Category: Tech

SLI, Scalable Link Interface, from what I’ve read, is not a new technology but an old one. This technology was revisited because of the introduction of PCI-e.

The interesting thing about SLI is using 2 graphic cards on a single machine. Sort of similar to machines with dual CPUs.

For gaming, you can have each graphic card render a portion of the screen. Load is balanced between them from some experiments I’ve seen on the net. Which is they don’t render a fixed 50% of the screen but varies constantly depending on what’s shown on the screen. This means a huge increase in gaming performance.

Another possibility that I’ve read this morning is having 4 monitors hooked up to a single machine, assuming each card has 2 DVI outputs. To me, it means I can now have monitor #1 displaying system info (Samurize, MySQL Administrator), #2 showing mIRC, #3 – Firefox displaying the website I’m working on, #4 – Text editor showing the codes of the website I’m working on.

No need to alt+tab through them, no need to access the task bar for a click. Just simply moving my mouse from one screen to the other.

But this dream will have to wait. 17″ LCDs are still pretty fucking expensive and getting 4 right now would amount to S$1500-2000. 2 capable SLI-enabled graphic cards, S$300-600. A whole new system just because my current motherboard doesn’t have PCI-e slots, $1000-2000.

Some friends on IRC asked me to provide a newsfeed so they can check for updates via their rss reader. So here it is! The link to the file is on the right section. Wrote the whole thing in about an hour while waiting for a exp party invite in Final Fantasy.

Everyone who IRCs on Galaxynet should know about the recent comeback of a horde of spammers. Don’t know what the mastermind is thinking but I can tell you his immature logic is: “If 1 tree offends you, you burn the whole forest.”

Since his bots join the channel, does 2 /notices and then /part, all in the short period of probably less than 10 seconds, here’s a solution I propose to all channel ops, Delayed Voicing. Which is to voice users after they’ve joined and stayed in the channel for a specific period of time (15 seconds in this case). Of course, this means you have to set the moderation (+m) flag on.

The green colored lines that begin with a semicolon (;) are comments. They can be remove and will not affect the entire script.

Instructions to load the above code…

1. In mIRC, hit alt+r to access the script editor.


2. At the menu on top, click on File, New, and you will be given a blank page.


3. Copy and paste the above code into the blank page, edit as neccessary.


4. File, Save.

It’s fairly simple. There are probably many ways to further improve this so do post your comments to help every Galaxynet IRCer.

Gahhh… Here’s what happened at work.

We had 2 copies of amarahotels.com. One on Linux server, one on Windows. At first when I joined my company, I had to fix the problem where the ASP files weren’t working. Heh, they were running on the Linux server which does not support ASP. So we called them up and had it moved the the Windows server. Everything went well.

Just recently, I sent an email to my webhost providers to remove that copy because it’s taking up disk space. About 170MB. And a representative replied that he had the site disabled instead of removing it.

So I got a call from the people at Amara Hotels this morning. Apparently the site went down. So after a bit of checking on the control-panel, it turned out that the DNS records resides on the Linux server and it was disabled together with the site.

I have the site re-enabled now, everything’s back to normal, but my original purpose remains unresolved. [X(]

And by the way, this is not the first time this webhost is giving me problems.

7 years ago, my friend bought his first computer, a Pentium 2, 233MHz with 16MB SDRam, 4MB AGP, 6GB Harddisk. It costs $2500+ back then.

Just last Friday, we went down to SLS to source him a new computer. Here’s the specs:

As for me, I bought myself an APC Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). Should last me at least 10 minutes judging from what I have connected. Only 3 devices can be powered by the UPS itself. 2 goes to my machines, and the last one goes to my main monitor. I can initiate Windows shutdown just through the power button on the webserving machine.

Now aiming for a cheap 15″ LCD for my webserver machine!