I was sitting at work on Friday morning. 10 o'clock in the AM, somethng came over me. I promptly grabbed my car keys and headed to a pharmacy in Errol Street. I bought a pack of nicotine patches. As of Saturday I haven't had a smoke. I'm proud of myself so far, but in all honestly, I don't know how much longer I can do it for. Statistically, ( Read more... )

FUCK! The price of computer parts is off the charts. GTX260 graphics cards are now around 450, up from ~340. CPU's have marked up hugely too, the CPU I just got was $238 bucks from MSY. MSY now lists it as 292.

I guess my plan of SLI 260's is on hiaitus...

On a lighter note, fuel is slowly going down...

Grim times for nerds.

Someone wanna buy me a Marshall JVM head and quadbox?

I've identified the culprit of my memory woes. it was the DIMM in slot one. It's fucked. I didn't even have to test extensively. Put other stick in slot one, works fine. Original stick back in, address corruption as far as the eye can see ( Read more... )

Right. So I've been getting strange BSODs as of late.

Turns out my RAM is fucked. Although, more testing is needed to verify that it is indeed one or more sticks of RAM and not the motherboard DIMM slots. Funny thing is Corsair memory should never fuck up and it was perfect when I got it. Now I run memtest for 30 seconds and it throws about four ( Read more... )

Great. My internet is capped. This bad for a few reasons. First, obviously, is that I can barely use the fucking internet. Secondly, Far Cry 2 comes out in a few days and I'll have no way of procuring it. Thirdly, Fallout 3 comes out on the 28th and, again, no way to procure it (I guess I can wait a few days ( Read more... )

Brand-spankin' new Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU thumping along at 4.39GHz from a stock speed of 3.16GHz. That's a 39% overclock.

Fuck yes.

I was with Christina the other night and she was holding my hands. She said "these hands will make great things." I hope she's right. Gave me some food for thought...

I just remembered, Carcass is this week!

Are tickets sold out?

Oh fuck why did I forget?

I want people to jam with! Guitarists, bassists, drummers. Hell, even sax players, cellists, whatever!

Time for a reality check. I've wasted the last three years. Well, wasted in terms of not gaining any qualifications, however I've learnt heaps in the field of computing and electronics. Having said that, it's back to school next year (FULL-FUCKING-TIME) to continue with Robotics and Mechatronics. I desperately want to be an engineer. I want to ( Read more... )