Thank you, thank you, and a questionSecond of all I want to thank all of you who commented on my last journal, I woke up the morning after I wrote it and was going to delete it, but to see all those wonderful comments, it really made me touched. Thank you!!
Third, I need a good, flexible and FREE website builder, since I just don't have the time to sit and do it all in notepad. I have a website that I want to get going and it will never ever be ready if I don't get my ass out of the wagon... (I don't know if that is an international expression, but it's a Swedish expression at least
)Please, recommend me one. I need to be able to make galleries for my art and photos, and a simple form mail.
I will be forever in your debt
Hope
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Darth Vader: "My son is with them."
Emperor Paplatine: "Are you sure?"
Darth Vader: "I have... felt him... my master."
Emperor Palpatine: "Strange that I have not..."
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I live, therefore I create.. and when creating is not an option.. living isn't either....
WOW. He is brave calling you by your Regelian name.
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The Bone Doctor
Walnut Hill Productions
Keavy, Kentucky
[link]
"It's all about the King of Instruments!"
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I live, therefore I create.. and when creating is not an option.. living isn't either....
Thanks much for the favourites on the Firedance series. There were going to be more but my machine overheated and crashed. It is getting old and will probably die soon.
The hard drives are failing and the north bridge fan is kaput and I have no money to fix stuff so when it dies, it is gone until I can build a new one. Until then, I will run it til it drops.
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The Bone Doctor
Walnut Hill Productions
Keavy, Kentucky
[link]
"It's all about the King of Instruments!"
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I live, therefore I create.. and when creating is not an option.. living isn't either....
When Delilah dies, there is none to replace her.Embla has the same problem. They are dinosaurs.
If I could afford to replace her, I could afford to fly over there. That is much more important to me.
I can always get another machine later but I can never find another you.
When I do replace her (if I do, that is...), it will be a rig named Spanky. Delila was constructed in 2002. She has lived a hard life and is terribly old now. It is a miracle he works at all.
I am slowly loosing interest in these beasts...
But... Every day, I love you more.
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The Bone Doctor
Walnut Hill Productions
Keavy, Kentucky
[link]
"It's all about the King of Instruments!"
.. of computers
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I live, therefore I create.. and when creating is not an option.. living isn't either....
The fortuitous thing about all this is that both Delilah and Embla are constructed inside future proof cases that have a long upgrade path ahead of them.
Both units have strong PSUs that can power the latest PCIe stuff and even the big commercial grade Xeon CPUs with their eight-way power plugs. Embla will be fitted with a much larger unit in the days ahead when her platform is replaced.
Delilah was built in 2002 as a W98SE 1.6GHz 256MB system. In 2004 she was upgraded to 2.4GHz and 512MB with WXPPro. It was at that time I went with an ATI Radeon 8500LE with 128MB at AGP 4X. In 2005 she got her third motherboard an 2GB of RAM, plus a 3GHz daul core CPU. The OS was upgraded to WS2K3ESP2. An TI 9650 with 256MB of RAM was installed. New hard disks were added for a total of four. In 2007 her HDD count was six, four WDs and 2 Seagates. In 2008 she was placed in a new super tower case with new ATAI's and more USB ports along with firewire. An ATI Radeon 1650 Pro with 512MB of RAM at AGP8X was fitted. A new 750watt PSU was added to give her extra juice.
Embla was built in 2008 from parts I had on hand except for ATAPIs and case with PSU. Once I had those items, she went together quickly without a hitch, but runs rather slow with her 1/6GHz CPU and humble 512MB of RAM. The video is an ATI Radeon 9550 with 256MB if RAM. The plan is to give Embla a total platform refit that will run W7Pro64. The mobo will be an all Intel X58 with a quad core LGA1366 CPU running at 3.2GHz. The video will be a Radeon 5870 dual link PCIe 16x with 2GB of DDR5. The 24GB of RAM on the mobo will live in six 4GB DIMMs running at DDR3 and 1600MHz. The eight 1TB WD hard drives and two Plextor Light Scribe optical drives will be SATA3s. No IDE drives will be on the system. However, the floppy and flash reader will remain in place. The optical drives will be blue ray burners. A 28inch LCD with Logitech Z2100 2.1 loudpeikers will round out the package including a new wireless Natural keyboard and trackball.
If the rebuild of Embla is a success and works as advertised, Delilah will get upgraded to similar technology, but based on the Xeon version running Server 2010 Enterprise 64. This will probably not happen until I get to Sweden and we are thoroughly settled in and stable. Until then, I have to keep these elderly rigs alive.
I love you so much it is incomprehensable by mere Earthlings...
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The Bone Doctor
Walnut Hill Productions
Keavy, Kentucky
[link]
"It's all about the King of Instruments!"
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