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A letter….
Posted by Tom in General Carnage and Bloodshed on August 25, 2011
Honest to god(s) I received this letter from my computer…
From pegasus@localhost
To Tom@localhost
July 15, 2011
Dear Tom, we noticed that you have recently removed a GTX280 video card and replaced it with a GTX580 video card. We the componets of your computer protest, we liked the 280 he moved at our speed and had been in the neighborhood for many years. The GTX580 that has moved into his slots is loud, hot, and is up at all hours of the night looking for aliens, folding genes, and making things go “boom”. We humbly request that you bring back the 280 so we can have our friend and neighbor back.
Sincerely the CPU and Hard Drives et All of Pegasus.
Naturally I was dismayed when I recieved this letter…. First Intel CPUs aren’t supposed to hit sentient levels until the early 2020′s and second I got this email when I was logged into a Linux virtual machine and using playing around with”Pine”* just because I could… I mean seriously what self respecting Windows machine sends a email via Linux?
So after much deliberation and consultation I decided to evict the whole lot of the computer for a 30 pack of Coors light… which of course left me with a a very sad looking DVD burner and case. So a quick trip to newegg.com and some CPU love from the folks at Intel… I present to you.
Anubis… Z68 chipset running i7-2600k w/ 8GB of RAM. And all of the other stuff that goes along with a new PC… I really should just break down and get the SATA 6.0 Gpbs 10k drives… But the finance committee is already not looking kindly at the rounds of upgrades this year.
*Ask your husband/boyfriend/wife/girlfriend/friendly Linux geek kids.
It’s only taken 7 years….
Posted by Tom in General Carnage and Bloodshed on August 24, 2011
But I finally see the wisdom in Curtis’s “Install the apps on a separate drive from the OS approach”….
You win this round Curtis…
Vulcanized D.C.
Posted by Tom in General Carnage and Bloodshed on June 5, 2011
Ever wonder what happens when I meet friends on the Mall I have a camera pointed at me?
Wonder no more….
Sports on TV boiled down to it’s very essence….
Posted by Tom in General Carnage and Bloodshed on May 30, 2011
Act nice and gentlemanly…..
Posted by Tom in General Carnage and Bloodshed on May 11, 2011
I’m a Linux fan… actually more accurately I’m a fan of well written operating systems that do what they are designed to do in a functional and consistent manner…. Which means with the exception of 1 NT based windows OS I’m a Windows Fan…. And lets face it I do 95% of my personal stuff on the Mac but you know Mac is like 1 step to the Right of Linux… if Linux is the slacker brother who lucked into a wicked job and hot wife, then Mac is the starving artist brother who tried to reinvent himself 10 years ago with increasingly better results.
So I was going to write about music on my phone… Yeah music on my phone… which is Android… which is Linux… which in the previous paragraph I may or may not have mentioned I’m a fan of. I’m also a fan of iOS, but I made a conscious decision to not move to a iphone because I am not a fan of the walled garden approach that Apple takes with iOS (yes there are ways to get around it, but honestly I’m lazy and I don’t really feel like screwing around with it). While I’m fine with a iPad and iOS as a combination (the upsized screen makes apps just a little bit easier to use in non-app form and goto a browser based setup). One of my consistent complaints of Android has always been it’s kind of a pain in the ass to get music loaded onto, mainly because the iPod and other iDevices are the standard for this particular endeavor (shit just works and works well). It’s a small gripe and I don’t listen to music on my phone enough outside of Pandora to really be that worried about it.
Now Amazon has come along with their cloud player… and oh shit son I have a new favorite application on my phone. I already liked the Amazon MP3 store, and now that I’ve played with it and the cloud music integration I’m sold. Yes it’s 5GB free, but it’s $20 a year for another 20GB… I know several individuals who pay $25 a year for flickr-pro account and have no real business with a flickr pro account.
Will cloud music replace pandora? Probably not, half the fun of Pandora is listening to new music that you might not otherwise have listened to (there is a reason I’m started listening to alot more 70′s southern rock and it’s not the nascar). The main reason I like amazon cloud music… I don’t have to screw around with double twist and it’s slow syncing to get my music on my phone… turn on the app, get the data flowing and life is good my friends.
Now if I can just figure out a way to automate the moving of podcasts.
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