Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Earlier today, I put a new fan and heatsink in the Wad… I used some ASII paste and put the old heatsink from my GF2 on my SouthBridge chipset, and drilled 3 holes and put my PB POS 50mm fan on my back vents (still not secured totally, need a couple washers)… and for the first time ever, my SB temp went down 2°, & my NB temp went down 4… just look @ my Interval Log. This leads even more to the completion of the g-cock² (u’ll find out later)

Next, I made my own ghETTo Hardware MODs column… just look through
the Columns pages for it.

I’ve been gettin/recordin a lot of MP3s lately… I haven’t abandoned MODs, but Aimster is damn cool.

And…. Hollow Man is supa awesome.

…and the boomage continues.

Last night, I fell asleep at around 8P-freakin-M, yet didn’t wake up today until just 5 hours ago. 😕 I’m all sleeped up and ready to work, though. 😉 I’ve already done a large revision to the VT6X4 Tweak Guide and as AXS is telling me, it’s already pretty popular. Yesterday, I uploaded all the pics from the 31st (codenamed S3, remember) and you can use ImageFolio to browse them in alphabetical order here. The Column for that is still pending, but will be easier to follow and in chronological order.

Now to retract and poke at the previous two posts. 😛 Loog, I can’t even follow 30% of your post. If you’re gonna go off on a tangent or a cosine, make it a Column with schematics and such. And, the glossary will be lucky to appear before Christmas, cause it’ll have to be a totally new database. Que didn’t put any link to his Photo Album subdirectory, either; it’s here. And Que, why is Halloween an Atheist’s Christmas? Are you trying to say you’re a Satanist? 😮 It’s just another holiday for me.

And finally, I awoke today and found a Judith Owen Limited Edition CD to open. I popped it in the Creative and have been looping it for about 4 times. It’s just that good and every song is the best song. Well, Get Into It is still my favorite. If you want to give it a listen, mail me (Snake) and I’ll hook you up on Aimster.

Back to my boomage…

Well, this week was certainly interesting. I turned in another damn compbook, worked my ass of in school, got a job, did halloween, had my birthday, got a dcam.. and oh yea! I electrocuted Bleys (Gr)!

I turned in my “Their Eyes Were Watching God” compbook on Monday, after working my ass off all of last weekend.. i winged most of it, in true Quelogian style. Then on Tuesday i had to write a longass Timed Essay in that class, and again on Thursday. That goes along with Thursdays impossible vocabulary test, which i was double damned on because i didnt study for it. Also, i had to read my ass off and study for History, because i had a 60-question AP-style exam, and a hugeass inclass, timed essay about the development of american industry… both on Thursday! Plus for some unknown reason, we’ve actually had to start doing work in all of my other classes. Overall, ive had to bust my ass just to keep up in school! I even turned in incomplete physics homework!

Aside from that bullshit, i got a job! I work 6 hours a week at the library making $10 an hour as a “Youth Computer.. uh.. something.” I go around and make sure that the kids arent screwing things up and that they dont need help. Cant have them flooding the desk with questions, you know. I get a swooby electronic key thing, a cool shirt, and an ID tag. I can go sip coffee in the employee lounge if i want! What rocks most about it is what i had to do to get the job… nothing! Thats right, bitches.. i didnt have to go job-hunting.. they called me! I just sat around on my ass! Beat that, mofos!

And on Wednesday, of course, it was Halloween! I call it “The athiest’s christmas.” We built up the front of the appartment with a whole display.. fake stone blocks, castle front, impaled and disemboweled dummies! I hid inside of the fake castle front behind a wall with a little door in it.. wore a horrible mask and poped out at people.. i scared the hell out of them! Plus i had the amplifier on microphone, and a spider tha i dropped from the eves of the roof. It rocked!

So Thursday was my 17th birthday. Youve read above how shitty a day that was! Pretty much all i got was the Digital Camera. Kodak DC3200.. it ownz joo! Shipped in two days, and i tracked it all the way. It was there when i got home, so of course, that was nice. Ive already put lots of pics in my new section in the Photo Album. Check it out on the left.

Oh yea.. and i electrocuted Bleys! We were in A+ and he was looking at a power source on this pos we were working on.. “Look you can see inside of it!” he said, peering into the slits on its side. “Whatever, Bleys..” i retorted.. a moment later i plugged in the power source (from wall to PC). He had leaned his face out, but his hand and the metal blank (slot cover) he happened to be holding were still contacting the power source. BZZZZAP! It arced from his hand into his tongue! We both saw the big spark, which i describe as a misshapen cloud of blue and white. It turned out that he was fine, but he still claims to be able to taste electricity.

This weekend, Im opening my checking account and getting a debit card. Also gonna finally get my learners and start learning how to drive and stuff. Rock on, Bitches, because this mofo is headed for the top!

Right, so…I’m getting tired and have stuff to do; therefore, here’s the brief news: had some friends over earlier for a little…I dunno, it was something (known as codename S3, and not related to the graphics company). Anyways, as a cheap/quick Column, we burned Loog’s old Packard Bell POS (not the whole thing, just the mobo, cpu, and sdram). Alcohol burns well, BTW, and works a helluva lot better than hairspray that was used on our previous Halloween destruction Column. Alright, so here’s the best pic we got and then the crew (or band, gang, horde…wtf do you call us?):

µhhhh…Oh, and the column will be up just as soon as I retouch the pics, make thumbs, and throw together some html. Out, b…

I just took all day totally dismantling my PB POS PC. There are now a total of 132 parts (70 if screws are counted as 1 unit). I just used an electric screwdriver, clamp, scissors, and some canola oil. Since some of these parts still work, some will be kept for research, some for self-use, some for sale, and some to destroy tomorrow @ S3 (respectfully). I’ll get loads of pics of all the parts tomorrow, and I’ll make a big pic labeling it all. Expect to see this in one of our upcoming 10 columns.

Also, check out Snake and I’s interval logs! I lowered the max # from 50 to 20, so our logs are identical. Check Snake*‘s & mine regularly to see what’s goin on in our PCs.

*not a link to e-mail, but to log

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?