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Happy New Years 2010

Tonight we close out a decade. 2000- 2009.

They always say, "Where do you see yourself in 10 years?"  Let me answer that well I didn't see myself moving to 2 different houses. I didn't see myself unemployed looking for a job with a government spending out of control. Well I hope 2010 is better then the past decade. There were good times too.

Console Gaming

Game consoles of the past 10 years are:

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStationPlaystation 2 (October 26, 2000)
Playstation 2 Slim (September 2004)

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/xboxXbox (November 15, 2001),

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_gamecubeNintendo Game Cube (November 18, 2001)

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSPPlaystation Portable (PSP) (March 24, 2005),

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox360Xbox360 (November 22, 2005)

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playstation3Playstation 3 (November 11, 2006)

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_wiiNintendo Wii (November 19, 2006).

We also celebrated birthday milestones for gaming consoles:

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variations_of_the_Sega_Mega_Drive#North_America_.28as_Sega_Genesis.29Sega Genesis - August 14, 1989-2009 - 20 years

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_dreamcastSega Dreamcast - September 9, 1999 - 2009 - 10 years

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Nice weekend, Worked on Computer

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I worked on my computer this weekend. Well it wasn’t much I was backing up to a external hard drive. I am going to use the drive, I backed up from, in my original Xbox. I already have a 250GB in my Xbox compared to the 8GB stock. My new drive I will be installing if all goes well is just a precaution so I won’t mess up my other already installed drive with I install DSL (Damn Small Linux) on it.

I would like to use my Xbox as a small server. I’ve been told that I will still be able to play games on it but I’m not sure so that is why I am installing another drive to test this theory out.

I also install Windows 7 RC 7100 on my brothers laptop, my old laptop he uses. When the install was complete it had some missing drivers, Video, Audio, Wireless Adapter, & Multimedia card support. The video showed up no problem it just needed to be updated. All the drivers were install but the multimedia card, windows update couldn’t find one. Windows 7 RC 1000 ran pretty good on that old computer which I purchased as my first Personal Computer (PC) back in June of 2005.

I think Windows 7 will be a great OS when it is released in October 22, this year. I ordered 4 copies when they were only selling for $49.99. Windows Home Premium Upgrade version, now they are $120 per license.

Later

The Tech Guy with Leo Laporte – Aug 22, 2009

I was lucky enough to get on the show, The Tech Guy with Leo Laporte.

I asked him the question below:

Q Justin, ElCampo, TX - Office 2000 update

Justin only uses Word and Excel from Office 2000. Should he allow updates to the rest of the suite which he hasn’t installed? Leo says go ahead, it won’t hurt it and some files are shared in the suite anyway.

Well that’s all well & good but I wasn’t asking about Office 2000 but Office 2007. Leo didn’t ask me to clarify what version it was but I guess it didn’t matter was what version it was, it would probably work the same way.

Thank you Leo for taking my call. I called 11 times & had 2 callers in front of me before I went on the air.

Haven't Posted in a while.

I know I haven't posted in a while. I go to work, then come home and later go to sleep.

I haven't done much since my last post. He have gotten some rain, which is nice it is dry here. Modded my xbox, the original xbox. I installed a bigger drive, 250GB from the 10GB. I like to turn it into a server one day.

I've upgraded my video card in my PC to a Nivida GeForce 1GB 9400 GT. It has no fan just a heat sink it gets hot around 138*F. This is normal never the less. It does have a small connector for a fan that I can place on it if need be. My PC have front intake fan that I should pull air in to cool it. It should do alright that's why I installed it into my pc, because it has a front intake to pull air to it to cool it. I also got roughly the same card 512MB model that has a fan for my families pc, it has no intake fan so it need a fan to cool it. It hasn't been installed yet, but I will soon.

I am trying to stay away from ebay for a while so I won't spend too much money. I do plan to purchase something that is a good deal that has a $20 dollar rebate. It ends at end of April, I will wait until then to possibly order it.

Well that's all,
Later
Justin

Not so productive weekend

Sunday I attempted to upgrade my "families" PC only to determine that the CPU I installed didn't work. I spent a lot of time taking that whole thing apart but I guess things happen. Static electricity would indeed destroy a CPU, but I used precautions and I know I didn't shock it. It was quickly approved for RMA return by Newegg.com & UPS picked it up today for replacement. I just have to wait until a new one arrives.

Till Then,

Things I did this weekend

Friday I was going to stay up late to work on things but I didn't. I went to bed around midnight.

To make a long story short, I played with my new Canon camcorder. Saturday I installed my new hard-drive on my laptop. It took a few hours to install it using the recovery CD.

I just finished running memtest86, to check for memory errors, on my new RAM I ordered.

I am going to upgrade my PC's at home, probably next weekend, can't wait hope anything goes okay.

Good Night

Countdown to 2009

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Family is in Town / Work

My cousins from out of state are going to be staying at my grandma's house for the week, through Christmas. My other cousins from San Antonio are coming for the day today to see the other cousin's since they haven't seen them in so long. I'm working this week but it will be mostly nothing. We get a half-a-day on Christmas Eve off all day on Christmas and the day after.

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Webhost Change & New Blog layout

When I first purchase my webhost back in March or April of this year, it was very cheap with unlimited space. Yes, they say unlimited but there is a limit. Well I was happy with the webhost but after a few months of using it there support went away. NO support, NOTHING. I paid $10/yr not a month a year, that comes to $0.80 something cents a month for unlimited space for my website.

Now that looked strange but this company had been in business for years so I went ahead with it. But all-in-all a few days ago I tried to go to my site but it didn't show up. I had a backup so I was okay there but it was crap that they didn't tell me anything.

I'm with a new host now, JustHost.com. I paid for 1 year at $4.95 a month. So far I am happy with it. I've asked questions and they answered in no time, even in a live chat. It has a 30-day money back guarantee, os I could try and cancel anytime within 30 days. After some work I re-posted my blog and here it is. This is a update blog and it is great I have a new theme, and it looks great.

Well I'll write back later.