Elif Tymes
03-28-05, 09:13 PM
I'm fairly confident I'm the only one who does this, I mean who else is as dense as I?
I was browsing a forum on Linux, and I was seeing all these posts about BSD! things like "Yea, I just installed FreeBSD, but I have a few driver questions" other posts similiar to this one were cropping up, and I got utterly confused.
Why were people installing the Blue Screen of Death upon their computers? I mean, I've spent the last few years of my life attempting to avoid it. The other thing I was wondering about was "I thought Linux didn't Blue Screen, this makes me not want to use it now..."
Then it hit me. it wasn't a low impact, like a paintball on a sunny day, where you just wind up with a small bruise and the rest of your life you remember that as a excellent experience with your friends.
This was like that scene in The Search for the Holy Grail, where they launch the wooden rabbit over the fence and very nearly squish King Arthur to miniscule pieces.
FreeBSD was NOT the Blue Screen of Death. Thats BSoD. Brilliance, infinite Brilliance.
Now, thats not the only time my infinite brilliance exudes from my very soul.
This entire week I was looking at my old 2x256MB OCZ sticks, I loved these sticks, and I knew they used CH-5. They rock hard @ 230Mhz, but I mean, hey. I need more.
So, I just got my 2 new OCz PC4200 RAM, and lo and behold, on the sticker I see "512MB Dual CH"
What?!?!? I exclaim, CH-5? on 4200 RAM? Heavens to betsy! I can't believe this, I had just got off the AIM with our(and OCz's) Very OCz Sean, who stated CH-5 really only hits about 230 in the 2x256 MB Variety. I immediately contacted him again(Major props, btw to OCz for their mad customer service) and asked him which chips are in the 4200 Performance Series. I was informed Hynix, something something something. I questioned him again, saying "Well, mine says CH on them, so I assume they are CH-5"
I can very well imagine the look he was giving his PC Screen, and the thoughts that ran through his mind "I had better get a raise for this" and "Are people really that stupid, or is this an act?" He didn't say either of those, for which I am thankfull.
Then it hit me again.
DUAL CH stands for DUAL CHANNEL! DURR! Infinite Brilliance!
That time it sort of slowly dawned on me. Like when your surfing in the beautifull carribean, and you just realized that you had a small cut, and those fins out of the water are NOT, in fact, flipped over surfboards, but something slightly more sinister. Oh, and the cuts been leaking blood for the last 45 - 50 minutes.
Bad news.
Yes, now you post your own stories of your infinite brilliance, we all have moments when the lights turn on, and we are caught staring straight in them. Or we're like the frogs in the pots, they start the water at low, then medium, then high.
By then we're cooked.
I was browsing a forum on Linux, and I was seeing all these posts about BSD! things like "Yea, I just installed FreeBSD, but I have a few driver questions" other posts similiar to this one were cropping up, and I got utterly confused.
Why were people installing the Blue Screen of Death upon their computers? I mean, I've spent the last few years of my life attempting to avoid it. The other thing I was wondering about was "I thought Linux didn't Blue Screen, this makes me not want to use it now..."
Then it hit me. it wasn't a low impact, like a paintball on a sunny day, where you just wind up with a small bruise and the rest of your life you remember that as a excellent experience with your friends.
This was like that scene in The Search for the Holy Grail, where they launch the wooden rabbit over the fence and very nearly squish King Arthur to miniscule pieces.
FreeBSD was NOT the Blue Screen of Death. Thats BSoD. Brilliance, infinite Brilliance.
Now, thats not the only time my infinite brilliance exudes from my very soul.
This entire week I was looking at my old 2x256MB OCZ sticks, I loved these sticks, and I knew they used CH-5. They rock hard @ 230Mhz, but I mean, hey. I need more.
So, I just got my 2 new OCz PC4200 RAM, and lo and behold, on the sticker I see "512MB Dual CH"
What?!?!? I exclaim, CH-5? on 4200 RAM? Heavens to betsy! I can't believe this, I had just got off the AIM with our(and OCz's) Very OCz Sean, who stated CH-5 really only hits about 230 in the 2x256 MB Variety. I immediately contacted him again(Major props, btw to OCz for their mad customer service) and asked him which chips are in the 4200 Performance Series. I was informed Hynix, something something something. I questioned him again, saying "Well, mine says CH on them, so I assume they are CH-5"
I can very well imagine the look he was giving his PC Screen, and the thoughts that ran through his mind "I had better get a raise for this" and "Are people really that stupid, or is this an act?" He didn't say either of those, for which I am thankfull.
Then it hit me again.
DUAL CH stands for DUAL CHANNEL! DURR! Infinite Brilliance!
That time it sort of slowly dawned on me. Like when your surfing in the beautifull carribean, and you just realized that you had a small cut, and those fins out of the water are NOT, in fact, flipped over surfboards, but something slightly more sinister. Oh, and the cuts been leaking blood for the last 45 - 50 minutes.
Bad news.
Yes, now you post your own stories of your infinite brilliance, we all have moments when the lights turn on, and we are caught staring straight in them. Or we're like the frogs in the pots, they start the water at low, then medium, then high.
By then we're cooked.