ericfaerber.com » Computer http://www.ericfaerber.com Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:02:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 WordCamp Utah http://www.ericfaerber.com/2008/09/07/wordcamp-utah/ http://www.ericfaerber.com/2008/09/07/wordcamp-utah/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:55:58 +0000 Eric http://www.ericfaerber.com/?p=186 A Utah WordCamp is coming up on September 27, 2008. I’m thinking of going. Only problem is that is the same day as the X96 Maverick Big Ass Show which I purchased tickets for. Who I was originally going to go with won’t be happening any more so now I need to decide whether to go rock out or be a nerd for a day.

If you are in the Utah area and would like to meet me then let me know. At this point I’m leaning towards going to Wordcamp since I want to get more involved in things like that and meet the creator of Wordpress. If atleast one person wants to meet me then I’ll forget about the Big Ass Show completely.

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The good news is now I get $150 rebate as well as the original $30 rebate that I got when I first purchased it. So it will now be $150 cheaper than I originally thought! Yay! So it was a good thing the CD/DVD drive died.

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  • AMD Turion™ 64 X2 TL-50 (1.6GHz)
  • 512 MB Memory (upto 4GB)
  • 100 GB (5400 rpm) hard drive
  • 8x DVD±R/RW drive with Double layer support and Light Scribe
  • 802.11b/g wireless
  • 10/100/1000mb ethernet
  • NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 video card
  • 14.1 in wide screen with Brightview or whatever that is called, 1280 x 800 Resolution
  • Windows XP Home Edition with SP2

That pretty much covers the basics. I want to upgrade the memory to atleast a GB, get a wireless mouse (I don’t like touchpads) and possibly a cooling pad. This will have to wait until my next paycheck though. I’m completely out of money

It looks very pretty. I like it a lot so far. I hope I don’t have any problems with it. It didn’t come with any system restore disks. You’re suppose to make those yourself and it was telling me it was going to take 15 CDs. Screw that. I can buy the discs online for about $16 so I think I’ll do that.

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I was hoping to get SuSE installed but I think my DVD drive is messed up. For some reason it will install the 32 bit version of SuSE just fine but not the 64 bit. I’m thinking that the 64 bit might be on the second layer of the DVD and the drive is having problems reading that layer. I’m thinking I’ll go buy another drive tomorrow to see if that fixes the problem. Hopefully it will.

I just love the frustrations of building/setting up a new computer ;)

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I could have had it all done today except the processor I bought from a local computer dealer was the wrong socket. It was a socket 754 when I need a socket 939. Something like this usually always happens to me. The local dealer didn’t have any of the socket 939 so he has to order one for me.

Enough about that, lets get on to the specs of the machine. If it wasn’t late, I would give you a link to all of the parts. I might add them later.

  • AMD Athlon 64 3000+
  • Two sticks of 256 MB DDR pc3200 (400mhz) RAM (I got two sticks of 256 because it was cheaper than buying one 512 MB stick)
  • 250 GB SATA hard drive
  • 128 MB Geforce FX 5200 video card
  • 12 x DVD ROM
  • 52×32x52 CD RW drive
  • Floppy drive
  • Mother board is a Chaintech S1689
  • To top it off, a silver window case with lots of blue LED lights in the case fans and the front of the case

On this machine I plan to partition the drive into two parts (I haven’t decided on what sizes). One partition I’ll install SuSE Linux which should be showing up soon. The other partion will hold Windows 2000 Profeesional so I can still play all of my games :D I’m hoping to start using Linux more than I use Windows.

On June 20th there will be some big EasyMOD news so everyone will want to head over to area51 on that day to find out what it is. I can’t say anything more until that day.

I’m tired so I’m going to go to bed. Good night.

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