I still have a whole box of old joysticks for my Commie 64 just collecting dust in the attic. It's a shame that that the traditional stick is essentially gone from gaming these days. Right now the only modern application of the arcade-style joystick is for use in competitive fighting games (such as Tekken, Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter, Soul Calibur, etc..) Since I play these games daily, I have an array of various traditional arcade joysticks I've built myself or imported from different countries. Console pads are cool, however sticks offer precise full-hand and wrist articulation, whereas pad controls rely solely on the thumb.
I've been playing with my Asus Eee PC for the last week or so, spending most of my time trying to optimize WinXP on it. The problem is that after you install XP, about 90 XP HotFixes, DirectX,.NET Framework, and a 512MB page file.. you've already used up about 3GB. Stripping out non-essentials like System Restore helps, but once you throw on an app or two, you'll probably have XP screaming at you that you're running out of drive space on a 4GB drive. As a result, I had to offload the OS onto a 8GB SD card.
SD cards aren't cheap, and it will seriously offset the OLPC original price. If MS plans on getting XP w/ security HotFixes to fit onto 2GB with room to spare for adding apps, I figure they'll have to come out with a very stripped-down and feature-limited version of XP (sort of like what XPLite does).
Rambus CEO Geoff Tate said. "If today's decision is allowed to stand, all companies that innovate risk having their intellectual property rights unjustly expropriated."
I haven't tried AM radio, but I do have a FM radio about 5 feet away from it, and it hasn't affected the reception at all. Also, the TV that the computer is sitting on top of experiences no problems either. I thought I would have a lot of problems with heat disapation and magnetic interference, but so far nothing! =^,^=
Cool! Glad to see a company that is mass producing clear cases. Up until now, you have to shell out big bucks for a custom clear computer box. I bought my clear arcylic case from Clear-View Tech about a year ago, and they are friggin beautiful. I tweaked and customized the crap outta it since that time. When you have a killer box, you gotta have killer accessories.. =^,^=
Here is the page with the best pictures of my clear computer. The pictures are a bit old though, and were taken when I used to have a Celeron processor in it. Since that time, I've upgraded it with a Thunderbird.
But here is the page that is more recent (with the T-Bird and rounded cables) where my computer is integrated into my drumset/entertainment center. Much cooler! =~,^=
I have always been a huge fan of overclocking, not so much for the performance aspect, but more for the challenge. Sometimes I would pile as many as 11 fans into my case, round my IDE and SCSI ribbons, and pre-chill the air blowing in. However, these people take it a little bit more seriously than me, actually submerging their computer in some -57 degree C lovin'.
After building so many PCs, for myself (not that I really need them, but what else am I gonna spend my money on besides hookers and crack?), I was so sick of conventional beige boxes. As a weekend hobby, I started crunking out some case designs I've had swimming in the back of my head. If I invested so much time tricking out the insides of my PC, why should I neglect the asthetics? I bought the neon lights and thumbscrews I use from pcmods.com, they are a great company and ship your stuff out fast. Here are a couple of my modded cases I've designed:
Niteshade
This is a clear case design with plenty of fans, plenty of lights, and a silver crystal sculpture. Today I'm upgrading this one to a Thunderbird 1.3G.
Ryoko
Modeled after my favorite Tenchi Muyo anime character, this Linux server is probably going dual-processor in a week. Most of the hard work on this was using a steel jigsaw to cut out the window in the side panel. Printing and laquering some 60+ photos was the fun part!
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I still have a whole box of old joysticks for my Commie 64 just collecting dust in the attic. It's a shame that that the traditional stick is essentially gone from gaming these days. Right now the only modern application of the arcade-style joystick is for use in competitive fighting games (such as Tekken, Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter, Soul Calibur, etc..) Since I play these games daily, I have an array of various traditional arcade joysticks I've built myself or imported from different countries. Console pads are cool, however sticks offer precise full-hand and wrist articulation, whereas pad controls rely solely on the thumb.
I've been playing with my Asus Eee PC for the last week or so, spending most of my time trying to optimize WinXP on it. The problem is that after you install XP, about 90 XP HotFixes, DirectX, .NET Framework, and a 512MB page file.. you've already used up about 3GB. Stripping out non-essentials like System Restore helps, but once you throw on an app or two, you'll probably have XP screaming at you that you're running out of drive space on a 4GB drive. As a result, I had to offload the OS onto a 8GB SD card.
SD cards aren't cheap, and it will seriously offset the OLPC original price. If MS plans on getting XP w/ security HotFixes to fit onto 2GB with room to spare for adding apps, I figure they'll have to come out with a very stripped-down and feature-limited version of XP (sort of like what XPLite does).
Big League Chew shredded bubblegum killed my Vic-20. *sob*
Rambus CEO Geoff Tate said. "If today's decision is allowed to stand, all companies that innovate risk having their intellectual property rights unjustly expropriated."
Huh? Since when did the lead singer for Queensryche become the CEO of Rambus?!
I haven't tried AM radio, but I do have a FM radio about 5 feet away from it, and it hasn't affected the reception at all. Also, the TV that the computer is sitting on top of experiences no problems either. I thought I would have a lot of problems with heat disapation and magnetic interference, but so far nothing! =^,^=
Cool! Glad to see a company that is mass producing clear cases. Up until now, you have to shell out big bucks for a custom clear computer box. I bought my clear arcylic case from Clear-View Tech about a year ago, and they are friggin beautiful. I tweaked and customized the crap outta it since that time. When you have a killer box, you gotta have killer accessories.. =^,^=
Here is the page with the best pictures of my clear computer. The pictures are a bit old though, and were taken when I used to have a Celeron processor in it. Since that time, I've upgraded it with a Thunderbird.
But here is the page that is more recent (with the T-Bird and rounded cables) where my computer is integrated into my drumset/entertainment center. Much cooler! =~,^=
I have always been a huge fan of overclocking, not so much for the performance aspect, but more for the challenge. Sometimes I would pile as many as 11 fans into my case, round my IDE and SCSI ribbons, and pre-chill the air blowing in. However, these people take it a little bit more seriously than me, actually submerging their computer in some -57 degree C lovin'.
Fluorinert + Liquid Nitrogen + Dry Ice + Celeron533 = 1GHz CPU at -32 degrees C.
After building so many PCs, for myself (not that I really need them, but what else am I gonna spend my money on besides hookers and crack?), I was so sick of conventional beige boxes. As a weekend hobby, I started crunking out some case designs I've had swimming in the back of my head. If I invested so much time tricking out the insides of my PC, why should I neglect the asthetics? I bought the neon lights and thumbscrews I use from pcmods.com, they are a great company and ship your stuff out fast. Here are a couple of my modded cases I've designed:
Niteshade
This is a clear case design with plenty of fans, plenty of lights, and a silver crystal sculpture. Today I'm upgrading this one to a Thunderbird 1.3G.
Ryoko
Modeled after my favorite Tenchi Muyo anime character, this Linux server is probably going dual-processor in a week. Most of the hard work on this was using a steel jigsaw to cut out the window in the side panel. Printing and laquering some 60+ photos was the fun part!