Category Archives: Hardware

TradeMe and Trade Union Success

I’m on the verge of making $48 (or more) on my 6.4gb Maxtor HDD. I’m bidding on an item or two elsewhere, but I won’t tell you what those are till i’ve won or lost them 🙂

Also, today I went to union delegate training at my union at Dev-Zone, the Service and Food Workers Union. Yes, I do think this is a weird union for a web developer to be a part of, but the company is a service organisation, and I guess I do help out with IT support, and they have done a really good job of negotiating our contract, so I’m all go with them.
The training was to teach me how to be a better union delegate. I really had no idea of what it meant to be a union delegate, but I learnt that it means helping your fellow union brothers and sisters (my own words) with their work place issues, such as unfair treatment, dismissal issues, pay disputes and the like.

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Rant from Froot Salad

Here’s a tip for you when you are installing Windows XP on a new hard drive. Make sure it’s the only drive in the computer, otherwise XP will label your primary partition as E:. That’s whats happened to me, and there doesn’t seem to be any way for me to change it short of re-installing. Anyway, I recieved my new 120GB Seagate harddrive. It kicks. Can I interest anyone in a 6GB hard drive?

With my new hard drive installed, I’ve gone and installed Unreal Tournament 2003. If you haven’t played UT2k3 or it’s XBox counterpart Unreal Championship, you haven’t lived. And talking of 3D, UselessCreations has released a new version of their ever-so-popular Matrix Reloaded 3D screensaver. The new version is interactive; you can move the mouse to track around the code simulation. Also check out their Inside the Matrix screensaver,
featuring a low-polygon model of Neo flying round an infinite city of buildings which are dripping with the matrix code. Not as cool as the Matrix Reloaded 3D screensaver though.

Smileychris pointed me at Enhancer 017 for Winamp 2.x. As I had just installed Winamp and hadn’t yet turned on the Equaliser, installing this plugin instantly improved the quality of the sound output.

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I come bearing gigs!

Finally! I have 120 Gigabytes to call my own! I bought a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3120026A… 120GB, 7200rpm, 8.5 ms average seek time, Ultra ATA/100 interface with an 8MB cache…Mmmmm… It should be ultra fast and ultra quiet… I can’t wait to take this beast home and slap it in my machine. Unreal Tournament 2003 here I come!

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New Computer

Kodiak was selling his Athlon XP2000+ with 512mb RAM and GeForce4 Ti4200 64mb RAM, so I bought it off him for my AMD 900MHz with 256mb RAM and onboard video and NZ$800. No HDDs involved in the deal, but he threw in Unreal Tournament 2003 and Serious Sam 2. Nice deal huh? It’s my first real decent vidcard. Pity I don’t have any hard drive space to install UT2k3… I’m gonna need about 3GBs… time for a new drive methinks 🙂

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