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BlogHaving recently upgraded to an LCD monitor at work, I noticed I still have a "refresh rate" setting in my control panel and was left wondering "what does refresh rate have to do with an LCD monitor." After searching google, I found
this great guide which confirmed it has nothing to do with it. Each pixel remains in it's state until it's instructed to change. CRT's are the only monitor device that needs constant refreshing by the photon gun. The setting in my control panel is purely a comfort farce, and does nothing at all.
enorym: PANTY
MAN!
AtomicInternet: That's a gay invitation if ever there
was one
Today I decided to backup my server, reload my media machine, and run patches on Melissas computer, all while the webserver was being accessed. The result was a
router in overdrive running 100Mbit on all 4 ports. Surprisingly, the utilization peaked out at only 80%. I guess NetGear was saving that extra 20% for a future upgrade to gigabit, or more likely my network isn't 100% efficient.
Finally, after seven long years I've got my piece of paper. As you can see the whole thing
tickled me pink. I think I just don't realize it yet, it will take a full year of no school to let it sink in that I'm done.
The state is claiming revenge for my bad mouthing. Once again it snowed lastnight after three straight days of nice weather. I took a chance and setup my Insta Pool, and setup my wired night cam, neither of which take well to freezing temperatures. My pool now sags, and as you can see from the
GnomeCam everything melts in my front yard. I can't do much about the pool except hope it doesn't destroy itself since it takes 12 hrs to fill. The GnomeCam is temporarily going back to the sub-zero friendly non-night cam version. Now I know why everyone waits till memorial day to open their pools.
Almost a week ago my
Cougar started making exotic grinding noises and I was certain the jackshaft was the cause.
These photos chronicle the removal and severe disapointment upon finding my shredded jackshaft socket and compressor shaft.
Lomar, Angela and I were so
distraught we decided to visit their cats for emotional recharge. I've temporarily joined the rank and file of the naturally aspirated, but plan to get my supercharger nursed back to health as soon as possible. Until then feel free to make the natural aspiration symbol at me and laugh (yeah, you know the symbol).
And my
Insta-Pool has 6 hrs left to fill. At least it will be ready by next time. :(
Project Flamingo went off without a hitch this morning.
Plasma Team assisted in the setup and arrangement of the flamingos, and the
GnomeCam has been adjusted to capture every 30 seconds from 12:05am through 11:55pm. The purpose of Project Flamingo is to determine what person, group of persons, event or ordinance will remove them from my yard. My predictions, in order, are: 1. curb squirrels, 2. city ordinance, 3. conservative neighbor, 4. aliens. Regardless of how it turns out, I've already had my $24 of flamingo fun.
I love Michigan
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Almost 5 years ago I built a computer for
Lomar with a tagline from him: "Money is no option, and I want to be able to upgrade easily." I chose the Asus A7V Motherboard, Athlon 1200 (top of the line at the time) and 256MB of Memory (unheard of back then). We also went with a massive (for the time) 60GB HDD, Radeon All-In-Wonder, and Creative AWE32 soundcard. Lastnight he returned with it, along with 2 other computers for spare parts to build a frankenstein. Working into the night we managed to get the processor up to 1200Mhz (thanks to a BIOS upgrade). The A7V motherboard is phenomenal: he can crank up to the latest Athlon processor with no problem using the same 5 year old motherboard. The original BIOS could only run to 900Mhz. Memory upgraded to 458MB, and an additional HDD (his 60GB only had 256KB free on it). We also replaced Millenium (Yeah, that joke was on us Microsoft) with Windows XP. I originally built his computer at the beginning of my dual-partition awakening so I easily wiped out the system partition and replaced it without having to backup any of his data files. I'm still working on final updates and restoring his applications, but I feel like a long lost child has come back to visit me for a short time. It put up with untold abuse from Lomar and is still going strong. I think I might cry when he comes to pick it up again.
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