Archive for January, 2006

Update: FinalGear has the Bugatti Veyron Top Gear episode!

Monday, January 30th, 2006

33_Bugatti_Veyron_2405.jpgFinalGear has the Bugatti Veyron episode of Top Gear the one I mentioned earlier.

Man, now I want one again. Damn you, Interweb! Damn you all to hell!

Where no sim has ever gone before…

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

The Interweb occationally reminds me I haven’t seen everything before. In this case, someone used Star Trek: Next Generation sims, and had them make a music video to The Picard Song.

darcs-cia now available

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

I’ve finally finished the darcs-cia script, and put it up for download. This script allows darcs users to finally use CIA to track their commits. The repo is at http://www.shadowconflict.com/darcs/darcs-cia/.

Konica Minolta Has Logged Off

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

According to Engadget, Konica Minolta has quit the camera buisness, and are no longer producing cameras, digital cameras, film, or photo paper. Worse yet, they’ve sold their camera division to Sony. So, now, theres only two companies making higher end cameras… Canon and Nikon, and its obvious which side I’m on.

Finished Workstation

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Well, I’m finally done my workstation I think.

Before:
  • Intel Pentium 3 550
  • Asus P3B-F Motherboard
  • 256MB of PC100
  • 30GB IBM Deskstar
  • Sapphire Radeon 8500 128MB
  • ES1371
  • Lite-on 48/40/12x CD Burner
After:
  • AMD Sempron 2600+
  • MSI K8T800 Neo-V Motherboard
  • 2GB of DDR400
  • 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA
  • Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB
  • Audigy 2 ZS
  • Plextor PX-716A

In little under $1,000, I transformed my ancient decently performing computer, into a more modern decently performing computer. Actually, now I can play Homeworld 2 with the Point Defense System 7.0 mod and not run into slow downs with large battles, I can also compile larger programs with gcc in shorter time, and I can also render stuff in offline photorealistic 3D renderers faster.

So yeah, this will be my new workstation for the next two or three years, I think.