The Brain Fart

Well, I got the new computer built back in August. I don’t have any benchmarks or anything like that, but this thing is blazing fast. It runs Battlefield 2, World War II Online: Battleground Europe, Company of Heroes, and Civ IV all without stutters or problems of any sort. Frame rates are amazing, compared to what they were before. On the old computer running a XFX 6800GT/256m on a PIV 2.53GHz CPU with 1GB of ram I would get maybe 20 – 30 FPS in Battleground Europe. Now I get anywhere from 35 to 205 FPS. Major improvement, though it’s not as stable as I would like. That has more to do with the game than my rig, though, I think. The lowest FPS is usually in highly populated battles, and usually when I’m also running Fraps or both accounts at the same time. And I can finally play Civ IV on a huge map with all 16 Civs at once. It does have a tendancy to pause for a few minutes after I click end turn after I’ve run the map for a few hours and have contacted all the other civs, but nothing like it used to be.

Now all I need to do is save up for the 30″ LCD monitor and my rig will be complete.

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In my job I talk to a lot of people who would be a lot happier if they had just read and understood their warranty. If you know ahead of time that your warranty does not cover shipping, then you avoid the heartache of calling us up and being told no when you ask us to pay for the shipping. Companies provide warranties for a reason, to protect themselves and the consumer by listing exactly what rights each party to the warranty has and what is expected of each in turn. (more…)

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Multifarious avenues of approach vie for attention as potential retorts to robnolan.net’s lewd harangues. With this letter, I hope to confront and reject all manifestations of statism. But first, I would like to make the following introductory remark: If I didn’t think robnolan.net would eavesdrop on all types of private conversations, I wouldn’t say that it has — not once, but several times — (more…)

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IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. (more…)

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On this date in 1970 at 12:25 AM I made my way from the warm darkness of my mother’s womb into the cold, harsh world. Hopefully it wil be at least 37 more years until I take the Great Dirt Nap.  Toss back a beer or three for me, will ya’?

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