No, I’m not gonna talk about hacking here… actually, some “hacking” is legal. I have been looking for a way to burn Max Payne for Snake, and because it has SafeDisk™ on it, it can’t be burned traditionally. So I searched cdrom-guide.com for help getting a program (cloneCD) to crack SafeDisk- this is legal because it was made to allow a person to make a backup of his own game CD for himself … but anyway, since I don’t have a burner, I looked for “nocd” hacks so it can run w/out CD… also legal. I couldn’t get one to work for Payne, but I did successfully crack SoF. So… that’s it there.

I don’t see here that Snake has mentioned PowerStrip yet, so I’ll go ahead and explain it… PowerStrip is an awesome app that lets u change lots of color/display/performance settings, and make unlimited profiles to load certain settings. You can change video clocks, monitor resolutions, monitor refresh rates (though this can be dangerous), invert colors, and even enable a CPU idle thread. E.g.: u can click one button to make 3DMark 2000 load, w/ 263/376 clocks, @ brightness 140%, FSAA off, anisotropic off. Just search for “PowerStrip” @ download.com!

Hmm, what else… µhhhh… oh, I finally removed my D drive, and now there are no HDDs over my NorthBridge! When I moved drives around last week, and Windows gayed up 😡 , and my D drive got corrupt, I had to format…. but now it’s all good, and my NB has stayed @ 78° since I just booted (18mins ago). Before, my hard drives being in the rack above my NB would heat it up as they worked more & more.

That’s all for now… except… anyone have any dremel?

Reviewed Startopia. Got a 7 umm….umm….ummmmmmmmmm….. uhhhhh…ummm…ummm uhh…wha’bout ummmmmm….uhhhh…. Ok, just wanted to take up two lines. 😛

That’s right, there’s a MBM 5.1. The biggest new feature is the CPU tab and the CPU usage readout. Pick this mother fuck up from LiveWire Dev. I’ve got a new thingy going with MBM so it uploads an interval log every 5mins. http://www.s–l.com/Interval.html That should be interesting to look at in the morning. 😉

Oh, and I forgot to mention, I beat Deus Ex for the 3rd time on Wednesday. Now, I’m playing through Unreal. I never remember it being this unstable in Software Rendering. 😕 I crashed out of it once and another time the screen went garbled. Oh well, I guess I can stand a little fuck up. Deus, though…spotless; especially in 32-bit.

I’m hittin it. Nite, bitches.

Boom!

I’m back on this mother fucker. I’m gonna punish my parents when they need a nursing home and throw em in some dump for taking away my fucking keyboard every time I catch an F. Anyways, I got it back and did a lot of work on the site in the last 4 hours. Mainly, the links section is working 100% now. I had said that I would redo the links section since before we even came to S–L.com, but never found the need to really do it. So, there it is and it’s badass. Have fun.

I added two new pics to the Photo Album and fixed some target bugs. Um, yeh…that’s all I did to that. 😛

Yesterday, I was watching this movie on HBO called Zebra Lounge, cause I wanted to catch some titties. 8) During the credits there was some phat mother fucker music which happened to be by some chick called Judith Owen. The song was called “Get Into It”, here’s a little clip that I jacked from her site: http://www.s–l.com/downloads/get.swf. The site is swooby too, like 80% is Shockwave. Anyways, I ordered her CD because that shit was so schweet. This week, I’ve felt as if I could listen to any music and enjoy it(except for country, rap, and r&b, I don’t do that nig/neck shit), from Metallica to Nine Inch Nails and even chick music like Sheryl Crow and Judith Owen.

This shit is cool. 8) Frag time, bitches.

Ok, so I’m finally posting again… sure, lots of things have gone on, but will I report them all? Probably not

• The gHeTTo Lockup Catastrophe (also known as Driver Catastrophe) has been fixed. I’m not exactly sure what it was, but I formatted (and just had to format yet again, cause my 2ndary HDD went bad), and now everything’s fine. Video driver conflict was probably why.
• I have been benching my new GeForce2 a lot lately, and met a breakthrough! I kept scoring around 2200, 2300 marks in 3DMark ’00… but then I set my card to allow applications to adjust AntiAliasing mode… and my highest w/ max overclocking is 6155. You can find me on the MadOnion ORB by searching for a Pentium3 700 w/ GF2 GTS.
  
• I just bought Max Payne… it’s amazing, but I haven’t been able to figure out how to make the console’s show_fps work yet. Here’s 3 screens from it:
  
• I’ll just throw everything else in here: w/ the new MBM, I get accurate readings on everything, and my heat’s a little lower now for some reason (insert note about G-Cock here, Snake); SOF ownz on my GF2; my printer died, as did my CD-RW; I just got my new “Micron” RAM… it works fine in CL2/Medium, but in Fast or Turbo, Windows doesn’t finish loading 😡 ; do u want my old Kingston 256MB RAM? If so, e-mail me about it; S&L Computers will be underway w/in a month; I’m out, I’ll think of more Monday.

That’s it!

I just now redid the POTM (Picture of the Month) to use the new image gallery system. It works very well, I think, and doesn’t use fantastically weird buttons, mouseovers, and iframes. The descriptions are only on the large image page cause there wasn’t enough space on the thumbnail page. Anyways, there it is in the navigation to the left as always.

I’ve also started (or nearly finished) the new templates for the image gallery script. They match the current setup of the site very well. I hope I don’t suddenly get the idea to change the GUI soon, now that everything uses the Fire/Brimstone motif. The next time I plan on redoing the Graphical User Interface and Cascading Style Sheets will be for Christmas; lights, tinsel, and ornaments strung around…pretty nift.

Shitdis, I’m out, mother fucks…