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Today in the news: Akir translates Yaoi. Most of my friends already know anyway. I've joined in with Liquid Passion and Biblo Eros. My first project: Mousou Catalogue.



Well, I'm only remastering the visual aspect, but it's still a lot of work. I'm essentially in charge of everything you see. And yes, It's sexy.

The Death of an Era

Someone has looked at my website at helloworldcreative.com at one time or another. Unfortunately, I can't pay for it (which is sad, since it only costs me about $40 for the entire year). So it, along with everything on it, is going offline.

As a result, I'm going to make my google pages account useful again. If there's any media that I need to publish, then it's probibly going to be at FirstAkir.googlepages.com. Gee, I guess an update is in order.

Frequency of Lemming Suicide Increasing.

It's not so much that I'll be playing Lemmings anymore then I already am (which is never). It's just that I've realized that I haven't made enough of an obnoxious announcement of my new computer. It's especially unusual because It's been over a week now.

So, here's the specs.

• NanoBTX form factor
• tiny, yet managable
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
• Brisbane series 65 nm SOI
• 64 + 64 KiB (Data + instructions) L1 cache per core
• 512 KiB fullspeed L2 cache per core
  
• 2500 MHz external clock
• BIOS option for overclocking
  
• two decoding core units
• out-of order processing
• MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit, AMD Virtualization
• miniscule 65 W power consumption
• SiS 761GX chipset + 966L Southbridge Motherboard
• 1000 MHz front side bus
• Hypertransport bus
• PCI and PCIexpress onboard
• USB2.0 onboard
• on-die Realtek AC`97 High-definition audio and SiS Mirage graphics (located on southbridge)
• pATA and SATA
• fully ACPI complient
• hardware support for RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD.
  
• black aluminum case
• three individually controlled fans
• front audio and USB ports
• kewl blue power LED
• 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM
• it's just ... too awesome. :P
• 360 GB SATA HDD
• offers more storage space then all of my previous HDDs combined.
  
• 2 optical drives
• dual-layer DVD writer
• DVD -+ R/W, DVD RAM writing
• buffer underrun protection
  
• Lightscribe
• DVD/CD-R combo
• reads CD+G, too, so I can do karaoke. :P
• I seriously only have this because it can write CDs at 8x speed. The other one doesn't support 8x, and I need that to write Dreamcast discs.
• Floppy!
• Holds a MASSIVE 1.44 MEGAbytes! W00T!
• Take that, Magneto-optical drives!
• holds up to Shugart Association standards!
• Uses Double-Sided Double-Density 2.5" diskettes
• PWNs 10" drives.
• Windows!
• The door that covers the floppy drive opens and closes like a hinged window!
• There's another for the front USB and audio ports.
• Software
• Windows XP.
• 32-bit version, not utilizing full computing potential
• supports partitions only if they're under 137 GB
• fails to install proper RAID drivers
• fails to install proper SATA drivers
• fails to install proper USB drivers
• works somewhat, at USB1.1 speeds.
• has SOME redeeming properties
• Adobe CS3 Master suit
• ... it's working (for now)?
• Linux!
• Not even started to be installed!
• There's a partition for it!
• I'm building this one from source!
• It's gonna take advantage of ALL features of the system, unlike SOME operating systems we know....
• KVM!
• Makes girls think you're sexy.

Damn, my fingers hurt now.

If you scrutinize these features, you'll find that this computer's not that good. But that's all washed away by it's tiny price: ~$250.
Do you feel PWND yet?


P.S. If you didn't understand how the article related to it's title, it's because Lemmings depended on the CPU clock for timing, so my increase in clock speed is relational to the frequency of Lemming suicide.

The Glory of Good Samples

The arrival of some good sound samples has opened up my door somewhat. I've decided to make some good music. But then again, I only changed some MIDI files some people from the internet (exactly who, I cannot tell) transposed from games. The only problem with them is that they have the tendency to be unbelievably terrible once you get them away from the FM synth.

They're all in Ogg Vorbis. Get used to it.

The first song I worked on happens to be the worst of the bunch. It's an infamous tune from Shining in the Darkness. Take a listen.

Then I did a tune from Chrono Cross. Yasunori Mitsuda is a genous. I made this one with the "CP-80 FM" instrument, from the sheer lack of ram that the standard MIDI-use piano instrument needs - which is sad because I've maxed out the ram in this computer. It's pretty good.

The last one I did uses a variety of intsruments. Although the author of the original MIDI didn't stop some of the instruments from playing, he only set them to play at one volume at a time, and so in some places, it doesn't sound very well mixed. But it's impossible to get compiled into a single Ogg file for some reason, so I won't upload it it.

We Remain Undermedicated.

Yes, yes. Undermedicated. It's been somewhere between two and three months since I've had my Prozac proscription filled. Much too long. I've fallen into deep depression, then I rose above myself by the sheer force of my will. A badly trained psychologist would call me bipolar.

Now is one of the times that I'm low. It's been dragging along like this for a while. You know that it's getting bad when you listen to Evanescence's songs and agree with them.

Well, I'm going to get lucky soon, I guess. My doctor's finally coming in from his SIX-MONTH VACATION, so I can finally get my prescription refilled.

Happy Birthday Stephen!

He emailed me about it, and I realized that I don't know when his birthday anymore. That's OK, I don't know most of anyone's birthdays anymore.

So now I'm going to congratulate everyone on their birthdays.
"Happy Birthday parents, relatives, distant relatives, friends, acquaintances, potential lovers, and sister! たんじょびおめでと！"