July 26, 2007 by Omega.

I received my micro-ATX case (Antec NSK 1300) yesterday and assembled it. I took a bunch of pictures of the process and will have a review up soon.

oh, and Electron Frog… wtf?

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July 24, 2007 by The Electron Frog.

My frog tongue brings all the electrons to the yard

and they’re like, it’s better than yours

damn right, it’s better than yours

I could eat you, but I’d have a charge

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July 18, 2007 by Omega.

I just ordered a new computer case to put my aging micro-ATX computer into. I ordered an Antec 1300 cube case to cut down on size and noise, we’ll see how it does. It was about $85 from zipzoomfly.com. When I get the case in I’ll be sure to document the experience and report what I discover about the case and the retailer.

This case is the beginning of my gradual computer upgrade. The next step will probably be to buy a 500 gig SATAII HDD and throw it onto my current computer. The last step is sort of an all-or-nothing thing; I’ll have to buy a motherboard, CPU, RAM, and video card all at once because none of them will be very useful on their own. (I could get by with the onboard video on the new mobo for a bit if I think video card prices are going to go down shortly, but it’ll get tiresome pretty fast.) I might decide to buy another 2gb of RAM later on, but I think the computer will run just fine with the first 2gb until RAM prices drop more. (DDR3 RAM is starting to come out, as it gets to be more reasonably priced high-end DDR2 RAM will come down in price too. Plus, the mobo I plan to buy has support for DDR3 RAM.)

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July 14, 2007 by Omega.

After quite a bit of work the team has been able to finish up upgrading the wiki to the most recent version of MediaWiki. The domain links directly to the new wiki now, but you may have to refresh the page to get it to show up the first time.

The wiki looks best in Firefox or IE7, there are some known issues with previous versions of IE. Let us know if you have any other problems.

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July 10, 2007 by Omega.

Both domains now link directly to the wiki’s main page. A good amount of information for beginning computer builders has already been written and is available. Also, we have gotten the site ready for ads and can now start trying to make up our hosting costs.

There are still a number of important pages we need written, any green link is a page we plan to have that hasn’t been created yet. Access for creating and editing pages is still almost unrestricted, you don’t even have to sign up to work on articles.

We now have a Wikipedia page! Hopefully this will help get our site increased search engine hits and draw people to the site.

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