However, the dsl was with my old company which was TDC, and they apparently still suck big time when it comes to pricing. So, i decided to go with Fullrate, who can offer me 4 times the upload for the same price. And the funny thing about it, is that they use TDCs DSLAMs :)

So just as were moving house, were moving our daughter from one daycare center to another as well. That will most likely be a tough move for her, but its for her good in the long run anyways. It will be such much better in time when she starts wanting to run around, we will actually have our own garden instead of a concrete balcony.

During the past week i also changed my hosting setup a bit, i used to host my blog, and every other web page i host, on my own server here @home on my DSL. But as were about to move, and i have no clue how long i will be offline, i decided to “outsource” all my hosting, and searching for a web host i found this absolute pearl called Gigahost.dk great concept that suits my needs perfectly.

As for my mail server, which is the same physical server, its not so movable as a hosted exchange server costs a freaking fortune. So i might end up either temporary using the mail ability on the gigahost solution, or accept a friends offer to have my server put on a fiber connection for the time being. I haven’t decided on that yet.

Its nicknamed “iPhone killer” i don’t know if its true, but the few pros/cons im aware of are:

Diamond can send & receive MMS, iPhone can not. Diamond can be used to view Java & Flash in the browser, iPhone can not. Diamond can dial in via VPN to a company’s network, iPhone can not. Diamond uses windows mobile 6.1, iPhone uses MacOS .. that’s a good thing for a guy like me, who’s got hes own exchange server etc. And, even if iPhone can do some of these things, its probably gonna be with 3rd party applications =/

Anyways, its on its way to me, and once i get it, i will try to make a tiny “review” of it :) Till then, enjoy this presentation video of the HTC Touch Diamond!

So, within the next 2 weekends, i need to go diving. Preferably SCUBA diving, otherwise i will have to settle for some free diving along the coast of Djursland!

Also, as for hardware, I just got some new parts for my H2O cooling, like a bigger reservoir and some new tubing. So time to pull out that darn air pushing fan, and replace it with my water cooling kit again =) That should allow me to overclock my q6600 back to around 3.6GHz.

In other news, i actually bought some software, i bought NOD32 Anti virus program. Haven’t found anything yet, and probably will not since my hardware firewall already scans everything vital as it comes through =)

First of, i uninstall my 7800 GTX driver from my Vista 32bit installation, shutdown my computer, and replace the 78800 GTX with the 8800 GT card. I boot it up, run a drive sweeper to remove the remains from the old driver, and reboot again. Then i install the, at the time, newest driver for the 8800 GT card downloaded from nvidia.com and reboot again. I then try to run some 3D applications ( Call Of Duty 4, Crysis etc.) and i just can not get anything above 5 FPS ! I do some testing, and end up RMAing the 8800 GT card back to Clanshop.dk where i bought it. The guy from Clanshop calls me, and tells me, hes afraid its not the card, but something else in my system that does not work properly. He agrees to lend me hes own BFG 8800 GT OC card, just so i can be 100% sure its not the gfx card, pretty nice of him if you ask me :) However, the BFG 8800 GT OC card has the same “problem” in my computer. I don’t really know where to start looking for the error. So i do alot of goggling, and start a few threads on various hardware forums, and end up looking at Abits forums. At the time i had a Abit I35 Pro main board, and i read that some people had problems with the new 8800 GT cards. And some question weather r not certain revisions of the main board can handle PCIE 2.0 graphics cards, such as the 88800 GT.

Desperate for finding a solution, i decide to buy a new motherboard. I order an ASUS Maximus Formula motherboard, with a X38 chipset with native PCIE 2.0 slots in it. That should rule out the possibility of the slot not being backward compatible. After a little hassle removing my Water cooling system from the Abit I35 Pro main board, i get the ASUS Maximus plugged in, boot it up, and start up COD4 again. 5 FPS still. I have no idea what the problem is. Until a bloke writes on a forum that he heard of people with a similar issue, who had the same PSU as me!

I read the threads he refers to and come to the conclusion that i should contact NorthQ first thing Monday morning. So, i call NorthQ, and hes says, like its the most natural thing in the world;”Yes, its true, our 1000 Watt and 850 Watt PSUs don’t work with the new 8800GT cards…” and im like;”Okay then, so what are you going to do to solve it?”, he says;”Were awaiting response from NVidia on the issue, till then nothing…” he then suggest i RMA the PSU with the retail store i bought it, and so i do. Fortunately, they give me the money back that i payed for the PSU ~7 months ago. And i bought a new PSU, a be quiet! 600 Watt Dark Power, and with that my system now performs as its suppose to, despite the fact i did not reinstall even though i changed motherboard!

So in short, stay away from the NorthQ 1000 Watt Giant Reactor PSU, at least till they come with an official statement on how the problem can be solved.

Note, that Silverstone 850Watt, Antec 850Watt and Antec 1000 Watt as well as NorthQ 850 Watt has the same problem.

I got the game Guitar Hero 3: Legends Of Rock for Wii as an early Christmas present from my girlfriend last night. And so, the night just vanished and i had spent roughly 5 hours playing a virtual guitar in my living room :) WOW, this game is awesome, and insanely entertaining!

Not knowing this game, is almost a mortal sin, at least thats what i think now. Its the most brilliant and entertaining game i have played for .. well, several years ! To see what i am talking about, i would like to suggest looking at some of the guitar hero 3videos from Youtube, they can be found here.

This could end up being a swell game for new years eve, where we are having friends over :D

The parts i bought, that are worth mentioning are:

Swiftech Apogee GT, XSPC 5.25? Bay Reservoir Pump, HW-Labs GT Stealth radiator cooled by one Scythe S-Flex SFF21D.

The setup all fits inside my Antec P-180B case, which im happy with. Here are some pictures.

I got some new hardware form my stationary PC, and added some more HD space to my server. I still need to get myself a new and insane graphics card for my stationary, but that will have to wait for now.

I finally got around to updating word press, which is the foundation of my homepage/blog here. Its now version 2.3, but it appears to have lots of bugs, so i will update to a 2.3.x something beta shortly i think, because some of the bugs sound a bit serious :)

I started taking my drivers license ( at age 29, i would say its about time :)) however, i will stick with the theory until i can walk again. I’m currently still immobilized because of that damn ankle damage. Perhaps i should check with my doctor, after all, its been 4 weeks since it happened.

I’m still in a learning phase at my new job, but i really like it. I think the job suits me nothing less than perfect, so I’m very glad i took the change :)

On a side note, theres now only 3 months left till our baby is due ;)

Pretty annoying, and so i ordered a W660i from Telmore. Pretty much the same phone, just with another color, but same functionality. This uses another memory card than the old phone though, and it also has 3G. I should be here when i come home from my vacation next Thursday :)

There was only one thing to do, so i was driven back to our huts, and according to the RICE method, i was treated :) So i had 4 days of bed rest with a elevated foot, where i watched all the movie we had brought along, plus i played Lemmings on a friends PSP :)

Going by train from Aarhus to Copenhagen today, and tomorrow we fly from Copenhagen Airport to Sham el Sheik in Egypt, to fly further on to Luxor ( also in Egypt ). There we have to spend the night as we miss the last military convoy with 15 minutes :( Then we have a 250 kilometer drive through the desert until we reach Marsa Alam Ecolodges.

One week of diving later, we will head the same way back home to Denmark :)

I wonder if i get to make up some names for my girl ;)

A friend sold me a E6600 processor for a nice price, and after buying a low end ASrock motherboard and a CM Stacker chassis, I’m now building a new server to replace my old web server, my exchange server, and my FTP server. Also, considering the CPU power of the E6600 I’m most likely going to my my TV Tuner card from my main PC to the server as well. Thats in the future though :)

Heres a few pictures from the installation :)

Friday, i did a Night dive, unfortunately without my newly ordered trebel-light lamp, since the store don’t have it yet.

Today i did a deepdive and a drift dive in Lillebælt. That was dive 4 & 5 of the needed 5 specialty dives needed to be certified as a Advanced Open Water Diver. On the drift dive there was a strong current, and at first it felt like a roller coaster ride, but after a few minutes, you relax a bit more and can enjoy it :) Below 10 meters, the visibility was nothing less than excellent.

So now i have the Advanced Open Water Divers certification, next up is the Rescue Diver course, but I’m not gonna start on that till later this year i think. Plan is to end up being a Master Scuba Diver.

Anyways, I’m currently 2/5 done with my Advanced Open Water Divers certification, and I’m good to go to both Egypt on a diving vacation with 3 male friends, and later in September a week in Norway to go spearfishing with naknemo.dk :D

Part 1 & 2 of the AWOD course was a Underwater Navigation dive, and a Peak Performance Buoyancy dive. I should probably have had a scuba review before i plunged in on the first dive, since the last time i dove was in February in Thailand :) It worked out well though.

Currently I’m waiting for my underwater lamp to be delivered form Germany, i have ordered a 50Watt HID lamp alongside a 12V 13aH battery from trebel-light.com. In short, a big freaking insane light that will glow for approximately 2 hours 45 minutes on a fully charged battery. It should serve me well, both underwater hunting, and SCUBA diving as well :) I just hope to get it before Friday ( 17th ) as I’m going on my first SCUBA night dive :)

After a little consideration, i looked around on suunto.com, and i stumbled across the Suunto D6. Actually, i started looking at the D9 since i read about that wonderful piece of equipment from AIDA (Free Divers association) and that they used it as a official instrument of measuring depths when breaking world records etc. So i knew i was looking at some high quality equipment. And meanwhile its still usable on a daily basis as a regular watch! After being told the price tag on the D9, and knowing the difference between the D9 & the D6, i decided to go for the D6. So I’m now the happy owner of a Suunto D6 watch :D