Author Archives: Snake

Feeling like web editing.

Posted on July 22, 2004 by Snake

Well, just like the title suggests, I’ve been in the mood to edit the site some lately. I’m wanting to add some demo reviews and upload some papers from last year at college to the projects page. Also, I’ve been slowly adding to my old column on single-player game experiences, found here. What I have actually done is make some improvements to the journal system. Specifically, I added the ability for bloggers to block entries from public view (which you can see working in my newest blog) and updated the user list drop-down to work dynamically. Thus, all the old bloggers that have been deleted do not show up in the list. Any other further improvements are pending anybody giving a fuck. I’m generally the only person that blogs anyways and I’m the only one that works on this site.

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Updates.

Posted on May 30, 2004 by Snake

I found this killer app for multimonitor setups the other day. It’s called UltraMon and can be found here. It has support for just about everything important that ATI’s Hydravision app has, plus a taskbar for secondary monitors that can show only apps currently on the secondary monitor and different wallpapers and screensavers for secondary monitors. It supposedly also supports an unreal number of monitors. Make sure you pick UltraMon up if you’re going dually like I am.

I also updated my CTT and MBM Interval Log CGI in the top frame. When I added readings for the HDD temp, it set all the other readings off. Alright…peace, niggers. I’m out.

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Monitor wishes and video card dreams.

Posted on May 26, 2004 by Snake

I recently purchased an extremely kickass new video card. It felt like old times again. The excitement of pulling the box out of the shipping peanuts…removing the card from the static bag…immediately modding it…making sweet sweet love to it all night long. No, wait. I guess there’s still something left to be desired 😕 . Anyways, upon removing the video card (an ATI Radeon 9600XT), I got the urge to take massive amounts of picage–especially of the copper ramsinks I added. Additionally, I decided to incorporate the pics into a guide that shows how I, a seasoned gamer and hardware nut (or just a seasoned nut), go about purchasing the right video card and installing it flawlessly. I call it the Novice Guide to Upgrading Video Cards and it can be found here. Previewage:

After the overcoming joy of the 9600’s speed and Pixel Shaders, I went right to the multimonitor support; and all I can say is “wow”. The implimentation of multiple monitors on this card is solid. I can’t see why more people don’t use it. I’m sure a lot of computer users have killer video cards and an old monitor, and it is only for their ignorance that they don’t marry the two. Although I’m still testing the capabilities and flaws, I’m still greatly impressed with the former. You can watch two movies at once (especially useful for pr0n), browse two sites at once, keep important apps always visible, leave a walkthrough open when playing a game, have a developer database (MSDN) open on one and the programming software of your choice on the other. The possibilities are endless. Mostly, I like to keep the apps I frequently check open on the second monitor (emule, AIM, Task Monitor) and reserve the primary for my focus. The only problem I can see is that you can’t move the focus from the primary to the secondary in a game without minimizing the game. If I find a workaround for this, I’ll be sure to report.

The only thing better than multimonitor is having two separate computers and a KVM switch; although, the smoothness of moving across both monitors seemlessly is also very sweet.

I’m out, bitches.

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Tinkle Tinkle Poop Plop

Posted on May 9, 2004 by Snake

I couldn’t think of a title that wasn’t trite, so enjoy the quote from Beavis. On to business…

I’ve been playing a lot of CS: Condition Zero lately. I flip flop between the botmatches and “Deleted Scenes”, but of course the botmatches are the most fun. The old models suck, though, so I replaced them with some of my better downloaded ones. Just my luck, they didn’t work right. I spent the last two weeks figuring out how to fix them, though. In the course, I devised two methods of upgrading the models to CZ standard, one of which I wrote a program for in VB. As I believe other CZ players will have this problem, I wrote a guide to upgrading CS models. It can be found here.

Other than that, there have been no other updates. Some Columns are still in limbo currently. Given the end of the semester for college and the end of my relationship with Beckie as well as my lack of acquiring a job, I’ll unfortunately have a lot of free time, now 😕 . At least the site will get some upgrades, perhaps even a new graphics set soon. Although, in the gloom of my current love life, the bloody walls are strangely tranquil. Which reminds me: Gandalf and I have recently blogged on our mixed pool of emotions and thoughts. Enjoy.

Peace. Fuck you. Whatever.

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And the news awakes from a coma.

Posted on April 10, 2004 by Snake

Perhaps some visitors (about 6 people) may remember September 10th of last year. On that day, the news system went into a coma after Danky blew some bad news into its face. “mother fuckin danky mother fuckering the news….”

With the news dysfunctional, the site became more stagnant than usual. Everything worked…just nobody gave a fuck to update the site, besides the occasional blogger. Tonight, feeling a revival in my interest in the site, I decided to once and for all fix whatever problem had the news down. And I did it 8) …it took 3.5 hours to figure out, but I traced the problem to the formatting of the news database. Apparently, the script wants only carriage returns now.

Anyways, I think updates may occur slowly over the next few weeks. Seems like both Loog and myself have Columns that we want to start or finish. Loogie told me that he wants to write about all of our new rigs, and Danky already has a short pic page here. I would like to finish my Column on single-player game experiences, being that I play way too many games now. I also want to get back to looking at hardware and maybe even demos. We’ll all see what happens. 😉

And I exit with some various random pics.


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No news is bad news, but I have news.

Posted on July 16, 2003 by Snake

Nothing actually int has gone on for quite some time at the site, cept we kept running out of space. I figured out why, though, so there’s like 60MB free on the site, now. Yippee skippee or some shit…

I woke up at 5AM this morning and needed something to do, so I coded my own screensaver from scratch. I’m always pissed at my own disorder of various recent installers, images, music, etc. on the desktop, even though I try to clean it off so I can see my wallpaper: a beautiful rendering including my love, Beckie. So after the set time for the screensaver to be run according to Windows, it will slowly fade in the wallpaper overtop of everything else (fade is adjustable, only in XP/2000, though) and then it fades to black after the user-defined time (0 for fade to black). Also has adjustable mouse sensitivity for closing the screensaver. Requires MSCOMCTL.OCX and MSCOMCT2.OCX. Download it here

Umm….that’s pretty much it. Watch for news again after about 4 months. 😉

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