Aleph Ersatz

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

New and Improved

After about a month of waiting, I finally have a newer and better system, and it’s running in parallel with my older system. Big plus was the new system was 100% free!

I had the following items donated:

ATI PCI-X X700

Decent Intel Mother Board with a 3GHz Core2 Duo Processor

1 GByte of PC4200 DDR1 RAM

350 Watt PS for the C2Duo

250 GB SATA HDD

Traded for some PC2700 RAM that I used to upgrade the old comp too. Plus there may be a second 19″ CRT in the future. Huge stroke of luck, couple of weekends of work, but it worked out quite well.

If anyone wants to donate to the Aleph-is-too-poor-to-buy-a-new-computer fund, I still need a second DVD-R or DVD-RW and decent AGP 4x video card. Once I have that, I will have a good and decent computer, both for relatively little cost! Huzzah.

Now to get this blog back into shape and used again….anyone know a decent photo album plugin for Word Press?

posted by aleph at 8:45 pm  

2 Comments »

  1. Nice, Who donated all the parts?

    What are you looking for in a photo album?
    I use a gallery script called Zen photos http://www.zenphoto.org/
    I have an auto install/update script if you want me to install it.

    Its an upload and go script. It uses a SQLite flat file database that is rebuilt on upload of new images.
    All you need to do is upload all your images to a directory and hit the rebuild button and it will do the rest.

    Example:
    http://www.abluestar.com/gallery/

    Comment by Steven Smethurst — May 29, 2008 @ 11:23 am

  2. My brother donated most of it. My Dad, one of my co-workers and my boss have all chipped in parts though. :)

    Something simple, yet flexible. I want to be able to
    - create grouped galleries of images, with names
    - add large visible comments to pictures so I can make notes about the images
    - have simple tumbnails
    - add titles
    - allow comments

    I don’t mind manually uploadig each photo either. Basically, I’m trying to find a way to get my art back online so it can be viewed again.

    Comment by aleph — May 29, 2008 @ 9:18 pm

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