Wow. I can feel this is gonna be a relatively long post. So, let's take the most recent, smaller things first - Today I decided to update my YouTube Channel layout, so I took an hour or two off and created some pretty good looking metal-ish fantasy GUI type of style, and it seems to work out quite nicely. You can, as always, check it out over at my channel: http://youtube.com/owminator
Beware though, I also set 'Worms: Retarded' - my latest masterpiece, to autoplay whenever the page is loaded. Hoping to record something similar to that again soon enough, maybe this time I'll have Lucas, one of my friends, jump on the wagon as well and have three people going apeshit during an incredibly stupid game of Worms. Yea. Basically, I had him over at my house yesterday.
We talked tech - mostly audio related stuff, such as the fact that he has an SM58 he can't use because he doesn't have a mixer, nor a mic stand, so I lend him my mutilated Blue Eyeball for the occasion of the previously discussed future video, but mostly what we did was trying yo set up and FTP server using this Frankencomputer:
I excuse the quality - I took it in an incredibly badly lit situation - like, 2 minutes ago. Yea. That's an old CRT stacked on top of ... 'The Doctor', as we labeled it. Talking about naming computers, here are two more we took a look at for a possible server candidate:
The one we picked is the best specced of the three, but more importantly, it has the far biggest harddrive - a 250 gb SATA one. Unfortunately, I got incredibly frustrated trying to set it up and get it to work properly. Yea. It still doesn't work. I tried a number of different programs, different IP's, different ports, pretty much everything I could think about as the potential problem at the time. I'll hook it up within the week and take another look at it.
In video 'news', I'm currently working on some GTA IV random comedically relieving compilation type of videos. Made two so far, first one set to launch when I hit 100 subsribers. Kind of a special 'gift'. I'm planning to keep making these types of videos, and hopefully, GTA V will have a video editor as powerful as the one in GTA IV at launch for the PC. Yea, it has been officially announced, trailer airing the second of November.
Honestly, my interest lies in Skyrim more than anything at the moment though.
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So, this is what my - almost - complete setup looks like right now:
It is as cool as it is Ghetto - Yes, I got an Eyefinity setup on those monitors - No - None of that paper touched my private parts, I'm quite simply having a terrible cold. So, there it is, the almost complete rig; The Kryo Kolossos.
The reason why it's not complete is... well, it's got 4 GB's of RAM installed. I have 8 GB, but my motherboard is screwed and basically does that ... stuff ... - referring to a post from the 9. of July. That was apparently not my graphics card, but rather my motherboard screwing around with my ram. It seems to work flawlessly with only 4 GB's of RAM installed. Hopefully by Christmas, I'll be able to upgrade the two oldest parts in my PC. The motherboard and the processor.
So far I'm settled on an i5 2500k and a decent motherboard to boot, since Bulldozer is a complete joke. Very disappointing, being that I'm kind of an AMD fan. I got my nifty microphone, the Shure Beta 57A setup behind the the pop filter over there to the left, with a Behringer Xenyx 802 mixer behind it. Damn I love having some professional gear by my side. That is the microphone I use for pretty much everything I do in terms of audio recording. If you're waiting for the specs of the whole rig, you'll have 'em now for the very end. So, thanks for reading - leave a comment if you please.
Specs:
AMD Athlon II X4 630 2.8 GHz
RipjawsX 4GB DDR3 1600 MHz RAM
ASUS M4A79XTD EVO
MSI Radeon HD 6870 Hawk Edition
Cooler Master Cosmos RC-1000 Case
Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler
Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM HDD
Samsung Writemaster DVD Writer
Corsair HX850w Modular Powersupply
Keelah Se'Lai - May Keelah Be With You.
