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I must protest, I am not a merry man
Nov. 22nd, 2008 10:42 amOne thing that always happens when I get a nasty cold - my voice sounds like a combination of Barry White and Lt. Worf. When I called in sick yesterday my boss didnt know who it was at first. In this case conditions are perfect for a Klingon love poetry reading.
You know that laziness is the order of the day when one is expecting a package and instead of going to the door (or in my case, usually, the carport) to look if the package is there, simply refreshing the package tracking info on the website is the order of the day. "Delivered"? Woot. I had to go all the way to the carport though.
Merriment was had dropping the last bits into the megamonsterserver making it whole and real. An additional 4G of RAM and a Creative X-Fi Elite Pro soundcard and the thing sounds heavenly and runs like a scalded cheetah. The monster that is Vista 64bit is happy when well fed. I also picked up an Asus Xonar D1 sound card for the little PC that's currently sitting in for my digital audio workstation computer still waiting for my attention. I read good things about the Xonar sound card line, and was pleasantly surprised. On-board audio, while handy and cheap, pretty much sucks when attempting to use it for real serious audio work. Gone is the background ticks, buzzes and bleeps that marred the noise floor and the sweeping/whooshing that accompanied the music at very low volumes, replaced with clean audio throughout the full dynamic range and dead silence when nothing is being played. The Xonar was one of few cards that came in a low profile form factor with a corresponding bracket to mount the thing in the tiny case I have everything in. So, for the time being, there's some happiness in the sea of hacky, coughing, mucus-coated hell I am currently residing. QI'yaH!
You know that laziness is the order of the day when one is expecting a package and instead of going to the door (or in my case, usually, the carport) to look if the package is there, simply refreshing the package tracking info on the website is the order of the day. "Delivered"? Woot. I had to go all the way to the carport though.
Merriment was had dropping the last bits into the megamonsterserver making it whole and real. An additional 4G of RAM and a Creative X-Fi Elite Pro soundcard and the thing sounds heavenly and runs like a scalded cheetah. The monster that is Vista 64bit is happy when well fed. I also picked up an Asus Xonar D1 sound card for the little PC that's currently sitting in for my digital audio workstation computer still waiting for my attention. I read good things about the Xonar sound card line, and was pleasantly surprised. On-board audio, while handy and cheap, pretty much sucks when attempting to use it for real serious audio work. Gone is the background ticks, buzzes and bleeps that marred the noise floor and the sweeping/whooshing that accompanied the music at very low volumes, replaced with clean audio throughout the full dynamic range and dead silence when nothing is being played. The Xonar was one of few cards that came in a low profile form factor with a corresponding bracket to mount the thing in the tiny case I have everything in. So, for the time being, there's some happiness in the sea of hacky, coughing, mucus-coated hell I am currently residing. QI'yaH!
