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FractalMBrown

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What a strange coincidence. No journals for exactly three hundred and sixty-six days, during which I have effectively been "dead" on this site. Wait, wait, don't get your hopes up. I'm not active on this site anymore. It is official. This journal merely exists to prove a point that I am, in fact, moving to the RedBubble art community, and that I am not an art thief claiming to be ... myself. Or something. A "cover your ass" situation, if you will.

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Not dead yet!

1 min read
Hello there. I just wanted you to know that I'm not dead or anything. ;P I just have been busy with various things. I haven't lost my interest in fractal artwork, I've just been uh.... doing other things. Like programming. I'll get back into my fractal phase eventually. See, it works like this: I have two (or three) phases that I cycle through:

Situation 1: cycle through a.) fractals and b.) programming & music

Situation 2: cycle through a.) fractals b.) programming c.) music

Most of the time it's situation 1 (like it is now)... I'll probably renew my subscription as soon as I decide to resume fractal artwork on dA. Just remember, I'm not dead yet! :D
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Seems like forever since I've logged on. Well, more news. I've got my new Athlon 64 3200+ that replaced my dead Socket A motherboard setup, HOPEFULLY this will be my last upgrade in quite some time. The motherboard that died was Gigabyte, as is this one, but I'm confident in their boards.

For right now, you can expect me to start working on some new fractals relatively soon. An interesting note (probably interesting to nerds such as myself ;P) : I didn't have to do anything to Windows to get it to work, despite switching from a Socket A board to a Socket 939 board. Linux, however, (and this might interest sragets) cannot find my graphics card due to the new interface it's using from a different chipset, with differences in memory controllers, northbridge, southbridge, etc. I'll probably have to reformat and reinstall my Linux partition. It's no biggie, I have no important data on that partition (it's for experimenting anyway).

Well, that's all the news, so the bottom line is that I'm back in action! :D

EDIT: by the way, I have 1,396 messages, which consist of 1247D, 13H, 4M, 6C, 116J, and 10P :rofl:

Bring back $jark!

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Four out of five people agree that my prints should be bought. The fifth one was shot.

Best fractal artists evar!
:iconfib3rglass::iconjfmuni::iconabuseme-::iconrougeux::iconartisticlicensenow::iconenronian:
:iconxisometrix::icondreamwarrior::iconthekobbz::iconlittledeviltoo::iconaeires::iconschieben:
:iconmignon::icondark--matter::iconpimpcesstyna::iconthelma1::iconaliasburn:


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January 3, 2006

5 min read


I'm not dead. That much is true. The reason that I've not been active on deviantART is that my computer's motherboard is fried. (more on that later)
I'm going to be getting a new motherboard (again... all of these computer problems I've had in the past year have been just sucking the money right out of me). This recent turn of events has, however, led me to the realization that my Socket A motherboards are very outdated. Sure, they can run just about any software that's out there right now, but the design is very limited speedwise, and most computer manufacturers are not making Socket A boards for that same reason. The computer parts that I am getting are a Socket 939 Gigabyte GA-K8U-939 board, and an Athlon 64 3200+. I've been trying to keep my spending down by staying away from fancy motherboards and 64 bit processors, but when you think about it, that's the main thing that is being manufactured, and will eventually become standard compared to your typical 32 bit processors right now. I'm thankful though, that I was able to get enough money for this motherboard due to my very very frugal (read: cheap) spending habits. Okay, now to the story about my fried motherboard.

Rewind to December 29, 2005. Or at least that's when I think it happened. On December 23, I had purchased and installed a new harddrive in my computer. During that installation of the harddrive, I apparently had did some dipshit move of removing a stick of RAM while the power supply was still on. Modders beware: even if your computer is powered off, i.e. shut down, you still must unplug your computer. Normally I do this, but I forgot that time. When I had re-installed the RAM, my computer would not boot. The CPU fan would spin up, but my BIOS would not respond with a beep code or any indication of something was wrong. The computer merely stayed in an unreponsive state, with the video card not even initializing. Fearing that my computer was utterly doomed, I removed the RAM that I had forgotten to put back in earlier (I had discovered that my computer was only detecting half of the memory, so I looked and found that only one stick of RAM was in there), and my computer booted up fine! Now, back to the 29th. Deciding to give it one more shot, I put the "bad" stick of RAM back in the motherboard. I plugged it back in and powered it up. Immediately after I pressed the power button, the power light flashed for an extremely short moment and turned back off. My dad and I were stumped, so I removed the RAM once more and plugged it back in and pressed the power button. My computer would not boot. Note: This contradicted the problem of bad RAM that I thought I was having earlier. A slew of troubleshooting steps took place next, including removing any peripherals from the motherboard, including the soundcard, video card, both HDD's, the DVD-ROM drive, and the memory. My computer made a single long beep (that was a good sign, because beep codes mean that the computer is aware of a problem)... however, that was our only luck, as from that point on, the computer was unreponsive, it merely started the CPU fan and stayed like that. Later that day, we went back to the old, infamous Chaintech 7NJL6 motherboard that I had in my computer from April to August. You may remember me bitching about it at one time. If you're interested, it's still unstable. Linux freezes on it too, so don't go saying "well, duh, windows suxkz". People who go around bashing Windows for no reason just... well... piss me off. It's not a bad OS. Anyhoo, my computer parts are back-ordered and should arrive before the end of the month. Until then, I'll use my mom's computer to occasionally check my dA account and my email. See you in two weeks! :D

Bring back $jark!

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Four out of five people agree that my prints should be bought. The fifth one was shot.

Best fractal artists evar!
:iconfib3rglass::iconjfmuni::iconabuseme-::iconrougeux::iconartisticlicensenow::iconenronian:
:iconxisometrix::icondreamwarrior::iconthekobbz::iconlittledeviltoo::iconaeires::iconschieben:
:iconmignon::icondark--matter::iconpimpcesstyna::iconthelma1::iconaliasburn:


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New HD and OS

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Well, I am writing this journal from a Linux distribution called Ubuntu. It's not installed on my computer, as I had it start up from the CD (cool, huh?). I've got two words for it. Sex ay. Even for a CD boot, this thing is running nice and smooth. In other news, my dad and I went to CompUSA last night looking for a Maxtor drive that was advertised for $60 after rebates. Because CompUSA ran out of those, we went to Circuit City and I saw a 250 gig Western Digital drive for $80 after rebates. I decided to get it. Simple enough. 50 gigs for $20 extra seems fine to me ;)

I haven't installed the new HD yet, but when I do, I'm going to format a partition for Ubuntu. Seems like a really smooth OS to me. :D
I'll still have Windows installed, don't worry. :lol:

Bring back $jark!

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Four out of five people agree that my prints should be bought. The fifth one was shot.

Best fractal artists evar!
:iconfib3rglass::iconjfmuni::iconabuseme-::iconrougeux::iconartisticlicensenow::iconenronian:
:iconxisometrix::icondreamwarrior::iconthekobbz::iconlittledeviltoo::iconaeires::iconschieben:
:iconmignon::icondark--matter::iconpimpcesstyna::iconthelma1::iconaliasburn:


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