One of my close friends bought me a cellphone when he heard about all the trouble I went through with the cellphone company recently. Alltel can suck on my white wang, those pretentious cocksucking assholes. Fuck them and fuck their service.
Anyway, here’s some screenshots of the modded software. Pictures of the phone will ensue tomorrow, likely.
So, I got an iPod Shuffle G2 today. It’s an extremely tiny little device!
Here are some comparisons to it to a quarter.
The audio quality is excellent and iTunes and Winamp both detect it without hassle. Talk about an excellent stocking stuffer!
Alrighty. Here are some pictures of the hard drive as well as the computer it’s in and its specifications.
First, we start off with a top view of the drive.
And then the bottom.
Here’s the computer and desk layout that will be used for most, if not all, of the components I may review.
The machine itself is as follows:
Kingwin SK-523BK
Antec TruePower 430
Lite-On SOHR-5238S 52x CD-RW
Sony DW-Q30A 16x DVD-RW
Abit AN8-Ultra
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
eVGA GeForce 7800GT
The performance results are in the previous post.
I’ve been pretty busy as of late with both classes and work, but I’ve had a chance to remote into my machine to get a couple of nice benchmarks for everyone to see. May as well pony up the goods!
As you can see, the performance is pretty nice, in all regards. CPU utilization is fairly low and raw read speeds are exceptional. Had these been even larger drives, I wouldn’t be surprised to see even higher speeds. In terms of read speed, these two drives are about on par with a 150GB Western Digital Raptor. Access times will always be higher, of course, but unless you’re running a computer in a server environment the gains will be minimal.
I should have some pictures of the drives themselves up pretty soon, so stay tuned! Unfortunately, they’re fairly plain. If you’ve seen one SATA drive, you’ve seen them all more or less. Raptor X excluded.
Today I ordered two Western Digital Caviar 250GB hard drives. Their features include a 16MB cache and 7200RPM spindle speed. Once I get them, I’ll post a comparison of those two drives in a RAID-0 array against my current 3 disk array. Hopefully I’ll get some nice performance out of the drives. My current configuration includes three 80GB Western Digital Caviar drives with 8MB caches and 7200RPM spindle speed. The areal density of the larger drives combined with the large cache should put performance at greater than my current configuration, despite there being three drives instead of two. We’ll see how things go!
Prognosis: Delicious.
Secondly, I’d like to talk about the new series airing on NBC called Heroes. So far, the series has captured quite a few viewers and has attracted the eyes of many into the comic scene. Unfortunately, there’s been a downside to all of this that manifests itself in a game I play called City of Heroes.
Though this new show has brought a lot of new blood, it’s also brought in a lot of idiocy and an assload of ignorance to the current playerbase. A few have proven to be good friends and excellent players, but the majority seem to be in it just to piss other people off and to act as moronic as humanly possible. I’ve seen the trend in many other video games, unfortunately. World of Warcraft, Star Wars Galaxies, et cetera. As soon as there’s hype about the general genera, morons flood the servers.
Fortunately, most of these morons go away after a week or so. Those who don’t seem to find one group and annoy them like a blood sucking mosquito that needs to be killed before they spread some sort of disease.
Oh, and I like Heroes. It’s awesome.
I’ve just nearly completed the configuration and setup of this new site of mine. Hopefully I’ll be able to have some pertinent information here and I’ll get things started smoothly.