Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Ok.. its been, like, a week since anyone posted. I dont actually have anything to post about, but what the hell, eh? So.. um.. Snake changed around the topbar a little bit, and we’ve been having some… “problems” with the demoboard.

And.. um.. well, today in A+, i was trying to pry the Heatsink off of this old 486 DX chip, when the thing jabbed me in the thumb. Four perfect little holes on my thumb from the pins, it looked cool. ‘Course, i was mad about it, so i stole it 😮 so that i could destroy it. Should be fun. Oh, and Gr developed a fancy for the LED on this mobo on a computer we were working on.. so he tore the entire computer completely apart.. dont ask me what the correlaton between the LED and the complete disassembly was. Anyways, the teacher came by and told us that it was infact school property, that we were supposed to just be trying to fix it, not salvage it like we were doing to all of the other ones that day. So i walk off and im watchin other people doin shit, and i come back to see the table cleaned and the case loosely on the system. I was like “whaaa?” so then he showed me the inside.. the teacher had said to “put everything back in,” so Gr just stuffed pretty much random components into it and put the case on! I was like “um.. with screws!,” so he gets a handful of screws and pours em into it! LOL! And then the rest of the day sucked.. erm.. so thats my story.

Well, I’ve gone to playing almost exclusively on TFR’s Hot Cinnamon server now. I’m ranked 8th out of every player on the server (about 3,000 people)… not bad for my ping. If you don’t believe me, check this. Well, back to go own some more supposed 1337s!

Obviously, the nav is mostly dysfunctional. It’ll be working by the end of tomorrow on all pages, hopefully. The switch from frames to tables is a bitch, but it gives us a lot more linkage space. Well, I’m out…nothing really newsworthy except for the Northwood Preview at [H]ardOCP. There’s also a newer article about Corsair building gaming rigs, but I’ve haven’t read it yet…probably some bs. The goddamn CPU technology is advancing too fast; I’m still stuck with a P3 700, here. If anyone has $400 they aren’t using, lemme know and I’ll take it off your hands. I need a new Mobo/CPU/RAM so bad, I can taste it, and it doesn’t taste good.

Well, great to see that everyone else is having such a wonderful time. I’ve been having a terrible time! First i’ve had to deal with my ISP. MSN and Qwest did some kind of merger of isp or something (more aptly described as MSN consuming Qwest) and so i had to change ISPs. I tried the switch immediately, and after i had sentenced Qwest to termination in 10 days, MSN wouldnt freakin recognize my account. After i threatened to use my super-stud power on it, it started working. But then i had to wait for the MSN software CD. As luck would have it, the goddamn software on the CD wouldnt connect to the internet. I was down to another few days of Qwest access. So after trying to figure out wtf was going on for about a day, i finally gave in and called the bastards. I had to wait on hold for about a half-hour, but the helper-person was actually quite nice and we got the problem sorted out in no time (the bubble-heads forgot to send me some crucial registration numbers.) I was finally connected to “MSN Powered by Qwest.” Of course, then, MSNs wonderful integrated BS started messing with me. Outlook Express couldnt get it through its thick code that i wanted two different address books, not one combination. The damn thing just wouldnt do it right, so i had to remove my stuff from OE so my parents could work it without getting my email and address book. In addition, their connection software is also jank. Theres the normal Windows connection thing, MSNs connection thing, and MSNs “connection manager” which also has a connection thing. So suddenly i can have conflicting reports about whether or not i am on the blinkin internet! It wont even let me disconnect some times! Furthermore, MSN and IE are bound together! If one is on, the other has to be too!

But thats nothing. After about a week, i got a letter from them saying that i will now get 10 free hours with a charge of $1.50 for every additinal hour! Thats not right! So i waited for about a week and a half before i called them, (i was too busy,) and sweated every second. Last night i finally got it sorted out.. the idiots worded the letter poorly; the deal is that you get those rates IN ADDITION to your normal account, so that you can connect from somewhere else (like from a laptop on a buisness trip.)

But still, theres the problems im having with UPS. I ordered a Inno3d GeForce 2 Ti Titanium 64meg DDR (with tv connection features) from http://www.ocie.com. It took them 5 days to send the order to UPS, which recieved the information on the 27th. My expensive 2nd Day Air shipment STILL hasnt arrived! Its the 3rd!

Just about the only flicker of good news (except for the fact that i dont owe msn $160 for connection rates) is that i might be getting rid of my 2 hour connection limit! The guy at tech support said that it was an old Qwest thing and that msn doesnt do that. So the guy sent the information to Qwest and i should be getting some information from them in the next few days.. either that or they will just fix it, in which case i simply wont disconnect at 2 hours. Pretty swooby, eh? Oh, and also, Valve got back to be about being a Beta Tester.. looks like im going to be working on CS 1.4 and all of the other pre-releases. Schweet!

Oh yeah, and i forgot to mention, my Quelog@Qwest.net account is gone, and theres no MSN.com account to take its place. They only give you one @msn.com account and the rest are free hotmail accounts. Cheap!

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Video Card Has Arrived! And im gonna call the bastards and get my 30 bucks back for 2 day air!!

The big news today is the first snow fell here for this winter. There’s about 6 or 7 inches in most places and it just finished a few minutes ago; started at about 12 last night. Well, 4 day weekend…fragalicious! 😮

The best part of this whole thing is I woke up and immediately recorded a video of the snow and then imported and edited it with my new tv card and software. 8) It’s about 12MB, but the quality is spectacular for the fact that it was 600Kb/s (that’s bits). The background music is also very swoob. You’ll need the DivX codec, though. Click the screenshot to download.

Also, I recently beat Ghost Recon. 8) Pretty good game, I’d give it about 9/10. There were little things here and there that I didn’t like, but overall…it was really a top-notch game. Time to beat: not really sure, probably 20hrs. PCG made it sound like this game was really hard, but I found it reasonably easy on the veteran difficulty. Because you never have too many SShots, here’s some more:

Ahhh…just when it sucks to go back to school, it kicks ass to buck out the next day. Enjoy the video. Cool, it just started again…supposed to get another inch.

Well, I’ve been playing some serious CS recently and thought I’d share some of my ownage. I’ve played some on the Hot Cinnamon server Loog likes, but it’s pretty laggy for me, so I will only be playing on it if Loog’s on too.

My favorite servers are the XLGnetwork servers at 64.81.236.40/41. I get a fairly constant 50-70 ping there with my swooby Cox@Home. Here’s some shots of me owning on dust:

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I’d post some SShots of what I get on Hot Cinnamon, but it’s usually a fairly lame 1:1 K:DR. Umm, I guess someone’s gotta do it… happy New Years!