June 2005 Archives

Hmm. A strange things has been happening recently. For a month or so, my blog and TM-Anime have been sharing one single counter. That counter was registering several hundred people a day visiting my sites.

Naturally, because I haven't updated TM-Anime with anything for some time now, I thought they were visiting my blog. Turns out that they weren't.

I'm still looking into the sudden increse of traffic going to TM-Anime. Weird.

Ah, sorry about taking so long to give a description of the new 'Picture of the Week'. It seems that I had it on my to-do list but it just got forgotten. Nevertheless, here goes.

This picture was taken at the end of my family's vacation at Panama City Beach. In fact, it was taken on the road home. If you can't tell, the car that is right in front of us is a Dodge Viper coupe. It stayed in front of us for some time.

Yes, that is a bonsai tree that I couldn't help but buy while I was down in Florida. I have it sitting on top of my computer desk where it gets a nice bit of sunlight.

Also, those feet you in see are the feet of Bu.

Well, that's what this can be thought of. Link to CNN. They pretty much ruled that a local government can take your house/business against your will for private economic development.

I'm pretty sure the only time a local government could even come close to doing that was for a public use; such as roads, schools, etc. I suppose America's economy is getting bad and they expect remedy it by granting themselves this sort of power. Hey, the former USSR had complete control over their economy and you saw how that turned out. Their success was especially evident when the Russian economy imploded in on itself.

The merger of the resources of 'ole TM-ANIME with the 'Gardens' is going good. I've already got most of the wallpapers moved overe here and I've almost completed the PHP script that will help you move through it.

I should have that all done by tomorrow though. I've just got to put the finishing touches on it.

This week's 'Picture of the Week' is a quick shot I took of my computer desk with its cold cathode's on. The quality of the shot was somewhat bad. It was just blurry mainly. Obviously, I had the camera's flash off to show the lighting effects.

One would usually put these 'cold cathode' lights in their PC in order to 'rice' it up, but I thought beyond the box. I'm currently using them as a more gentle means of providing light to my work, while not being too bright. I can write and read easily by it and thus the lights fit their purpose quite nicely.

If you notice in the picture, behind my monitor there is only a light on the left. I bought them in a set of two, but I needed one to light up my keyboard area. So, until I buy another set it is somewhat incomplete in nature. It still looks nice though, wouldn't you say?

In the constant need to wring all the performance I can from my 'ole B&W, I have further overclocked it. Over the weekend, I found out that holding Command & Option down while opening CPU Director was the key to unlocking more multiplyer settings.

The overclock from the stock 1GHz to 1.1GHz went well. I only hope that this overclock from 1.1 to 1.2GHz goes just as well. Hey, it may not be much but its more.

Ooooo. I was bebopping around on the internet and I came upon this little gem of a pci card:

Its a ram-disk pci card. It has 4 ddr ram slots that can except a total of 4GB of memory. It then treats this memory as a SATA drive. Obviously, using SATA avoids any compatibility problems from using a proprietary method.

If there are any 'ole Mac OS 9, otherwise known as Classic, users reading this ya'll know what a RAM disk is very well. When I ran OS 9 I used ramdisks quite a bit. I used 'em to keep my browser cache on and as my Photoshop scratch disk. They offered quite a bit of performance over my hard drive.

I'm pretty sure Gigabyte, the card's maker, is the one who also announced a dual-GPU Nvidia based video card not long ago. Brings back such fond memories of my Voodoo 5500.

Good days...

There have recently been rumors of Apple being in talks with Intel. Apparently, today C/Net released a story that pretty much said that Apple was dropping IBM and taking up Intel chips. Of course, all the PC people out there immediatly take this as meaning Apple is going x86 on us. As has been stated by many people already, Intel DOES NOT equal x86. In mine and many other people's opinions, to do such a change right now would spell an end to the Apple.

Of course this could also mean that Intel might be producing PowerPC-based processors. Heck, it might not even be processors. Intel does make other 'chips' besides processors, ya know.

Personally, I believe Apple ain't changing over to the x86-way of things anytime soon. If they somehow do though, I would prefer it was an AMD chip.