in average and random access.
VIDEO COMPARE
3DMark06 Score
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SM 2.0 Score
(Marks) | | 259 | |
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It's true, the need for me has declined dramatically this year. The
server statistics show a definite trend of less desire to click on me. Why have I become less clickable? The blame lies squarely with Myrone, who has been gone for
over three years. Without his tomfoolery and shenanigans I'm just not as interesting as I once was.
MorlockPrime decided to rearrange my basement furniture, resulting in a new configuration for the
LAN party. Apparently he knew it would suck so he decided to stay in Illinois during this event. We returned the favor by shoving unnecessary furniture into his room. Original Morlock stopped by to say he was too scared and had to hide in Jackson. FEAR Combat was first to be played until everyone had it up and running, at which point we switched to FarCry. A few heated rounds of FarCry was the highlight of the whole event, after which handsome Dan decided to leave, prompting a major exodus of handsome Dan followers. Fortunately the die hard remained for some
Battlefield 2142, by far the most involved game of the whole event. If you don't have a copy, get one. The Jeffords found a way to play it on his Mac it's so good (If you play online,
post your screen name). Finally, here's the
event timelapse.
The safety rail at the bottom of my shower door has been off for awhile after coming loose and falling into the tub. My procrastination on replacing it finally caught up with me this morning when I bumped the door off it's track and
showered myself with shattered safety glass (instead of water). Refreshed, and bleeding from several minor scratches, I tiptoed through the glass to stop the bodily hemorrhaging. Deciding not to risk a trip to the morlock cave for my other shower, I have an enjoyable aroma to share with my coworkers. I also discovered a glass shower door costs $100 and 7 days to replace.
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