I see that I'm becoming Mr Negativity on this page.... My last blogs are a rantfest. Here's one more. Heh.

My PC has been unstable for a while now. It all started about half a yr ago when one of the fans on the mobo died. I haven't really had any problems other than frequent crashes in demanding games. I could live with that, until last week that is.

All of a sudden my computer started to BSOD on my ass, I reinstalled some drivers, same problem, I ran a disk check, things got even worse. It started to reboot indefinitely. After 10-15 reboots, I decided to reformat the whole thing.

My first attempt at that was a phail. The PC froze up 37% into the extraction of XP-files (or something like that). Second time things went fairly smooth. I should have done this a long time ago, my PC boots up soooo much faster now and uses half the amount of RAM when idle compared to just a week ago.

So, things seemed to be fine and dandy again, right? Probably a software problem, I thought. That turned out to be semi-true. Last night the PC did not even put out an image to my TV. I had to restart it 15 times to even get Windows running. Even then, my PC sometimes just freezes after 20 seconds. Funny thing though, if it's stable for a couple of minutes, it'll be stable for many hrs. This is really weird.

I want to get a new PC, but only a moron would buy a new rig right now. W7 is right around the corner, no way am I paying twice for a Windows OS in a year. Don't even get me started on the prices of DDR3 RAM and the new Intel-mobos. AMD is about to release new CPUs and mobos as well.

What all this means is that I'm stuck with a PC that is about to draw a last breath. If it does that, I'll have to buy a crappy laptop to be able to at least pay my bills and check my e-mail.

The really sad thing is that I'm not sure whether I can play modern gfx intensive games on this PC or not. I'm glad I have a PS3 and a 360 as well.

This week I think I'll be setting a new personal record. 93 hr work-week. Maybe more if I work overtime. In the ER. Nightshifts only. Artur crazy. Artur sleep deprived, insomnia.. Cannot compute.

I'm wondering: what is the most you've worked in one single week?

If anyone remembers, I've used some of the last 3-4 months on ripping my CD collection to my shiny new HD as FLAC-files. It is supposed to be a lossless codec that sounds the same as a WAV-file (which is pretty much a direct rip of a song without any compression whatsoever).

I am an audiophile. I want the best possible sound coming out of my speakers/headphones. That is why I buy MP3-players that support the best formats (soundwise) and that is why I just bought new and AWESOME Tannoy speakers and Pioneer receiver. I love music and I love to listen to it without hearing the crappy digital compression in the upper and lower frequencies.

So... On to the point of this blog. I just put a CD into my disc-drive just to see if the soundquality is indeed intact when I convert files to FLAC (I could not shake the feeling that the music sounds a bit digitalized). Well, it's not. There are differencies in the dynamics of a song and the cymbals sound like crap in FLAC compared to a CD/WAV-files. Even my Foobar-player tells me that the bitrate of a WAV-file is 1411 kbps, while that of a FLAC-file around 900-1000 kbps. So now I have to re-rip half of my CD-collection.

God ****ing damn it!!!

That is all.