Miniture Ferrari.

StreetFire.net has the video link

»April 23rd – »2008

AMD releases new Chipset.

AMD recently aquired ATI and the first progeny of that merger is a new chipset design from AMD. This will allow them to make platforms for Dell type machines, since manufactureres want stability AMD CPU, chipset, and an ATI Video will all be under the same development roof.

Articles on the 690 Core-Logic Chipset:
CNet News
PC World
X-Bit Labs

»March1st – »2007

Spring Cleaning, Blue Cathode .

Got a blue cold cathode for the case. I went to wire it, and my fans and case were dirty. So I douched the whole thing out. I've been doing the front grilles periodically. This time I did those and all the fans, the glass window, and everything else I could get at just short of a complete tear down.

»Feb20th – »2007

ProcessLibrary.com Utility.

ProcessLibrary.com has released a free scanning utility. While having problems with my X-Fi card last night as part of the trouble shooting process I had to reload drivers. Of course with any installation there's some bloated programs placed in the start up. When I when to the taskmanager to check them, I ran a few of the through the ProccessLibrary.com's search. At that point I noticed a link to their new scanner.

Process Scanner

It takes a few minutes but breaks down all your running programs, DLLs, and services. The scanner then produces an HTML webpage break down and rates each item. Safe, Unknown, or other. There's a clickable link for each to information about any of the items it sorts. Quite handy and better then typing in the names of files, DLLs, and processes maunally.

»Jan18th – »2007

Bought a New Plasma TV.

After some fairly extensive research and some hemming and hawing over the price, I decided to by a plasma TV. I first decided to take the leap when 42" models were hovring at $2300.00. I'm glad I waited for a while and that Sears wasn't able to up my card limit on sight (loss of sales for them). I had narrowed the feild down to an LG or Samsung. Then I noticed a very aggresively priced Hewlitt Packard. $1600.00 for a 50inch Plasma. I looked and looked, and compared some more and decided to by the HP. It has a 2D combfilter that produces a "grainier" picture the the more advanced 3D combfilters. That is essentially the largest and most contributing factor to the price difference. Normally at $2300.00 I would choose a similarly priced LG (even the $2600.00 model) over the HP. But at $1600.00 the slightly grainier picture becomes less an issue. If 1080p technology becomes affordable and the standard in 2-3 years I won't be too mad if this TV ended up in the den, wall mounted.

The first one came defective from BestBuy, and had to be exchanged for a new TV. But after that it's been clear sailing. I had a new HD dish and Sattelite receiver installed yesterday and couldn't be happier.

Hewlett-Packard PL5060N

»Jan18th – »2007

Pictures of Noodle's Nitro RC Truck.

Went out with Noodles today and we drove his new gaspowered RC truck around. Quite fun , we took some video of it doing jumps and rooster tails and other various things. It's a fast and it's pretty damn rugid. He's got Pixella and another editing program. We're going to use the footage we got today and put together a mpeg of some of the best stuff. Put a music sound track to it along with some text.

»Dec20th – »2006

Noodles get's back into RCs.

Noodles dug out his older RC car to get it going again. When searching for parts he found the car is fairly rare and sought after by racing enthusiasts. Calling around looking for parts he came across a potential buyer who owns an RC Shop. He offered the Noodle a straight trade on something in his shop. Rather then keep the car and be searching for parts online, he's opting to trade it for something new that has parts readily available in the area.

He's boiled it down to one of 3 vehicles, and will be making his choice soon. Right now the front runner is a REVO 3.3.

»Dec2nd – »2006

New Sockets and DX 10.

After building in April of 2006 you can be assured I knew it was bad timing. But I couldn't wait and the newer techology was too far into the future for me to wait. CoreDuo and DX10 cards are just appearing on the market now. I could care less about DX10 cards, gaming applications are too far off to get one now. The lastest in this rush to sell something that isn't going to be utelized is the 8800 series from Nvidia.

»Nov15th – »2006