Moonbeams In A Starry Night

LittleLion — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:44:11 +0000

It is funny how the mind plays tricks on us. When we dream everything is so clear, so real and maybe it is… what is reality after all? Yet, when we wake up the brain starts to flush away those memories and what once was so absolutely vivid becomes blurred and vanishes away making room for the next night of sleep.

This feeling of dissipating images was what brought this print to life. Incomplete traces fading away but still resembling their original form, their original meaning. All those friendly figures surrounding the babies in comfy clothes and blankets, hanging above their cradles from a mobile or repeated in wallpapers in their original, complete shapes and contours… Are those candid figures inhabiting a baby’s dream?

There is no telling… But if they are, I hope when it comes time for them to dissipate in the awakening minutes, that they do so against a canvas of beautiful moonbeams in a starry night.

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This concludes the "Baby Prints Daily Series". I hope you have enjoyed the prints and their accompanying presentation and articles. ‘Till next time!

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Silence Is Golden

LittleLion — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:08:06 +0000

Silence is golden. Really! When working from home, one must learn to make do with the resources available at hand, unless of course, the will and the wallet are high and deep, respectively. My very own challenge was reaching silence nirvana but happily, solution was just an "adventure" away… [↓]

The problem came from the fact that my use of computers demanded a workstation as opposed to a regular desktop and those are designed for enterprise environment, not your regular run of the mill home. That generally translates into a freezing cold room jammed with servers, workstations and render horses piled up in racks operating in deafening levels, but that is alright since the users are comfortably sitting in their cubicles, in pleasant room temperature and not a sound but the background music (ideally…). Anyway, that was not case. My workstation sits right next to my desk used to carry 10 (as in 1, 2, 3, TEN!) small and medium sized fans.[↑→]

Obviously, the smaller the fan, the faster its must run to generate a decent amount of air cooling and the faster it runs, the louder it gets. Each fan was spec’ed at approximately 35 dB. Let me break it down to you: it was like working next to a hover throttling up and down driving me nuts! Some serious and swift measure was called for.

I have always custom built my own computers and those of my family and friends, but even with a couple hundred builds on my back, liquid cooling was a mystery to me. To make matters worse, most liquid cooling systems these days are geared towards desktop computers used for gaming, not workstations, so many adapters would be needed to cool [↓]

but it is definitely worth the research and moderately painful implementation, but if I did it, so can you! After all is said and done, you will feel proud of yourself besides, as they say, “if you’ve done, it ain’t braggin’” ;-)

off my two-die-eight-core machine. So, to make a long story short, after a thorough online research and one entire day of putting pieces apart and back together I ended up with a computer with 7 fans, which initially might sound like not much has changed, but that is far from the truth! From those, 5 reside inside the case cooling components such as hard drives, memory and the motherboard’s south bridge while 2 others are outside, cooling the radiator. All seven are big and spec’ed at 8 dB, which together sound like a whisper. Both CPU dies and the GPU are now liquid cooled.

The end result is this machine whose power led I must check every so often so I can tell if it’s on or off, that’s how good it is! If you suffer from the problem I used to, don’t think twice! Taking the leap to liquid cooling can be tricky [↑→]

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Moonbeams In A Starry Night

Silence Is Golden