Computer surgery...

[eternal_rena]

Finished doing my surgery to my computer, which I replaced my spoiled case fan which I had no idea when it broke down but I knew it was going to when the speed of the fan dropped to like 500 rpm ish speed...

I've also installed a new 500 GB (462 GB actually that I can use since the HDD needs some space to store god knows what so you never get the full amount of disc space on a hard disk...) SATA internal hard drive...and now I'm going to store my personal stuff there. I was struggling with the huge amount of unwatched anime on my main hard disk (system hard disk where the OS is installed in...) and I had to burn them to DVD-Rs and delete them off the main hard disk. Not even my external hard disk had helped much, but it was fairing better for sure, since it's a 250 GB external, but this is actually my back up drive so other personal stuff other than anime are also saved there (Might get another external hard drive sometime down the road for backups). Now I don't have to worry too much about running out of space to store my unwatched anime and having to burn them to DVD-Rs for a really long time.

The variable bonus from my job for FY 2008 just came in. It's only 60% of the total amount though...the company will only give the other 40% later in September...probably in an attempt to keep people from resigning, not like I'm going to, considering that I may not be able to get myself another stable and better job at this point in time with the economy in recession and all. I still want to see if I can perhaps dig out some money next year to take some basic Japanese classes, since I've more or less gotten everything game consoles wise (going to get a PSP soon) that I wanted from last year and this year (got lucky and got a Korean NTSC U/C unmodded Wii for really cheap...so I actually have extra money now), unless Namdai decided to slap us with a release of a mothership Tales of Series game (and they're going to bring it to the US) on the PS3 (this year's mothership title is on the Wii, hopefully it gets a US release...*keeps fingers crossed*) next year or something...

I going to stop by the game shop near my workplace during lunch tomorrow and get myself a long overdue I wanted to get last year PSP. Hopefully it doesn't rain then, I don't want to carry an umbrella =/

On an ending note...Happy Birthday to me? I feel old compared to some of the people on my flist...

Now to go try out that TV Tuner I just bought...I ended up with an external >__>

Comments

[fuckyeahfish.livejournal.com]

<--- cannot handle harddrive, would kill comp in an instant

Happy Birthday~ /o/

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

Kill your comp? In what sense?

[fuckyeahfish.livejournal.com]

I tend to destroy any machinery when I tinker with them. I'm not sure if it's because I'm careless, or because I have the killer touch when it comes to hardware.

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

Ahh...I see...XD

I'm quite surprised that I'm pretty good with machinery, I just don't have any expertise in it. But if given the training and knowledge, I'm sure I'll do pretty well. I should have taken an engineering course when I was still studying...only problem is...which one...D:

[fuckyeahfish.livejournal.com]

I'm envious. If I was any good with machinery, I'd probably have taken engineering myself. Not that I'm not having fun in my course, but being required to stay on the computer 24/7 can give you a nasty headache >.>;

[ladynadiad.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

Though I doubt you're older than me unless you just turned 31. I only seem to have two people on my flist older than me (and one only by a few months).

Hope the external TV tuner works better for you than mine did for me. I ended up returning it three days later because it sucked.

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

I know...I've heard that external ones are lousier than internal ones, but I can't find any internal ones that seem to be good...so I had to try an external one. Not like I'm going to use it to watch TV though. It's mainly for recording stuff from my game consoles. Hopefully it works well in that regard at least since antenna reception is actually quite crappy for watching TV. Cable is better (the house TV is run via a cable point so even the free channels can be tuned into this way).

EDIT: I just tried the TV Tuner on my 360 and recorded stuff. It's working quite well *_* Plus I can play it on 16:9 wide screen setting! But the most surprising thing is that...I CAN SEE THE ENEMY NAME AND THEIR HP IN BATTLE AFTER THEY'RE SCANNED...WHEN I HOLD THE TARGET SWITCH BUTTON \O/

P.S. I just turned 27.

[ladynadiad.livejournal.com]

That was the problem I had with mine, recording game footage. I haven't watched TV in years. There was a massive delay between what was shown on the screen and what was really happening, enough to the point that it actually screwed my game up.

Make sure to try a complex battle that would require good timing, just try playing, you don't need to record. If you do fine in the battle, great, maybe they finally fixed the delay issues. If not, then you'll have to either adjust to that or try a different one.

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

How good the timing do I need it to be? Cause I tried it with Yuri's tension skills and it's more or less the same as when I'm playing on the TV, timing and stuff wise, did the same thing, and I didn't feel any difference. When I recorded me messing around with Yuri's tension skills, it still ran smoothly and the video came out good.

Then I continued the game a bit and it was going good too. What I did in battles was actually in time with what pressed on the controller. All my movements matched with the time too.

[ladynadiad.livejournal.com]

Then you may actually have a tolerable one.

Don't know how familiar you are with the Shadow Hearts series, but that was what I tried to play on there as a test for mine. It's hard to describe the judgement ring system, but that requires timing to get all the hits in and you have to be paying close attention at the best of time.

Well, that TV tuner so threw me off that I was missing like crazy. When some random easy monsters killed my party I said screw that and returned it.

This wasn't playing like the game was, I'd actually have to press the buttons earlier that it appeared I had to on the screen to hit. What I saw on the screen was not equal to what the game was actually doing, and that is why external TV tuners have a bad name.

So if it's matching up for you, keep it, you got a good one. I'll stick with my DVD recorder :)

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, that is why I'm a bit skeptical with trying an external TV Tuner, but I couldn't find an internal one that seems good, so I had to try an external. But if I had gotten an internal one...I won't be able to install it though. There is this thing (instead of screws) that keeps my PCI slots stuff there so that it won't move...but I dunno how to take it out without like...fearing that it would break. I had actually got a better graphics card that day too, but because of that, I couldn't install it D:

Thankfully that external one I got was good though. I guess the more recent ones got better (the one I got was quite a recent one, not those old types, it's HD ready for watching HD shows from the TV channels it seems, but it doesn't have HD cables support D: ). It was responding to my button presses the same way as if I played on my TV, no time difference at all and I was like...wow.

It's actually nicer to play my 360 using that TV Tuner than using the stupid SDTV, since I can use wide screen setting and actually see the entire screen (I have to see chopped off images from the side), and the small text are actually bigger. I still can't believe I can actually see the scanned enemy name and HP when holding the select target...

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday.
Computer surgery sounds complicated...wish I knew how to do some techie things. :)

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

Haha...what I did is actually considered simple to do >D

[cardcaptorkiki.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! ♥

Glad the computer surgery was successful.