Liam the Defiler and Despoiler's Fall 2014 Opus
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======Introduction======
My name is Liam Wall, known widely as a spoiler of innocence and reaper of destruction, generally a pretty cool dude. My interests include indie games (check out a PC game called Crawl with a couple friends, it's pretty great), reading books (check Patrick Rothfuss and Dan Abnett), watching movies/vids (anything by Studio Ghibli), music (try Vildhjarta and St. Vincent), and really anything else that I perceive as being creative or interesting at the time. Anything I develop an interest in I tend to try at least once, and from there I tend to keep doing a lot of the things I try.
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======Data Structures Journal======
Today was the first day of class. We largely focused on reading over the syllabus and getting NEWBS up to date with getting onto Lab46, and understanding the general philosophy of the LAIR.
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======Data Communications Journal======
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======HPC Experience I Journal======
-I chose this project essentially because I wanted a computer, but also because I had really no concept on what was on the inside and how computers work. Throughout the year, I endeavored to get all of the parts required for it, and build it, recording the process. For this, I needed:
This is the card that's currently in my machine. It is property of the LAIR that I intend to return as soon as I get a better card.
It also apparently has a picture of a sullen Jake Gyllenhal in armor on the side.
So very sullen.
This card is substantially more powerful than the last. Combined with the intel core i5-2405s processor I've got in the system, it's powerful enough to run some games at a much better pace than my laptop (that could be to my laptop being full of shit that i've downloaded, but heyyyyy).
This is thecomputer's more permanent storage. This is where non-active programs and files are stored. This one's older, so I think it only hold like 80 gigs or something, but a lot of newer ones can hold like 500 gigs up to a terabyte of storage. This is a magnetic disk hard drive, with spinning disks that rotate at extremely high speeds and little reader heads that are exceedingly sensitive that whip back and forth across the disk at blurring speeds. The space between the reader head and the disk is less than the width of a human hair, so just a speck of dust falling on these systems when they are exposed is enough to ruin a hard drive. This is why they are securely encased in metal and plastic. Some newer hard srtive are actually Solid State drives, which means they have no moving bits. They are basically really big flash drives. Because of this, they are very fast storage and are more duarble (no reader heads to fuck up). They do however have a limited amount of times you can write over them, so they are nice for putting your OS on because OS's don't take up as much room as, say, your torreents library, so you can buy a small one to put it on, ad it won't be constantly rewritten by your downloads.