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SimCity 5 Box Upgrade Future Plans Wall of Shame, Pt. II Yahoo! Music Engine SimCity 5 Rumor has it that SimCity 5 is on the way. On some screenshots that I found, it seemed great (but needed a lot of processing juice). It should be good because, in my opinion, SimCity 3000 and 4 wasn't that good. I'm planning the continuation of my upgrade phase to cope up with the new games being released (see next section). Box Upgrade I'm still having problems with playing Civilization IV and Need for Speed: Most Wanted. I'm getting a 200GB Seagate hard disk drive next week. Hopefully, it should fix some problems and improve performance. I need more storage space anyway. Also, I should expect a higher setting for video editing. It feels like the hard disk is starting to fail anyway. I'm not getting a SATA until I see significant improvement with the hard disks. Probably when 10,000 RPM hard disks become cheaper. Yes, the drives are the problems, not the interface. Next in line for the upgrade (next month) is the RAM. I'll be getting two sticks of 400MHz 512MB DDR-SDRAM. Then I'll get an AMD-64 processor and a compatible motherboard with SATA ports, this will be a three month saving (unless I get a raise or a bonus). I'll be opening a new bank account tomorrow with BPI to store the cash. When I finish the upgrade phase, I'll be salvaging the old parts for a new box which will serve as my development server. Its services will be backup web storage for my web site, backup storage for the local network and IP-PBX. It'll run on Linux and serve 24/7. It should be up and running by April, 2006 (wow, such long term plans). I have one problem though. I don't know where I'll be putting it. Future Plans I'm thinking of what I'll be saving for next, a new laptop or a PDA. It's 70/30 with my preferrence in favor of the laptop. I'm even thinking of saving for a digital SLR camera (and a tripod because I lost mine). Or my own car. But all I could do now is dream. My choice for the laptop currently is the Samsung M70. It's more of a desktop replacement. I liked the idea of a removable 19-inch LCD screen. It looks bulky though. Then for the PDA, I'm getting a Sharp Zarius. It runs on Linux so this way I don't have to bring my laptop to school and still get to work somehow. But only if I get to use an FTP and SSH client on it. Wall of Shame, Pt. II I was going to add another item to the Wall of Shame but the bastard got away. I was so pissed off I threw it all off at the guard. Yes, I'm sorry for that. Too bad I didn't get to jot down the license plate. Asshole. Yahoo! Music Engine I've heard about it being advertised on Yahoo! Messenger's LAUNCHcast radio but never tried it out since LAUNCHcast isn't that free. The only reason I tried it is because I saw it supported by FoxyTunes. So far, it works good. It really deserves the "engine" name because it'll keep playing unlike Yahoo! IM's native LAUNCHcast client and works better than the latter. But, it looks like a resource hog. I can't feel it with 768MB of RAM though (I'm still conscious about it because I have to remove the extra RAM soon). It also reads MP3 tags faster than Winamp does. I switch from Winamp and Y! ME every now and then. So yeah, check it out if you like streaming music and cute reflective fancy UIs. I read from Yahoo! News that Google (oh the irony) will be starting their music service too. Yahoobadoogle willy fashizzle prickle.

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