<deophite> HOLLAND, Michigan (AP) — Tacking Jr. or II onto a boy’s name is too common, a new father decided, so the self-described engineering geek took a software approach to naming his newborn son.
<deophite> Jon Blake Cusack talked his wife, Jamie, into naming their son Jon Blake Cusack 2.0.
<Yale> nice ;x
<Craisin> haha
<Craisin> when he learns to walk, 2.1
Again…
It’s just one of those times again where I fuck things up and piss off everyone around me. Well, a bad habit of mine. Losing self control. I should quiet down for a while, isolate myself from everyone if there’s a need, and rethink things…
This is what I hate about myself…
I’ll most probably stop blogging for a week or two.
自由
Today is a nice day. Not too hot and not too cold. Perfect weather for a walk but instead, I chose to stay at home. Haha.
I have totally given up all hope on the AthlonXP [:(]. All those crashes and OS freezes have corrupted my web server twice, my irc script once, my monitor drivers once and my graphic card drivers once too, all on different occasions.
Going to sell it off. Before reinstalling my Thunderbird CPU, I made a second attempt to unlock it. Some CPUs come factory locked. Which means they are locked at time of manufacturing to prevent overclocking. There are many reasons to do this. One example, some evil scheming computer dealer would overclock a machine’s AthlonXP 1400+ to an AthlonXP 2000+ and sell it off to an innocent know-nothing-at-all buyer at a higher price. More profit.
There are many unlocking techniques for different CPUs, for mine, it was just simply drawing thick lines over 4 L1 bridges on my CPU with pencil. Yes! Pencil! Pencil leads are electrically conductive enough be used to join the bridges that had been cut off during manufacture. Unlocking it means I can now overclock my CPU by adjusting the multipliers. The speed of a CPU is determined by multiplier and FSB(MHz). The default config was 10x100FSB=1000MHz. I increased the multiplier, thus giving me 12x100FSB=1200MHz. [:D]
Registered wyred.nu like I said I would. USD$57.76, SGD $97.73. Both look like potential numbers I could use to buy 4D. Hahaha. It’s going to take up to 24 hours, from time of registration, for it to be activated.
The new blog image, was done without much effort but I felt a little satisfaction. I loved the colors. Gives me a nostalgic feeling, the days at Parry primary school, playing with my friends on the huge school field while waiting for the school van to pick us up and send us home. The full picture without the white highlights can be seen by clicking here. The female elf is from the game, Lineage 2.
Valentine’s Day
It will just be another day with the guys out having fun and all that [:(]. All the pass 20 V Days have been spent either at home or with my friends. [:|]
I’m going to register wyred.nu on this coming V Day and make a new background image for my blog. [XD]
Here’s a portion of the conversation I had with my colleague on our way back to office from lunch yesterday:
Him: So how are you going to spend this coming Valentine’s Day?
Me: Stay at home as usual. Haha
Him: What you mean stay at home? Blah… Blah… Get a girlfriend… Blah…
Me: Don wan lah, it’s still early.
Him: What you mean still early?
Me: I’m still young.
Him: What you mean still young?
Me: I’m not mature enough yet.
Him: What you mean not mature enough?
Me: (I kept quiet hoping the conversation would die and it did.)
The new AthlonXP seems to be running fine. I hope the “burn-in” I did with prime95 has warmed up that little twit. My games are running more smoothly with the exception of Diablo2 which still lags at certain parts of the game. Everytime I climb the staircases behind Shenk the Overseer (Act 5 Quest 1), everything slows down a little. At least overall, it’s better than my older Athlon Thunderbird.
5pm: I had some spare time so I did a little flash for the top right corner of this blog. I don’t know what happened. It’s like all of a sudden, I know kung fu… nah. All of a sudden, I know how to use movie and graphic symbols. The concept just popped into my mind. Freaky… It was just like the other time at Nanyang Polytechnic, during my Final Year Project days. I had my lunch and was trying to take a nap while my partner and the other guys in the same lab were watching a Hongkong movie. All of a sudden, an idea popped into my mind for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON OR CAUSE and there, I was abusing the school’s high speed connection to send files to people at blistering speeds. [:D]
NOOOOOO!!!!!!
Argh. My computer hanged again. Troubleshooting ensues. I was able to run a CPU-stressing software for 19 hours straight with no problems. But when I play Diablo2 for 40 minutes, it hanged! [:(] . After rebooting, I was viewing my graduation photos and it hanged when I try to view a high resolution photo at it’s actual size. [X(]
Sigh…