The Singularity Collective

          A Flight Simulation addict’s perspective on gaming and life

Entries for August, 2007

Ding!

I got Androth up to 41st level last night by starting the Scarlet Crusade series of quests and finishing up a couple other quests. My main immediate goal is to obtain better weapons and arm r for Androth as I progress… the reward for the Scarlet Crusade series of quests (which ends up running the [...]

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World of Warcraft

So I finaly got online to play a bit again on Sunday evening. I played with one of my sons my newest toon, a Draenei female Paladin named Likimeya. I leveled her three times (we started them out at 9th when we got started), so that was kinda cool. Ironically, despite playing two Paladins now, [...]

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Things aren’t quite as bad as I’d thought

Last night I went through my Event Logs on my system and found that I’ve been having a slew of atimag errors about my monitor “not being the correct type” for my ATI card. After some rather heavy research I found that this is a problem that’s relatively common for people with the 7.8 and [...]

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Scary again

So… I spent several days troubleshooting my computer issues. Tried several video cards, different sticks of memory, my own memory in different configurations (and single sticks), a different motherboard, and different processor. It all boils down to what I originally assumed to be the case… at least my motherboard is damaged… and possibly my processor [...]

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Scary… continued

Well, it got worse than I thought. The machine worked after I put it all back together… but it’s most certainly not “normal”. The system seems to be running at less than 20% of it’s original speed. To get any of the games and other processor dependant programs I run running well I’ve had to [...]

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Scary

Last night I finaly picked up a decent headset mic… a Logitech 350. It’s a USB setup with a cute little button volume controller about 2 feet down the line from the headset itself (which also mutes the microphone when pressed… more on that below). I don’t have a lot of open USB slots on [...]

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Updates… yay, updates

Sometimes flight simulation can be a royal pain in the ass. Take last weekend for example. I wanted to get started with the VATSIM Los Angeles ARTCC’s Pilot Certification program. However, being the perfectionist I am, I didn’t want to fly the 182Q I typically fly up in the Seattle area, a red, white, and [...]

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