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My new Desktop PC, more like Walltop

June 25, 2009 • No Comments

I am finishing setting up my brand new Desktop PC system. One think you can easy spot, it is not quite the desktop machine you can find in the office

This walltop-PC, a special breed of mine, is nothing spectacular on specs but it is impressive enough

Check the order-list:
Huntkey ATX 2.2 GREEN STAR 12 cm fan controlled voeding 550 watt, 20/24 pins,PCI-E, 2 x S-ATA 36,58 1 36,58
Foxconn AM2+ A7DA-S VS/GL/1394/HDMI 96,14 1 96,14
Kingston Valueram/1GB 800MHz DDR2 CL6 DIMM 13,11 2 26,22
Arctic Cooling CPU koeler Freezer 64 Pro PWM (socket 754,939, AM2) 19,96 1 19,96
AMD CPU :Phenom X3 8650 BOX 2.3GHZ 95W 69,90 1 69,90
ICIDU ACC :Hard Disk Protector\3.5i\black 7,95 1 7,95
Samsung HDD : 1TB 32MB SATA (SpinPoint F1) 70,90 1 70,90
Cooler Master Thermal Compound 4,95 1 4,95

Check the pictures below:

And .. if you are one of these ALL other people looking in dismay… NO there is nothing wrong of him not having a clothes
in fact this improves cooling. Besides Box/Tower/Desktop/Cases just gather dust and waste space. In this case all you have to do on (maintenance/cleaning-dust) is to blow him from time to time, or her if that makes blowing any easier
The two build-on buttons reset/power-on on the mother board turned quite helpful too.

So.., I did finish assembling it in less than 5 min. Next day, I hooked my PHILIPS burner and started loading some OS. Some in this case was Ubuntu 9.04. The system was up and running perfect, so far so stable. Only the 3D Ati HD3300 required some ati.com proprietary drivers. the 3xCores were kicking quite nice too. the temperature on the CPU, thanks to the Freezer Pro cooler, was completely cool on the touch. same for the 550W Huntkey power supply. My only concern so far is the North-bridge / video AtiHD3300 common shared heat-sink construction, both quite heating and playing video-games makes it much worse.

Just in case

EU election 2009 libertas.eu

May 16, 2009 • No Comments

Save democracy and civil rights in EU!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKBFn4iL2Yo&feature=player_embedded

Unfortunately, the communists in Bulgaria are moving on a steady term to decimate democracy … AGAIN! The limit of 50,000 euro was imposed for a registration to the upcoming EU 2009 elections. This had a harsh hit on any new civil rights party or even coalition.

In a country of mobsters, politics=criminals and people >= 70 age it came as no surprise that libertas.eu had submitted the documents with a rain-check note demanding the exCommunist-oligarchs to pay the fee. The application, of course, rejected. More symbolic, than anything, this act also might pay off more than the mention 50K in the long run. Regardless, of whether the money was really the issue, I think they were faced with the reallity that wining even 1 seat in Bulgaria is ~0! The cheap populism on the local market is unberable.

Yet, with the majority of young people abroad and no alternatives back home. Libertas.eu might just have a hit, maybe next time… Good luck!

Still, some good news too. The greens seems to be reprAsented, though their chance is slim too. PEOPLE=SHEEPS=RABITS

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War on Piracy hits the open source community ^-^

May 13, 2009 • No Comments

The extend to which the global record companies are going against p2p software is reaching ridiculous extreme context. Following this article@iptegrity.com on the net it seems now even SourfeForge is sued for infringement, www.sf.com the most popular open-source host/community.

FSF helps a RIAA court victim

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I’ve just stumbled upon an email-alert from the guys @www.defectivebydesign.org, friends fighting for digital-free media, anti DRM restrictions. The news for FSF (Free Software Foundation) fighting for the rights of a victim of the RIAA Corporate Copyright Court Propaganda CCCP

FSF got involved under the presumption of 3rd interest party, since anti-copyright is the ground principle behind the foundation principles and the promotion of open “free” code and software standards. I was excited by the fact a new battle front had been set on between the corporate and foundation business models. Indeed, not hard to anticipate since FSF ought to stand and repraZent. I guess, the RIAA/DRM image of the future pushed someones buttons…

Bottom line, the poor guy got reimbursed for his expenses for the court-case and then proudly took the medal as yet another survival of this nonsense war against end-user a.k.a. customers. If not anything else RIAA keeps on taking bad publicity backed by full governmental support. Obamas’ hopenosse fades away and people must clearly see no change comes in the form of cheep commercial but on steady AOction!

“What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist’s work without any intention of paying for it. I’m not talking about Napster-type software. I’m talking about major label recording contracts.” Courtney Love

“Sony artists reportedly earn a tiny $0.045/$1.00 for each song sold on iTunes, and most of them will never receive even that much from Sony.”

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