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Rating: 3 - Link to this Article 09-09-2005 AGP->PCI Mod and MCE Keyboard View Webcam for 09-09-2005 4 COMMENTS
I was recently sent this photo of someone who cut an AGP card to fit a PCI slot. I then found the original post and am about 80% convinced it's just a hoax. Manufacturers usually put big bright yellow paper on top of the card stating how it installs to help anyone with this type of learning disability. It's still entertaining and a good photo to pass around to your fellow geeks. On a completely unrelated note, those of you hooked on Microsoft MCE like myself have a new piece of hardware to blow your money on: the MCE Keyboard. Here's a review to get your loins soiled.
User Comments for 09-09-2005:
sweet has everything my wireless keyboard and mouse has except the green start button... Check out the new smart mouse from logitech search for "logitech MX610"
Stavos
Pay no attention to the heathen above, he has not been baptized by Microsoft.
AtomicInternet
Beautiful...
Ex
Hey I printed my cert. from the interweb just like everyone else! i'm also Adobe, Macromedia, Lucasarts, Linux, EA, mtn Dew, Mac, and Mcdonalds Cert! oh and i'm a pastor too!
Stavos

Rating: 3 - Link to this Article 09-06-2005 Pumps Locked At $2.99/Gal View Webcam for 09-06-2005 8 COMMENTS
Wondering why so many gas stations around me are closing/remodeling, I think I may have found the answer. Some gas pumps are unable to display a price higher than $2.99 / gallon. With recent amounts of $3.15 or more stations are now requiring an upgrade. Whether my detective work is correct or not, it's an interesting read: gas price article.
User Comments for 09-06-2005:
Fucking ass holes... gas whoring son of a bitches... they can all suck my dick...
Excelcier
I blame the Canadians... not sure hot to connect the two but I just blame them kthxbye
Stavos
Carefull Stav.... I'll have Candy shoot you again in heated online battle tournaments!
Ex
For the record... it's acutally the Canadians who need to blame the US. Our gas is all extracted and refined in Canada. Yet your mess-ups are jacking our prices too! BASTARDS!!!!!!
Ex
I refine my own gas from my own personal supply. I can demonstrate the process next time I consume some White Castles.
AtomicInternet
Don't blame me, Canada! I don't set the prices or have any control over that. I do, however, control FEMA and I'll send them to bomb you if you don't behave.
tim
Awww sheeeeot, he's gonna send FEMA up in your ass!
AtomicInternet
I shit you not, he will send FEMA the moon once was heavly populated untill Tim called FEMA
Stavos

Rating: 3 - Link to this Article 08-29-2005 64-Bit Hardware Is A-OK View Webcam for 08-29-2005 2 COMMENTS
In my last update I alluded to hardware failure on my new NEUTRON system. Today I found out the true cause of the failure. My cheap $50 case has an LED light that illuminates the front. The wire had become loose and occasionally grounded out, causing the power supply to short. After disconnecting the LED I've successfully played over an hour of intense 3D gaming with no hardware lockups at all. 64-bit Windows, however, still sucks donkeys in my opinion, due entirely to the lack of vendor driver support and no visible advantage other than geek points. I expect I'll be reloading a 32-bit OS in the near future.
User Comments for 08-29-2005:
Doh!! Sounds as stupid as the hardware problem I had about a year ago with my computer when it was just the CPU shim grounding and yet it locked up my BIOS every bootup. Welcome back to the land of COMPUTING!
Excelcier
you can't blaim the phantom case! thats just not right. LONG LIVE THE PHANTOM!
Stavos

Rating: 3 - Link to this Article 08-27-2005 Goodbye Keith Party View Webcam for 08-27-2005 1 COMMENT
Lastnight was the farewell party for my resident co-worker who left for Mississippi today to face Hurricane Katrina. The party planner called for an early LAN party followed by a standard alcoholic stupor party. Unfortunately Keith had to get his hair done during the LAN party so he was absent, which caused it to spill over into the drunken stupor creating an outright brohaha. Lessons learned include absolute chronological seperation of LAN and drunken parties, hosting of drunken parties on Fridays rather than Saturdays, and no LAN party will span less than 6 hours. I also learned that 64-bit windows and/or hardware are not all they're cracked up to be, resulting in a crushing downtime during the LAN.
User Comments for 08-27-2005:
I figured the drunken party/lan party would have escaladed into a huge war, however the lan party seperated the geeks from the drunks so we stayed in our places, and had to retire early before 9pm to our basements in our moms houses.
Stavos

Rating: 3 - Link to this Article 08-20-2005 PROTON Server Upgrade View Webcam for 08-20-2005 2 COMMENTS
Athlon XP Tonight marks the cutover from PROTONX to PROTON server. This site is now running on the newly configured machine. Processor speed, memory and storage are all more than double what they were before, plus it's now in a sweet new case that says DIGITAL all over it. The Cougarfest Archive which was the excuse for my upgrades is now parsing thumbnails at ungodly speed. I spent over 2 hours configuring and testing everything, but if you have a domain or space on this server take some time to test everything and make sure I didn't miss anything (PuckPuck you owe me your DB password!). I'll have the old PROTONX server on hand for a few months just in case something went wrong, but so far everything looks fantabulous. Now for my hardware showoff plug:
Old System (PROTONX)      New System (PROTON)
Oper System:Win Server 2003 Ent SP1      Oper System:Win Server 2003 Ent SP1
Web Server:IIS 6.0      Web Server:IIS 6.0
Processor:Pentium II 933Mhz      Processor:Athlon XP 3200
Memory:512 MB      Memory:1024 MB
HDD:60 GB      HDD:120 GB
Databases:MySQL 4.0.15, ODBC 3.525      Databases:MySQL 4.1.13, ODBC 3.627
Languages:ASP.net 1.1.4322      Languages:ASP.net 1.1.4322
Perl 5.8.0, PHP 4.3.3      Perl 5.8.7, PHP 4.4.0
User Comments for 08-20-2005:
I stole your amd logo muhahahahahahahahahahahahah!
Stavos
password is in my web.config file
PuckPuck

Rating: 3 - Link to this Article 08-15-2005 Upgrade to Athlon 64 / WinXP 64 View Webcam for 08-15-2005 6 COMMENTS
The scheduled upgrade of my server had me on a hunt for hardware. Instead of taking the easy route and buying another 32 bit system to replace the server, I decided to complicate my life and upgrade my primary desktop to 64. Why? Because all the hip kids are going 64 and I have to stay cool. I'll cycle down the old 32 bit hardware to create my new server. This results in double the work which of course means double the pleasure, and wasted time. That out of the way, I settled on a 939 Socket Motherboard since it's the latest and greatest, which meant I could only afford an Athlon 64 3200+ processor. I then went through the nightmare of a WinXP 64 install with 80% beta drivers and very little support. Unless you enjoy wasting time like myself, I don't recommend XP 64 yet. I have yet to see any noticeable difference other than the "64 bit edition" text on all the OS screens, but I'm fully 64 now and that's what counts for geek points (don't pay attention to all the stuff in c:\Program Files (x86))! I ran various 3D games with the same speed as before, so either the 32-bit emulator is really good or the game runs native 32 or 64 in DirectX mode. Stay tuned for the server upgrade followup.
User Comments for 08-15-2005:
That’s great but yeah,,,,, umm...... 128bit is out now sorry to be the barer of bad news....
Stavos
You can now install Windows 3.11 64-Bit edition.
brain
They have a win 3/11 64-bit edition? what a piece of crap?
tim
Your upgrade sux because you can't even play games on the LAN!!!!!!
Excelcier
XP 64 is poop
R1OT
Brad has officially hindered our ability to have a great LAN party session.
Excelcier

Rating: 3 - Link to this Article 08-14-2005 Replacement Bumper for Show View Webcam for 08-14-2005 4 COMMENTS
Yesterday I replaced the bumper on my Cougar which was torn off at Cougarfest. EternalOne was kind enough to donate an old one so the part cost was free, but it has the drawback of holes from the front licence plate bracket. I decided to mount the bracket rather than leave two holes exposed, which meant I needed a front plate. Since I had a Ford car show today I went with this one which is admitedly cheesy. I'll probably put an expired Florida plate on sometime in the hopes I'll get pulled over by a cop. The Ford plate apparently did some good as I won first in my class (1985-Present) at the show. I also met a fellow Ranger owner who supercharged his truck including a water injection system.
User Comments for 08-14-2005:
Good job Brad! I'm proud of you.
tim
I'm all a quiver!
Excelcier
I use to have a Jamaican plate in the front of my old 84 F-150. never got pulled over but I’m sure because it was so ridiculous that a white Jamaican driving a F-150 in Michigan had a different plate in front then the original, is how i got away with it. I'll keep my eye open for any foreign plates.
Stavos
Where's the nearest Tourist Trap around here. You shoudl be able to find a RoadRunner "BleepBLeep" one.
G_Man

Rating: 3 - Link to this Article 08-13-2005 Alien Roomate View Webcam for 08-13-2005 3 COMMENTS
Recently, Keith moved in for a temporary stay before his relocation to Missitucky. He setup his belongings, focusing first on his computer as any normal geek does, and settled into the mother-in-law suite of my house. Shortly afterwards, however, strange things started happening. Lights mysteriously turn themselves on, a 3-mile lead on a biking trail suddenly winds up with him in front, Gatorade is sold for 1¢ with purchase of another, and finally yesterday solid proof of his shenanigans turned up on the gnome cam. The only explanation for the image sequence below is that Keith is of extra-terrestrial origin, and not just another typical southerner.
Alien Proof
User Comments for 08-13-2005:
Is that Lan party keith! he can't leave how will we host Lan partys?!??
Stavos
very sloooooooowly
Your Name
I since a 64bit system news update coming soon...
Stavos

Rating: 3 - Link to this Article 08-12-2005 Title This Image View Webcam for 08-12-2005 5 COMMENTS
While in BizTalk training, we came across this slide. I labelled it "Urinating on Surveys causes Global Warming." Any better ones?
Title Me
User Comments for 08-12-2005:
Is that someone you know? WTF? -=- Posted before image fix
tim
You too can have world domination with these few simple steps.
R1OT
"Fill in the checkboxes for how many ways the world can shit on you."
Excelcier
what only 3...thjats good odds in my book.
R1OT
Your personal gas CAN make a difference: bypass bureaucracy, bloat for the envrionment.
urmm

Rating: 3 - Link to this Article 08-11-2005 Crack House in Livonia? View Webcam for 08-11-2005 2 COMMENTS
Yep, I found one. It's disguised as the police department. Just search google local and you'll get directions. If you really want crack though, you'll have to enter the building and say the codeword "pigs all suck" before they'll direct you to the warehouse. Once there you can enjoy more crack than you thought would ever exist in one place. Mmmmm, crack house!
User Comments for 08-11-2005:
hmm get pulled over again?
stavos
hahah thats awesome, i know where i'm going for lunch!
Stavos

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