lorne

Well I usually never buy pre-built as building your own makes way more sense. But a year ago my rig was stolen so I broke down and bought a Acer x3200 as I was short on cash. A few weeks ago the PSU went poof so I went and picked up a coolermaster 500W for it. Than the fan died on the piece of crap video card so time to replace it. The problem is the x3200 is a mini PC so nothing fits....time for surgery!!

Here it is getting ready to get cut up. See how big the new PSU looks next to it

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Here is the difference between the old and new card hehe.

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Here I have taken out the 15 in 1 card reader and taken the power switch apart and off the case (that was a pain in the ass).

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Humpty dumpty fell off the wall and all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put humpty dumpty together again.

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And here is how it sits now. Not pretty but it works well and that card is ripping along great with FAH. Supposedly it OCs great so will try that today. It stays steady at 44 Deg C with FAH running so room to OC. Fans a little loud but not too bad.

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I need to build a cabinet for my slowly growing FAH farm as all the fans are getting noisy. Maybe in the spring!

Lets here your thoughts on this UFC. Here is the main card for tonights UFC 140.

Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Jon Jones © vs. Lyoto Machida
Heavyweight bout: Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Light Heavyweight bout: Tito Ortiz vs. Antônio Rogério Nogueira
Welterweight bout: Claude Patrick vs. Brian Ebersole
Featherweight bout: Mark Hominick vs. Chan Sung Jung

Here are my picks love em or hate em!

Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Jon Jones © vs. Lyoto Machida- Jones in the 4th by TKO. I think it will take him that long to solve the riddle that is Machida. I like Machida better but I don't think he has what it takes to take the title from Jones. [damn he solved it fast the choke was instinct....respect given]

Heavyweight bout: Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira- Mir in the second by submission. All depends if we see the old Mir or the one that has been sporadically showing up lackluster and out of shape. [Mir submits nogueira...first round but I'll take it!!]

Light Heavyweight bout: Tito Ortiz vs. Antônio Rogério Nogueira- Nogueira by KO in the first. [TKO first round but I'll take it )

Welterweight bout: Claude Patrick vs. Brian Ebersole- I see this going the distance with a decision to Ebersole. [Went the distance decision to Ebersole]

Featherweight bout: Mark Hominick vs. Chan Sung Jung- Hominick by KO in the first. I'll say by a right hand   [right hand wrong fighter!]

I'll be watching this live and announcing it in IRC if you want to join us there! See here http://testmy.net/ip...al-irc-join-us/ for IRC info.

I recently talked to CA3LE about setting up a official IRC room for TMN. He agreed it would be a good idea so I have went ahead and started setting it up. IRC is old school chat but still used by a huge amount of people. It is a great way to hangout and talk in real time and very easy to idle in. I have many fun things planned for the channel such as some games, quotes system, F@H tracking, poker, and more just take a little time to get it going.

How can I join?

For those of you that know IRC the information is:
Server: irc.dal.net
Channel: #TMN

There are many different options but for now I am going to list just 2 of the easiest and most popular, mIRC and Mibbit.

mIRC

By far the better choice of the two. You can download it here http://www.mirc.com/ Install it and open it and you will be greeted with a screen something like this:

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Now you need to choose/add the server you want to connect to. In this case it is irc.dal.net So click "server" and choose Dalnet than Random Server (it will automatically connect you to the server closest to you) than click "select. Now where it says nickname enter your desired nickname and hit "connect".
A window will come up asking you which channel you will join. Enter #TMN and enter. You will now be in TMN IRC channel

If you plan on spending some time with us on IRC you should register your nickname so it is reserved for you it is also required to get +v on the channel. To register your nickname type /nickserv register <password> <e-mail> and follow the instructions. Than whenever you connect you will need to identify with nickserv so it knows you are the owner of the name. To identify yourself with nickserv type /nickserv identify <password>

Mibbit

As far as I know everything above works in Mibbit or at least it should as the protocol is the same. You can get Mibbit here http://mibbit.com/ If you use Firefox mibbit already comes bundled with it.

Auto Join: If you have mIRC installed or are using firefox you can click this link http://irc://irc.dal.net/tmn and it will connect you to #TMN automatically.

I just picked up a shell for the eggdrop bot (TMN) and got it running and I will slowly start adding tcl scripts to add to the channel. For now feel free to join us and lol at me breaking stuff! I plan to get a bit more in depth on this guide soon and cover basic commands as well as how to use our local bot TMN.

Using TMN (The Bot)

Unlike many TMN does not mind feeling used. As I add modules and scripts to him I will post here about each one and how to use it.

Stats.Mod

This module records and stores all types of user and channel stats on a internal database. The fact that this is a module and compiled into the bot itself makes it much faster than a .tcl script. Here is a list of commands you can use with this mod.

Public commands:
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!top10 [ordering]
  lists the top10 users in the channel
!top20 [ordering]
  same as !top10, but lists the top20 (surprise!)
!stat [user]
  shows the statistics for the user
!place [user/ordering]
  shows on which place the user is
!ttop10/!ttop20/!tstat/!tplace
  same as above, but only uses the statistics of today

!wordstats [user]
  lists the most used words of the user
!topwords
  lists the most used words in the channel
!top10 word <word>
  lists the top10 people who used <word>

Msg commands:
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All public commands are also accessible via /msg.
("/msg <TMN> top10 #chan", for example)
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gseen.Module

Public commands:
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!seen <nick>
  I think this command doesn't need an explanation.
!seen <mask>
  Searches the database for entries that match <mask>
  for example "!seen *!user@dialin-*.isp.com"
!seennick <nick>
  !seen also checks if a user was online later with a
  different nick. !seennick only seens for <nick>
!seenstats
  just a little report on how many nicks are tracked

All commands are also accessible via /msg.
("/msg <TMN> seen <nick>", for example)

Google Script

Public Commands

!google
!googleuk
!image

Quotes System (For now only admins can add quotes)

!quote <number>
!findquote
!quoteinfo
!lastquote
!randquote


More to come soon!

Hope some of you will come hangout
Lorne

Well after being out of the loop for a very longtime I decided to get back into building my own rigs and OCing. My first rig I ever had was a P3 450 mhz Coppermine. I dicscovered OCing and ended up running that Coppermine at 850 mhz for a year than built my next rig a AMD 2500 M for those of you remember that awesome OCing CPU. Than I went MIA from the computer world due to real life issues and am now slowly finding my way back.

This build which I nicknamed Project Pheno is scheduled for February 2012.

What I want from this Build:

1> Ability to OC! I love to push it as far as possible and than push a bit more I want to get some big speeds from this Rig.
2> F@H I have always been a big fan of F@H and the more this rig can crunch the better.
3> HD movies and encoding/decoding. We watch alot of HD 1080 and do alot of decoding and encoding so want the rig to be fast and smooth for this.
4> Gaming. I will do some gaming and want to be able to play any of the new and upcoming games at full res and smooth. I love FPS.
5> Not only am I obsessed with OCing I am obsessed with big scores on all types of benchmarks so overall speed is a factor.

The Budget- Roughly 2k this is for just the box I already have monitor, speakers etc.. I live in Montreal QC and so far haven't found a real good store to use for parts. I would prefer to buy locally so if you know of a good store here please post a link.

I want the rig to be watercooled maybe with a chiller for higher speeds?

So please leave advice and suggestions as right now I am trying to catch up and have no idea what's out there or coming as far as hardware.

Hardware List and Links

CPU- ??
RAM- ??
MOBO- ??
Hard Drives- SSD in RAID 0 (Hardware Controller) Brand?
Case- ??
PSU- ??
Watercooling- ??
Vid Card(s)- ??
DVD Burner- ??

I'll be doing some research and updating this as I go also based on what people suggest. Thanks for any help you can give me on this!

Good Private Server

After a very long and rough absence from testmy.net I am back and thought I would share a RL friends up and coming opening of a really great L2 server. He has put a huge amount of work into it (2 years+) so I think it is worthy of a post here for those interested in the game.

Love this place and am glad to finally be back!

Note: Excuse the title I recently moved to Quebec and my English and French get a little mixed up