Sounds Sweet

I bought a new sound card on Thursday becuase the old one stoped working after I reinstalled everything. It was a shit $20 one, so good riddens. The new one is so awesome I cant even belive I put up with the shit that I did. Presenting the SoundBlaster Audigy 2 Value.

• It plays DVD-Audio (I pee'd a bit when listening to it for the first time)
• Dolby Digital EX (for DVD's)
  
• 7.1 surround sound (I only have 2 atm...)
• Digital Output (weeeeee)
  

The installation was pretty easy, just plug it in and run the software on the CD. Restart. Hey presto we have sound. its probably twice as big as the old card and doesnt have the old school game port... And it's black. The board is black, it looks pretty amazing. I would of liked to get the ZS (the next model up), but that was over my budget, but I would of got DTS, THX and gold plated connections.... Firstly I don't have and dont plan on getting THX speakers for my computer, secondy DTS may be technicly better, but I'm unlikely to hear the difference sitting next to my computer, which I like to call windy........ Gold connection would of been nice, considering I had to fork out $90 for the damn thing. It was worth it though.

The first thing I played was the DVD-Audio sample disc that came with it. The sweet awesomness that followed is hard to describe, its basicly a case of, no one can be told what it sounds like, you have to experiance for your self.... especialy since I mainly listen to mpthrees.

Over all everything sounds better, I can crank the fuck out of my speakers now and I get no distortion. Previously I thought it was the speakers topping out. But no, its the sound card was crap. Now I have no fear in turning it up. Games sound better, the "stereo" is just more distinct. Also there seem to be more notes in everything. Especialy down bellow and at the top. Espeicaly the bottom end, so many more notes. I thought the step up to a decent set of speakers made a huge difference, but now its just so much more complete. More variations....

Overall the sound card as it says, is good value. The main reason, is that you can play Dolby Digital and have a decent number of outputs for that 5.1 setup I intend on now buying. Plus you can play DVD-Audio. Not that I have any, but I'm sure in 5 years time this machine will still be going, probably as somekinda media center pc. Another thing is that there is less usage of the CPU now. Which means things are running faster because most the sound processing is done on the sound card unlike crapcard.

I dont think I will ever change from soundblasters ever again. My first sound card was a sound blaster. And for somereason I reasoned that a cheap sound card for this puter would be ok. Clearly it wasnt. But I was able to upgrade.

Blogging is hard work

I spend a bit of time on D-news, but in doing so I neglect the other sites. Which was not the purpose of spliting everything up. So tomorrow I will work on something cool for the other sites. This is espeicaly important as D-news is just recycling news already available... Again supposedly not the sold purpose of D-news, but this is what it has become.

Maybe because the camera is broken its hard to put up pictures, which for me would be 'easy' content. Something like drawing or the podcast is actually very hard.

Today the bus driver took some weird long way around the city, not sure why but he kinda overshot the turn and had to just go straight, so we ended up near central station... Its actually a nicer route in terms of better/cleaner buildings.

Hot Hot Hot

Today is nice and toasty, just the way I like it.

Had to go deliver some stuff on the northside today, which meant that we get to use the gateway bridge. Its now $2.40 each way, and somtimes you wonder if its worth it... I guess it cuts out an extra hour's worth of driving.

Anyway, I had to dodge one car which decided to stop on the side of the road. Another which was actually on the bridge, which took some manuvering considering the speed of some cars in the other 2 lanes. It was probably more becuase I didn't see it untill after the car in front of me had swearved out of the way, which was actually a really old limo with gliter and other decorative stuff glued to it, trying to entice you to vote for an Australian Idol contestant (dont know and dont care which one). And then on the way back coming into the old cleveland road exit someone decides to pull off the motorway just before the off ramp... again going at 100km/hr and having to break suddenly is NOT something you want to be doing when my mum is in the car as she screams. And for that breif moment you feel utterly depressed.

Other than that the trip was a perfect sucess.

Fridge

Fridge

Fridge

Fridge Magnet

Fridge Bucket

Fudge Bucket

Fucking Cunt Shit Fuck

Click Click Click

Correct: I am no longer 18 and I certainly don't have any bullets

But After I guess a week or so of depressing depression etc and just general moping around the house with nothing better to do, I have gone insane. I thought it would take longer, but luckily it happened sooner...

I believe it is time to eat a carrot.

Did you that rolling batteries in your hand is dangerous. I was doing this and it zapped me! I was shocked (thank me later...), not just literally but the fact that it did. I mean I wasn't touching both ends, and even if you do you don't get a shock, so I find this a bit weird. Now this has put me off handling batteries without some kinda protection. I guess rubber gloves would be a good choice, as they don't conduct electricity, but since I don't have any, I'm going to have to use garden variety (literally) leather gloves, which should also work in the same way.

Format

Its done. Something that I have waited to do for a year now. Format my Hard drive. And despite it taking 2 days (and counting...) it is/was worth it. Not only have I made the computer run smoother. I have reclaimed 25 gigs of wasted space. Thats right folks 25 big ones.

So that may not be entirely true as I still have about 6 gigs of personal files left to load back, which will put me just under 20. But that still means I have 30 gigs of free space... Which for me is amazing.

I thought it was time for a new hard drive, and still probably is, but now I can wait and save up a bit more for a bigger hard drive. However my sound card does not seem to work. So I do need to buy a new one of those ASAP! having to use my MP3 player for music isnt the best, as it sounds like crap on these speakers. It probably sounds crap on my headphones as well, but sitting on a bus you kinda dont care (it doesnt matter). This sound card only cost me $20, so I'm not exactly crying over its demise. Rather looking forward to some better sound quality. Especialy when watching DVD's, playing games and of course listening to music.

While I've been downloading drivers for various crap... I've been shopping around. Basicly I dont want to spend over $100. As the top end ones, which lots of shiney gold, THX, Firewire, Optical and DTS are in excess of $300. I have found 1 card thats in the $100 to $200, but considering its main purpose is going to be playing mp3's I doubt it will matter too much. However I dont want another crap sound card that:

1. Sounds Like crap
2. Breaks
3. Has no Drivers
4. Has no Drivers on the CD that work
5. Is so crap the Internet doesnt even have Drivers
6. [Generic Drivers for windows dont work for me for some reason]
7. Is a burden on the CPU
8. Sounds like crap

The format went relativly smoothly and from format to windows login was only 4 hours. I am not planning on Building a couple of disks with all the good stuff on them, so that I can get this kinda thing done withing a day.

Expensive Sub

On the trip to Toowomba we stoped at subway to get something to eat for bruch. Little did I know subway had increased their prices...

Consequently I have a $30 reference fee that my bank has charged me becuase of the declined transaction, as I didn't have enough money in my account to pay...

I plan on getting my money back... By sending them a strongly worded letter.

It's All Over

I have officialy had my last exam. On saturday. Financial Accounting Issues. Theres a lot to blog about so be prepared for the next 2 weeks... I feel excited to be able to finnaly wirte all of this down. Where to being no one knows... Maybe I should let the dice decide... (j/k (or did the dice tell me to lie?)) That and more...

Well firstly I feel sad. I feel sad that I will no longer be going to QUT. And only now do I realise how much of an awesome university it was. And I will miss it. Hopefully in the future I can vist it in doing my other studies. I guess when you to a place for a long period of time you get used to its surroundings. QUT is pretty easy to get used to, with the botanical gardens, south bank, goodwill bridge, city within 6 mins walk, hot women etc... Knowing people you dont know...

Most people are happy to leave. And no its not that I'm afraid to get a job, I already have a job remember, so its not like I'm adverse to working. In fact that would be great. Anyone who needs a graduate accoutant just send me an email to beancountingATgmail.com

Its a routine you get into. Catch a certain bus. Have a particular route mapped out for different times of the day so as not to get sunned on. If its raining you know where to get shelter. Where the cheapest coffee is located. Now I'm just going to be at home. Home is pretty comfy but, I prefer to be outside. Doing stuff. Being at home means you're either sick and lying in bed or are unemployed (possible a sickness as well). I've been at home for 4 days and I feel depressed. Maybe its the sadness of finishing something. I thought I would feel much happier. Considering all the sleep deprivation suffered. If I pass my subjects I guess thats when I will get closure.

Farewell

2000

OK. I'm technicly I'm half way, but really I'm only about a quater of the way through.

Which really sucks, becuase I have a headache and am really tired, and am not really looking forward to this evening. The night is young and I know once I get a few definitions through it will all start flowing

Ok, Well the FAI assignment is coming along well. Or as well as it can go. I am freaking tired. Last night the Hive rocked, but more on that another time...

I am coming to end of the assignment, but as it turns out most of my writting is all over the place so its gona take a bit of sorting out to get it to be more coherant etc. But Part 3, is actaully sort of well done. So I only need to finish that off. There are a few problems in terms of consistancy, sometimes making stuff up and reality clash, its a problem but I'm dealing with it

Day Three

FAI assignment is due tomorrow along with Tax planning... All is not well as the group seems not to know what to do. And no one seems to be doing any work...

As long as I can finish my part I will be at least guilt free enough to finnish my TP work.

Its also bad that we are over the page limit for the FAI assignment and we havent even finished...

Scary

Scary thing just happend to me. I normaly use the B Block coming labs becasue there are normaly machines actually available.. But because my lecuture is in Z block I decided to use the Z block labs. When I went to use my usb drive, it recognised it, but then went to NOT RESPONDING when I was trying to open my ASSIGNMENT!

AAARRRGGGHHH!!!

Suffice to say I was not pleased. I tried backing up the files but the usb kept dieing (going offline) Which ment files could not be transfered. Eventualy I just ran out of time and had to goto the lecutre, and just blamed the machines. Even though the machines are all the freaking same. Except for the mouse and keyboard. The B block mice and keyboard are much better (the KB they use in 24...)

However, I am back in the comfort of B block and all is well.

1823

This is just like in Quake when you try and rack up as many frags a possible.

But once you reach 10,000 its not really the same.

I guess the next target is really 100,000. But that would take ages... I mean if you think a game can last 5 mins for 20 kills. = 5000 games = 25,000 minuites, now I need a calculator to work out how many hours, but I'm pretty sure its a lot

416.66

= 17.36 days of continuous game play...

1700

I am now getting ever so close the magical 2000 words. Which should signify half way, but as I am working through this assignment its looking like 4000 word minimum really is a minimum.... I mean I'm barely into any of the technical stuff. Ok, so I know I can cut down some stuff. But considering 4000 is now not my target but something more arbitary, its actually kinda scary.

Boy is it cold in the computer labs today... and I'm wearing 2 layers of clothes (tshirt+shirt) which I like to call T-Shirt^2 [you know what I'm tring to say].

I've also been updating D-oodle and D-Postcard. So If you want to look at something rather than read, then head over there.

I will continue to ramble until Thursday evening when I will mentaly and physicly breakdown... Hopefully all that I will need is a nap. Could do with a nap right now actually...

I actually feel hungry, so I may go an get something to eat. Lecture is at 6. I dont suspect it will go for much longer than a half hour. so if I do wait I will have to wait till 7pm till I eat.

hmmm....


I don't think I can actually wait that long. I will go and get something to eat at 5:00pm NEAR THE BRIDGE {the secret code will be: cuecumber sandwich}


yeah, food, need, food, good,,,

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Wow. I'm on fire.


arrgh


help



hmm I've written about 300 words in 30 Min's.

I think that's pretty good. Considering I had to go to the loo. And of course I didn't go to the student one, but rather the 'special' clean one...

I have no idea why, but the clean toilets have about 7 cubicles and the dirty toilet has 2 and no urinal. That's right its like the girls toilet only with pee on the seats.

3 hours until my Company law "review" lecture, Which I have a feeling will only go for about 30 Min's... Which is not an entirely bad thing as I will then get some extra time to get over to The Hives gig and get some more of my assignment done. I guess my main focus for today really is the Tax planning assignment. So, that means I will have to spend most of tomorrow doing the financial accounting issues assignment.

hmmm, interesting... Looks like the choice has been made for me. Which means the more I get done now, the less I will have to do Thursday early early morning... I have a total of 3 hours at uni worth of breaks, so that time can be used filling in the reference's. And just tidying up the grammar.

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1111

I like that number, it means I have done some work in that past half hour and not just looking at online comics...

At a time like this wasting time should not be available, but its actually easier to procrastinate when you're under more stress/have deadlines. I dont know why... May I just dont care/have given up all hope finishing my assignments.


Oh dear..............................................................

Most of the stuff I have written is mainly general crap. So I don't think the 4000 word limit will really mean that much. But I think my estimation of me requiring 12 hours to do the assignment is a good one. I mean the GST assignment took me 18 hours straight to do it. Not forgetting I have another very large assignment due on the same day, so its not something I can do. Plus I don't want to get sick etc form having no sleep deprivation.