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 | Dec 27, 2000 |
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Almost the end of 2000, just a few more days...isn't this supposed to be the real turn of the milenium or something? I remember hearing around new years last year that it wasn't REALLY the new milenium until the end of 2000 or something like that, which has given me new hope for the end of the world. Which reminds me of the other night when I was watching Ghostbusters on DvD and listening to the talk-over by Harold Ramis and he was like "If the world ends in the year 2000, I guess you just wasted a lot of money on your DvD player, but if it doesn't, HEY!".
For awhile now nobody has heard from Cyrix, especially since the last chips they produced were early Pentium clones, with clock speeds up to 200Mhz. However, sometime last year the mightly Cyrix got bought out by VIA Technologies Inc. along with Centaur processor divisions from IDT, and the dream was born again! Oh wait...what dream? The new Cyrix III Processor features a .15 micron die, giving it significantly lower power consumption capabilities, along with far less heat generation. In fact, these chips don't even need a fan! However, Cyrix has had problems matching performance with that of AMDs Durons and Intel's Celeron processors. They are hoping for a market in handheld/laptop technologies due to the low power consumption/low heat characteristics. I wasn't able to find any prices of these chips yet, but I am expecting them to sell at around......oooooh $2 US. LONG LIVE CYRIX!!
Razor dropped me a line today with a very depressing tone...it seems that his hit counter on his site is going down, or has stopped completely. If you don't know Razor personally, you should know that he is very attached to his webpage, in fact some days its the only thing that keeps him going. Every night he comes home from work and checks his counter to see how many hits he has received, and the answer usually determines his mood for the rest of the evening, or sometimes the rest of the week! Please be charitable and drop on by his site for a visit, its for a good cause, really. Ever wonder why you should be drinking that disgusting, creamy white cow excrement we call milk? This is why. I had some more content to post, some from Blue4130, but I left it at work so it will have to go up tomorrow. Actually, I'm a day late with this update so maybe you will get a double-update today if you're lucky! CHOW! | |||||||
| Dec 26, 2000 |
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Well, I trust that everybody enjoyed their christmas! Myself, I can't complain as I sit here now happily filled with Turkey and about ready to go to bed. One thing I have noticed now that I have had the chance to sit down at my computer is that bandwidth currently SUCKS. I just ran a ping to altavista.com which turned out in 90% packet loss, which aint all too good. This leads me to believe that either a lot of people got signed up on my ISP this christmas or Jay B is at work right now pulling wires :) I've had a lot of emails from people claiming to be making winamp skins for me, so that makes me happy...however nobody has actually turned any in yet. For some humorous geeky reading material for today, Larmal forwarded me a news article about a kid who got suspended for using PHP! (Yes, the web scripting language). Thats it for now! | |||
| Dec 22, 2000 |
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One more day of work until christmas!! Today was a pretty strange day...I woke up this morning to bitter cold, then this afternoon it dropped down to -23 which (I can't believe) actually seemed really warm. Now, I just got home at around 11:00PM and its really freakin' nice outside! Thats good ol' Saskatchewan for ya tho, if you don't like the weather - wait 5 minutes!
Silly me, forgot to mention yesterday that it was Dog Pound's birthday. I mean, its not like I have to remind everybody as it comes marked on almost every single calendar in production today, but just thought I would remind you. Dog Pound is now 16 and is allowed to borrow his moms car whenever he wants. He is also allowed to have beer if in direct supervision of an approved parent.  It is my duty to inform all of my loyal readers that if you are out to find some cheap-ass computer parts, KazCorp is having an online 'blitz'. There are some pretty kick-ass deals there, a lot of 17" monitors for less than $200 and some decent motherboard/cpu prices as well. I was so impressed that I am going to link to his site for free, so if you ever forget the link, just click on the banner in the menu bar! Anyhow, its been pretty damn quiet in my mailbox lately, where is everybody? Where are my winamp skins? Send me something!
Well its too late for me. I was just reminded tonight that I have yet to put up Kujo's bio, so I will try and have that up soon....goodnight to you all and a Merry Christmas if I don't update this weekend! | |||||||
| Dec 21, 2000 |
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Today was a very busy day indeed...and was it ever cold! Yes, it was! I finally broke down today and bought myself a new battery for my car with 860 cold cranking amps for those freezing cold starts. That should be all the love my super-volare needs to keep going for the rest of the winter...
Today, out of my boredom and the extreme coldness outside I have bourn another computer. I suddenly realized that I had enough parts lying around to put together yet another computer, so the name 'gozer' lives again. I have attempted to update the server info page to reflect the new changes. What am I going to do with this new computer? I don't know...I have no idea. Maybe I'll try and get my beowulf cluster up and running again...but it would hardly be worth it without a couple dozen more units :). I'm also using that old HD that came from oden which is filled with errors, so if anyone has an old 500meg HD lying around let me know and I'll buy you supper as a trade :) Today is the 4th month aniversery of the day that I got my super-volare (what, you don't believe me??), so in honor of such an event I present you with the song of the day. It is performed by a wonderfully talented band called The Screaming Blue Messiahs, and is entiriled (however so suitably) ... "Jesus Chrysler Drives A Dodge". UGH, just about for got. A big CONGRATULATIONS goes out to The Saint, who has recently become engaged. He has assured us all that this will not in any way effect his evilness, but will instaed only help him grow stronger by providing offspring to carry on his evil empire... Thats it for me today, GET THOSE WINAMP SKINS IN TO ME OR ELSE!! And if you got a problem with it, you can go post it on the discussion board! | |||||
| Dec 20, 2000 |
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I have a christmas 'lunch' tomorrow, and I just found out today that I had to buy a small gift ($5-$10) which will go under our little christmas tree and get given out at random during the lunch tomorrow. I didn't realize until I went shopping tonight how incredibly difficult it is to buy something that will appeal to anyone, ages 19-60 girl or guy, let alone trying to keep it under $10. This is why I hate secret santas - because I suck at shopping. Anyhow, I checked my mailbox today and didn't find ANY winamp skin contest entries. I suggest you guys all get into high gear and whip some up, especially YC. Speaking of YC, I have another email quote from him: On the up side of things, I may have aquired myself a new cheap car bargain. Unit3 smucked up his super station-wagon and is thinking of scrapping the car because the repairs are going to be expensive. If all goes well, and he doesn't change his mind, I should be able to pass him $100 and I'll have a brand new shiney broken station wagon. Good deal? Maybe. I could always use a broken station wagon. In fact, I can't think of anything I'd rather do than buy more crappy cheap cars...except maybe receiving a good ass-paddling... | |||
| Dec 19, 2000 |
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Damn was it cold this morning!! Last night it wasn't all that bad so it lead me to think that this morning would be the same. Not so! I just about lost my ears walking the 6 blocks to work from my convienient parking spot. Anyhow, I had the opportunity today to boost a friend's truck at work that wouldn't start so that makes 3 vehicles that the Volare has saved as compared to 4 times that it has needed to be saved. I hope this ratio gets a little better...helping people is good for its (and my) Karma.
YC sent me an email this morning which I found quite amusing. It read as follows: Ahhh YC, I never tire of your antics...
I think I want to go to Calgary on the 29th, anyone going that wants to give me a ride? Somehow I don't think that the super-volare would make such a trip. The car might, but the crappy tires wouldn't. Maybe I'll just steel Blue4130's Del Sol... | |||||||
| Dec 18, 2000 |
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I think I am about ready to proclaim Extreme Jerks officially a dead/retired site. I think that JayB has run out of the magic kind of energy that it takes to run a super-cool webpage. I hoped that Skinny Elvis would be able to take over to fill in the gap of JayB's laziness, but alas he is as unreliable as any other american and probably hasn't even checked the site himself (except for the 10 minutes it took him to update yesterday). I've been keeping a close eye on my counter lately and realized that my traffic has decreased significantly over the past couple weeks. Are people finally getting bored of reading my senseless ramblings or has the spirit of christmas finally pulled people off their asses to go buy gifts for their loved ones?? That reminds me, for all of you that have been wondering what to get me for christmas this year, cash will be fine. I'm only saying this because I know that Razor has been really stumped lately even though he won't admit it. "Well. i love adam. hes my idle.I mean it to. hes really cool. I only have 2 idles and the other one is Jim carry. oh man hes the funniest thing that i know. "One more full week of work and then christmas is on its way. Maybe its just me but it seems that nobody has gotten into the spirit of christmas yet...maybe its just all of this damn cold. Everybody is so busy wishing it would get warmer out that they don't realize that there's only a week left before they get a visit by the big fat man in the red suit (and I don't mean Unit3). Anyhow, not much more to say. Have a good monday and I'll see you again tomorrow! Same bat time, same bat MOTHERFUCKING channel. Hehehe... | |||||
| Dec 15, 2000 |
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Super-Volare made it to work and back without complaining so I'm hoping that it got all that rebelling (and built up carbon deposits) out of its system.. We haven't had any good pr0n on the site for awhile, and for the most part I have stopped putting it up simply because thats the job of The SDB Server. However, today is you're lucky day because I just happened to have a large amount forwarded to me at work today. How about a group photos of all of the German Playboy Playmates? Or if naked cheerleaders are your thing maybe you should take a look at The Viking Cheerleaders, or our own local husky cheerleaders. Had enough? Well tough thats all I got.
In case some of you haven't heard yet, it seems that the automotive giant General Motors have announced that they will be phasing out the Oldsmobile division. After over a century of existance, Olds will finally see the end of its line of vehicles. I am assuming based on the fact that Olds has always focussed on sport-luxury sedans, that the SUV market has a very large role in their loss of sales. Too bad, because I really liked the Bravada... 
    
 
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| Dec 14, 2000 |
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Aaach!! I hate downtime. IP changed as a result of being switched to another router yesterday and took awhile for the new dns entry to come into full effect. WHERE ITS AT!!! Today probably should have been the worst day of the year for me, and I'm going to explain why. Last night I didn't get to bed until around 12:30, which is later than I would have preffered but I got caught up setting up the new dns entires for rblords. I didn't realize until I was almost asleep that I had totally forgotten to have a shower, and since I hadn't had one in about 3 months I figured it was long overdue. This causes a lot of problems seeing as how I have a 15 year old sister who (as far as I can tell) gets up at 3 in the morning and occupies the bathroom for 6 hours. I set my alarm early and managed to beat her to the shower....problem solved, but I was a little tired. I grab my keys and run outside to start the super-volare. It BARELY starts...after a couple pumps the damn thing floods and I mat the gas peddle to the floor in a desperate last attempt and she actually fired up. This probably should have been a sign, but I quickly ignored it. When I was about half way to work, driving down college drive I remembered that I had neglected to fill the tank with gas the night before and I was quite low. This normally wouldn't have been too big of a problem until I got stuck in the middle of an intersection because the traffic had stopped as a result of a 5 car pileup on the university bridge. Here I am stuck in the rightmost lane surounded by other cars. Without a word of a lie, I sat there for 15 minutes without moving an inch...then when traffic FINALLY began to move, 'PUUUH' the car runs out of gas. I cranked it over to make sure that it didn't just stall, and the battery dies. Super. So here I am in the middle of INTENSE traffic, lined up several blocks behind me. These people are already pissed off that they have been sitting for 15 minutes, and now they have to squeeze into 2 lanes instead of 3. I flipped on my 4-ways and ran into the confectionary across the street and phoned a tow truck. The company informed me the wait would be about 1/2 hour. About an hour and a half later the guy shows up (I had already phoned into work by this time) and is like "Man, you're not having a good day today are you?" then I look at my car and the freaked tire is flat. Now I'm out of gas, with a dead battery and a flat tire. Pretty sweet. Anyhow I get home and call a cab to drive me to work, and I'm not going into detail but I can say that my entire day was nothing but a reflection of what had happened earlier. Nothing was working out for me today at all. Must be all that bad karma I racked up by hitting pedestrians... Anyhow, I didn't expect rblords to resolve this quickly so I'm caught a little off guard and didn't have any real content to give. Kujo picked up a new computer today (Duron 700) and can now join the hi-tech community with pride. All this is starting to make me want to build up another machine, but I really seriously have to stop buying shit until spring or I'll never get myself out of debt! | |||
| Dec 12, 2000 |
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Well today I am going to update from work because lately I have just been finding it far too hard to come up with good things to talk about when I'm falling asleep...so this should be a real quality update. Quality??? Whats that??? Well first off I would like to admit to everyone that I have not yet bought a single christmas present. No wait, thats a lie I picked up something for my father yesterday but other than that I haven't started. To top that off I'm all out of money until payday (Friday) so that leaves my christmas shopping to this weekend. Every year I try not to leave my christmas shopping to the weekend before christmas but it just always seems to turn out this way. After all, whats more exciting than driving around for half an hour looking for a parking spot, only to find the mall just as crowded?? That combined with the fact that I have no idea what to get any of my family this year could make things very interesting. Everybody likes those singing fish things right???  SDB is still kicking. Simply Uncomprehendaba! I think the whole internet has died. JayB has stopped updating EJ...I tried to go to EIF today only to find a public apology by Craig, and a declaration that the site will be down forever. Razor doesn't update his site anymore, and even __Space__ has been slowing down in her updates lately... Whats with this?!? Oh yeah, and I dropped by StileProject yesterday too (haven't been there in months) to find out that it has now become a huge marketting sell-out, with banners all over the place and even less content than it used to have. You might want to check out Mr-T once in awhile, as Unit3 has been updating fairly frequently.
Amongst all the busy server installs, wild parties, Mountain Dew cans and volare nightmares I have just realized that my room is quite a mess. In fact, its getting quite hard to even open the door anymore. I think while I'm out christmas shopping this weekend I ought to find myself one of those big steel snow-shovels, that should get rid of my problem. Then again, half of my problems lately have been Dog Pound. Every time I talk to him on the phone (and I phone him quite regularily to see how he is feeling) he hangs up on me. What a jerk, after all I have done for him...and all I ever got back was a broken heart and a fractured foot... | |||||
| Dec 11, 2000 |
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Busy busy weekend, it hardly seemed like a 3 day weekend at all! Between trying to catch up on some sleep, recover from a cold, and re-install oden I haven't really had a lot of time to spare to pay attention to this page, so I apologize for the lack of updates late last week. I assure you this shall not become a trend! If you're looking for something amusing to give you a break from work, have I got the link for you! YC sent in a link last week to the site Pornolize.com. This site will allow you to convert your favorite webpage into a huge mess of adult, offensive language. Highly amusing, but not for the kiddies...try it out, RBlords has never looked better!
Since I'm tired, I'm going to leave this update a little early. Just remember: if you ever have old aunts pinching your cheeks at weddings saying "You're going to be next!", you can shut them up by waiting till the next funeral, pinch their cheeks and repeat the same phrase... | |||||
| Dec 09, 2000 |
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I know, I know not much updating lately but I had Friday off and was feeling lazy. Just so everybody knows, the security of oden was once again comprimised last night by an 'anonymous' assailant. This is really starting to PISS ME OFF. As a result oden has suffered a fair amount of file loss and damage to some system files. Quite literally, it is standing on its last legs right now. To be honest this machine has been barely running for the last week because of a few screw-ups on my part in the recent re-install of RH6.2, but I was hoping to wait it out until I could re-install it this weekend. HOWEVER, thanks to this latest hacker who liked to run multiple instances of the SETI client on my machine, the machine not only crashed (as it does with SETI usually) but took a good chunk of itself down with it. The webpage will remain up for now, but don't be surprised if I have to take the system down for To any of my other, loyal, users who rely on oden for their webpages, email, file storage, please by advised that so far there has been no loss in /home. This means that your files SHOULD be ok. If you are concerned about the security of oden, please email me and we'll discuss it further. I expect this to come to a stop in the near future, or we may see a possible retiring of RBlords period. I don't have the time to waste on issues like these. Telnet and ftp are down temporarily, hopefully they'll be up by Monday | |||
| Dec 07, 2000 |
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Well, today marks the end of my sickness, this I have declared! To celebrate I ran to the store and bought 36 can of mountain dew only to find out that the price on each box ($3.32) didn't include the extra $102 of taxes PER CAN, so it ended up costing me a lot more than I was expecting. Stupid hidden taxes. When are they going to learn that people would buy more things if they appeared to be more expensive yet didn't have added surprise taxes?? Well, maybe that wouldn't work. But it WOULD work if Canada passed some sort of law forcing all stores to include taxes in the price of their products, no? Then it wouldn't matter if the price looked a little higher because it would be the same everywhere else! Damnit, why don't I run this country... I had some time to sit down and work on the site today, and it is now officially a little bit more 800x600 friendly (at least the title bar is). The rest you will have to scroll around for now until I learn not to use such huge graphics on the page.
Do you like to overclock everything that isn't bolted down? Have you ever thought of overclocking your calculator?? this guy did, way back in 1975, and you can do it too! Time for me to get to bed. I still haven't gotten around to adding the new reader bio I had submitted by Kujo, but I'll try to have it up tomorrow, ok? I knew you'd understand. | |||||
| Dec 06, 2000 |
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FTP is back up for any of you who use it, and the security hole has been fixed. I've been seriously considering a move over to OpenBSD but not until I have a chance to try it out, and for that to happen I would need to get my hands on another motherboard to build a new system. Hell, I may have to break down and just go get another case. Anybody got a spare ATX case lying around that they are willing to part with??
 Soul_d is insisting that I offer to everybody this delightfully artistic windows icon of mrp's head. Just one of the ways we have learned to cope with his mysterious dissapearance sometime a year or so ago...anyways, click here for the icon. Time for me to hit the sack, see you all on DA FLIP SIDE! :P. Oh, and before I forget... to those users out there that are suffering trying to read my page in 800x600, I'll have it all cleaned up for you in the next couple days, please bear with me! | |||||
| Dec 05, 2000 |
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Alright, I promised a totally excellent update for tonight, and I won't dissapoint you! There's lots of stuff to get through, so hold on and ride it through... Before I get started I'd like to mention (although I already sorta did) that I spent a good portion of last night tracking down a security hole on oden which allowed an anonymous prankster to break through sometime later last week and screw around with __SPACE__'s page. This problem has been eliminated, so you don't have to worry any longer! I'm sure you were all VERY concerned...but aside from all of this I have decided to upgrade oden's hardware and I am currently on the lookout for an AT form factor socket370 motherboard that can be set to run at 500Mhz or greater. I haven't had any luck finding a mb that fits this description so far, but if you have one please fire me an email. Anyhow, let me start out this update by informing everyone that Dog Pound is very sick, and has been for about a week now, however he did manage to make it out of bed just long enough to hunt me down a video to post on the site. This video is kind of funny because when I first watched it I thought that the guy in it was in fact Razor, but alas it is not. Check it out anyway, that is if you like seeing people getting hurt...
(yawn) sheesh, this update has taken me forever to make today! But thats not all! Remember when RBlords used to have comics all the time?? Remember when the title 'The Daily Comic' actually meant something?? Well, apparently Soul_d does, because he's sent in a comic for today! Yay! I have more to post, including a new Reader Bio, an icon for your windows desktop, and a couple of other goodies but they will all have to wait for tomorrow. See you all then! | ||||||||
| Dec 04, 2000 |
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Eck. Cold. -30 degrees Celcius this morning with the horrible windchill, but my Super-Volare started fine :) Alllright, I had this super huge awesome update planned for today but because of some other troubles I wasn't able to get around to it. Seems I have a little bit of a security hole on oden that is causing some trouble so I ended up spending most of last night patching that up. Eck. Stupid haX0rs. So...in light of these fun problems there will be no excitement today, but as a result there will be twice the excitement tomorrow! I have to say the page seems to be working pretty good, no more strange Hebrew errors or pictures not loading properly (for me anyway). One thing I maybe forgot to mention is that the page will look absolutely terrible in anything less that 1024x768. Poor Kujo just got a computer and can't get it to run over 640x480. I shudder to think what this page must look like at that resolution... | |||
| Dec 03, 2000 |
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In case you haven't noticed, the page is still under construction. This weekend I managed to get all of the updates converted over into a MySQL database and link them to the php scripts that run this page. You might notice that you will now only see the last 11 updates on the main page, which should speed up the page viewing considerably. At the bottom of the page there is a link to see the previous 10 Updates. Why do you get 11 on the main page?? The 11th one is a bonus, thats why. Also, you can still view entire months of updates using the links on the menu to the left. For awhile people were having problems with a requester popping up when they loaded this page, asking them to download a Hebrew character set. I don't know where this came from, but I managed to fix it. Also, you may notice that clicking on the 'Discussion' icon on the title bar takes you to a new message board that I am currently testing. Have a go at it and let me know what you think. Its so configurable its really quite scarey, and may be a bit overkill for the application. Either way, I'd appreciate some feedback. If you want to post on the old one, just hit the link in the menu to the left... Oh, one more thing. For some reason I have had problems with the title bar loading properly. I'm going to try and get that fixed right away as well. Sometimes the main page won't even load (what the hell is with that??). Oh well, one step at a time...if you find any outrageous problems remember to let me know... Check back in a bit for an actual update... | |||
| Dec 01, 2000 |
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Wow, December 1st already...does it feel like Christmas? Personally I think it came around quite quick, and I can only hope that the rest of the winter should pass this quickly so that I can get right on into enjoying spring again. However, for the time being I will bite down and endure the harsh cold and take salvage in the fact that I can rip sweet doughnuts in my volare, and uhhhh... well I'm sure there are other fun things you can do in the winter too, I just can't think of any right now. Oh I know, parties are usually more rockin' and more abundant in the winter because people don't want to go outside...so where are they??  I knew I was forgetting something! Everybody please send Razor an email wishing him a happy 23rd birthday (his birthday was the 30th I believe). Even though he is a year older, I still expect every one of you to treat him with just as much respect as you always have, if not more. Remember, he is one of the only guys I know that can actually mack out and keep it real at the same time...without a doubt.
I have actually (truthfully!) been overhauling this page over the last couple days and I have made significant progress! Of course, nothing has changed for you readers yet until I implement the changes. However, I should notify you that there is a possibility that this page may not be updated early next week because of the renovations. If all goes well I may be able to get everything switched over this weekend, but if I don't....well, then thats why I wouldn't be able to update early next week. I was going to refer you to EJ to entertain you during this time, but it seems as though JayB has dissapeared. You'll have to just read __SPACE__'s page instead. If you missed YC's update yesterday (it was late in the day), then make sure to just back to the November Updates to have a look. Time for me to jet...keep it real and have fun...then stay fit and mack frenzy... | |||||
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