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December 12, 2001 on 7:38 pm | In Main |Today, it was 45 degrees out driving home from work, with heavy rain and even some hail. Yuck. It won’t be warming up here until we are back from my brother’s wedding.
Along with his normal activities, Sean watched his Spot video this evening. When the video was finished, I rewound the video in preview mode so that I could stop it before the commercials at the beginning of the tape. Sean was just as interested in the spot video playing backwards as he was with the video playing normally. I guess you could say he now knows the spot videos forwards and backwards.
I ordered the last of the computer parts today. I debated quite a bit on what video card to get. I toyed with the idea of getting a combined 3d graphics/tuner/video capture card. With this combination I could watch tv on my computer screen. The new setups even come with remote control. I was really interested in the ATI radeon 8500dv. This model has one of the fastest 3d accelerators as well as the best overall bundle. It was a little pricey at about $330. The finally straw was that this card only works with Win ME, Win 2000 and Win XP. I plan to run Win98SE for a while, with a possible linux dual-boot. I ended up going with the VisionTek 6564, which is a GeForce3 TI200. This is the lower priced of the latest NVIDIA models, but still has respectable performance, and is more affordable at around $180. the NVIDIA cards are know for their driver support, which was an important factor in my decision.
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