Sometimes I think if it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all. I just took out my pampered, trusty Olympus C-5050 to take a couple shots of the PC project-in-progress and the studio. The camera is fuct. Smeared, distorted, noisy picture that looks the result of a bad CCD sensor. Camera worked fine the last I used it. I am pissed, and torn between trying to get it fixed and just sledgehammering the thing right here, right now. I can almost guarantee that the cost to fix it is the same as buying something equivalent today. It's a shame, since nothing I will find in this class nowadays will take multiple memory formats (especially type-II CF, which I have a couple Microdrives in addition to hoards of CF type-I cards I share with my little Canon S-230) and standard AA batteries. I've been jonesing for a D-SLR, so it looks like I will end up with one sooner than later. Too bad I am not made of money.
*sigh*
As far as the PC goes, it's seems so fast compared to everything I have used lately that it practically knows my next move. And I havent even begun to tune it for speed yet aside for some quick adjustments. One thing's for sure, it's gonna put the water cooling setup to good use once I set that up (everything is using the stock air cooling setups now). Launching one of the 3DMark benchmarking utilities makes everything heat up considerably while it flies through all the eye candy. Ironically, Futuremark released the latest version, 3DMark'06 today in time for me to play with it. The demand for the near-600MB download has brought all the servers and mirrors hosting it to a grinding halt, so it looks like I'll have to wait for killer graphics benchmarking goodness for another day.
In the meantime, here is the video of the song used in the 3DMark'05 closing credits. Crank your PC sound up for
Poets Of The Fall's Lift.
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