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Dual Monitor!

I finally took the time to remove my fish tank. And put in it’s place, a 17inch CRT monitor!


I intended it for my old pentium 2 machine. So I could have 2 fully functionable PCs to use. But before I buy a router to hook them up, I tried the Dual Display feature that comes with my graphic card. I just hook up the second monitor to the DVI output of my graphic card using the DVI-VGA convertor. And wallah!! I can drag my mirc to the second monitor and it leave it there! I can play games and check what everyone’s talking on IRC just by looking to my left.


It’s funny cos I have to move my mouse over to the right edge of my monitor so the mouse will appear on the second monitor. And the second monitor is located on my left. Heh.


Having 2 monitors is fun! [XD]

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URL Cloaking

Yes!! Learned something new! I can actually do URL Cloaking for one of my websites! URL Cloaking is just hiding the full URL from the address field in your browser. So where ever you navigate from in that page, you will see 1 URL for as long as you’re using that browser window~


URL Cloaking simply uses frames. Here’s a live example:
<html>
<title>IRC Quotes</title>
<frameset cols=100% border=0>
      <frame src=ircquotes/index.asp>
</frameset>
</html>


The URL: http://insomniac.mine.nu/


Now to go get my daily cup of Nescafe~

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Woohooooo!!

Yay, bought my new graphics card!! It’s not being pushed to the max because of the slow CPU I’m on. [:(] . But I’m making bids for a new one online at HardWareZone’s forums. So far, 2 people before me have placed $60, $70 bid respectively so I had no choice but to bid $80, which is a very good price according to an IRC friend. The auction starter decides to run this auction for 2 weeks! [:(]


I had to downclock my CPU back to it’s original speed. The Hercules Radeon 9800PRO does not seem to work well with my FSB going at 110MHz. It’s now back at 100MHz. This means a slower CPU and I’m already beginning to see my codes in this weblog of mine, taking a little bit more time to process. From the articles I read on the net, every millisecond is crucial in running a frequently visited site such as google.com or yahoo’s. Every millisecond spells a huge difference in overall performance.


Argh…. I just can’t wait to get hold of the new CPU… That is if I manage to win the bid… [:|]

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Upgrades upgrades upgrades…

After some thinking, I wanted to get an AthlonXP 1800+ CPU to make 100% use of the resources available. Currently the bottleneck is the CPU. It runs at 100FSB but my ram can support 133FSB. The difference may be big. Thus, after work, I went down to SimLim Square but none of the shops carry the chip I was looking for anymore. [:(] Sigh…


For the rest of the evening, I went to Bugis Junction again. Roamed the area and visited the arcades.


They had a new soccer game that involved trading cards. The player lays them out on the board of the machine. Each card represents a football player that’ll be used in the game. Everyone is required to buy a $15 dollar starter deck. It has quite a few cards and a Manager card which stores your information of each game you’ve played. And if I’m not wrong, if you win a game, the machine will dispense a football player card.


Then I tried the new driving game, Outrun 2. It was easy to drift and control. It seems that looking at others play, they seem to be driving very fast. But when I played the game myself, it looks normal. Perhaps I’m just using automatic shift and the rest, manual. Manual has a max speed of 300km/h and auto, 288km/h.


I was unable to have dinner anywhere. All the fast food restaurants are crowded with people. Even if I manage to find a seat, I am unable to buy my dinner. If I go ahead and buy my dinner, someone will take my seat. [:(] . I ended up having a cup of chocolate milkshake from the shop just next to the escalator that leads down to the arcade. Surprisingly, for the rest of the night, I didn’t feel a bit hungry. I only had a heavy lunch.