SATURDAY, 10/14/2000, 12:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Sniffing Solder" Edition

Five more days til Raul resumes on the path of the tokenasianness.

I've been hard at work whipping up some thermal probes. Why? Because 1. They're hard to find and 2. When I can find them, they are too damm expensive. The probes will be tested soon. So if you're a [H]ard overclocker or just a wannabe, I'll sell you a probe for $5. Works with Abit and Asus motherboards, but should work with others, but those are the only 2 available for testing. Uses the standard two pin connector.

Want one, flow an email to Penfold.

The review by Trainwrecker.com basically says that this bag sucks, but I'm posting it because the doggie kinda looks like my dog Lup Cheong. I can't help but think that the bag would have been more popular if they named it the "LAN Dime Bag". Anyways, check out the review and the subsequent destruction of the LAN bag here.

To the hardware manufacturers, send us some stuff to review and we promise not to feed it to my dogs or Raul's cats.

Anyways, I know some of you readers have been sending psuedo-porn using the office email like this one here.

FRIDAY, 10/13/2000, 11:30am HST by Raul
The "Happy Friday the 13th edition"

Image ripped wholesale from the [H]ardForum. I must say, this is a pretty cool idea. Of course, all we'd have to do to one-up the guy is use a K&N filter.

Scour gone sour

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- Scour Inc., a high-profile Internet entertainment service whose investors include Hollywood agent Michael Ovitz, said on Thursday it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, becoming the latest victim in the recent wave of dot-com fallout.

And for your technophile pleasure, albeit on the lite side, we have a V4 4500 AGP/PCI review and a Geforce2 MX PCI writeup (finally!).

Although I have to take issue with statements like these made by the Firingsquab folks:

Games like Need For Speed don't require triple digit frame rates to make them run decently. Seeing a perfectly round wheel or crawlie-free terrain is what makes those types of games playable.

Those nutty Germans, they're at it again. This time they've put up a site called zappybaby.de. It's a Web site that does callbacks to female customers when they are most fertile, reminding them to take some time out of their busy schedules to oof, according to this story. Too bad there's no English version of the site.

And speaking of nutty Germans, here's a story about getting trouble over making rude gestures to traffic cameras. Think about that next time you are stuck in traffic near one of these things around town.

Here's a Iwon/Reuters bit about tracking a mischievous elephant by following its dung trail.

THURSDAY, 10/12/2000, 12:58pm HST by Penfold
The "Baking" Edition

Stuck at home with nothing to do. Think I'll do some baking. Due to my affinity for mass baking, if you want some cornbread, place your order quickly here.

What the hell is that pic? Ever wanted to get revenge on a co-cubicle inhabitant? Check out how these wage slaves did it here. Sigh, I don't even have a cubicle where I work.

Ah, this brings back memories about going to Iolani School in the late 80s. The scariest part is I recognize most of the references made in this story.

THURSDAY, 10/12/2000, 10:58am HST by Penfold
The "Political Ranting" Edition

Well, it's time for me to be moving to the new place. From on free place to another free place, what a life. Anyways, I'm going to be moving into Manoa. Once the RR is in, the move should done. Broadband, is there a reason not to have it?

Since I'm going to installing a cable modem connection at the new place, I'm looking at getting a firewall for my computers. Don't know what a firewall is? Check out this article here from techextreme.com.

It's Like the Asshole Telling the Mouth it Stinks

We're just wondering how a man who hands out signed death warrants as if they were jelly babies is going to teach the nation's sprouts to respect life. But if he figures that one out, he's got our vote.

Get up the full story here.

Looking over the transcript of last night's debate, I am convinced that the W. is a idiot or a poor debater (or quite possibly both). But as you'll see, Al is perfectly capable of making an ass out of himself too (but it's soooooo much easier with the W.).

All these opinion are mine, you got a problem with them, you know where you can stick it. In an email to Penfold.

These quotes were taken from a transcript of the debate from Foxnews.com.

"I think that we ought to make all schools gun-free." Find me a school that doesn't prohibit firearms.

"It's one of my top priorities, Jim, to give every single child in the United States affordable health care within the next four years." -What about everyone else, do only the very young and very old need health care? Universal health care is the answer, if the candidates would get their heads out of the assess of the health insurance lobby.

All these opinion are mine, you got a problem with them, you know where you can stick it. In an email to Penfold.

Besides the health issues surrounding smoking, Washington State health officials are comparing smoking to sucking on cow farts. Sniff out the whole story here.

Did you really think you that I wasn't going to put sex news up? If you did, you haven't been reading the page enough.

And I though Amazon.com only sold books. Seems like they're selling some items which appeal to your more prurient interests. Probe for the story here. (You might have to use IE to see this page correctly, it didn't work correctly in NS)

Here's a story about some prison guards in Philadelphia who were busted for smuggling sperm out of a Federal Prison. I just hope that the guards weren't also responsible for collecting it too. Shoot on over and read the story here.

THURSDAY, 10/12/2000, 3:00am HST by Raul

Okay I have been working on my car for the past 14 hours, so I am a little belligerent. But this is really a public service announcement for all of you out there who do business over the Internet. DON'T DEAL WITH PEOPLE IN ROMANIA (and, so I've heard, any other weird eastern European or Asian country). The risk of fraudulent dealings is just too high. Just this week I found out one of those goddamn exploding penis injecting, Olympic drug using motherfuckers took me for $230 via credit card fraud. Unfortunately, THERE ARE NO SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE for most types of person-to-person dealmaking services (Ebay and Paypal are the ones I was using) with regards to international customers. So the solution is simple. Don't ship overseas, especially to eastern Europe or Asia. I don't care how nice the person's emails sound. Cover your ass. I sure as hell didn't cover mine.

THURSDAY, 10/12/2000, 1:58am HST by Penfold
The "Raul's Car Still Isn't Running" Edition

Since Raul is STILL working on his car, so I guess it's my turn to post.

New MP3 in the files section. Check it out, it's small and funny. FYI Barry Williams is the actor who played Greg Brady on The Brady Bunch.

I was listening to the presidential debate today, and it seem like NEITHER candidate would answer any question directly. What's the point of a debate if they're just going to keep talking past each other. I support Ralph and Pat's efforts to get into the presidential debates.

Being the resident SMP fiend, I guess it falls upon me to bring you all the news worth devoting two processors to. AMDzone has a report of a dual athlon system being demoed by AMD, showing off their Soon to be released 760 chipset. On the Intel side, Abit has just released their sequel to the BP6, the VP6. This MB is a dual socket 370, looks nice. Check out some pics from [H]ardocp.com.

No, not that kind of luvin' you pervert. What do you think this is, a sheep farm? But if you want to get yourself one of the beasts of burden from South America, check out this site first.

Raul and I are working on a new column for the web page. Details will be forthcoming, but as a teaser, it'll highlight famous token Asians.

WEDNESDAY, 10/11/2000, 11:30am HST by Raul

So if you're wondering why the postings are so sparse lately, as Penfold said, I am neck-deep in an engine swap for my car. I'm trying to get it done before I start my new job on Thursday (return of the funny AP photos!) I'm putting my old 455 with a Turbo 400 into my G-body. More details later.

I found this cool family tree of rap in Newsweek the other week. For the most part it seems pretty accurate and is a pretty good summary of how a lot of rap acts are related. But there are a few areas I have to take issue with:

• They have Tupac's ugly mug in there, but Digital Underground is nowhere to be seen! WTF?
• They put Notorious B.I.G. in a convenient place, but correct me if I'm wrong, Notorious B.I.G. used to be Biggie Smalls, and he's been around since way back in the day. From what I remember he should be right where Schooly D is.

So I check my email today and lo, a real news submission! Here it is: Dual-booting Win2k and Linux at LittleWhiteDog. A little hardcore for our general audience, but if nothing else you will be able to impress your friends with the mere mention of dual-booting.

Here's a bit on making thermal probes for your computer.

Daily lewd link

The porn industry is said to be the hidden hand behind the success of the VHS home video format over the superior Betamax - and it could do the same for Sony's PlayStation 2.

TUESDAY, 10/10/2000, 2:58pm HST by Penfold
The "We've Been Working on Raul's Car" Edition

Sorry for the slacking, but we've been working hard on Raul's car. The 455 and TH400 are in. He'll probably have some pics of it up later.

Not to trivialize the plight of the peanut allergic, but a peanut eggo sounds yummy. Read about the story here.

Check out the weirdness, taken from [H]ardocp. We'll have something to post about this later.

Ok so I go to my local electronics store to buy some thermal tape. I walk in the door and mosey past the crowd of people. I make a B-line for the computer section. I find the selection I'm after. Magaland Thermal tape. I'd prefer 3m but no where to be found. I approach the register for my purchase. And what am I hit with. Can I see your id I need to verify your over 18. I asked why and he said people get high from this stuff. I looked @ him puzzled. (thinking maybe he's smoking too much of it). But nope wouldn't sell it to me till i showed him my id. I showed it to him he said it was two faded. I said I'm 4 yrs older then you sell me the tape Im 20 assuming he's about 16. Anyway I thought it was a sad day to find out that i had to be 18 to buy tape.

Tim Proffer
www.amdpowered.com

Overclocking isn't addictive, I can give it up any time I want. I just choose not to.

Who here remembers the Yanomami from Anthropology 2000 at UH? Does the video "A Man Named Bee" ring a bell? I remember taking it as a unit mastery, one of the easiest classes I've every taken.

Anyways, read about someone squatting on their domain name here.

As if there was more than one answer. It looks like gettin' some can make you look younger. Unfortunately for Cher, it didn't seem to work. Check out the story here.

Ummm, I'd have to say, probably not. But read about the British's Government's campaign to reduce teen pregnancies here.

MONDAY, 10/9/2000, 12:58am HST by Penfold
The "I Really Should be Sleeping" Edition

Looks like Oahu Homebrew isn't going out of business after all. Got a flyer from the new management. So, it's time to cast away the shackles of commercial beer and raise up a glass of homebrew. I feel the need, the need to brew.

Ever wanted to go hunting but didn't want to shoot an animal? Check out the site here. If you see an elk, click the pic and enter to win some elk steaks.

I suspect this is the site mentioned in the news blurb 10/5/2000... -Raul

Catherine the Great had a Horse on Top of Her Too

Waimanalo, HI -- "There’s a horse on me," Michael thought to himself, as firefighters began using the jaws of life to pull him out of the wreckage. "How come there’s a horse in my car?"

SUNDAY, 10/8/2000, 3:30pm HST by Raul

Some gratuitous screenshots from Madonion.com's XLR8R "system recommendation engine." More like eye candy engine. And yes, the click-on-the-robot's-right-nipple easter egg works. It's really funny, try it.

OW!

Doctors in Romania are treating a 28-year-old whose penis exploded while he was making love to his girlfriend.

If you just can't get enough of NHL computer games (like me), try these sites:

• NHL Gamer Online
• NHL2001.com
• NHL Wishlist

I finally implemented a search engine. It is from Atomz.com, and is pretty kick-ass, especially for a free service. Check it out and let me know how it is. It's in the left column. The index automatically rebuilds every Thursday, after our end-of-week archiving on Wednesday.