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LifestreamSo, as I noted a while back, I had to convert to NTFS. No big deal really. But I held off on the boot drive for various reasons. Mostly because it required booting to a prompt or batching (botching?) the whole operation with Partition Magic. And before I could do anything, I had to enlarge [...]
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So, I was unpacking The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion by RELOADED and guess what. The damn ISO file was more than 4GB in size. Looks like I’ll be forced to abandon FAT32 since apparently there is a 4GB limit which I had forgotten all about. It took me three attempts and switching from Powerarchiver to [...]
Another late discovery. Someone recommended Pandora, the Music Genome Project, and after browsing wikipedia I realized that it was much like another technology that I had skipped, namely Audioscrobbler / Last.fm.
Yeah, I know, I’m probably the last person on the planet to get an account with Last.fm. I have always tried to program or [...]
Should have thought of that. Better to stick it to spammers than routing to :blackhole: and encouraging more unrouted email.
I know I just noted just the other day how painless the install was and so forth, praising the Ultra133 card. Well, it took about a day for me to run into some major difficulties. Essentially as hinted here and here, the card DOES NOT support ATAPI optical units, i.e. DVD writers and reader. It [...]
Due to unforeseen snags with the new case I bought, I had to finally get a controller card. Longer cables would be sufficed but I thought it was time to put my Pioneer Slot-in DVD back into action. With three PATA harddrives and a DVD writer I’ve been short on PATA slots on the mainboard [...]
Sucks. Really. Especially when used to encode content that could just as well have been done in plain XVID. H264 isn’t that common yet though. And I suppose the end result depends on the bells and whistles used when encoding. But imagine my surprise as I discovered first hand that I couldn’t play a movie [...]
I finally got around to buying a new computer case. After much anguish and deliberation I settled for the Gigabyte 3D Aurora, an aluminium tower model with a modern and balanced cooling solution. Three 120mm fans included but ships without PSU. Mindboggling CPU cooling, average HD cooling.
Perhaps I should offer a few pointers on the [...]
I just realized I’ve been running essentially the same computer system for three years now. I ordered my last graphics card, the ATI (Sapphire) Radeon 9700 128MB at 2003-01-13 and the other major components upgrade, including the ASUS A7N8X and Athlon XP 2100+, arriving on 2003-02-05. You know what that means, don’t you? Resistance is [...]
I’ve certainly lowered the bar when it comes to storage media. No more Verbatim per mail order. No more fiddling around with comparisons. The last couple of times I’ve just been picking up spindles at my local electronics outlet. Plain and simple. Right now I’m using TDK discs from the same place. Still, I’m curious, [...]
