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This Is My New Year's Revolution
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For many years now, I have had two computers sitting on my desktop. Well, actually that's not really accurate - I had one computer, and the monitor for a second, along with control setups for each. But I digress..
Two machines. One an iMac, of the "screen on a swivel-arm, with a mushroom shaped base" variety, and the other my windows box. And I do mean box. The Ghodbox, as it was christened, was originally running an AMD 64 fx-53 chip. State of the art, cutting edge, high powered ghodlike computer power, in an oppressive black cube of a case, three feet high, wide and deep. Think of the monolith from 2001, only shorter and cubelike. With lights inside.
At the time, two computers was a good idea. Since both were relatively slow, (even as cutting edge as the ghodbox was at the time) having two meant that I could leave one tied up with one job (3d rendering for one of my toy company clients) while I got on with something else on the other one (drawing dirty pictures in photoshop.)
But, as time has passed on, my formerly high-powered AMD chip went from cutting edge, to midrange, to "people still use those?" And over the past several months, I have been ripping bits out of The Ghodbox and replacing them. I've stepped up to quadcore. I've got two double TB drives. I've just added a beefier power supply and a shiny new GeForce GTX-560 videocard. And while the Ghodbox is no longer a cutting edge machine, techology has moved so far along, that it's still at least four times the computer it once was.
And in the meantime, the iMac has slowly turned into more and more of a doorstop. It's had all the memory expansion it can handle, even the slot that end users aren't supposed to access themsleves saw a memory upgrade. And yet, even after all that, it's still stagnated. It's a 700MHz PowerPC G4, running 10.4.11 and therefore at the end of it's ability to advance. 10.5 requires an Intel based Mac, to even install. And honestly, 10.4.11 isn't exactly zippy on it.
And it seems like nobody makes software for 10.4 anymore. Youtube videos won't play. I just get a message on the youtube page telling me I need an upgrade. The dvd drive inside also appears to be incompatable with current-day DVDs. Not sure how that works, but there it is.
Now, if you've sat through all that gobbledygook technical crapola, you're probably wondering what the point of all this is. What does it mean for you, the fan of crossdressing teddybear porn?
Well, here it is: It's time for me to ditch the imac. And I plan to replace it NOT with another computer, but instead with a second monitor, attached to the Ghodbox.
Okay, okay. That was more technical crapola. Be patient. I'm building to a big climax.
Not that kind of climax. Down boy.
Once the second monitor is in place, I will be able to do something which I haven't before. Which is LIVESTREAM. Specifically, Livestream myself drawing the aforementioned crossdressing teddybear porn. I have already set up a livestream account, and customized myself a nice livestream page. I've run a few test broadcasts across it to make sure it all works at least reasonably well. I am also in the process of transferring everything off the imac that I need, such as my many and various font collections, and folders of photoshop files. I already have a copy of Photoshop 6 loaded.
It probably doesn't seem like much of a revolution on your end, but for me this is a pretty big step. That iMac has been my go-to machine for over half a decade. It's been with me through three career changes, and two different homes. It's also the first computer I ever paid for entirely with my own money. (My previous computer, TARDIS, was a win95 box built out of secondhand computer parts that my various friends had upgraded away from and had laying around waiting to be thrown away. The most expensive piece of it was the case, which I believe ran me $50 because it had a blue neon light inside)
I've been told that I can hook both my wacom tablet (which is currently on the imac) and my trackball (the ghodbox's current mouse) up at the same time, and use whichever I feel like grabbing. I'm actually kind of looking forward to photoshop, without the pauses and delays caused by having to run it emulated in mac os9, under OSX. I might even try out that SAI thing all the hip kids are into these days.
Anyway... It's not really a New Year's resolution. It's more like a plan I have. And the only major step is to go buy a monitor. I expect to do that fairly soon.
But, this is what is coming for 2012. The end of one era, and the beginning of a new one.
My New Year's Revolution.
Two machines. One an iMac, of the "screen on a swivel-arm, with a mushroom shaped base" variety, and the other my windows box. And I do mean box. The Ghodbox, as it was christened, was originally running an AMD 64 fx-53 chip. State of the art, cutting edge, high powered ghodlike computer power, in an oppressive black cube of a case, three feet high, wide and deep. Think of the monolith from 2001, only shorter and cubelike. With lights inside.
At the time, two computers was a good idea. Since both were relatively slow, (even as cutting edge as the ghodbox was at the time) having two meant that I could leave one tied up with one job (3d rendering for one of my toy company clients) while I got on with something else on the other one (drawing dirty pictures in photoshop.)
But, as time has passed on, my formerly high-powered AMD chip went from cutting edge, to midrange, to "people still use those?" And over the past several months, I have been ripping bits out of The Ghodbox and replacing them. I've stepped up to quadcore. I've got two double TB drives. I've just added a beefier power supply and a shiny new GeForce GTX-560 videocard. And while the Ghodbox is no longer a cutting edge machine, techology has moved so far along, that it's still at least four times the computer it once was.
And in the meantime, the iMac has slowly turned into more and more of a doorstop. It's had all the memory expansion it can handle, even the slot that end users aren't supposed to access themsleves saw a memory upgrade. And yet, even after all that, it's still stagnated. It's a 700MHz PowerPC G4, running 10.4.11 and therefore at the end of it's ability to advance. 10.5 requires an Intel based Mac, to even install. And honestly, 10.4.11 isn't exactly zippy on it.
And it seems like nobody makes software for 10.4 anymore. Youtube videos won't play. I just get a message on the youtube page telling me I need an upgrade. The dvd drive inside also appears to be incompatable with current-day DVDs. Not sure how that works, but there it is.
Now, if you've sat through all that gobbledygook technical crapola, you're probably wondering what the point of all this is. What does it mean for you, the fan of crossdressing teddybear porn?
Well, here it is: It's time for me to ditch the imac. And I plan to replace it NOT with another computer, but instead with a second monitor, attached to the Ghodbox.
Okay, okay. That was more technical crapola. Be patient. I'm building to a big climax.
Not that kind of climax. Down boy.
Once the second monitor is in place, I will be able to do something which I haven't before. Which is LIVESTREAM. Specifically, Livestream myself drawing the aforementioned crossdressing teddybear porn. I have already set up a livestream account, and customized myself a nice livestream page. I've run a few test broadcasts across it to make sure it all works at least reasonably well. I am also in the process of transferring everything off the imac that I need, such as my many and various font collections, and folders of photoshop files. I already have a copy of Photoshop 6 loaded.
It probably doesn't seem like much of a revolution on your end, but for me this is a pretty big step. That iMac has been my go-to machine for over half a decade. It's been with me through three career changes, and two different homes. It's also the first computer I ever paid for entirely with my own money. (My previous computer, TARDIS, was a win95 box built out of secondhand computer parts that my various friends had upgraded away from and had laying around waiting to be thrown away. The most expensive piece of it was the case, which I believe ran me $50 because it had a blue neon light inside)
I've been told that I can hook both my wacom tablet (which is currently on the imac) and my trackball (the ghodbox's current mouse) up at the same time, and use whichever I feel like grabbing. I'm actually kind of looking forward to photoshop, without the pauses and delays caused by having to run it emulated in mac os9, under OSX. I might even try out that SAI thing all the hip kids are into these days.
Anyway... It's not really a New Year's resolution. It's more like a plan I have. And the only major step is to go buy a monitor. I expect to do that fairly soon.
But, this is what is coming for 2012. The end of one era, and the beginning of a new one.
My New Year's Revolution.
The biggest change, and the one that's going to take the most getting used to, will be ditching the two-tier keyboard layout I've had like, forever. I've got the mac keyboard on the bottom, and the PC keyboard above it on a little raised plinth, like a pipe organ.
It's going to feel weird only having one keyboard.