last wednesday i finally finished up my classes at UCSD and i'll be graduating tomorrow. let me tell you, it is awesome to be done. i'll be starting work fulltime on monday, so that should keep me busy for the next 40 years or so.

bdo is back after some downtime for maintenance and upgrades. it is a brand new machine and is running very smoothly. check out the gallery for some pics. here are the complete specs on the upgrade:

amd athlon 2400+
gigabyte 7vrxp mobo
1.5gb ddr ram
1.04tb of total hdd space
cm stacker case

the above system is indeed kickass, but bojangles is where the real power lies. this was the more major upgrade, mostly for speed. check the gallery has some pics of the new parts. here are the specs:

amd athlon 64 3700+ (san diego core)
zalman 7000cu heatsink
asus a8n-sli deluxe mobo
msi radeon x800xl 256mb video card
1gb ddr400 ocz gold ram
160gb sata2 hdd
80gb storage
240gb in raid 0
16x nec 3520 dvd burner
16x lite-on dvd-rom

running games in 1920x1200 is so sweet. both computers should be set for some time now. the next project i might do is building a linux based MythTV box to record hdtv. that will be down the line though.