Rappablords Online

Nov 16, 2000

OK OK, I can't believe it - I didn't update yesterday and people actually complained, how flattering! I've just been really busy planning this whole Edmonton trip for this weekend...and we finally found a place to stay so everything should be settled. Whew.

To overclock or not to overclock?

For those of you crazy l33t overclockers out there looking for a CPU to overclock take a look at overclockers.com. They have a really extensive database of overclocking results submitted by readers. I found this very useful when choosing my pair of 366s a year ago...so check it out.

It seems the new big overclocking revolution is centered around the Duron chips, although I would like to get my hands on a couple of Celeron 533s...

I know that some of you have heard of the new Alice in Wonderland game coming out from ea, those who haven't I guess now is your chance. Blue4130 sent me the trailer for this long-awaiting game which promises to be very evil, twisted and gorey. Sounds pretty good, lets see if it can live up to all the hype...

Anyone who uses the RBlords mail service mail have noticed that it wasn't receiving mail over the past few days. I'm not exactly sure when this started but it has been fixed, and all of the email that had been sent in the meantime should have been delivered shortly after so there should be no loss. I haven't exactly figured out why this happened, it seems that once every month or so, oden (the server) just starts rejecting email for so reason and the only way I have been able to fix it is to reboot, which I should never have to do! Ugh. Oh well.

Man, Dog Pound must be having a fit with all of the politics going around lately (he's really into this stuff). First we have the election in the states (see pic on left), now we have an election in Canada. This is just nuts...

I for one am probably not going to vote. Maybe I will, if I feel like it. When asked why I don't want to vote I usually reply "because it would be in the public's best interest that I not". This usually confuses the other person, but honestly if I were to vote it would be the old 'einy meiny miney moe' pick, and who's going to benefit from that? I'll leave the voting to people who have reserched it and know what they are doing. This combined with the fact that I think that all of the parties are lying to us anyways about what they want to do is what has turned me this way....

On a side note, I'm not sure if anyone has noticed but Razor's page has kinda died. I'm hoping for a glorious comeback. The Dark Project is also down due to The Saint's lack of hard drive space (hard to believe as he has 1023402gigs). __SPACE__'s page is live and flourishing, so I suggest you have a read. Other than that, the internet is dead. Oh, and I should mention that SDB Blue has been updated...

Wow thats the longest update in awhile! Stay tuned for articles in the near feature from both Audiophile AND Blue4130. And don't forget to leave your comments on the Discussion Board...

	Nov 14, 2000	Spitfire
	No update yesterday because it was a holliday for me. Its kinda funny, ever since I started working with computers on a daily basis, I'm far less inclined to actually use my own computer at home. In fact, the only time I ever use my computer anymore is to update this site, and sometimes I just do that from work anyhow. I really want to buy a new monitor to replace this crappy 14" which I have had forever, but I just can't decide whether it is worth it or not when I look at how much I use it. I spend more time using my linux box than my main machine when it all comes down to it... I know its a little old, but how about a video of Bill Gates getting hit with a pie? Seems JayB has been getting a little bit blue over the maintenance of his site and it almost sounded like he was considering discontinuing it. So why don't you fire him an email to remind him just how much you really care.

Nov 10, 2000

Spitfire

Another day, another late update. Will this pioneer a trend? Maybe so, who knows. But as long as I keep getting home late or staying up playing in BeOS then I will continue to forget to update. As a side-effect, I have also been sleeping in which is starting to become a little too frequent. If I'm not careful I might end up getting myself a promotion.

BeOS 5.0 kicks some serious ass. Not a whole lot more ass than 4.5 did, but there is definately a significant increase of ass kicking present. My favorite part about BeOS is that EVERYTHING is multi-threaded, which makes dual processors a true dream. I haven't found any SW for BeOS yet that doesn't utilize dual processors, except for the crappy SETI client which for some reason won't even let me run two instances of it. Installing my network card and SB16 was a pain tho, you would think that a SB16 would be generic enough, but its ISA so it had to be manually entered :(

Time for another test...

So those makers of the original purity test finally got around to making a test that many of us can relate to much easier, and one for each gender:

For men, The Bastard Test
For women, The Bitch Test

After taking both tests, I found that I am 37% bastard and 33% bitch (That must mean that I'm 30% PURE good). Although I have to admit some of the bitchtest questions were pretty hard for me to answer...like "Have you ever faked a pregnancy just to get attention". I may have, but thats personal...

This guy is 95% bastard. Watch out for him, there are 36 different methods to his style. Kinda like Heinz.

Blue4130 has announced that he is going to be having a LAN party at his rockin' place this weekend, Saturday. It promises to be a rockin' good time of UT playing, and maybe even some oldschool AvP. We just need tables. Playing on the floor sucks ass.

Thirsty?

You gotta love the trendy Cola/Soda industry when it comes to trying to make the most popular drink for teens. Its all about appeal isn't it? I mean, what would you rather drink? Barq's Root Beer or Fuk-ola Cola (which apparently is pronounced foo-kola colo). They probably all taste like shit, but who really cares? Its FUKOLA!!!

This makes me miss those soda drinks with the floaty mushy things in them that lasted all of about 6 months back a few years ago...

Anyhow, I think thats way too much from me this morning. I should also mention that I am working today, while everybody else isn't. For some reason everybody in the country gets the day off today, when us government workers get pushed to Monday. I guess it isn't all that bad, at least traffic was decent on the way to work this morning...

	Nov 09, 2000	Spitfire
	What?? No update??? Well I TriX0red you good because here it is. Looks like this trip to Edmonton should be a blast, we have lots of people coming and there will be lots of carnage. If anyone knows of a bitchin hotel to stay at while we're there, let me know because I have no idea. Last time I was in Edmonton we looked up the Travelodge and then found out the hard way that there are, in fact, two of them in Edmonton and the one we found was on 'the bad' side of town, whichever side that is. Needless to say it was a crummy looking Motel/Hotel with a swimming pool the size of my car. On a side note about the Travelodge website, I think its kinda weird that out of all of their locations, they picked the Saskatoon one as one of the 4 pictures that show up on the right side of the page. I guess we DO have a pretty nice travelodge here (now that I have seen the others ones :) ) Audiophile sent me a very educational link to Being L33t...it's worth a read-over if you're interested in TriX0ring, HaX0ring or just want to be a little more like JeffK. Actually, speaking of JeffK, he wrote a review of Red Alert that DP may be interested in... In case you didn't notice, today's update was pretty lame, and late. Just thought I'd point that out. For some super-fun happy action, go to the Discussion Board and leave your opinion on the Promise Keepers....

	Nov 08, 2000	Spitfire
	I just realized that after advertising soul_d online yesterday that I forgot to include the link (oops), so here it is. Nike's new ad promo with Tiger Woods Don't really have much to say tonight, except that I finally got my hands on a copy of BeOS 5.0. The copy came from none other than King YC himself. My heart truley goes out to him, as he had to actually steel a copy of the CD from a co-worker and then proceed to outrun him in order to take it home. Also, the trip to Edmonton is still on for next Friday (the 17th). I'm quite impressed on the crew so far, as we will likely be hauling around 10 people up there. I should run out and grab a battery for soul_d's video camera so that we can tape all of the carnage that takes place as we throw a massive hotel party for two nights. Viva l'Edmonton!!!

Nov 07, 2000

Spitfire

Wow, day #2 of being broke. I packed my own lunch for today for the first time since I started my job (in early June). Its just not as much fun bringing a lunch, having to watch everybody else eat the delicious cafeteria food....errr.... yeah. Fries and gravy are good, no matter who makes them, or where the gravy came from...

I finally got around to checking my pwrsrc email and discovered that soul_d has littered it with many gems and treasurers. First of all, The Real Ghostbusters is being shown on channel 64 @10:30. There isn't much sweeter than the ghostbusters. Except maybe a 20 meg Jennifer Lopez music video He also sent me the following:

"Remind the world that soul_d online is not dead. I think people thought it was, because it said "happy thanksgiving" for almost a month, but soul_d online celebrates thanksgiving for 28 days. We have lots to be thankful for at Soul_D online."

I also have a funny (and much smaller) video for you all which teaches us where NOT to hide your wedding ring. You'd better watch this one...

I must compliment Blue4130 on finding one of the best links that I have ever been sent. As much as I would like to talk about the product, I think all you really have to do is look at the picture. You can also visit the website for more info. The product is 'JonnyGlow'. Enough said...

"Jonny Glow...works for me...halleluia I can see where to pee! Jonny glow is really neat, because I don't go back to bed with two wet feet!"

(Download JonnyGlow theme song here)

Thats it for today. I'm tired. I'm also planning a trip to Edmonton next weekend because I think I need a vacation. If we go (which we probably will), I will try and take pictures (or video) and bring back good footage of me and Unit3 wrecking stuff...

Nov 06, 2000

Spitfire

SNOW! ARGHAARHARH!

I guess it couldn't last forever, this wonderfully above-average temperature fall but I suppose its time for the white stuff to stay. This kinda sucks for me as it means I will be condoned to driving the Super-Volare, and the Super-Volare only. Good thing I tuned her up yesterday. Only problem is when I checked the coolant level, there was no coolant so I was like "Well, the block can't crack if it has NO water in it. This must be safe"

You laugh, but I predict that this picture speaks miles of truth about the future of our auto industry. Don't you agree? I mean, we already have chopped down versions of the Windows CE operating system in some of our high-end cars/SUVs today. Pretty soon there won't be anything left for mechanics to do, you will just have to take your car to FutureShop for a tune-up, or processor upgrade...

"Yes, I'd like you to take a look at my car. It seems that whenever I accelerate abruptly, it crashes. I think it needs some more RAM."

The past week at work was a little nuts for me at work. Twice as many calls, twice as many projects, twice as many problems. Of course with all of this comes twice as much powerpoint porno presentations. I get these emailed to me all the time from other people at work. I started to wonder why nobody stopped people from doing this, which is quite hard on the email server, but then I realized that if anyone was to do anything about it, it would be me, and I wasn't quite in the mood for that.

I was FINALLY able to snag a picture of Razor as a kid
Thankx Mel for the wicked link!

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