3D ships
They do not like eachother!
Yes I still create those silly star trek ship pictures. I should do something else but I can’t be bothered. I guess I am like those painters that always paint the same thing.
Archive for September, 2008
We were on a summer holiday
So this august my girlfriend an I went to france. To the South of Normandy. We saw many beautiful buildings and sights. I was most impressed with Rouen and the view of the Seine from the côte des deux amants.
Deux amants means two lovers in french (I hope I got this right). There was a story about that place. Legend tells a story of a king who did not want his daughter to get married. They could only wed his daughter if they would carry his daughter up a giant steep mountain. Many had tried and all had failed.
One day the daughter falls in love. She tells the man of a potion which will give him the strength to carry her up the mountain. They begin their voyage to the top and they almost made it. But right before they reached their destination they both fell of the mountain and died.
It’s quite sad actually now that I think of it …
My girlfriend and I did reach the top. But I also cheated, I used my car and the road that led up the mountain 
I’ve attached some pictures for you to get an idea of how our voyage was 
The atom board
D945GCLF Board
Well early august I ordered an D945GCLF board from Intel. This mainboard isn’t a super performer but it is the first intel mainboard to use a super low voltage CPU called the atom. The only downside of this board is that it uses an older chipset that draws a lot more power… It kind of ruins the fact that the cpu is designed to use as little as possible. The intel gma950 graphics isn’t that spectacular either. It rules out High definition picture.
Nevertheless this is a nice board to have around to mess with. At a price tag of € 60 this is a bargain. The 2GB of memory only cost me an extra € 20. I used spare parts to put together the system. It’s currently running windows XP MCE, but I might try many different OS’ s on it.
The CPU also supports 64bit so that’s a very nice extra.