The Windowz Overclock!

Abbott and Costello: Window's style!

noreply@blogger.com (walter) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:05:00 +0000

You have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello, and too old to REALLY understand computers, to fully appreciate this. For those of us who sometimes get flustered by our computers, please read on...

If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch, "Who's on First?" might have turned out something like this:

COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT

ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?

COSTELLO: Thanks. I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking about buying a computer.

ABBOTT: Mac?

COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou.

ABBOTT: Your computer?

COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one.

ABBOTT: Mac?

COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou.

ABBOTT: What about Windows?

COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?

ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?

COSTELLO: I don't know. What will I see when I look at the windows?

ABBOTT: Wallpaper.

COSTELLO: Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software.

ABBOTT: Software for Windows?

COSTELLO: No. On the computer! I need something I can use to write proposals, track expenses and run my business. What do you have?

ABBOTT: Office.

COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?

ABBOTT: I just did.

COSTELLO: You just did what?

ABBOTT: Recommend something.

COSTELLO: You recommended something?

ABBOTT: Yes.

COSTELLO: For my office?

ABBOTT: Yes.

COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?

ABBOTT: Office.

COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!

ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.

COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows! OK, let's just say I'm sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?

ABBOTT: Word.

COSTELLO: What word?

ABBOTT: Word in Office.

COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.

ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.

COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?

ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue "W."

COSTELLO: I'm going to click your blue "W" if you don't start with some straight answers. What about financial bookkeeping? You have anything I can track my money with?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: That's right. What do you have?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?

ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer.

COSTELLO: What's bundled with my computer?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?

ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.

COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?

ABBOTT: One copy.

COSTELLO: Isn't it illegal to copy money?

ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.

COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?

ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT!

A few days later:

ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?

COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off?

ABBOTT: Click on "START"...

Gods Busy

noreply@blogger.com (walter) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:22:00 +0000

A United States Marine was attending some college courses between
assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. One
of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist and a member
of the ACLU.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to
the ceiling and flatly stated, "God, if you are real, then I want you
to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes."

The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes
went by and the professor proclaimed, "Here I am God. I'm still
waiting." It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine
got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked
him; knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold. The
Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other
students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence.

The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the
Marine and asked, "What the heck is the matter with you? Why did you
do that?"

The Marine calmly replied, "God was too busy today protecting
America's soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid stuff
and act like an idiot. So, He sent me."

The Sims: Castaway Wii multiple saved games

noreply@blogger.com (walter) — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:21:00 +0000

So after purchasing The Sims: Castaway for my wife we quickly discovered you can only have one saved game at a time! Why makers of video games would ever do this I don't know! Anyway, I have discovered a way to have more than one saved game at a time. To do this you must have at least 2 SD cards. You don't have to get the ones that Nintendo sells at wal-mart, go online and get them cheap. Now insert one sd card in the wii and transfer the saved game to it. Now create a new game, save it and move it over to the second sd card. Now when you want to play one game transfer it to the wii and continue the game. when your done transfer it back to the sd card and load the other sd card. I'm not sure if it's possible to use the wii mote to save games or not. I'll try it and post back my findings.

Apple: It just works...kind of.

noreply@blogger.com (walter) — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:05:00 +0000

So my wife decided she wanted an iMac, naturally I wanted one too because its a computer. I buy one and it sits on my desk because at the time I had no desktop. The first thing I did was try to install windows and let me tell you, it was more of a pain than I thought it would be. First I had to try and find boot camp, I downloaded it but then I lost it. A few days later I went to download it again and apple's website didn't have bootcamp 1.3 they had upgraded to 1.4 and it was supposed to come with leopard. I didn't have leopard...a ploy to make me upgrade? Well it didn't work, I found bootcamp somewhere else. Next I needed the hard drive partitioned...well it had been partitioned in half already so I tried to skip that step. It didn't work and I ended up having to do a reinstall. With a fresh copy of os x 10.4 and a copy of bootcamp I was ready to conquer the world. I installed bootcamp, followed the instructions (first instruction allowed me to partiton the harddrive) and installed xp. The xp install got to the part where it had to restart and then it kept booting into OSX...what the crap. So i learned a very important hotkey, option. Hold down the option key during boot to select the boot device. I select xp and the install finishes. I get my drivers installed, set xp to the default boot option then boot into osx. I've never actually used xp on my mac. I love osx for surfing the web and coding. Expose is awesome and Microsoft should come up with something like it. My biggest complaint was the iLife 08' suite, which was the whole reason my wife wanted the mac. Every program slows the computer down drastically. It's so bad that you can only use that one program (and it's slow while your using it) then you have to close the program to do anything else. I don't know why apple hasn't fixed this yet but it's annoying. I had problems getting used to the short cuts and some minor things here and there that just bugged the crap out of me. But eventually I got used to them and even kind of like it then my wife decides she wants to sell the mac... we've only had it for three months if that. I suppose she is right, I can build a windows machine for half the price and twice the performance. Overall I liked osx but it's just to expensive for my blood. Apples statement that "it just works!" doesn't fit the computer business, nothing ever just works , it only kindof works.

New to blogging

noreply@blogger.com (walter) — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:31:00 +0000

So I'm new to blogging and I'm pretty excited about it. I work with computers a lot and sometimes struggle to find information that should be easy to find. So I decided I would create a blog that I could share my findings with other people and maybe make their life easier and learn something in the process.
So a little bit of history about me...hmm where to start...oh yes when I was just a few days old. no that'll never do. ok ok so I got my first encounter with a computer back in 1997. My grandfather of all people decided he wanted to be up on the times (yes he was 88) so he went to walmart (i think) and purchased an hp for about $1000. wonderful machine running at a blinding 233mhz!! windows 98 and a dial up! I didn't know what a computer was for and my older brother had discovered hotmail. Sweet a free service that I can use to communicate to the outside world. after finally discovering how to sign up for it I was faced with my first dilemma, creating a user name. I think it took me two days but I finally came up with something cool like coldfusion (which was naturally taken) so I became coldfusion14. Now I was ready to communicate with the whole world. So I checked my email avidly for a month to no avail. Suddenly it dawned on me that no one had my email address.
Speaking on first encounters, I remember the first video game I played on PC (beside minesweeper) roller coaster tycoon. By this time my aunt had bought a new 933mhz P3 which was the holy grail in my house. I wasn't allowed to put anything on the computer but my brother did. So I would sneak and play roller coaster tycoon whenever I could and eventually I got caught as I was so immersed in creating my park, all else around me faded. And so the story goes, as we all know immersion is half the fun of video games.
Flash forward and my current machine, just finished yesterday, is a powerhouse comparatively speaking.

Amd 5000+ Black Edition w/Zalman CNPS 9500 w/ green led
Foxconn C51XEM2AA- 8EKRS2H AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590
OCZ SLI-Ready 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
ABS Tagan ITZ Series ITZ700 ATX12V
EVGA 512-P3-N802-A1 GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB
2x 36GB 10,000 RPM Western Digital Raptors raid 0
COOLER MASTER Elite 330
2x NEC dvd/rw used

I know most people would probably say that I'm stupid for buying an AMD computer when Intel's core 2 duo is kicking butt. To this I have to say, I'm on a budget and I'm a big AMD fan. All my life I've watched AMD and I got into computers around the time AMD's athlon 64's started really kicking butt. I've always been a fan of the underdog so there is my stance. I'll comment more on that in later blogs.
Back to my machine I've got the processor overclocked from 2.6ghz to 3.2ghz and I've not really tried to push it much past that. The video card is overclocked to 700/2000 and haven't tried going much past that either. I got bioshock installed last night and played it some, it's an ok game, which I'll comment on in coming blogs.