Thursday, August 23, 2007
Hardware Giveaway Round 1
Copy and paste what you want into a reply. First come first serve.....It all gets thrown away if no one wants it.
MEMORY: (Most Questionably good)
(2) 256 PC2100 desktop ram
(1) 128mb pc2100 laptop memory stick
(1) 256mb pc2100 laptop ram
(1) 512mb pc3200 ddr ram (known good)
(1) 512mb ddr2-667 laptop ram (known good)
(1) 64mb of pc100 desktop ram
(1) 32mb of pc100 desktop ram
PROCESSORS:
(1) Intel Celeron Socket-Type 800MHz
(1) AMD Am486 (for old times sake)
DRIVES:
(1) 3.5" Internal Zip100 Drive w/3 discs
(2) 3.5" Internal Floppy Drives
(1) 5.5" Internal DVD Rom (8x?)
(1) USB External Floppy Drive
(2) Hot-Swappable IDE Cages
PCI / AGP / ISA CARDS:
(1) PCI ATI Rage IIC Video Card
(1) PCI ATI TV Tuner (only the composite-in works)
(1) PCI Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Sound Card
(1) PCI Maxtor PATA133 Controller
(1) PCI PATA Controller (speed unknown)
(1) PCI 56k Modem
(1) AGP Voodoo 3 (16MB?)
(1) AGP 8x Radeon 9700pro (needs new fan)
(1) ISA Sound Card
NETWORKING:
(1) PCI Gigabit NIC
(6) PCI 10/100 NICs (a few might just be 10)
(2) ISA NICs
(2) USB NICs
(2) PCMCIA NICs (1 w/Driver floppy)
KEYBOARD / VIDEO / MICE:
(4) PS/2 Scroll Mice
(1) Wacom USB Tablet w/Pen and Mouse
(6) PS/2 Keyboards (1 backlit) all wired
(2) Unpowered 4-Computer VGA/PS2 KVM Switch
(2) VGA Monitor Male-Male Cable (KVM)
(6) PS/2 Male-Male (KVM)
(2) KVM Cables (ps2 keyboard video and ps2 mouse in one cable)
CABLING / ADAPTERS / ETC:
Legacy:
(1) 9 pin to 25 pin Serial port adapter
(2) Serial to PS/2 port (i think)
(1) AT to PS/2 port
(3) ATA 66 IDE Cables
Audio/Visual:
(2) Headphone port to RCA Mono
(1) RCA to headphone adapter
USB or Firewire:
(1) USB to PS/2 port (for a usb mouse)
(3) USB A/B Cable
(1) USB to Mini USB Cable
(2) USB Extension Cables
(1) USB laptop LED keyboard light (clips to laptop screen)
(1) Firewire Cable
iPod Stuff:
(2) Firewire iPod Charging Cable
(1) 3G iPod Dock
(1) 3G iPod Firewire Charger
(1) Remote control for 3G iPod
(1) Griffin iTrip for 3G iPod
Random Cables:
(1) VGA Splitter (Mirror Monitors)
(1) VGA Monitor Male-Female (Extension Cable)
(1) PS/2 Male-Female (Extension Cable)
(5) Phone Cables
(1) Phone splitter
MISC:
A lot of cheap thumbscrews
(1) Arctic Silver 3
(1) 20mA Blue LED
(1) 20mA White LED
(1) 16mb SD Card
(1) 16mb CompactFlash Card
(1) Case Fan (think it has blue LEDs)
(1) Biohazard Case Fan Cover
(1) Serial TI-GraphLink
(1) Plantronics Headphone/Sound card thing
Saturday, August 11, 2007
To MEI and beyond!
I passed the checkride to become a multi-engine flight instructor today. It was a little bit difficult. I was asked to teach the fuel system on the Piper Seminole. I wasn't totally prepared for that but I came up with a decent lesson pretty much on the fly. We then did our flight. We needed to get up pretty high to about 5500 feet. The clouds were sitting at 5000 and pretty heavy so we were climbing in and out of them until we got to a good straightaway. It was very hot in the airplane... Thats what I remember the most. Anyways, I should be able to get quite a bit of multi engine time and get on with my flying career at American Eagle soon!
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Apple update and new iMacs
The new iMacs look pretty cool. I'm not a fan of the glossy screen but I guess the one on Alison's macbook isn't bad. I would never get an iMac because you can hardly upgrade it, but it is interesting to see the new design as it will probably resonate into the other products. I was disappointed that they didn't release an ultraportable mbp, but I will keep using my current mbp and wishing. A lot of people thought the 6G ipods would come out today too, but looking at it more objectively, they will most likely wait until the "buy a mac and get free ipod" deal is over in sept.
I am thinking of selling all my computer parts and buying a mac pro for gaming. I would like the mac desktop plus my computer isn't great for gaming as it is. Instead of shelling out the moneys for new mobo, ram, vid card, processor, etc... The mac pro isn't that much more and would last for longer. Course, I'd wait for Leopard and the hardware refresh.. It's still just an idea at this point.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Quakecon 07
Didn’t really make any posts about Quakecon this year but I went. I find that every quakecon is pretty different for me. I think it’s all about the company. In 05 it was out first year and everyone was really excited to do it. It was a huge year for qcon with about 3000 people in the BYOC. Quakecon 06 was the opposite. It was announced at the last minute and so none of my friends could go. Of course, I was already in Dallas so taking the time to go was not hard at all. I talked to Schultz some but mostly I was lonely.
Now Quakecon 07 was a good year again. Being that it was announced in February, I really thought people would be able to go and it would be awesome, but only Will was awesome. We picked him up on the way and it was good to see him again. Also Alison is in Dallas now! So I get to see her again. It was hard only seeing her on weekends and it’s even harder going months between visits now. So I split up my time seeing her and going to the con. So I spent less time at quakecon this year but enjoyed the whole trip a lot more. Alison thought that she was stealing my qcon time and was sad but that wasn’t true. I know I could have spent more time at the anatole, but I wanted to see her too. I’m not sad that I spent my qcon time with alison, but maybe I am sad that I didn’t have enough time go to quakecon and see her as much as I wanted to. Although, I don’t ever really want to leave when I see her so maybe that’s impossible.
Anyways, back to the con. It was more like 05 in terms of size but not quite as big. Quake 4 was the big game last year which I wasn’t in to. So this year is Quakewars! I sure do love that Valley map. 3 days of playing the same damn map over and over again… So I ran around like a noob for a day before really getting into it. It seems exactly like Battlefield 2. Wolf:ET was great because there were a few classes but you could have a really good time with few players. Quakewars is different….there’s a hell of a lot of different player options and about 1 billion different ways to kill each other. It’s a lot more like Battlefield 2 - it you’re not in a vehicle you’re pretty much sniped or artillery’ed. And the strogg overpower the humans in every class, so you’ll pretty much only have fun if you’re strogg. I got to play some instagib and I didn’t win this year! I’m slacking…
We went to Logans Roadhouse to finish off the trip and it was really good. Just like I remembered! I had a great time down there this year.