Geek thread, whats your Rig setup?

[Marc]

AMD 1800+ (forget the mhz)
768mb RAM
GeForce 3 TI200 64mb (Graphics Card)
Philips 5.1 soundcard
Philips 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker/Sub Woofer setup
15" LCD 1024x768 screen


Today my 'GeForce FX5200 256mb DDR AGP RP DVI' graphics card turned up, will be able to watch downloaded <cough> movies on my TV instead of the little LCD screen.
Also gradually upgrade to 1gig+ RAM & faster CPU in the coming months...mainly for HL-2 and Doom3 but also for SWG: Jump To Lightspeed & future GTA games.


What you got?

 

[Barnet Seagull]

At home. . .


ASUS A78NX Deluxe
AMD Athlon XP 2700+
1.5gb PC3100 DDR RAM (don't ask)
2 x Seagate Barracuda 120gb 7200rpm SATA Drives (RAID)
1 x Maxtor 80gb 7200 ATA133 drive
Abit Siluro GeForce 4200 TI 128mb
Creative Audigy 2 Platinum Pro
Creative Gigaworks s750
Samsung SM172MP 17" LCD

 

[Mr C]

I got a 5200 a while back so I could play games... err I mean "test the multimedia capabilities" of my machine at work.

Marvellous scenes

 

[CHAPPERS]

I am SO happy that I don't understand any of the above.

What's a 'rig'?

 

[pasty]

WTF I gotta pc innit

 

[Kryten]

wtf are you talking about?

 

[Marshy]

I am SO happy that I don't understand any of the above.

What's a 'rig'?

I think it makes you feel better if you have a small cock !

 

[Marc]

I think it makes you feel better if you have a small cock !

yeah and?


a Rig is whats under your hood....OK a Rig is the components that make your PC work basically! all the bits inside that no doubt you never knew existed!

 

[Kryten]

computer tower thingy
monitor
speakers
mouse
printer/scanner
keyboard

is that right?

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

The masts, rigging, and sails of a
1st Rate Ship of the Line

Masts & Yards
The Victory is a 'ship rigged' vessel because she has 3 masts and a bowsprit. From the head of the ship the masts are named as follows: the bowsprit, which projects at an angle, the fore mast, the main mast; and the mizzen. Each mast is made in three sections: lower mast, topmast, and topgallant mast. The bowsprit, also three parts, comprises the bowsprit, jibboom, and flying jibboom.

Each mast supports horizontal spars called yards. They are named after their respective masts: lower yard; topsail yard; topgallant yard. In light winds royal yards were hoisted above the topgallant yards.
Masts and yards were made from either pine or fir because this type of timber was very supple and light in weight. Because of their size, the lower masts had to be made from 5 to 7 trees shaped and fitted together and bound with iron hoops.

The total weight of the complete set of masts, yards, and booms would have been about 88 tons (89.4 tonnes).


Rigging
A little over 26 miles (42 km) of rope was used to rig the Victory, the largest being 19 inches (48 cm) in circumference. All rigging is divided into two groups; standing rigging and running rigging.

Standing rigging, which comprises all the black tarred ropes, supports the masts only. It is divided into 3 groups; forestays, backstays, and shrouds.

The running rigging, which comprises all the untarred (natural) cordage, is used to hoist and turn the yards. These ropes are called; jeers, lifts, ties, halyards and braces. Running rigging also set or furled the sails. These ropes are called tacks, sheets, clewlines, buntlines, leechlines and brails.
To ease the work of operating the yards and sails as many as 768 pulley blocks were used. These were made from elm, ash, or beech.

One suit of sails for the Victory comprised 37 sails providing a total sail area of 6,500 square yards (5, 428 square metres). In addition the ship carried 23 spare sails.

A total length of 64,000 yards (58,240 metres) of canvas was required to make a one set of sails for the Victory.

All sails were sewn together by hand. It took 20 men 83 days to manufacture one complete suit of sails for the Victory. The estimated cost of this work at the period was £1,300.

The monthly wages for sailmakers were Master Sailmaker, £1. 15 0d a Master Sailmaker's Mate, £1. 8s. 0d and a Sailmaker, £1. 5s. 0d.


Sails

The names of the sails
Sails, either quadrilateral or triangular in shape, are divided into two categories: square sails and fore and aft sails.

Square sails are bent (laced) onto horizontal wooden spars called yards. The name of each sail related to its respective yard and mast. For example; the sails on the main mast were, from top to bottom, called the main course, main topsail, main topgallant, and main royal. Royals were only set in very light winds.

In light winds additional square sails called either studding sails, stunsails, or steering sails, were set on booms, which extended out from the yards. Set in pairs, larboard (port) and starboard, these sails were named as follows; Lower stunsail, topsail stunsail, and topgallant stunsail. These were only rigged on the fore and main mast.

The fore and aft sails were set up on ropes called stays that extended between the masts. Taking their name from their respective masts these sails were generally called staysails. For example; main topmast staysail. The only exception were the headsails rigged to the jibbooms these were called jibs.


Sailcloth
This was usually manufactured in Scotland and Northern Ireland where flax, the plant from which canvas is made, was plentiful. Dorset was another area of supply. The flax was woven into bolts of canvas 38 yards (34.5 metres) long and 2 feet (61 cm) wide. These bolts of cloth were then stitched together to form the overall sail. On average each seam was joined using 108 to 116 stitches per yard.

The parts of a square sail
The top edge of the sail is called the head, the bottom, the foot and the sides, the leeches. To the front and back of the sail are stitched horizontal bands of cloth called reef bands, Attached to these bands are a series of short ropes called reef points that are used to shorten sail. To shorten sail the yard itself was lowered to a position relating to a reef band, the excess sail produced being gathered together in a bundle and tied across the yard using the two reef points.

Victory's fore topsail
Today, we still have the original fore topsail used on the Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. It is torn and scarred with some 90 shot holes caused by the gunnery fired from the French and Spanish ships.
Its dimensions are; length of the head 55 feet (16.7 metres); length of the foot 79 feet (24.0 metres) and length of the leech 52 feet (15.8 metres). It is estimated that 776 yards (706 metres) of canvas was used to manufacture the topsail producing an area of about 379 square yards (317.4 square metres). In weight it is approximately 815 pounds (366.8 kilograms).


Manoeuvering a ship of the line

Although the Victory had good sailing qualities and attained a speed of 8 knots (10 mph) manoeuvering was always difficult. There were two methods of changing the direction in which a ship was sailing; tacking and wearing.

Tacking the ship involved turning the head of the ship through the wind whereas wearing ship involved turning the stern of the ship through the wind.

To stop the ship, a manoeuvre known as 'heaving to' was used. When undertaken, the sails on one mast were set opposite to those on the other masts thereby balancing the wind effect and preventing progress through the water.

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

Oh sorry, I thought this was a thread about sailing ships !

 

[Faldo]

I just got a pretty flash TV! Black AND white - 4 presets, AND it takes less than 15 minutes to warm up.

 

[Cian]

P4 Tower (1.7Ghz)
PIII Laptop (700Mhz)
3x PII Laptops (266,300,366Mhz)
P1 Desktop (75Mhz)
486 Laptop (75Mhz)
PPC-603 Desktop (100Mhz)
PPC-603 Laptop (180Mhz)
USparc Tower (350Mhz)
RS-4600PC Desktop (100Mhz)

I'm sure I've probably missed some. Note that there are all in my house. I can give full specs if you want

 

[Razi]

AMD XP2200+
1gb RAM
GeForce 4 Ti4600 256mb
About 60gb HDD space
Audigy 2 soundcard with 4.1 speakers

 

[Raphael Meade]

im not too geeky but i got this innit:

pentium 3.2
710gb hard disk(s)
1024 ram
256 graphics (radeon summit??)
shitty 19" old skool screen

what else is there?!

got shitty speakers and sound bits as i dont use them much..

 

[Easy 10]

I can give full specs if you want

Yes, please do.

*shifts buttocks forward to edge of seat*

 

[Marc]

Yes, please do.

*shifts buttocks forward to edge of seat*

*also shifts buttocks forward with nose pressed firmly against screen in anticipation*

most exciteting thing thats happene 'round here for ages!

 

[CHAPPERS]

*cums*










Bugger, why does this always happen to me?

 

[Superphil]

i got a beige one with white speakers.
a blue and clear one with a apple on it.
a grey foldy up type one you can take out with you.
and another foldy up one that's silver and grey, smart it is.

Do I win £5?

 

[Cian]

P4:
1.7Ghz Northwood Pentium 4
512MB DDR-533 RAM
2x80GB Maxtor ATA-133
48x12x48x CD-RW
48x16x DVD-ROM
Radeon 9200SE 128MB
Creative EMU-10K1
Hauppuage WinTV Go+Text
Adaptec Ultra 160SCSI
3Com Vortex 10/100
Hayes Accura V90 modem

PIII:
700Mhz Pentium III Mobile
384MB 133Mhz SO-DIMM
10GB Hitachi HDD
32x12x DVD-ROM
16MB ATi Rage Mobility M2
ESS Maestro III
Intel EEPRO 10/100
Intel V90 Modem

PII the First
266Mhz PII Mobile
96MB 66Mhz SO-DIMM
8GB Fujitsu HDD
24x CD-ROM
2MB NeoMagic 128XD
Crystal Something-Or-Other sound
Gigafast 10/100
IBM mWave2 K56-Flex modem

PII the Second
300Mhz Pentium II Mobile
4GB Fujitsu HDD
24x CD-ROM
64MB 100Mhz SO-DIMM
2.5MB NeoMagic 256AV
NeoMagic 256AV sound
Sitecom 10/100
Sitecom V90 Modem

PII the Third
366Mhz Pentium II Mobile
12GB IBM HDD
24x CD-ROM
256MB 100Mhz SO-DIMM
2.5Mb NeoMagic 256AV
NeoMagic 256AV sound
Sitecom 10/100
Sitecom V90 Modem

PPC-603 Laptop
Factory spec Apple Powerbook Duo 2300c/100
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_duo/stats/mac_powerbook_duo2300c_100.html

PPC-603 Desktop
180Mhz PPC-603ev
136MB EDO RAM
2GB Panasonic HDD
4x CD-ROM
PC-Chips 1MB Framebuffer

USparc
350Mhz Sun UltraSPARC 10 Tower unit, not working properly

MIPS R4600PC
100Mhz MIPS CPU
32MB FPM SIMM RAM
800Mb Seagate HDD
No CD-ROM
No Floppy drive
Broadcom 10Mbits network card (used for PXE network booting IRIX)
Brooktree video capture unit
Newport 2MB Framebuffer

486:
AST Ascentia sub notebook
75Mhz 486-DX4
8MB RAM
400MB HDD
Floppy drive

P1:
75Mhz Pentium 1
128MB EDO SIMM RAM
Voodoo 3 2000 graphics
Soundblaster 16 (genuine original)
2x540MB Western Digital disks