Thanks Steve! Nice to know I made some sort of impression! ;P
Yeah, traffic does seems much lower (not necessarily a bad thing; SNR seems
higher!), but I'm helping up it a little with my recent posts methinks, as
I've been dithering over buying a lot of tech, and this seems like the
perfect time to return here and gather some info! ;)
As far as what I'm running, I mentioned in my first post that I *hanging
head in shame* don't really use my desktop much anymore...it's mainly for
games and I bought it late 2004 when Dell had a sale (Dell Dimension XPS Gen
4 system with a P4 34Ghz, 2GB RAM, 2 WD 10k Raptors in RAID 0, ATI Radeon
X800XT [not the Plat! :P], 3 20" Dell monitors and a nice Klipsch 5.1
speaker system) so I could play Half-Life2 (which I'm still only halfway
through btw! :P) and I haven't upgraded it since...mainly b/c of work
(traveling a lot) and the GF; so there's not much time for games lol!
I've thought about getting a better vid card (I do have a PCI-X x16 slot so
I could get something decent in there) and maybe souping it up a little with
a slightly faster proc and RAM (mainly to see if I can get Oblivion to run
at a higher framerate since I bought the game but haven't really played it
yet), but it's probably not worth it anymore, so I'll be sure to start a
thread on that shortly once I get my other (mainly USB device-related)
questions answered. Thanks for asking! ;)
BINO
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Re-introduction for Bino Gopal...
Welcome back Bino.
I remember the name if only from the fact that it looked like a word
with some letters missing ;-)
Traffic is much lower than in the old days.
What are you running these days?
Steve
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Bino Gopal <[email protected]> wrote:
> </unlurking after ~1 week>
>
>
>
> Hey folks, just wanted to take a minute and say "Hi!" as it's been a
while;
> so long in fact that I can't even figure out how long it's been since I've
> been on the list, but I'm finally back!
>
>
>
> It's good to see all the old familiar names in my email inbox, like
> DHSinclair, and Steinie, and James Boswell, and Thane S, and Steve T, and
> Jim McCraw, and Christopher Fisk, and Eli Allen and Harry McGregor and the
> Brians (Weeden and Seitz)! Who said you can't go home again! ;) And the
> list is still here and it's the same-old discussion with DH and all his
> *OLD* toys and Thane still dealing with fixing other people's problems and
> everyone asking what's the best; it's so cool!
>
>
>
> Anyway, just wanted to say hi and hello and all that! Hope to be posting
> more soon as I've had thoughts on a few threads I wanted to start, but
just
> no time right now (in addition to just getting sick this week), but you'll
> see some soon! ;)
>
>
>
> Now some nostalgia/history-related questions: is Jim still around as I see
> that the mailman page says it's run by jedwards, but I haven't seen him
post
> on here yet.any others of the old guard around that I haven't seen post
> either? Does someone have a history and the evolution of the group,
either
> btw? Maybe I'm just being nostalgic, but wanted to know how things
> progressed while I was off saving the internet (ok just working on helping
> the big dotcoms build out their websites) and find out what happened. Did
> we ever have any other cons/meetups after 2001 or so, or has it all just
> stayed virtual? I guess I must have lost track after I lost my
Columbia.edu
> email account, when I left NYC and moved to LA.anyone with better archives
> than me know?! :P
>
>
>
> Anyway, great to be back, and great to see that the "collective" (at least
> this one, as I'm a member of at least three others) is still here!
Cheers,
> and Happy New Year 2009 btw!
>
>
>
>
> BINO (Bino Gopal, aka keltraine online most places now)
>
>
