Thursday, August 04, 2005

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Need a few good....people.

I am asking for the unqualified and those without a clue, to aid me in my blogging. Any person that wishes to help me please contact me via 1 or all of the email addresses to the right. I want some fresh blood, in a non literal sense of course. (I gave that up a while, jk). Anyway. My only qualification is no swearing. That is absolutely no foul language, except for words that I use. You can always ask if something is acceptable.

Anyway, just keep in mind what this thing is all about:

"I ramble on about something or other... People don't really pay attention to me.... We die..."

(This is what it says, (right now), to the top right of the screen).

Almost anything can be posted as long as, again, it is clean in nature.
Anyway, I hope to hear from someone, with in the near future.

Also, if chosen there is a good chance I will make fun of you often, possibly to the point where you may wish to kill yourself and/or me. Just so you know.

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

All went well....

Well it seems that everyone did what they needed to.

The shuttle went off without a hitch, or so it seems.

Tons of video to go through now, checking everything, but I am sure all went well.

Good to know, Great to see, Hope to see more....

An oddity I stumbled upon:
Beyond
The rim of the star-light
My love
Is wand'ring in star-flight
I know
He'll find in star-clustered reaches
Love,
Strange love a star woman teaches.
I know
His journey ends never
His star trek
Will go on forever.
But tell him
While he wanders his starry sea
Remember, remember me.
---
The words to the Original Star Trek Theme, never used...
I wonder why?? Not really, but anyway, back to real life now...

Pre Flight STS-114......Again

As I write this it is a little of 1h20m to launch and I hope to God it all works.

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From NASA:

Mission: International Space Station Flight LF1
Shuttle: Discovery
Launch Pad: 39B
Launch: July 26, 2005
Landing: August 7, 2005
Duration: 12 days
Orbital Insertion Altitude: 122 nautical miles
Orbit Inclination: 51.60°

Space Shuttle Discovery is ready for liftoff atop Launch Pad 39B. Approximately 500,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen now fill the vehicle's orange External Tank. The propellants will drive Discovery's three powerful main engines as the Space Shuttle rumbles into orbit. All systems aboard the ship are functioning normally and ready for launch.

Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-114, NASA's Return to Flight mission, is set for today at 10:39 a.m. EDT.

The chance of Kennedy weather cooperating for the launch is now at 80 percent.

--

Godspeed Steve Robinson, Jim Kelly, Andy Thomas, Wendy Lawrence, Charlie Camarda, Eileen Collins and Soichi Noguchi.



Saturday, July 23, 2005

Bad luck? Baa Humbug...

I don't know why and/or how, but I break things a lot.

In the time span on 1 week, 7 days ladies and gentleman, I managed to fry 2 power supplies. And now I may not have my PC up and running until the 27th.

Now you may be wondering, "How did you manage to 'fry' two power supplies in the span of 1 week?" Well Let me tell you.

The first one was sort of just a weak power supply, sure it may have had 400W, but it only had 15A on the 12 volt rail, it was only a matter of time before it would fail me, it was extremely unstable. The 5v would frequently dip down to 4.75 and the 12v would frequently dip down to 11.3. Though my other PSU is only 200W and only had 11A on the 12 volt rail, it was much more stable. It never fluctuated more than .15 either way. I just happened to pull too much juice from the sucker.

Using my handy dandy multimeter, I found that absolutely no current was entering the molex connectors on the 400W PSU and it hissed when plugged in. That is it made a high pitched whining noise. Very disturbing. The 200W PSU, akwardly enough, gives me .4mV on the 12V line and 9.8mV on the 5V line, so I don't think that will ever start up again. Though I may have blown that one, I may not have fried it, I probably just killed the overvoltage protection and it won't start anymore because of that.

Anyway, I ordered a shiny new 460W PSU from where else, but Newegg. It was highly recommended by the moderators and my friends over at the Motherboards.org forums. Go Motherboards.org Folding Team 33258. Anyway, this new PSU is an Enermax and has +3.3V@35A; +5V@35A; -5V@1A; +12V@33A; -12V@1A; +5VSB@2.2A, so I should be able to power everything without any problems.

Well that is all for today, sorry for being so technical and boring, but who really reads this crap anyway? So until next time, don't do anything I would do, especially if it deal with your computer.

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Turning a new leaf?

Now let me ask you a question.

Is it wrong to do something soley for money?

Though it may be benenficial to you, would you still only do it for the money?

I just don't know.

It doesn't sound like such a bad deal.

I just don't know.

Beam him up, God!

Well, If you don't already know, James Doohan, Star Trek's Scotty, has passed at the age of 85.


Quite sad a day this is.


:-<

I don't have a clue

I'm so very tired. It's almost all the time now.