Attempting to spend more than an hour or two on a scene and having DAZ Studio hang, pause, lock, and jerk its way through simple I figured its time for an upgrade.

And get back into high end gaming with all those yummy games out there and perhaps... actually enjoy all the graphical eye candy game developers want their audiences to enjoy.

And perhaps have a more pleasant time on the Luskwood platform without freeze frame like motion with more than 10 avatars on the platform...

Current system: SARA-CRUZ
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ ~ 2.0ghz
MSI K8T Neo-V mainboard
2gb PNY RAM
BFG GeForce 7600GS 512mb
SoundBlaster X-Fi
500 watt Rosewill PSU
500gb Western Digital IDE HD
160gb Maxtor SATA HD
Lite-On DVD drive
Lite-On DVD Burner with Lightscribe
Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit

The internal parts will be moved to an older but still capable and still visually looking case.

The new parts will go into my current Raidmax Smilodon case. And I'll be re-naming my primary network to Social Welfare Agency.
Laptop will be re-named Rico.
Dekstop will be re-named Triela and be converted temporarily to Windows XP Pro.

Triela will have:
AMD Phenom 9850 Black Edition 2.5ghz Socket AM2+ Quad Core Processor
ASRock K10N780SLIX3 WiFi mainboard with nForce 780a northbridge
4gb Mushkin DDR2 1066 RAM
MSI GeForce GTX 260 896mb video card (Will do 3way SLI later)
SoundBlaster X-Fi card from SARA-CRUZ
750 watt Rosewill PSU
640gb Western Digital 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s HD
Lite-On IDE DVD-ROM drive
Lite-On IDE DVD+-R with Lightscribe
Windows Vista Ultimate from SARA-CRUZ

My only question is should I stay with a 32 bit OS or go 64 bit? I can go either or with the version of Vista I have. Though from what I hear 64 bit OSes aren't overly friendly to gaming...

So the geniuses at Sony decide to have members merge their PSU IDs with their PSN IDs. (PSU = Playstation Underground - PSN = Playstation Network). All fine and dandy until you run into one tiny problem...

PSU ID and PSN ID both use the same e-mail address and password...

Whoopsies...

So after inputting the same password and wondering why the system blows the raspberry I figured I'd change my PSU password to something else. Turns out the original password was valid until they cut it down to 12 characters leaving out the all crucial numerical numbers at the end of my password.

So now... a shorter password and linked accounts.

That took what? An hour to figure out WTF was up... yeesh.

Something munched on my laptop's registry. Causing the laptop to go into a rather curious HD Recovery Mode and blowing away all my data. Of course the data on my laptop is peanuts compared to the data on my desktop.

Although the Hero Lab data file I had created... poofskies.

Its just like going out as a kid, only staying inside waiting for the doorbell to ring. And I've ended up with SO much stuff...

10 years ago we kept running out of stuff for the kids...

Last night... despite having our outside lights on and two black lights in the windows...

Nada... Not a single Halloween visitor.

But more goodies for me.

I'm looking for two games to satisfy my craving to play the ones I'm missing:

Gunslinger Girl Volume 1 for the Playstation 2
Gunslinger Girl Volume 2 for the Playstation 2

Both are for the Japanese Playstation 2. I know one site has Volume 1, but I'm out of funds at the moment. ^^' So if you know of any import gaming sites that have either new or used ones for sale or have seen a copy in your area please let me know.

As my previous journal (IT came from the Land of the Rising Sun) states I have Volume III, and just last night beat the cybernetics out of Pia and handed Pia's handler a lead salad. <evil grin>