well, i sort of promised myself that i'd make my first new post at home on my new computer. and thus i am doing so!
So far, daedalus is a beast. only three problems effaced my making of the glory that is this computer. first, and most worrisome of all of my problems, was the missing box that contained my two 120 gig hard drives, my dvdrw drive, and the precious Radeon 9800pro. holy shit...i was the least bit worried as this nearly 500 dollar box was missing. After finding the box [slightly hidden under another miscelaneous box], i pieced everything together. the wiring is a bit...complicated, to say the least. then, well, i was looking at all the connections and noted the temperature probe was not yet connected [and in fact still isn't]. a warning floats ever so nicely next to the tape used to place it on some random software: "do not use with pentium 4 chips". now, fuck! that was my intention...so i either will get the nerve up to ask thermaltake if they just screwed up on the tech scripts there or if they are really serious about this whole "only on shitty computers" deal. if so, i'm going to end up putting the probe on the radeon 9800...sad, but true...anyway, that's two of the problems. after checking all the connections twice, i powered it up. nothing went wrong at all. i checked into the bios and all that old stuff. decided to go with a non-raid set up as i do have capabilities to back up stuff as much as i like with dvd's and cd's. i placed the ill-famed windows xp on the computer...and once again, everything went without a hitch. then...well, i was looking at the specs on the computer and got to thinking "damn...i only have 1 hard drive...wtf!?!?" so, it took me a while and a bit of random clicking on things [this is how things are typically accomplished in windows], and eventually i got to dedicate drive number two on the computer, this one partitioned in a 80/40 manner...perhaps 80 for random files and 40 for some random version of linux when i get bored with playing with my current configuration.
anyway, those were the three significant problems. then i just had some sort of relapse on how to make up a mock-network to shove data from my laptop to daedalus. but now, neigh everything is perfect with this machine, and i am more than pleased. i am enthralled. i dunno....i'm too much of a tool to give a care on what people would think if they heard that it actually made me happy to build this computer, but hey! they should learn to appreciate things such as this...y'know, nerds doing dumb shit with things just for the hell of it. that would be me...
so anyway, i haven't wrote in this thing for a hell of a long time. the saturday before finals week was pike day. quite possibly the most fun i've had in a long time, especially in one day. we went to see some indy car practice trials and then to a park. ate and played games there [frisby, kites, other stuff....too tired to type about it]. then we went to a ball game at freedom field [or something like that]. it was awesome. saw and met a bunch of alumns there. it was definitely a blast...
finals went ok...i think i did well on all of them, but that doesn't mean i got a's in all my classes. i'm pretty sure that i didn't get an a in spanish 6, but i will deal with it. hell...even if i did, it's not like i'm dependent on getting a 4.0. my family thinks that i am, but i don't. i'd rather live a little than jsut do school. hell...school is boring without the people. and school is even more fun when you don't do everything school...
hmm...aside from that, i don't know what to say. so instead, i'll post specs on my computer!
Thermaltake VM2420 case ... [yes, somewhat "lan-ified", but it works]
ViewSonic 17" VP171b LCD screen
Northwood series 3.2 GHz P4
1 GB of Corsair XMS 3200 ram [2 dimms]
2 120 GB SATA Samsung Hard drives
1 CDRW combo drive
1 DVDrw drive
ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe MB
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
so, i'm audi. i have to...do stuff!