B-Day

It was my birthday yesterday and this is what i got:

USB Microscope up to 1280x magnification;
1GB RAM for my Ubuntu PC (so that now I have 1.1GB or 1152MB RAM in it :));
Snakehead (the seventh Alex Rider book developed by Anthony Horowitz);
£90;
DVD (can't remember what);
Chocolate thingy saying Happy Birthday;
A tent;
A backpack that you fill with water (called a 'bladder');

I've also ordered for myself (partly with the £90):

Samsung Syncmaster 920NW 19" Widescreen 16:10, up to 1440x900 @ 75Hz;
nVidia Geforce FX5200 128MB PCI Graphics card w/ DVI, VGA, S-Video out;

I'm very happy about the screen and the graphics card, those right now are probably the lowest spec things in my Ubuntu PC (apart from maybe the Intel P4 1.8GHz, i hate to say).

14" CRT 1024x768 @ 60Hz ==>> 19" LCD 1440x900 @ 75Hz;
nVidia Vanta w/ VGA 16MB ==>> nVidia Geforce w/ DVI+VGA+SVideo 128MB;

the first ones are the specs i have now, the second are the ones i'm upgrading to.

Hopefully sometime in the near future i should also upgrade my CPU (as it's upgradeable, i have a Compaq Evo D500 Small Form Factor), and the 20GB HDD. Then it would basically be a new computer! so far (as in when the graphics card comes) it's new/upgraded:

RAM;
Graphics;
CD-ROM (upgraded to DVD+-RW DL);
USB 2.0 card;
OS (from Windows to Ubuntu, i consider that an upgrade ;))

OMG PRESENTS

List of presents:

The Orange Box
USB Missile Launcher
Milk Chocolate Computer, Keyboard and Mouse (!)
Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze (book)
Shed Scientist (book)
...more books

Christmas: overview

Here's a list of all the stuff I got for Christmas and Hannukah:
Christmas:
1) iMage USB Webcam
2) Acecad (whatever that is) Graphics Tablet
3) Really (as in REALLY) comfy cusion/pillow/bean bag kinda thing
4) Two books that I cannot be bothered to repeat the names of
5) 2GB RAM (so I now have 2.5GB RAM in my PowerMacG5 w00t)
6) Really (as in REALLY) comfy/warm/c00l leather jacket
7) Massive Calendar showing images of the earth that look so hi-res they might aswell be vector graphics!
8) T-shirt with a picture of a COMPUTER (from my 6-year-old sister)
9) Moon phase calendar
10) Kit to make a paper model of the celestial sphere
11) Fountain pen
12) Pen to check counterfeit banknotes
13) A ton of chocolate and other gack (including a packet of chocolate raisins from myself)
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And if you want to know what I got for hannukah, look down about 10 posts or so!

More RAM, seriously

I (well, my family) just got £400 for christmas so we'll be getting a new amp and speakers, and I'll be getting more RAM for my GNU/Linux PC, and the PMG5 aswell hopefully.

Goodies are, well, good!

I just got some goodies as hannukah pressies (I celebrate hannukah as I'm a jew). Here they are:

2 GB Kingston DataTraveler USB flash drive.

Logitech cordless optical mouse, has side scrolling, zoom, page scrolling and everything. Some of the features only work with Mac OS X or Windows though, which is a bummer as I use linux :S. Oh well.

Two guide/handbooks: A guide to linux and UNIX/linux commands; and a guide to the linux desktop (i.e. gnome and KDE*).

Guiness World Records 2008 :D.

The Gremlins collection - Gremlins and Gremlins 2. Never watched but it sounds good!

Small steps by Louis Sachar. It is the sequel to an extremely good book called 'Holes'.

Next it will be christmas presents!
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*Gnome and KDE are not the only desktop environments out there for linux - xfce and fluxbox are two others.