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LOTRO

Rog is currently playing Lord of the Rings Online, along with friends from the Gloomy Bears on the Landroval server.

Harhm (Rog)
Nelgdorf (Nelg)
Nazrin (Michelle)
Pulltab (Lurch)
Gwendelen (Aife)
Ninhydran (Philip)

We will likely be joining a guild in-game soon.

Sat
12
Apr '08

Jealous snub from my old PC

Rog posted in

Pain and I were discussing the possibility of a new PC in the nearish future and it seems the talk of dual-cores and PCI-Express videocards made my aging P4 box jealous.

It gave me a big fat fuck off, BSOD-style. It took me awhile to figure out what the problem was, but when my PC is giving the 'ole blue screen of death not only in safe mode but during an attempt to reinstall Windows, well the reason is obvious: it hates me.

The upgrade path feels a bit forced, which steals some of the sweetness out of the deal, but it's hard to stay frustrated with a bright shiny new PC under your desk. I'll be doing the install-reboot-install-some-more dance for the next day or so.

For the curious, the specs on the new machine:

  • 3GHz Core 2 Duo (E8400).
  • Nvidia 8800 GT.
  • Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer.
  • ASUS P5K SE Motherboard.
  • 320gig SATA harddrive.
  • 2gigs of RAM (for XP, I won't bother with Vista, probably just leapfrog to Windows 7).

Seems pretty zippy so far.

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