The History of Niblotroina

Every Nibloin grows up with a romantic version of the civil war that created their nation. They block the actual events that started the war, the Battle of the Valets. Even skeptical historians speak of "technological advances the nobles could have financed but could not have conceived" (Gizhemker, p.61).

Let's face it: a valet stole a car; twenty-three years later, he retired from being the first Prime Minister of Niblotroina. Between these poles he turned some lazy dudes into a fighting legion, overcame some of his own hubris, wiped a few towns off the map, got married twice and made a new ice cream process. Tatallz and Coyteshchay fill "The Cult of the Prime Dude: Harris Nashinger's Life and Fan Club" with chapters about these events, but even they avoid the basic part of the story that comes ten minutes before the carjacking. Why did they skirt this, when they had the chance to speak to the last of the original Armorist Wave generals and must have some of these stories in their interview notes?

I decided to pull apart all of these notes and sources to get a view of the "ball of energy that got even the elderly to rise up against their children, mothers to arm their daughters, clergy to stab businessmen" (Tat. & Coyte., p.102). What I found is a great is deep conundrum.

-let me know if want to learn more, Ps/d

Geek entry: I macked out an out-of-date Gateway and it lived

Remember the P3 600 MHz Katmai I was fixing before I went away for a week? It's still here. The first few days of this week have involved lots of kitty wrangling. Now that I've figured out some tricks with Flynn, I had time to get that old Gateway to stay on longer than twenty minutes (which was a major improvement from ninety seconds but still nasty lame).

I got the CPU cooling assembly apart. The original heatsink paste was this lovely shade of blue and looks like it was applied by a cow's udder. I sat there scraping the schmutz carefully. I also sanded the heatsink with 600-grade paper. Of course, this also gave me the time to watch Graham Norton.

I wanted to shove a nickel between the heatsink and the cache chips (you put conductive paste on both sides of the coin and it becomes a conduit), but the clearance was too small for even a dime. I also had a different SECC2 heatsink to try, but that one had special gaps around the L2 cache chips that made the nickel too loose.

I also put on this copper northbridge heatsink with a low-profile fan. This thing is darling cute. I installed it with the sticky pad that came with it, even though I have some Zalman goo I could use.

Then I booted the pup and it liked my work. I've had memory test running for 100 minutes and the machine shows no sign of sweating. The heat is moving to the respective heatsinks fluidly. I am pleased.

This progress means I can finish the box this weekend, get it out of here and get ducats. I can also work on the more important tasks I have: getting my new micro-box set up and quieting Maggie's computer.

Yes, i realize this is completely boring compared to the other post. However, I needed to write both. Should I perhaps create a separate LJ for this geek crap?

-hmmmmm, Dante