I had a temporary hiatus from having a top of the line desktop, and sold it off to just have a laptop. Durring the time I was really into linux, and gaming took a back seat to learning how everything work in nix :P Then I got a $100 newegg gift certificate for a grad present and I had nothing else to spend it on than a new desktop. All I needed was a processor, heatsink, mobo and ram. I managed to get all of that for under $100. $100 got me an amd x2 4050e 2.1ghz, 1gb ddr2 ram, biostar mobo, and...

Alright when vista came out, I was confused when I came to to the control panel. I had to actually google how to change a few settings, and I've been using windows since 3.1 >.<

Why change a common format after years of having the same setup. I hate the stupid network center crap. Oh whats wrong with my internet, well apparently I'm disconnected from the freaking globe. That's alot of help, thanks Microsoft for including this visual aid that doesn't do s**t! And what's up with...

As a graduation presnt someone gave me a $100 gift card to newegg All my other graduation money is going to car insurance so i wasnt about to get a crazy gaming rig. :P I was origianlly going to buy a terabyte hard drive to replace my 500gb that is almost full, but I decided to challenge myself into trying to rebuild a gaming rig for under $100.

I got a tiny biostar am2 board (with a pcie slot of course) an amd athlon x2 brisbane 4050e processor, stock heatsink and 1gb of pc 5400...

I now use my laptop for everything. I even have it rigged up to my 22" lcd, which was easier to hook up in linux that I thought. One thing I do miss from having a desktop is all the yateloons and the ambient noise they put out (40-45dba) So I rigged one to a test psu and taped it to my desk so I could sleep better. I wake up this morning and it is super cold in my room :P So if you want to cool yourself down this up comming summer, buy a bunch of yate loons or delta fans and your room temp...

I've fully switched to linux recently, and I pretty much an linux elitist now. Prepare to be flamed by me if you start a linux sucks / windows is better than windows thread. LOL just kidding about that, but I do hate ms more than ever.

I started with my linux adventure during xmas break when I got my laptop. I statred out with ubuntu 8.10 but now I'm one week into using Arch. It was a tricky road to go down, but now I got the general hang of how everything works. Since I've always...