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06-24-2000

As Marv Albert would say, "Yes!" I broke 100 SETI@Home packets! Click here to see the proof (23K GIF). For those of you not doing so now, you should be running SETI@Home to either help find ET or help prove there is no ET. Either way, you ought to help.

06-04-2000

First, let me say more content is coming soon. Really.

Anyway, here's a rundown of my system for everyone who keeps asking. I'll start at the top and work towards the floor, roughly:

Radius 19" Monitor (this is quite pampering)
Yamaha Monitor Speakers (I mean studio monitor, not the cheap crap that attaches to your monitor)
Labtec subwoofer (custom modified to add bass port)
Teac 22-band stereo Graphic EQ (tweak those sliders!...)
Logitech Keyboard and Logitech Mouse (with the wheel, naturally)
NetGear Ethernet Hub (this is slick - an all metal case, and compact)
Zoom 56K Voice Modem (external, of course)
3Com 3C590B PCI Bus-Mastering Fast Ethernet Card (for Half-Life)
Maxtor 20GB UDMA/66 Drive (yeah, I know I hate Maxtor, but.....)
TDK VeloCD 8x4x32 ReWritable drive (this has saved my ass more than once)
Toshiba 32x CD-ROM (plain and simple - screw this 48x crap)
Voodoo3 3000 PCI Video (bought for the old system - no AGP)
Ensoniq SoundScape ISA (this card is almost full-length!!!)
Now for the fun stuff...
SuperMicro 760A case w/ redundantly cooled 300W PS (it even has a heat alarm!)
Tons of Sunon fans (greets to HardOCP...)
Abit KA7 board (with illegally released BIOS rev. 42)
2 128MB sticks of Mushkin High-Performance 7ns SDRAM
Dow-Corning 340 Silicone-based Thermal Grease (thanks, Mike!)
And finally....
The Mighty One: A GenuineAMD 750MHz 0.18µ Athlon!

Yes, that was rather verbose, but that's less e-mail I have to answer, too... :)

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