Tuesday's here!

[graafen]

It's Tuesday, it's cold outside, and I'm happy. :)

I'm quite glad that the autumn equinox is upon us as it means that we'll start getting realistically bearable and ambient temperatures on the way to winter. Mid Winter is always a good time for me as it means FC. :D

I spent most of last night cleaning up my computer, moving data around into better places. I now have all my video files stored on a separate 120GB hard drive, which frees up my 80GB Home partition no end.

Drive 1 - 250GB (or there abouts)
- B:\ (Programs) 90GB
- C:\ (System) 30GB
- E:\ (Home) 90GB
- S:\ (Scratch) 20GB

Drive 2 - 120GB (or there abouts)
- F:\ (Videos) 110GB

Almost half of my "Videos" partition is full now! I might need to get a bigger hard drive soon, especially as my anime collection keeps growing and growing.

FYI I decided to install all programs (except common files, like GTK+, which reside on C:) into a separate partition to help me keep a better eye on my drive usage. I'm mounted it as the drive letter B: to emphasise that it's an important partition. B: is also quite large to cope with programs which download components (Steam, for example). Emulators also benefit from this as the ROMS are kept with the emulator, in this case being MAME and Stepmania (although Stepmania isn't specifically an emulator).

"My Documents" is now mapped toE: so that I can still use "My Documents" and not fill up C: with junk. In essence C: should only be for system files.

S: is the "Scratch Disk", or an area of space that can basically be used for storing data temporarily when using media applications, kinda of like swap space.

That's it for now, I might post more later.

Ooh, actually I almost forgot...

I'm still unsure of what I should call my new computer, so I'm opening the floor to you guys. Tell me what you think I should call my new black and blue AMD64 machine. :)
You must follow the naming convention I already have; which is computers which appear in TV, Film, and Video Games. Examples are Shodan from "System Shock" (which is my firewall), JORDAN from "Snatcher", HAL from "2001: A Space Oddessy".

[Poll #573895]

Thanks for your input. :)

Comments

[dagrak.livejournal.com]

I've already put one answer but how about these as well:

Wesker
Nemesis
Tarkin
Skynet
The Clockwork King
Commodus
Ginger (Werewolf thing for you there)
Cerebro

[torrle.livejournal.com]

I really need to read things through before answering, especially when I haven't had any sleep. I'm stupid and I misread 'computers' for 'characters'.

Scratch my answer can change it to WOPR. :)

(or to be unique: Priscilla, from "Earth Star Voyager")

[graafen]

Methinks it's going to end up being called WOPR in the end, that's got the most votes. :D

[lazerus101.livejournal.com]

Yeah but WOPR is a really sucky name. I mean how do you pronounce that?
WOPR with cheese meal please.

[graafen]

That's exactly how. It was a pun on NORAD's actual machine at that time, BURGR.

[lazerus101.livejournal.com]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/SHODAN.ogg
Listen to this file to be creeped out... certainly works on me.

[graafen]

"Lo-lo-look at you, Hacker. A pa-pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you ru-run through my corridors-s. H-h-how can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?"

You obviously haven't played System Shock or System Shock 2. I advise that you remedy this, post haste!

[lazerus101.livejournal.com]

Ummmm dude the whole REASON I posted that was because I HAVE played them both. NUMEROUS times. SHODAN still gives me the heebeejeebies

[graafen]

Ahhh, my bad. It sounded like you hadn't played it. :)

[meraesha.livejournal.com]

Heys Thalyi, just a thought, unless you're using scsi, it might be better to create a new partition for pagefile.sys on disc 2 rather than leaving it either in s: or in c:. Also if you haven't done it already, updating the environment variables to point to your scratch disk, or preferrably to a partition on disc 2 as then any installers will extract from d1 to d2, then install from d2 to d1 (and so removing a lot of intra-disc seeks). would stop all those lovely "temp" folders that clutter up c: as well.

If you have enough spare IDE/SATA headers you could also drop each hdd onto its own controller and make sure that CD drives get kept off the bus, as the speed tends to revert back to the slowest device-sync on the channel. Windows HW manager says different sometimes, so maybe someone has fixed that these days though.

anyways, enough random ramblings... :P

ohh, and as well as my other idea... just came to me, Orac^3 from well here -> http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2003/09/16/orac3_part1/1.html (also from Blakes 7..... you didn't specify that it had to come from good sci-fi ;)

[graafen]

I remember reading about the Orac3 in an extreme modders magazine. I wanna make my own case sometime soon, but what I have now works. :)