Just an update…

Posted on July 30, 2001 by Quelog
Well, as many people around S&L were surprised to learn, I’m back in school! Today was my first day. Since my dad changed hours at work, he cant drive me or pick me up anymore. Rather than ride the bus with a bunch of jerks, and never be able to find a seat (I would be at the last stop,) I’ve elected to walk! It takes just exactly a 30mins to cover the mile and a half. The skinny: Its a long, hot walk to hell, a long hot time while I’m there, and then a long, hot walk back. What a crock.

Anyways, as you probably haven’t noticed, I’ve been granted a CTT thing along with Snake and Loog! Check it out at the bottom of the page. This is part of the recent Swoobification around here. Snake (who I now refer to as “Chief,” from “Editor-In-Chief”) finally got the CGI working straight, so now doing changes and updates are really easy. Rock on!

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VT6X4 Tweak Guide

Posted on July 30, 2001 by Snake

I’ve made a great advance today in the research for my next column. I’ve scoured the net for any and all tweaks related to the Via Apollo Pro 133A chipset and found a really great one. In SANDRA’s memory benchmark, it brought a 103% increase in the FPU and an 89% increase in the ALU (floating point and integer units, btw). Supposedly it works for all Via-based boards, too; even the AMD ones (KT133). I have even left Loog’s (supposedly) higher performing Kingston RAM in the dust.

Now you’re asking what effect this has on real-world gaming. A lot! I’m talking about 9fps (frames per second) more on almost all FPS (first-person shooter) games. What would you do for 9fps more? Some people would suck dick for it, but not Snake. I’ve been watching the new S&L Half-Life timedemo closely and so far I have been able to tweak it up to 84fps; at the start of my testing, it was running at 67fps. And I also have finally broken 10,000 CPUMarks in 3DMark 99 Max. I’d like to know who it was that stated “the Via chipset and Viper II cards are not compatible”, cause they need to be slapped with a trout.

I should start my coding of the column by the end of the week.

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All this new stuff

Posted on July 29, 2001 by Snake

Yes, the news posting cgi obviously works…so far. Hopefully (as Que has found out), posting news won’t be as stressful and should help aleviate some of our time for other things, such as making new columns. BTW, I’m currently finishing up the research to be used in my next column, The VT6X4 Tweak Guide.

You may have also noticed that a lot of the major pages at S–L.com have the extension .shtml. This is because of the new visitor tracking system I put in place tonight. To use SSI (Server-Side Includes), the page has to be Server HTML (shtml) and the SSI is what sends all the visitor information to the database. Using this, I think we will be able to find out what our most popular sections are and enhance those even further.

That’s about it for now. I’d have to make a 10 page post if I wanted to describe my “20 Days of no news”, so I think I’ll skip that.

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Testing….

Posted on July 29, 2001 by Loogie

Hmm

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After Twenty Days

Posted on July 29, 2001 by Quelog
Well, she-it. Its been twenty days since a news post! [ED NOTE: As a matter of fact, this post was made a few days ago but removed when Snake got the CGI working, and is now re-upped.] I guess a lot has happened in the last twenty days, and to spare everyone a little time, I’ll try to keep this short.

The structure of the S&L Clan has changed: Now it is divided into three teams; the S&L Infiltration Team (Led by Snake and I,) the S&L Counter-Strike Team (Led by Loogie,) and the S&L TFC Team (Led by Snake and Loogie.) Each team has/will have its own version of the S&L Ranking Program, its own members, and its own rules. This new system will make things a lot easier. The Clan Portal is on the [S&L] button on the nav.

Snake was gone to some relatives house or something for nine days, where he didn’t have access to the internet. He was gone from the 10th to the 19th. He was also grounded from his PC yesterday or something.

And in more Snake news, he’s been nabbed by the man for some reason or another related to hacking (I don’t know what, loog didn’t tell me much.) Also, I hear that someone discovered the infamous “quotes and convos” page at S&L and that Snake and Loog are taking a lot of heat for it (if you dont know what that is, its related to the April Column Event… if you don’t know what that is, then don’t ask.)

Finally getting to the good part… In an epic battle, I defeated the SirCam virus! It got onto my rig by way of my dumb mom, but I destroyed it! Check any anti-virus site, and you’ll see that SirCam is currently the number one deadly virus on the internet! Bwahahaha! I even made a collage!



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CGI for S&L

Posted on July 28, 2001 by Snake

Sweet Fuck…

…I got the news cgi to work.

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