What happened?
Twelve years!
You hit me with a cricket bat!
Ha! Twelve years!

Slotless in Seattle

So I'm putting my new PC together. So far I've installed the motherboard, the CPU, the video card.

I have one slot free.

Because the motherboard includes a wireless adaptor, which takes up one slot, and two USB panels, which each take up a slot, and a USB/Firewire panel, which takes up a slot. And the video card has a little daughter-board for HDTV, which takes up yet another slot.

Without actually installing any expansion cards, six out of a theoretical seven slots are gone.

Fortunately, the motherboard also includes eight SATA ports, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, eight-channel sound, and SP-DIF in and out, so I'm not in a hurry to add anything.

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The Bitznpieces Empire

All the sundry components for my new computer are now safely scattered about my living room, waiting to be, like, plugged in.

I'm thinking of doing a full review of the process. With pictures! And benchmarks!

Now, Fedora Core 4 Test 3, or Centos 4? Hmm. Fedora Core 4 will be out in a month, but I can't wait a month. And reinstalling this box once it's in production could prove irksome. So I'm leaning towards Centos this time round.

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Shininess Abounds

Picked up my new toys today! Athlon 64 3200+, Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI, Logitech diNovo Media Desktop, Abit RX600 Pro-HDTV, and various bits and pieces.

Now I just have to take it home and put it all together...

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Still More Shiny Thing!

Didn't get to pick up my new computer today. Sad Pixy.

But here's a picture of the keyboard I'm getting:

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More Shiny Thing!

My new super-duper 64-bit computer will finally arrive tomorrow. Complete with 2GB of memory and 500GB of disk. Yay me!

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