Upgraded

IT’S ALIVE!

Finally got my new setup up and running. I finished about 4am! Current Specications (as of 11.08.2005) are (upgraded items in bold)

  • AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3000+ (Venice core)
  • Epox 9NPA+ (nForce4) Motherboard
  • 2GB (2x1GB) Geil DDR400 DIMMs w/ ramsinks
  • Palit GeForce 6600GT 256MB
  • Terratec DMX 6Fire soundcard with audio bay
  • HEC WIN550AB 550W PSU
  • Thermalright XP120 Heatsink w/ Delta WFB1212ME (120x120x38mm 96CFM)
  • Seagate 80GB / 120GB Barracudas (other HDDs are now external)
  • Modded (painted) ECS 6-in-1 card reader
  • LG CD-R/DVD-Rom combo drive
  • Lian-li C-01 and F-01 aluminum drive bezels
  • Modded Lian-li PC-75 (handles, wheels, cathode)

All other stuff (extras) can be found here

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Time to upgrade

After my PC has been giving me problems, I’ve decided that it’s time to upgrade. But this time I decided not to really go for the highest specs, but to build a practical gaming system / Digital Audio Workstation.

Fortunately for me, a bunch of components which I’ve spent quite a lot on are still very much in the game and haven’t lost their appeal, such as the Lian-Li casing, the hard disks, audio card, cd-roms, monitor, keyboard/mouse, etc. I basically just had to change the Videocard and CPU. Unfortunately, the CPU I intend to buy entailed that I had to change the motherboard, since it was a different socket type. With such a drastic change, my current RAM would do the new components justice. And of course it was time for a new Power Supply Unit just to be on the safe side.

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Top 2 percent

Got this from Jem, and answered it too. But I’m posting my solution here because when I googled to check if I got it right, I saw much simpler/faster ways to answer it hahaha which made me kinda sad that I took a “logical-long-cut.” But nonetheless, it was nice to know that I solved it either way.

Are you in the TOP 2% of intelligent people in the world? Solve the riddle and find out. There are no tricks, just pure logic. So goodluck and don’t give up.

  1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
  2. In each house lives a person of different nationality.
  3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

Hints:

  1. The Brit lives in a red house.
  2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
  3. The Dane drinks tea.
  4. The Green house is on the left of the White house.
  5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
  6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
  7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
  8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
  9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
  10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the man who keeps cats.
  11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
  12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
  13. The German smokes Prince.
  14. The Norwegian lives next to the Blue house.
  15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

Albert Einstein wrote this riddle during the 19th century. He said that 98% of the population would not be able to solve it.

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Sony DRM Installs a Rootkit?

Sony DRM Installs a Rootkit?

An anonymous read writes “SysInternals.com guru Mark Russinovich has a detailed investigation of a rootkit from Sony Music. It’s installed with a DRM-encumbered music CD, Van Zant’s “Get Right with the Man”. (Mmmm, delicious irony!) The rootkit introduces several security holes into the system that could be exploited by others, such as hiding any executable file that starts with ‘$sys$’. Russinovich also identifies several programming bugs in the method it uses to hook system calls, and chronicles the painful steps he had to take to ‘exorcise the daemon’ from his system.” This house is clear.

via Slashdot

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Friendly reminder for PhpBB users

Thanks to some BP Onliners‘ messages, I was able to make sure I backed up our site’s database just in case.

Apparently, our sister site Hangad‘s discussion board has been hacked. From the look of it, either of two things happened. It’s a HTML/CSS hack, or the an administrative (or super moderator) account was compromised. I would have to go with the former based on the source code I saw.

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