Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight TourHey everyone.

I got back to Bismarck on Thursday from St. Paul. I went to a Linkin Park Concert there and it was awesome. Best concert I've ever been to. They encouraged the fans to sing along, and rocked out. We were in general admission, which is the floor area. The best place to be.

Coheed and Combria, and Chiodos also played. They sound pretty cool. The lead singer for Coheed and Cambria has really long hair. It's crazy. It was hard to understand the lyrics of those two bands, because the vocals seemed turned down. I could hear Linkin Park just fine.

Linkin Park had a great set list. "Breaking the Habit" was really cool to hear at the beginning because Mike and Chester were the only ones on stage and Mike was playing the piano, and they slowed it down. Then the entire band came back out and played the song normally. It was awesome. I'll share some videos/pictures with you once I get some from everyone. I plan on doing something special with them, that I think all of you will like. If you get the oppertunity to see Linkin Park live, I'd do it. Just don't bring any pot to the freaking concert. A person next to me lit up, and I'm like "What kind of retard needs to get high at a concert?!" and I was pissed. It was a momorable concert for me, why would you want to forget it? It was crappy because the smoke came right at me and my friend. It sucked. I hate cigarette smoke, so you can imagine how much I hated smelling that. It was still an awesome concert, and I'd go again givin the oppertunity.

Onto some Computer stuff. I rebuilt my old computer finally. I decided that I had a DVD drive that I wasn't using, and a hard drive, I would just pop it in there. Now I had everything else that makes a computer. It was all ready to go except those two parts. For some reason this took a long time. First I put in my DVD drive in the top most slot. Then I tried to put in my Harddrive. The motherboard power chord was in the way though. So I had to take that out. Then the RAM was in the way. I had to take that out. I put in the harddrive, and the screw holes don't line up. Oh well. A loose harddrive in an old rig isn't a big deal.

So I preceed to hook all the chords in, and the IDE chord from the harddrive to the DVD drive to the Motherboard, is too short. Crap. So I take out the DVD drive and put it down two slots and got it hooked up. I put back in the RAM, and this was an adventure. For some reason the RAM took me a long time to put in. It was tough for some reason. I got the RAM in though, I shot air into the power supply for about 15 seconds, there was a lot of dust. I fired up the PC, popped in Ubuntu, and away I went to installing it.

The old girl worked after about 9 months. It was great. I love playing with Ubuntu (linux for those who don't know). It actually worked now that I am not dual booting with it. So that's awesome.

I decided to see how much it would cost to make a sweet ATI/AMD rig. Here's what I came up with (prices from Newegg). If you want more specifics, just click on the links to Newegg.

A few things about it. I actually own the black Sunbeam Transformer case, and it's the perfect case. It's sweet looking (it looks like a Transformer, the robot cars :P), it's roomy, has lots of fans so my computer never really gets hot. It's a really well built case. The harddrives just slide in there using some mounting brackets (that dont require screws) which is also sweet. It also has a little box that goes inside the case that you can put screws and extra mounting brackets in. Then the power supply (Apevia 680 W) is also have I have in my current rig. It's sweet. It has lights, 3 fans, and can handle anything I put in my case. I highly recommend it if you need that much power (if you get a high end video card you will).

I also roamed around Newegg to build a media server. I built a really nice one for under 1000 bucks. I bought a Playstation 3 and it can stream music and movies from your computer to it. I thought, I kinda want a media server that I could access from any computer with internet too. So that's what I did.

I looked at the Phenom 9600 for the processor. I figured the a Quadcore would be good for a server. I also looked at 4 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB harddrive. I also wanted to have the option of turning it into a Digital Video Recorder so I wanted a big harddrive. I knew it would be running for long periods of time, so I wanted a cool case and a quiet one. I found a sweet one with two HUGE fans. The side fan Is the biggest fan I've seen in a computer. Reviews say that it is very quiet. The Sunbeam case is noisey. It sounds like a jet engine when I turn it on. I just think that means it has a lot of power :). So yeah.

I'll be sure to get some videos and pictures up from the concert in the media section soon.

Later.