Computers (General): May 2007 Archives
Now that I think about it, I don't spend much time in my bedroom now that I have my computers in the other room. This doesn't afford me much access to my bookshelf that is almost totally dedicated to computer parts. I suppose I do manage to go in there when need a certain part, but I like to just gaze on the stuff sometimes. Just for kicks.
I suppose like many other 'things', this will get remedied when I move to my new place. The whole living room will be my computer/media room. It will be nice. Many things will be nice. Niiiicccceeee...
If you are in the know, you would have known about Seti@home being down for some time not too long ago. Well, they got everything back up about a week or less ago. Now my Gaming PC is happily chugging along doing some important work.
I won't be doing any scientific work when I start playing Half Life 2: Episode 1. Sadly, when I bought Half Life 2, it wasn't the package that came with Episode 1 with it. Nevertheless, it is cheap enough for me. Well, I ain't got much money at the moment. But I will have some to spare on games soon enough. I hope, at least.
I'm quite happy for my Newton lately. It finally has a useful schedule to keep. I actually have THINGS in there; not just a to-do list of things I would like done. Mind you, I don't use it for much aside from scheduling these days.
I do use it do some light web browsing every now and then, on the other hand. Sadly, its 1998-era (though high-end for at the time) technology does show its age sometimes. In order to give it an extra boost, I should learn to solder, in order to overclock the 160MHz StrongARM to around 220MHz. That does speed things up a bit but its is a somewhat difficult task for one such as me. I may get around to it eventually. No real rush. None at all.
Well, Powerlogix finally released a updated version of CPU Director to work with Apple's latest 10.4.9 update. So, I took the plunge and installed the update.
I did eventually get everything to working correctly again, after the customary 30-to-90-minutes session of reparing everything. Unlike the previous updates, I did have to reapply the PCI Extreme (to enable Quartz Extreme on my PCI video card) hack again. The CPU Director's extensions were also causing problems. Nothing a few restarts couldn't fix, though.
I'm worried, though. I fear that the next one, if there is, will be the 'BIG' one (ode to Sanford and Son). I don't want to end up one of those tales I hear about when a certain update completely hosed a machine. I won't let it happen.
I like my B&W G3 to be fully functional and I intend it to stay that way. Forever...
I can't wait to get my first paycheck. I can yet decide what to do with it, aside from saving some and paying some bills. I could probably spare a few dollars towards my technology 'fetish'. Maybe something for my Gaming PC, something for my 'ole Performa, or maybe something even for me Mac. Hmm, decisions.
