The computer situation

Well, I was recently approached a friend (you will note his reply's to my blog under the name Deliveror) wanting a nifty little mod done to his Computer. What he had was an Antec Lanboy case and a Viewsonic 20.1" LCD screen and he wanted the two mounted together (the LCD on the non-windowed side of the cade for LAN parties and such). It sounded like too much fun to resist and i felt it would be pretty easy. SO i took the job and after addressing some potential issues with the idea we were in the fabrication mode. As of today i have all of the Bracketry made, Half of it is already installed and the other half should be by Thursday night (tomorrow). All in all i think it'll turn out very well! I was able to get the Mild Carbon Steel buffed out to very closely match the tone and appearance of the brushed aluminum. With some Meaty looking fastening hardware that looks pretty seriouse, and some very discrete brackets, i was also able to maintain most of the plastic coverings on the swivel mechanism that came with the LCD. The results should be a sexy looking gamng machine that is cool, quiet and completely mobile. Add the internal guts which He has chosen and this'll be one sweet machine. Meanwhile, i am still working on my own Machine. The DVD-rom came in Monday, The K8N Neo Platinum motherboard should (according to fedex tracking) be here today, and My Athlon 64 3400 Newcastle was reordered today and should be here by Friday (thanks to ZipZoomFly.com's free 2nd day air). I have already obtained the 2 512MB sticks of Kingston DDR400 that i'll be running, The case and power supply, the LED fans and rounded cables, the Z-Board and the 19" flatscreen monitor. All i have left to get is the Geforce 6800 Ultra and a good 800dpi optical mouse. I am so far right on schedule with my due date of May 1st to have the components, and May 31st to have everything running at top performance and ready for a Quakefest. I think we need to have The Codeweaver post a notice on www.Digitalloom.org for the fest, since Dave and I should both be suited to play by then. I just can't wait to see how this'll perform once it's all together and running smooth!! according to all of the research i have done, it should be a very nice system. Not the newest, not the most competitive, but still proven and stable and reliable and very capable.

I Love My Job

For those of you who may not know, I work at Barnes Bullets. I started out in the Ballistics Lab as a Lab Tech and progressivly worked my way in to my current position. I do still have full access to the facilities here at Barnes (which include a fully complimented Ballistics Lab, Access to hundreds of different propellents, a complete line of Barnes bullets in every caliber, Most of our compeditors bullets with the remaining only a phone call away, a 100 yard underground range, a 300 yard underground range, and countless resorces of information from the industry including SAAMI refference information). For anyone seeking loading information, either for Barnes Bullets or for any other bullet, please feel free to ask and i'll do what i can to get you the most up to date information. Otherwise, i work in the part of Barnes bullets you will not hear about until Next year. Basically, I get to play with about $800,000 worth of equipment and find out what it can do, how it can do it, and how we can make it better. Although there are a few people here that make working here a pain, Barnes is a great place to work. For those of you interested in Hunting or Shooting i would encourage you to visit the web site at www.Barnesbullets.com or, if you live close to the central Utah area, stop in for a tour M-F 8-5. Well that is my plug for the day, hey i should be paid for this. Maybe i'll just sit here for a minute and rack up a few minutes of me time. Thanks

My new Gaming machine

As i have mentioned i am building a gaming beast. Having ordered the case, HD's and some accessories a few weeks ago, i am now down to the biggest 3(ie. the Motherboard, processor and Graphics card). The processor was a bit of a tough desision. I finally decided on the AMD Athlon 64 3400+ with 1MB L2 cache because of it's high performance accross the board. For the motherboard i have chosen the MSI K8N Neo Platinum based on the scores of great reviews and many overclocking options integrated in the bios. I should be ordering the mobo tomorrow and the Processor is in the mail. I am planning on running 3 Kingston 512MB DDR DIMM's at a true 4ooMhz , based on the performance available from the onboard memory control. I have chosen the Nvidia GeForce 6800GT 256MB for a GC and should be able to buy that in April. I am very excited to see how it'll perform. This is the first cmputer i have ever built and it looks to be a nice one.

Alright i'll GO TO HELL!!!!!

Fine, due to the offline pestering of family and.....well just family, I have decided to tell you about the real me. I am not the Bore you read about in the introduction. I work at a place where i Manage the "special projects" divisions of a very competitive bullet manufacturer, where i have unlimited access to hundreds of firearms.
I am currently building a 4x4 beast to compete in the annual Utah Easter Jeep Safari. I am also building a fairly hardcore gaming computer which has tought me a bunch. I am also a Blacksmith, and i ain't talkin' horse shoes! I have built several knives and swords, Chainmail, and have plans to complete my plate armor. At any rate that is a crash course in me, the REAL me.
Bye for now

Introduction

Odds are that the only persons ever to read this will, undoubtably, be myself and perhaps my wife. Therefore, i am disinclined to go into detail on any subject. However, i have been wrong before and perhaps this will prove to be such an event. I live in Utah, which says a lot. I hunt, built things, and pretend to know more about computers than i actually do. I am generaly quiet and reserved, mostly taking the watch and listen approach when in groups larger that 2. I subscribe to Albert Einstein's ideas of "never memorizing anything you can look up". At any rate, I am kinda bored with this now so i'll go. If anyone would care to leave a message, i'll ......do stuff.....in.... responce.. :)
Later
Maximus_Manimal