pixelmaker04

It's been so long since my last journal entry I don't even know what to put it... or maybe I do.
I finally got around to changing my username to pixelmaker04 to match my other social media accounts around the web.

I've been doing some more pixelart recently, but more along the lines of testing sprites for the Commodore64.
I've also began streaming retro consoles and other things on twitch.

Oh! I've got a "merch store" as well with some cool stuff on it which will be listed below along with my other social medias.

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FACEBOOK: pixelmaker04
INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/pixelmaker04…
TWITTER: twitter.com/PixelMaker04
PATREON: www.patreon.com/pixelmaker04
YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/channel/UCZeio…
TWITCH: www.twitch.tv/pixelmaker04
GITHUB: github.com/PixelMaker04
THREADLESS (MERCH): pixelmaker04.threadless.com/

I finally upgraded my rather used notebook, a Toshiba Satellite M45, a few months ago to a Lenovo Ideapad Y550 with nvidia graphics after careful searching. I care if my computer can play modern games. And today I just got me a Wacom Intuos 4 Medium size. It's freakin' awesome. I'll try to get a digital painting in within the week, but I can't guarantee anything. It's a good thing it's either right or left-handed, being as I'm left-handed it's a plus. I used to have an Intuos 3, but it broke and I traded it in for a Graphire 4. I was a student at that time and needed the extra money for school items...(not really). Anyways, I'm about to see what I can do with this nice piece of equipment.

Some of you may have seen the images that I've done for the business two guys and I are beginning to start up. I've been working on the actual OEM logos that go within the system. For windows, I have the logo in the system information window as well as the "Support Information" window. I also have a user icon and a 16x10 and 4x3 wallpaper (the 16x10 in my gallery). I am having a slow progress on an automated recovery partition for the drive that includes the End-User screen for user name input and everything that a windows computer goes through when you first turn it on when you get it home and you open it up. I'll put an image in in a little but to show you what I mean by the logo in the system information window.

Wish us luck.

If anyone hasn't heard yet, two fellow coworkers of mine and I are going into business together. We are going to open up a computer repair/ computer upgrade/ PC and Console LAN stations/ and a build-to-order PC Shop. The two images that are in my gallery that have "CPCCorp" on it in any form or fashion are related to that business which is it's title...CPC standing for Custom Personal Computers. We are very close of finding a location for it and one coworker's sister is going to give us the paperwork for free to corporate the business name which is a blessing in itself. The other is possibly going to be able to get some grants to help out with the funding for slow time, and I have a feeling there will be plenty of those starting out. Ever since I started working at the Gateway manufacturing plant I would come home and do the exact same thing but with different branded computers. I built my first one by the end of the first year there and three others within the next six months. One is of them in the MiniITX form factor...motherboard size is 17x17 cm. Anyways, wish us luck and pray for us because we'll need it.

Ok, so, I have been around windows pretty much my whole life and when I went to school, I used mac....eh. Anyway, I've heard of linux about 3 years ago, but never really messed around with it or seen what it looks like till about 8 months ago. I asked for a free Ubuntu live boot, and have never known anything to be so GUIlisious. It's pretty much my main OS now, especially since my windows partition got a severe "cold" last week and had to do a redo. Oh well, I had upgraded my HDD to a 200gb so I still had a majority of my data before it go pneumonia. By the way, it's my notebook that's dual-boot. I have disks for OpenSuse 11 KDE and Gnome, Fedora 9, gOS Rocket, Mandriva, CentOS Enterprise, and D.S.L. (pointless but neat...can be installed on a 64mb flash drive), but I like Ubuntu the most considering it was the one I "dove" into first. The only thing I didn't like is it took about a week to find the DVD playback codec/library. It's all good now. And yes I do recommend Linux to anyone who is willing to try something new. Who knows, you might like and it might even like you back.