Wishful thinking?
Roll your own computer: tempting to spend more than you planned to. Say hello to TramperEngine.
I have spent today looking at computer component prices. I have built up a computer that is quite nice (A Thermaltake XaserIII V1000A case with 480W PSU, P4 3.2Ghz 800mhz FSB, Asus P4P800, 1GB RAM (of some brand, perhaps Kingston), Western Digital 120GB SATA HDD, Asus 16x DVD-ROM and 52×24x52x CD-RW, Asus V9950Ultra TVD 256mb, 17″ LCD monitor (perhaps Benq, I haven’t studied these properly yet)). Unfortunately, that will cost closer to $4000 than $3500. That leaves less than $1000 for networking equipment and a Linux box. Now that I’ve written that down, it doesn’t actually look so bad. If this Honours scholarship comes through, I’ll be laughing, as it were.
I started The Glorious Melding yesterday, and called it TramperEngine. I plan to build it gradually over the next year. Hopefully by six months, it will be somewhat playable, at least enough for me to begin tramping.
December 14th, 2003 at 3:16 pm
Hmm, may I recommend the ASUS E616 for the DVD drive? It’s patchable and (unlike my burner), it has yet to show any signs of laser or spindle degradation.
This is a test of the BBCode, purely for my own entertainment:
Bold
Italic
Bold and Italic
Both but badly nested tags
December 14th, 2003 at 8:02 pm
Teeheehee… funny that someone else has read this… it?s just for practice and to build up some content for when the site goes online for real. Good to know that it works, though!
Well, almost, since it appears that the BBCode has stuffed up the code that adds the line breaks.
The specs of the machine will change, since I won?t have the necessary cash until sometime in mid-February. Who knows what developments will be made before then.
EDIT: I’ve just noticed another bug: when you edit a comment, it changes the apostrophe characters into question marks. Nasty.
December 17th, 2003 at 10:07 pm
?Just to get? some ?apostrophes? and stuff. And some en?dashes and?em?dashes.
EDIT: Damn this piece of shit.
December 17th, 2003 at 10:17 pm
I fixed the problem with the BBCode and <br />s. The thing is, I think I’ve messed something else up in the process, but I’m not sure what. You see, I had a line of code that specifically told it not to translate a newline after an HTML tag. Since the BBCode is parsed prior to this translation taking place, newlines were being discarded. But I must have put that line in for a good reason! We’ll see, I guess, when I’ve got the Archive working and can actually view previous entries with ease.
December 19th, 2003 at 2:51 pm
Well, it seems to have fixed some problems…
I’m just wondering what happens if you enclose non–tags with square brackets,
Par example: [elephant] [q] [/q]
How about repeated tags?
[b][b]hello?[/b][/b]
What about unclosed or unopened tags?
[/b][/i][/u]–These should print
[b]if there is a a bold tag at the start of this sentence then unclosed tags are not handled.