>6 installations later I have a working copy of Windows 7 with valid RAID, SATA, Chipset, Video, and Sound drivers. I was very careful this time, doing only one thing at a time and restarting after a change to confirm. I was a bit more cavileer when I was under the impression my errors could be undone. The restore feature was not able to handle the driver change for vital components so keep that in mind when you’re upgrading. Vista had similar problems, I wasn’t able to install it until SP1. My first step once getting SLi working was to…
Windows 7 – Don’t Rush It.
Windows 7 – Don’t Rush It. That’s a cautionary statement, a metaphor, and a realization. I had a LOT of issues with this installation and I’m not even at a point where I can benchmark. 3… maybe 4 installations at this point and I think I’ve finally got it. I put in another HD so I could avoid RAID issues and I still run into them. My motherboard has 10 SATA ports 4 on one SATA controller, 6 on nVidia SATA RAID. I avoided trying to bring over the RAID right away, instead having a single HD on the ontroller…
>Ghostbusters03
> Ghostbusters03Originally uploaded by z3rin Screenshots from Ghostbusters – Max Settings 2560 x 1600
Morgan Page – The Longest Road
Morgan Page – The Longest Road (WijiX Mix Respackled) I am not sure if this is Trance or Dance… so I’m calling it electronic.What do you think?
The Digg section has left the building.
Digg did away with it’s inline blog publishing, they only support Twitter and Facebook now. Go fig… actually pulling away from the “real” web (in my opinion). I think it’s far too easy to rely on the sites which write your page for you. Short simple posts make it so easy just to type a thought and leave it hanging, never to be fully explored. Facebook won’t even be seen by anyone if they don’t check today, and in some cases within the hour depending on your group of friends. In any case I’ve adapted this space for music, makes…
>Batman – Arkham Asylum DEMO
>Batman Arkham Asylum DEMO doesn’t launch correctly on 64 bit versions of Windows. You get an int32 error when launching which appears to be a misdeclared variable in the HTTP based launcher. The developers are aware of it but if you’re looking to play the DEMO now here’s a work around: You may need to change your INI files around a bit, I tried to crank it with a 10 for the quality and a 5 for the effects, I don’t like too much motion blur, I appreciate the cinematic effects but also like to see what’s going on even…
Gavin pt 1
Those 4 days went by slowly. I went to work on Monday but that night had Nicole feeling very anxious about the baby’s arrival. I worked from home on Tuesday expecting we’d be going in at any time but I worked through the entire day without much incident. Nicole was tired, very pregnant and a couple days past her due date so anything seemed like it could be the time. We went food shopping because we finally had to. We had been avoiding because we didn’t want things to spoil if we had the baby and didn’t get back to…
Baby Baby Baby (I Know I Drive You Crazy)
So the baby is on the way, 4 days until the due date. The baby’s room is finished, floor sanded, resealed, walls painted, and furnished. Nicole and I both wanted a braided rug as we both have fond memories of racing matchbox cards along the braids. It’s a built in racing track. I remember setting up my blocks in a track shape and using the braids as built in lanes. We settled on a nice braided cloth one from Thorndike Mills in Palmer. I’d say they’re the de facto manufacturer of braided rugs mainly because they are the only ones…
EVGA 295 GTX Co-Op Review
I received my EVGA 295 GTX Co-Op today and here are the results! 17:45 – Card installed, powered on18:00 – Drivers Updated, restarted21:06 – done with benchmarking Initial observations:Compared to the 280 GTX:– same length– feels heavier– a tad thinner Hardware installation included 2 devices (GTX 295)I left a 280 in there for strictly PhysX for now but going to do try benchmarks both with and without it on both cards. Test: -/+ for decreased / increased performance 3DMark Vantage (Ambient Occlusion: ON | PhysX: ON): +Score: 16209CPU: 33477Graphics: 13831 3DMark 2006 (Ambient Occlusion: ON | PhysX: ON): =Score: 13260SM…
Counting Down
The baby is coming in two months (give or take) and I’m feeling a bit… stressed?I’m excited for the actual situation, but how I’m going to turn everything around in that short of time is a bit daunting. I have until the beginning of July to finish everything for school. Once class is done and I think I’m in good shape there but the other one I’ve fallen quite a bit farther behind. I’m just starting on a paper that should have been done a week or two ago and I don’t even know where to start. We’ve got the…
>Peggle – for iPod!
>You may have played “Peggle” on PopCap before, but now you can get it on your iPod – I just found Peggle on iTunes for $4.99
Got an idea to pull in my twittering to the sidebar. I know it exists already but knd of looking forward to writing it myself. Javascript is like a baseball glove. My plan is to pull the whole page (unless there's an RSS) via javascript and then find the start tag of the twitted text and pull each consecutive line to a string until reaching the end tag. I could then adapt the script for a bunch of stuff.
‘Bad’ BitTorrent and Warez Sites Raided By Police
Just recently, the police in Hungary conducted raids on various torrent and warez sites, but few will have sympathy for those arrested. The site operators charged users for access via premium SMS, many of them unsuspecting kids. The police seized an impressive amount of equipment and also took some impressive photographs. read more | Digg Story
First Look: BioShock 2 Takes Bold Trip Back to
Who can wait?! read more | digg story *2012 04 24* The game was disappointing. Sure it brought you back but it felt the same… I’d rate it as a glorified DLC.
Here’s What A Card Skimmer Looks Like On An ATM
“A lot of you have been asking to see what a skimmer looks like before it’s yanked off an ATM. Are they easy to spot or virtually unnoticeable? Our reader Timeus works for a bank and deals with this sort of thing every day, and he sent in the following photos. Enjoy.” read more | digg story
Investigating Baby Mammoth
Before cutting into a newly discovered baby mammoth, scientists use modern technology to gather information. read more | digg story
>Swine Flu
>There’s a “swine flu pandemic” on the news, but the news has been looking for a good widespread disease to report on since mad cow. Bird Flu, Swine Flu… so far 150 cases of people actually dying from it. The (straight up, no frills) flu has killed over 15,000 this year and the swine flu makes the news. I don’t have the swine flu but I do have some odd type of sickness. I’ve been feverish for days with all the normal feverish stuff. I then take 1 ibuprofen, 200mg, and everything goes away. Normally when I have a bad…
>Randy Boyer’s New Track
>Randy Boyer just came out with a new track:Randy Boyer & Kristina Sky (ft Cari Golden) – No Limit – check it out if you’re a fan of trance / dance. I’ve also seen a couple remixes of his around like this one for darude. I originally heard about Randy Boyer from a friend at work, another fellow aspiring DJ he was impressed with Randy’s style of trance. He introduced me and I caught a show this winter at room 960 in the middle of a blizzard (which s the start to any great story in New England). It was…
>Baby Got (Music) Back
>Oh… so nice. I just re-downloaded much of the old music I had purchased off iTunes. iTunes finally went full DRM free – 256k, not the best but almost. 320k is the most you can get normally and most pop tunes won’t fill that bandwidth on VBR (variable bit rate – adjusts the size to fit how complicated the music is). In any case there were a lot of tracks I had lost when the mac harddrive originally went – I had backed it up but I hadn’t gotten them all. At the time Pepsi was doing their promotion. 1…
YouTube may not be free for much longer
Doubt this – it’s all about the video ads. What they’re claiming is true about advertisers doesn’t reflect the recent ads I saw for Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Amazon while watching the lego version on Youtube.”Do to its tremendous bandwidth costs — and relatively menial advertisement revenue — YouTube, owned by Google, is losing $500 million per year. Free internet video may become a relic soon enough.” ~ brought to you by Charter read more | digg story *2012 04 24* Still free…
Review: 2009 Nissan GT-R – MSN Autos
Nissan creates the perfect blend of performance and drivability. read more | digg story
Tom Brokaw’s Early Reports About the Internet
Vintage NBC News footage from 1994 and 1995 of Tom Brokaw reporting on the dawn of the internet. Includes interviews with Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt. “This new electronic world promises to have virtual shopping malls where you can roam from place to place and buy things at the click of a mouse” read more | digg story
Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People In The Face
Hot new game, Close Range. read more | digg story