One Year Later With A Two Core Processor
It's good to see that
the machine I built last year still works great, though being the geek that I am (and seeing systems with quad-core
Phenom processors at the same price that I spent), the urge to have parts more up to date - such as a
GeForce 9600GT - is rearing its ugly head either despite or because of current financial issues.
In using the live CD for 64-bit Ubuntu Linux 8.04, I've learned just how incompatible things can be from 32-bit to 64-bit, experiencing difficulties in getting the wireless internet to stay up more than 2 minutes and finding that old C++ / C# executables won't run. For all the hype I've heard about 64-bit processors and operating systems being the norm in the next few years, this is not a good first impression. The only reason this experience wasn't a complete downer was the fact that this was Linux and not Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
Labels: announcements, posted in linux
Not Much To Talk About
You know, there should have been a post for last month, but I just couldn't get around to it, especially once those
Southern California Wildfires struck. At one point, I had half of my stuff packed into my car and was staying up all night ready to pack the other half if one of the fires had gotten any closer to the house. Even though the fire didn't come any closer, I still had my stuff in the car, and if I wasn't sleeping for a few hours at a time, I was slacking around when I should have been studying for a test or typing up a research paper. Not only was there no post for October, but no layout change either, and at this point, I'm even contemplating deleting this blog no later than the end of January if I can't make anything about it entertaining on a regular basis to the few visitors that drop by here, some of which are still searching for 'sixteen volts blog'.
In anticipation of some of the newer anime out this season, I recently finished
Nanoha StrikerS [while good, it doesn't beat season two, even with the battles against Cyb
organization XIII...I mean, the "
Numbers"],
Kanon (2006) [much better than the original from 2002, with happier endings all around], and
Ouran High School Host Club [way too cliche of an ending for me, and something of a chore to watch past one episode or another] to get some of the old stuff out of the way.
My PSP and DS have been somewhat neglected compared to World of Warcraft, though I have been getting back into
Phantom Hourglass (why I assumed I would need bombs to get into the second dungeon instead of just picking up the rocks on the way, I don't know, but it did keep me stuck for a while) and regularly playing
Tekken: Dark Resurrection (which doesn't help much if I still lose against nearly every human player).
One last thing to note here is that this is the first post in linux - specifically,
Ubuntu 7.10 - since the change from 'old' Blogger to 'new' Blogger almost a year ago. Though I did set up my system to dual boot with the master boot record on a floppy disk, this was replaced by installing a second hard drive.
Labels: anime, announcements, posted in linux, videogames
