Greywind is Dead. Long Live Talon!

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Greywind is Dead. Long Live Talon!

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My ailing and long-suffering desktop computer, the Dell XPS Gen5, a.k.a. "Greywind", gave up the ghost this morning. It will take about a week to get a replacement, so during that time I will have limited computer access. So don't take it personally if I don't respond to many posts over the next week or so.

I did weekly backups, so hopefully no data was lost.

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hi hi

The Emperor is dead, long live the Emperor! (I wonder who would be in line to succeed Greywind.)

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Hopefully more frequent updates are in the cards now :P
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Sic semper tyrannis machina
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Abusus non tollit usum
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Why do they say "long live ...." right after saying "... is dead!" Makes scenes when they say "long live _successor_". Just wondering out loud.

What kind of hardware specs are you thinking of replacing Greywind with?

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Wikipedia says;
"The king is dead" is the announcement of a monarch who has just died. "Long live the king!" refers to the heir who immediately succeeds to a throne upon the death of the preceding monarch.

On the note of specs, did the former have good specs? I am not learned when it comes to digtal drawing or design but many of my friends who are say it needs fairly good specs for some programs.
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The new system is a Dell/Alienware X51, Core i5-4430, 8GB/1TB, GT645. It's not top of the line (which I can't afford at the moment), but it will get the job done. It will certainly be a huge improvement over the old system.

Greywind is/was a Dell Dimension XPS Gen5 Pentium D Dual-Core 3.20GHz running Windows XP with 2GB of RAM, a two-disk 500 GB RAID, and a Dell 1600x1200 20" LCD display. It was top of the line when I bought it... in 2006.

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Arioch wrote:Greywind was top of the line when I bought it... in 2006.
So a mid-level cell phone in 2013 then...

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fredgiblet wrote:
Arioch wrote:Greywind was top of the line when I bought it... in 2006.
So a mid-level cell phone in 2013 then...
It certainly felt that way at times.

(he says, typing on a Galaxy SII)

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hey not everything need to be replaced, my family has owned a lot of computer s and keep them for about 4-5 years of so. I've even still got my old lap top from high school ( so I can play StarCraft one :)).

Personnel when the machine burns out it need to be replace. well good bye Grey wind, you gave great service to Outsider.

you shall be missed

PS: what the new computers name ?
I am a wander, going from place to place without a home I am a NOMAD

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NOMAD wrote:PS: what the new computers name ?
Ashrain? :lol:
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It's small and plucky... I think I will name it Talon.

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Arioch wrote:It's small and plucky... I think I will name it Talon.
:D

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GREYWIND2

Alternatively, whoever the Fifth Loroi Emperor's going to be.
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Before Greywind was Fireblade, before that was Nausicaa and Kei, back when I used to build my own PC's. I had little Nausicaa and Kei stickers (in the place on the generic case where the "brand" name would go) and everything.

Ugh, I have my new monitor (plugged into my Playstation 3), and it's quite nice... the contrast for darker colors is much better than my old monitor, so I can clearly see mistakes in some artwork (notably the shuttle boarding panel) in areas that I thought were too dark to notice.

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does this mean we will get more Talon loving? she be cute...maybe some OS-tan version of Talon? Talon pinups? Talon lunch boxes?

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Huh, I always figured that you, as a software developer, would be into computers enough to build your own. Not interested in the hardware side, not enough time, or what?
Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? It's not my department. -Wernher von Braun

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