Thoughts Of Your Future Dictator

I converted one of my brother’s friends to Firebird today, his Java was being gay in IE. His reactions were so funny too.
“This is fast dude!”
“It kill popups!!!!!!!”
“THEMES!”
I must say it was funny. Enjoy Firebird Roberto!

My dad and I were talking about what we were going to do about new G5s. At first we were going to order new ones this by this weekend. As we thought about it more, these G5s are pretty expensive. And considering we won’t have Panther until the end of the year to take full advantage of the 64 bit chip, will my dual 1.25 G4 be faster? I also have to buy an external burner, since the thing has only *ONE* optical bay compared to two in my current tower. What about speed? How fast is this chip really? The tests they used to compare the G5 to the G4 were all things that would scream on the G5 (heavy math stuff i.e. Mathamatica). Will iChat be faster? Safari? Mail? The few games I have may not even work since they’re build for G4s. The only reason we would upgrade is because it would be a good time to do so. We’re taking the sit back and watch approach this time, we’re not going to get burnt. My dad even looked to see if we get a free upgrade to Panther and couldn’t find it anywhere, that worries me. For the money we’d spend for the new G5 for unproven performance and several downsides, I could upgrade to a 20″ LCD Wide-screen, which *would* be a clear upgrade. I was looking at graphics cards too. I was looking at upgrading from the value nVidia fx card to a Radeon 9800 but it costs 350 dollars (300 on the dual 2ghz system- it has a Radeon 9600). I was looking at upgrading because historically (other than the cube, which turned out to be a really good upgrade in the long run) I’ve taken the stock graphics card. Sure it’s great for the first few months where you can run the game at high everything and still never see sub 30 framerates, but then a next gen game comes out (like 2k3) and suddenly your computer chokes running it at Normal (The game hates outside levels on my computer card - other than Face3). And as I write this, I realize how little I care for games. Unless I can run it really well (like Wolfenstein) and never see frame lag, I don’t really care for it. UT2k3 is really nice looking and fun, but I can barely run that game at normal (I can’t run it on the cool outdoor levels and bots make it near uplayable). So if I even had a thought of getting a G5, it’d have to spend a few hundred dollars AND clutter up my desk even more with a CD burner, leaving me with NO space whatsoever. For me, I’m better off with what I have now than a new G5, maybe even the dual 2 ghz one. The loss of the 2nd optical bay is too much of a regression to me, I think I’ll pass until we have a *real* G5 with as many bays as Adam’s 500mhz MICRO ATX case (Smaller than the G5 case).

Updated for clarity

Well…today’s been another day. Didn’t do much today except clean out the basement. I found my Dad’s old bowling ball, so I may use that next time I got bowling. I finally got my firewall fixed to where I can let people connect to me so now I can host servers and the like. But if it isn’t one thing…it’s another. I tried hosting a UT2003 server today…and well…first I had a version mismatch..then I fix it. Then it tells me it can’t find a freakin’ file! So I dunno what im going to do. Guess I won’t be able to host a server until I can find it out. Ah well…perhaps i’ll post more later.

P.S. - Go amuse yourself with something shiny.

Peter Griffin: Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change

Busy day. Got another don’t do alcohol lecture in Being Physically Exhausted. Went to work, but forgot to bring some stuff, but got some things done that needed to get done. In the process of moving Outlook Express addresses to Mail.app, I finally found a way to move them to vCards, so that was really good. Brought one computer home to get some work done on since I ran out of time today. I was about to call and cancel an order for a Radeon 9000 (For a client to use Quartz Extreme) and my UT2K3 game, but the gfx card shipped and the game followed a few minutes later. They’ll be here tomorrow. Oh yeah, I was soo tired from last night’s bowling that I didn’t empty my pockets of my wallet and cell and my mom washed clothes this morning, she caught the wallet tho. The cell got washed….. and SURVIVED! I was like “HOLY *!!!!!!!” It works fine too. How friggin ironic, the thing can’t be stable enough for normal use, but extreme conditions and it still works, WTF! Sorry aboot the jaw Clay, enjoy your recovery with some UT ;-). Oh and FTP is up and working for those of us who have accounts (all of 7 people).

Quick Post: Mike was right about Zollo’s mom.