--- thedizl.com --- http://thedizl.com/blog a blog of technobabble and incandescent antimatter Thu, 27 May 2010 02:27:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Leaving Facebook was tough… http://thedizl.com/blog/rants-raves/leaving-facebook-was-tough/ http://thedizl.com/blog/rants-raves/leaving-facebook-was-tough/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 02:26:05 +0000 Sean http://thedizl.com/blog/?p=111 Leaving Facebook was tough... but if I can do it, anyone can.  With willpower comes responsibility, ya know?  Besides... you can afford to do something else with your time for a little while... can't you?  If even 1/10th of the Facebook population decided to do something else with their time, in protest of Facebook's dichotomous privacy stance, they would be shaking in their boots.  Popular sites don't last forever, and Facebook will be replaced by a better alternative eventually.  It's the only saving grace of capitalism... right?

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A sneak peak at the rig (shipping this week!):

Asus P6X58D Premium motherboard

Intel Core i7 930 2.8 GHz quad-core processor

6Gb OCZ Gold DDR3 PC3 12800 RAM (3 x 2GB dims, triple-channeled)

PNY GeForce 9800 GT video card - 512mb GDDR3

HT | Omega CLARO Plus+ 7.1 Channels 24-bit 192KHz PCI Interface Sound Card

Corsair TX750W PSU

Seagate Barracuda ES.2 HDD 250Gb (2 for OS mirror)

Asus Blu-ray drive

]]> http://thedizl.com/blog/diy/building-a-new-pc-4/feed/ 0 OiNK Admin Found Not Guilty Walks Free http://thedizl.com/blog/music/oink-admin-found-not-guilty-walks-free/ http://thedizl.com/blog/music/oink-admin-found-not-guilty-walks-free/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:58:17 +0000 Sean http://thedizl.com/blog/?p=104 Not Guilty

"Lawyers have presented their final arguments in the trial of Alan Ellis. The prosecution slammed the ex-OiNK admin, saying that the site was set up with dishonest and profiteering intentions right from the start. The defense tore into IFPI and countered by calling Ellis an innovator with talents to be nurtured. Today the jury returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty, and Ellis walked free."

http://torrentfreak.com/oink-admin-found-not-guilty-walks-free-100115/

]]> http://thedizl.com/blog/music/oink-admin-found-not-guilty-walks-free/feed/ 0 My moe.dest collection of moe. music http://thedizl.com/blog/music/my-moe-dest-collection-of-moe-music/ http://thedizl.com/blog/music/my-moe-dest-collection-of-moe-music/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:35:21 +0000 Sean http://thedizl.com/blog/?p=102 Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of year.  Being thankful for anything and everything our lives offers us is a virtue worth pursuing more often than once a year.  But one thing I am always especially thankful for during this holiday is TIME, because I never seem to find enough of it.

So what am I doing with my time?  Well, for one I am selling my Ninja 250 since it's basically collecting leaves and dust in our yard.  I'm also finally getting around to installing the 1.5TB 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda HDD I bought almost three months ago.  Yeah, I know...

Last but not least, I'm finally organizing my massive collection of (mostly) music, including my library of studio, soundboard, and live recordings of my favorite band moe.  (and if you haven't experienced the live jam phenomenon that is moe. -- I'm sorry.)

Here it is, about half complete, weighing in at an impressive 22.4 Gigabytes (and growing) :

moe. library

moe. library

Hooray for inexpensive storage.

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