Noulakaz
The blog of Avinash, Christina, Anya and Kyan Meetoo.
Christina, Anya, Kyan and I heve just spent three days and two nights at Le Mauricia from 9 to 11 August. Rooma and Suneelah joined us on the second day and we have a great time despite the weather being not very favourable. Here are some photos we took:
Christina, Anya, Kyan and I were at Maritim Hotel in Balaclava from Tuesday to Thursday last week from 2 to 4 August. Despite a few shortcomings at the hotel, we had a great time and the food was very good. Here are some photos we took:
This would be our last custom PC after the first one bought in France in 1997 and the second one bought in Mauritius in 2003. We purchased the following components:
For the first time ever, I had a 64-bits processor, the fantastic AMD Athlon 64 with AMD64 technology. The processor would boot into 32-bits mode and Linux would transition it to 64-bits where it became a completely different (and much better) processor. In fact, Intel would license the AMD64 technology after some time. At that time, I was running Gentoo Linux in 64-bits mode and it rocked!
I also had a whopping 2Gb of RAM which was a lot for the era.
I purchased the Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 to run X-Plane 9 under Linux and it worked really great on the PC (and also on the iMac I would buy a few years later).
Finally, the PC also had a Terratec DMX 6Fire 24/96 which was a professional audio interface. It came with a break out box which took one bay of the computer. This had a number of connectors including audio ins and outs (in both analog and digital), a microphone number (with a good preamp), a headphone out and two MIDI ports (which I used with my trusty Kawai K4 synthesizer). I remember paying a large chunk of money to purchase the Terratec but I had a great time composing music using it.
I sold the Terratec to a friend of my brother-in-law when I moved to an Apple iMac in 2011 and, shortly after, purchased a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (which is still running great!)