Recently in General Technology Category

   I got my new iPod Mini battery today (after ordering it 2 or 3 days ago). I actually have already installed it too and am in the process of making sure it is fully charged. Once I get that done, I'm going to see how it works in a 'field' test. Hopefully the battery should last for quite some time instead of the usual 10 to 30 minutes.
   The installation process was actually quite simple and didn't take very long at all. I may have to go back in there again to possibly replace the Microdrive with a compact flash replacement. Mind you, that depends on how much more life it has in it.

   My super-mega high capacity battery for my phone arrived straight from Hong Kong yesterday. I waited until today to plop it in there because I had to do a little sanding on my phones back to get it to close right. The battery isn't huge but it is a millimeter or so taller than the original. No biggie. It fits now.
   That should keep it going for a while longer. Now I just have to get a battery for my iPod Mini.

   Damn that noisy-ass fan in the my gaming PC. It does cool well when the rest of the case has good ventilation, though. Nevertheless, it is just too noisy. Thus, I have temporarily removed it. I plan on getting a better heatsink/fan combo soon. Until then, I've made a somewhat stop-gap solution to my cooling problem.
   By using my skills in shaping cardboard to my will (I have lots of boxes from things shipped to me) and in ghetto-rigging things, I have created this. While it cools a bit worse than the HO (high-output) fan did, it does so a hell of a lot quieter. I'm even sitting right next to it at the moment and it doesn't even bother me in the slightest.
   Plus, to complete the RICEd-up look I even plopped on a completely useless spoiler. Since many idiots think big spoilers make their slow-ass cars run faster, maybe it will make one or more of my case fans do the same. Who knows?
   Yea, I saw you looking at it with envy in your eyes. Well, you can't have it. Ha, ha, ha. You'll have to gather up your own cardboard and use your own staples and superglue to meld them together.
   Yes, it is a temporary solution. I don't plan on keeping my gaming PC looking like that.

   After observing my computer for some time, I decided to start keeping a log of its various faults. Don't get me wrong, my computer is getting a little 'long in the tooth', so to speak. Problems are bound to start occuring. Hell, its almost 6 years old now. Despite this, it proves to be as useable as ever, thanks to the various upgrades and such I have done. But enough of this.
   The whole point of this experiment is to see how many errors, including kernel panics, crop up over a period of a month. I've created a seperate page to hold this 'Problem Log' as well. There you can go to see what's going on.

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...