MonkeyPhish

so, my computer took a mighty shit. this occurs also less than a week after my laptop's motherboard took a shit. so.. after i moved into my new crib, i set all my computer shit up, turn it on and it works normally. i decide to format with a fresh install of xp sp2 since i haven't done so in over a year. i boot off the xp disc, dump the partition, create the new partition, and format. windows starts copying files. then it reboots to enter windows setup. right as it boots, windows comes up with an error: "hal.dll is missing or corrupted." i look this info up online and find out that hal.dll stands for Hardware Abstraction Layer, which is basically a file that prevents any outside programs from accessing the hardware remotely. lovely, i think. this error could be caused by numerous things. i check my memory, hdds, etc. and nothing seems to be bad. fuck. so i take my computer to my buddy's work who has a test bench and a bunch of test hardware. i start swapping shit out, to no avail. i am at the point where it's either the motherboard or cpu. i take a flashlight and upon close inspection of the motherboard, i realize it has a blown capacitor near the cpu that had been leaking brown fluid and is now rusted. well shit. thankfully, my friend 's store has a closeout section and i managed to find a new intel 850 board that supports rdram. i go home to install it, and realize that there is no fan/heatsink mounting bracket on the board. fuck, it's too late. so today after work i am gonna go pick up the bracket and install the board, hopefully with success. it sucks when both of your computers die in a week. i'm pretty sure that it was just god telling me that it is time to upgrade. so this new intel board will just be something to tide me over until this holiday season, when i plan to invest in a full system upgrade consisting of the new intel core duo. i just miss having my music collection.

other than that, not much is going on. i am at work with 2 hours left to go for the day. it's a beautiful day outside. high 70's, sunny with some clouds in the sky. and breezy. i'm gonna pick up dead rising for the 360 and spend tonight killing zombies and wrecking my brain with tons of thc. satan curse you all.

Posted by crazyfoo at 02:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

i will enjoy life for a bit longer, i guess.

technology makes me so happy, sometimes. god.. i love being an american and getting temporarily satisfied from buying material posessions.

Posted by crazyfoo at 08:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

my new found respect for apple's mobile solutions is limited. laptops are one thing. intel mobile technology (god please let apple use merom - the ball busting new mobile platform that will murder amd) plus apple's good looks and charm can put a smile on anyone's face. did i mention back lit keyboard? yea.. the only thing that would make me complete as a person would be to have a black intel powerbook. god.

but anyway, with that said, i will never in my life own an apple desktop system. if heaven and hell collide and form some type of universal facist regime that only allows people to use apple computers, i'll simply stop being a geek/nerd/generally cool guy and go into gay pornography. "but gard, why be so harsh?" fuck you.

it's ideas like the "mighty mouse" that really piss me off. why the fuck is apple such a stupid company when it comes to shit like this? have you seen this devil contraption? most people know apple uses the insanely stupid single button mouse. what a piece of shit. finally they came out of their shoebox and said, "hey! 99.9% of the free world uses multiple button mice cause they're so much better! let's create a two button mouse." okay. the thought is noble. the physical unit is, in my professional opinion, lacking anything logical. first and foremost, why stay behind the times with two buttons? right now i'm using a logitech mx1000 with ten buttons. it fucking rules. also very obvious is the fact that this pile of mouse shit still has the same design -- it looks like the retarded one button. genius! it's like that sprite commercial that tries to parody (and fails) the "pimp my ride" genre of television shows by customizing the interior of a car while leaving the exterior untouched. that makes no sense. whatsoever. fuck you for being so stupid, apple. also, there still is no scroll wheel. instead, in an attempt to be sophisticated and inventive, there's a little touch sensitive nub that makes you makes you wonder why apple hires pedophile designers. another "feature" are the side buttons. my logitech mouse has three thumb buttons that all function separate of each other and rock my world. the "mighty mouse" design has two buttons, one on each side, that must be clicked together to form one action. oh my god. fucking christ, apple.

i just don't know what to say. i'm glad my parents bought me a pc back in the day. who knows what kind of brainwashing the macintosh computers would have put me through .. it's my opinion that an aid group should be formed for apple desktop users.

and don't get me started on xserver ...

Posted by soundgard at 05:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

in the past i've always used abit and gigabyte in my home machine. they're good names with an enthusiast edge involving features and overall value. as an administrator, however, i always went with the lower end budget for office application workstations. ecs, biostar, foxconn and the like. recently ecs had an editor's day in california and spotlighted some new concepts they're moving to for the "new" ecs. anandtech has a really nice article on this as one of their editors was invited to this conference. one thing that really stood out for me was the scalable dual graphics engines (S.D.G.E.). with ecs making an attempt to move up to the enthusiast market with "extreme" boards, they've also created this crossover platform for use in intel and amd configurations. quoting anandtech, "The basic idea of ECS S.D.G.E. is that you can start with a low-cost ($65 to $70) dual x16 PCIe motherboard for either an AMD or Intel processor. At some later point, when you can afford it, you can add an S.D.G.E. card for $30 to $35. With the long SDGE card added, your motherboard can now support a second video card in SLI/Crossfire type mode."

that sounds pretty awesome and with the new intel lineup coming out next year .. which is going to stomp the fucking shit out of amd cause intel is king (check out the developer's forum from a few weeks ago) .. i'll want to upgrade and do it with a limited budget. s.d.g.e sounds promising.

Posted by soundgard at 04:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)