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The 70s

FFXI – Finally reached level 70. Just 5 more to the maximum.

In other news, here’s why I love reading slashdot. It’s a topic on email spam. Click here for article.

he just went from 1 million a day to about 1.3 million a day.

I dont get nearly as much spam as that, but even a few hundred a day is pretty irritating. My solution is to delete all email as soon as I get it.
I figure if its important I’ll get a phone call.

Funny, I delete all phone calls as soon as I get them. I figure if it’s important I’ll get an IM.

Funny, I delete all IMs as soon as I get them. I figure if it’s important, I’ll get a visit.

Funny, I delete all of my visitors as soon as they show up. I figure if it’s important, I’ll get an e-mail.
I couldn’t resist, I’m sorry. *hangs head in shame*

Funny, I delete all of my visitors as soon as they show up. I figure if it’s important, the police will come and circle the house.

Funny, in Soviet Russia the police delete you.
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Finally

After lots of googling and forum posts, I got the TV Tuner card to install on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. I’m lucky it could run IIS the way I wanted it to, but installing PHP4 was a little trickier. It’s different, more tedious than installing it on Web Edition of Win2K3.

My room is a lot quieter now with the old machine and faulty HSF switched off. Now to look into the noise coming from my main machine. I suspect the Antec PSU at fault.

FFXI – Went levelling black mage a little more. It’s so easy to get PT invites, I get tells as soon as I disband… I have Elemental/Dark/Enfeeble magic skill capped from my Dark Knight job. Also have evasion capped and this has helped me many times to evade attacks from monsters that I nuke too much.

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Sigh

Attempted my first Maat fight last night. I lost. Normally, I wouldn’t feel so sad losing but I’m very depressed after this defeat. Why? Because I was so close to defeating him. So fucking close. 2 more hits, I’m sure, is enough for a win…

And then I have a problem of getting my TV Tuner card to work on Windows Server 2003. The drivers crash the OS badly and my DVD writer disappears permanently. I’m still googling, posting in forums, emailed Leadtek for more information and help.

I chose a Leadtek Winfast TV2000XP Expert over a Hauppage because they were both as good but Leadtek’s cheaper by $50-70.

So much depressing crap in 1 day…

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Oouu yeeaaa

My new SFF multi-purpose PC is ready for action!

I just need to test the temperatures to make sure I applied the thermal paste properly and install an OS.

I bought 2 Seagate 160GB SATA NCQ harddisks. I intend to do mirror RAID (RAID 1). But if the performance is not impressive enough, I’ll break them up and remind myself to do weekly backups.

Here’s how it looks like, specs can be viewed here. Onboard audio and sound, TV Tuner.

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Spinning Slash

Guess it’s time for another break from all that exp-ing, so I went exploring the lands of Lufaise Meadows and Misareaux Coast.

Here’s me performing my most proud weaponskill. Spinning Slash.