Another post for today

I forgot to add this, i'm now currently running on Windows XP 64, since Daemon Tools x64 was released, i've jumped onto the 64 bit bandwagon (was waitin for them to release DT x64 for 5 months). Performance wise its not bad, kinda same with XP 32, games fps drops by around 2-3 fps, thats negligible. Media encoding actually performed better, i'm using HCenc which gives very high quality mpeg2 encoding and running with lanczos4 resizing......it's faster than my XP 32 installation by about 20 mins or so for the same file. My new Pioneer 110D drive is also workin flawlessly on my system as well......thank god, I've had a bad time with my SONY DW22A back in England until I RMA-ed it and the replacement drive work good as well - gave it to my sis anyways. As it is now, my system specs are as follow.....

Shuttle SN95G5 (with some moddin done on airflow)
AMD 64 3500+ @ 2.4ghz, 240fsb x 10
1 gig OCZ Platinum Rev. 2 RAM (Samsung TCCD)
ATI Radeon 9800 pro, OCed like hell too
2 x 160gb Maxtors
Pioneer DVR 110D (8.37 Buffalo firmware with bitsetting)
SONY SDM HS75P/S LCD

Apart from some problems tryin to get some software to work with XP64, it was all goin on smoothly after 3 days of installing it. You'll run into some headaches trying to get the ASPI layers to work with XP64, heres a hint, look for FrogAspi on the net and replace it with the winaspi32.dll file on ur installation of XP64 and it'll work like a charm. Photoshop runs flawlessly using the 5.11 ATI drivers for XP64, anything other than that will give you a stupid lagging menus problem. I have yet to try Firefox 64 yet, but so far the 32 bit Firefox 1.5 is adequate, fast and zippy. As usual, torrents works fine.

I've also got myself like 6 albums from differing artistes.......Dido, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Velvet Revolver and Gwen Stefani. Loads of differing music styles to listen to......well I usually dont listen to those artistes....but i'll give it a try since i'm running out of stuffs to listen to as i'm pretty much accustomed to all the old school rock bands now. Still hoping to be able to get the B'z album - Love & B'z, probably will check it out somewhere in J-Town to get it soon. Haha i've also forgot to add that I watched Harry Potter back in November on the night it was released......very nice, liked it alot.......and loads of peeps were dressed up for the occasion on that nite as well haha, more so than it was back in England (a surprise).