SexSwap
11.1.2001 no.217
News Tips Trix
SexSwap is part of Gamma
Entertainment
www.gammacash.com/frameindex.php3
This is the almost weekly
SexSwap News-Tips-Trix and it goes to all members of
SexSwap and SexSwap2 and AsianSwap and GaySexSwap and SexSwap2000 Banner
Exchanges. It contains information on SexSwap, Porn, Tips'n'Trix, and
software
reviews for the adult webmaster. I perform all literary stunts without
the use of
nets, safety-cables, spell checkers, or grammar fixers, and this tends
to leave
the reader in a state of bewilderment...you will get used to it.
REMOVAL INSTRUCTIONS ->
click www.sexswap.com/removal.html
-----------------------------------------------
Total requests: 141920115
Total ShowAd: 139892987
Average ShowAd per second: 118.3
Average ShowAd per day: 10.2 million
ShowAd per second (Running last 59 seconds)...
Hi: 212, Lo: 149, Avg: 178.6
Max accounts: 16384
Total number of accounts: 9143
-----------------------------------------------
Why not start the day with
that flash Halloween classic from Jay and May Ling Su. Warning: :) this
is one of those songs that bonds to your head and you can't get it out.
"We want some candy, We want some candy". I must of sung that
for a month last year and then the wife and I altered it to "we
want some coffee, we want some coffee" which is joyously sung around
our fresh brewed pot of Star Bucks each morning. Great flash work from
Jay and May Ling Su
www.iconacraft.com/Flash/Candy.html?
There site was so successful that this year they have expanded! Even
more Halloween fun for the kids
www.JackOLantern.org
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE CARING
EMAILS
As they say "time heals all wounds" and this week I am feeling
much better. I want to thank everyone that emailed me last week with
words of kindness and compassion. It really did make me feel 100x better.
My wife was shocked how many animal lovers read the newsletter...and
right to the bottom :) Many of you have dogs and cats of your own and
know how attached we get to them. It was great to hear from other adult
webmasters that rescue dogs and cats as a hobby as well! Check out some
of their sites!
www.puppyhillfarm.com/
www.furr-angels.com/
www.FreePups.com
www.LostPups.com
(let me know if I missed
any)...one for fun...here is Eric's pitbull humping Pug :)
www.baldoni.net/humpster.html
I want to personally thank
the folks who sent me an email last week when I was down in the dumps.
I hope I am not missing anyone (email me if I miss you and yell at me)...special
thanks to Dan, Mike, Delay, Pete, Greg, Mario, Zeit, Kal, Bruce aka
David and Cindy, BossHawg, Manu and Laurie, Mark, Eric, Andy, David,
Jay and May Ling Su.
A little more dog info at
end of newsletter...now back to the hardware, software, hardcore and
softcore :)
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IN SEARCH OF THE ELUSIVE
1U P4 RACKMOUNT
I spent day after day trying to figure out how to make a 1U rackmount
server with a P4 2G chip in it. It is close to impossible. You could
do it with a lot of rigging. It seems that the P4s are just coming in
and the P3s are slowly getting phased out. P4 1Us should be easier to
make in about 4-6 weeks when the servers and heat sinks become available.
They require a 12Volt power suplly and need to be kept extra cool which
is hard in the space of 1U. I did decide to build a server and upgrade
all my servers this week and have about 7 more stories on that and the
P4 below. Jim Grill and I search high and low for every spec of info
we can get on these rare chips. I did eventually find one case, but
they would not call me back so I think they just want to sell it as
a completed server when I want to BUILT it with my hands :)
www.racksaver.com/products/RS-1100%20Flyer.pdf
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NEW TRAFFIC TRICK FOUND
this week I think I stumbled onto a new email spam trick that I consider
damn slick, but evil :) Keep your eyes peeled for it in the TRIX section.
There is also a neat method from Greg Boone on trading rare and unique
traffic for content...check it out below.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENTS ON AIRPORT SECURITY
by Bowers
Bowers writes
I agree about the insane amount of airport security. When you take a
loved one to the airport and you aren't allowed through the metal detectors
to sit with them or tell them bye when they board a plane then it fucking
blows. What good does it do to restrict only ticket holders from going
neer the gates? I want to be able to say bye and watch the plane fly
off. This security that we are facing is not worth the lack of freedom
we will have. The press really needs to start being restricted on hyping
people on threats. All it does is cause people to panic for no reason.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENTS ON WTC WAR from
AdultMatchDoctor
AdultMatchDoctor writes:
You should mention that small pox unlike anthrax doesnt occur in nature
and as far as anyone knows russian and us were only ones with it. sno
evidence exists anyone has it at all except those 2 countries, no evidence
exists that russian ever made tons of it (like they did anthrax). of
course anything is possible, but its extremely unlikely. thats why anthrax
is being used right now thats easy to get. just dont want to get people
pannicking, love this country
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENTS ON WTC WAR from
DurangoBlond
DurangoBlond writes:
Some people kill to kill, some people kill because they have to. But
the fact is KILLING is KILLING! I see the reason for the road blocks
and the police stops, the long lines at the airport terminal. but why
are that there? For your safety!! You can't fight or defend yourself
from a "faceless coward". You can't kill every one of Arabic
decent. But some times you have to do what you have to do to save your
own people, your way of life, your countries reputation as a super power!
You can not let people like this come in to your country and mass mail
anthrax and kill anyone they want! Sometimes you have to make a statement
that we will no be a terrorist torn country. So this calls for action,
big action fast, what do you do BLOW THE HELL OUT OFF THEM! Make them
submit! They don't care which one of us they kill so why should we?
They killed our families, friends, our loved ones.
Guru-O-Gif retorts:
"but why are that there? For your safety!!"
I agree we need safety measures.
I just want rational safety measures that work. Since the box cutters
were stashed on the plane...the correct action would be to set up filters
to catch or prevent employees from stashing.
"But some times you
have to do what you have to do to save your own people"
The problem is, we are all
egocentric. We value our lives MORE than the lives of Afghans. The reason
we discount them is because we can. If the terrorists were hiding in
a country with another superpower, we would not be doing what we are
doing. If the terrorists were hiding in Alaska, and we "oops, we
just killed 30 alaskan fisherman when we sunk their boat by accident"....do
you think that story would not cause outrage? A human life is a human
life...I hate to see innocent people destroyed.
"They don't care which
one of us they kill so why should we?"
again...who is our enemy?
The Pakistan, and the Afghan people are not our enemy in this. Osama
is. The Taliban seems to be. Let's go after Osama is what I would like
to see. If only James Bond were around. We could send in one man to
sneakily take OBL out.
comments, agreements, disagreements
or more BS to add to any side of this issue? email andy@lips.com
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IQ TEST FUN
I love crap like this. There used to be a great IQ test floating around
on the macintosh. IQ tests don't mean anything in my opinion, but are
still good fun. I find they heavily favor math folks since many of the
word problems are really math problems. Give this bad boy a try and
see if you can spank the guru-o-gif ...I got a 132 ...the mac test did
8 years ago I thinkI was a 134 ...so it is neat they are consistant.
We quized my whole family and my little cousin who was young and a math
brain hit the highest with a 145. I think speed matters but I am not
positive and age matters are well.
www.ivillagehealth.com/quiz/iqtest/articles/0,11299,261445_261452,00.html
got a high score to brag to the other webmasters? email andy@lips.com
:)
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GOOGLE MULLS PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION
SERVICE from poshspice
www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22491.html
and more google stories.
IPO soon and already in the black
www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/20863.html
www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/19939.html
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WEBVAN - BOY DID THEY BURN
MONEY from Richard
Richard sent me this great story. WebVan stuff is on auction ...like
150 aero chairs..20 SUN SPARCS in unopened boxes...those are $500,000
each! Man did they BRUN coin
www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/14448.html
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
COULD TERRORIST USED JPEG
AND GIF INCRPTION from Richard
Richard sent in this interesting story on using pictures to hide messages
and I wanted to comment on it
www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/science/physical/30STEG.html?todaysheadlines
do I think this can be done?
sure. so what. now they will try to shut down pictures on the net like
idiots. do I think OBL uses this. Hell No. Do I think it is rampant.
No way. this is yet another witch hunt
Quote
"I have no reason to think that Al Qaeda is not using steganography,"
Dr. Johnson said, but he, like others, pointed to no proof. His research,
he said, is financed by "law enforcement."
Well I certainly have reason
to think he is NOT using them. He lives in a dirt cave. I bet it is
hard to find a damn telephone over there, let alone a 28.8k modem, and
then try to find an ISP. Maybe the US living terrorists used it but
I tend to think they used other means
Quote
"Quite an alarming number of images appear to have steganography
in them," said one expert who has looked for them, Chet Hosmer,
the president and chief executive of WetStone Technologies in Cortland,
N.Y."
Bullshit. Specify alarming?
10? 100? and what do the pictures say? "Kathy, I love your big
tits...Steve": ...who cares. How about some details rather than
comments that incite fear.
comments on this story? email
andy@lips.com AND if you know of any of this software, let us know so
we can all play with it. HEY, maybe this could be a new feature on PAY
sites...read the sexy secret messages from our girls hidden in each
picture!
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CROOK ALERT - FLASHTRACK
ADVERTISING ON TOP OF ADULT SITES from Brujah
Adult webmasters are VIOLENT as these thieves are stealing surfers and
ad revenue. I think Flashtrack has picked a fight with the wrong group
of people.
Brujah writes
www.flashtrack.net/
could you include this in your next newsletter -- some asshole is adding
pop-ups to domains through some fucked up software -- i have four domains
on the list
info
bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/Forum1/HTML/011579.html
list
www.flashtrack.net/target_urls/adulturls.php
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BAG O TRIX TABLE OF CONTENT
EVIL SPAM REMOVE TRICK from
Guru-O-Gif
INITTAB by Delay
TRADING UNIQUE CONTENT FOR TRAFFIC from Greg
SETTING DEFAULT KERNEL BOOT by Craig the Programmer
ISSUES CONCERNING CURRENT 1U RACMOUNT BUILD from Jim
4 HURDLE'S TO BUILDING A 1U RACKMOUNT AS OF TODAY by Guru-O-Gif
MORE NEWS ON P4 MAKES 1U SEEM UNLIKELY
P4 1U SERVER - GTWEB TO THE RESCUE from Jim
MONITORING A LINUX PROCESS from Justin
MORE NEWS
/******************************************
EBAY TRIES TO EARN $100M IN 100 DAYS from sign_bldr
pages.ebay.com/ebaymotors/auctionforamerica/
MSN MAY BE BLOCKING COMPETITORS
BROWSERS from poshspice
www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098840,00.html?chkpt=zdnnp1tp02
SHAMELESS PLUGS - CAVEAT
EMPTOR
/******************************************
PARTNERS NEEDED FOR UNIQUE ADULT SITE CONCEPT: PROMOTE 170 SITES IN
1
Share in US$0.10 per exit visitor (28 mths old proven system)
you-get-your-own-domain-name.com
dgtaylor@email.com
SOFTWARE HARDWARE
/*****************************************
NEO MP3 JUKEBOX FOR CAR -
HOLDS 800 CDs
www.ssiamerica.com/products/neo35/index.html
APPLE iPOD from Eric
Apple made news this week launching a pretty neat firewird mp3 player
that can also be used as a 5 gig portable drive.
www.apple.com/ipod/
RELOCATION RISER from Jim
Jim sent me this cool 1U ribbon riser pic that I have never seen before...cool
stuff
www.gtweb.net/images/rk571.jpg
ASUS 1400R 1U SERVER -TRICK
www.asus.com/products/Server/Ap1400r/index.html
www.mbxpc.com/specs/index.cfm?ProductID=9119
SLICK 1U CASES - MANY CHOICES
www.einux.com/RackCases.html
3DMARK from Jim
Jim writes:
Have you ever heard of madonion? How about 3DMark2001? 3DMark is a graphics
bench testing program. You can get it free here:
gamershq.madonion.com/download/?3dmark2001.shtml
TRIX
/******************************************
EVIL SPAM REMOVE TRICK from Guru-O-Gif
I just stumbled onto an evil spam trick that someone just did to me.
:) It worked rather well and I read 4-5 of the ads and considered clicking
them. I would also argue that this style of ad might produce far less
hate mail and death threats than most spam. Here is the ad
SUBJECT -> re:remove
BODY -> This is an automatic
response to your email. Click on the following link to be removed from
our list:
www.hostnp.com/members/GetPaidToReadEmail/
The funny thing is...I NEVER
emailed them to be removed...but I automatically clicked it since I
do try to get removed from these lists when it is easy like this. How
crafty is that. And I was not mad because I thought...hey, how nice,
they have made it easy for me to be removed. Then get this....they take
a second kick at the sale
on this page you have to click REMOVE/REPLY button and guess where that
leads
www.hostnp.com/members/GetPaidToReadEmail/index3.html?
now that is some crafty BS
if I have ever seen it :) I am sure the FTC wouldn't like it but I consider
it a new angle on spam. Most people do not even know they are getting
spam the back door on them....damn fine craftiness.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
INITTAB by Delay
Delay writes:
Anyway on your inittab question. The program you need is daemontools
not inittab... It is really the best solution and is rock solid.
cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
It is used to keep programs and daemons running 24/7 It checks for crashed
processes every 5 seconds and restarts them if one if found. I believe
it is the best and free. But it is kind of a bitch to install and get
working initially. If you have any questions I may be able to answer
them as I just installed a daemon that makes use of it in the last couple
of weeks. Also this is for linux/unix not NT. Anyway you should probably
think about using this especially if it is a commercial type service
you are trying to run.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TRADING UNIQUE CONTENT FOR
TRAFFIC from Greg
Greg wrote me this great email last week and I wanted to share an idea
that is working for him. He has some rare and unique content that he
is finding useful to trade for traffic.
Greg Writes:
One thing that I did that I really have fun is doing FREE toons for
traffic. That's right FREE ORIGINAL toons in exchange for great traffic.
I
pick a site I really like that gets great traffic and I offer to do
a free
toon series targeted for that site's niche and traffic. Normally it
would
cost $50K plus for a long time pro like me to create an original from
the
ground floor up toon but this is the web and we improvise and reach
for new
frontiers. Well, it works like a charm. I can tailor how much traffic
comes
in and direct the traffic to various sites or projects. My latest one
is for
Hank at Hanks Galleries (www.hanksgalleries.com). Hank is a good chap
who
even pitches in to create his cartoon character. I really enjoy working
with
Hank and soon there'll be t-shirts, mousepads, coffee mugs etc. It's
a real
kick ass setup to add something special for your surfers.
Greg Boone
Evolbaby@aol.com
www.gregboone.com
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SETTING DEFAULT KERNEL BOOT
by Craig the Programmer
I forgot how to do this so I asked yong craig once again
Craig writes:
Sure not a problem....it is actually quite simple....you just edit the
/etc/lilo.conf file....there is a line there called default ...you change
that value to the name of the kernel you want booted up automatically.
After editing the file you run /sbin/lilo -v for the configuration changes
to take effect. I'll check all the boxes tonight though to make sure
they're booting what they should be.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ISSUES CONCERNING CURRENT
1U RACMOUNT BUILD from Jim
Jim writes
It's strange you mention the 1U's again. I am planning to build two
more as well. I was looking today and it reminded me of last year about
this time when I built my first one (inspired by the news letter). here
is where I join the game (SexSwap 9.9.2000 no.157). I want another PIII,
which is fine for the task I'm putting it up to but some of the requirements
changed. These will be primary and secondary nameservers on a small
network (less than 5,000 domains) and since they are already redundant
we don't really need any on board redundancy.
It needs
1. PIII or PIV
2. on board video
3. ATA 100
4. ECC RAM (error checking)
I prefer ASUS mobo's but ASUS does not make a PIV mobo with built in
video that I'm aware of. I think that PIV has yet to prove its self
as a server class configuration although DDR RAM does come with ECC.
direct.mwave.com/mwave/doc/A02581.html
direct.mwave.com/mwave/doc/A02623.html
The big issue after looking today for a few hours seems to be finding
available hardware. We are in a weird transitional stage in computer
peripheral land as the PIV is coming around and the PIII is slowly being
discontinued. It seems that every mother board I find in stock is lacking
in one of my 4 areas.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 HURDLE'S TO BUILDING A
1U RACKMOUNT AS OF TODAY by Guru-O-Gif
Guru-O-Gif writes:
1. No Video On the Mobo
Is you love ASUS, you have about 5 choices of boards and none of them
have video as of writing this.
www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/socket478.html
www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/socket423.html
this means that things get
a little dicey. I believe on a linux server you can use the serial port
to talk to a box? I have never tried this and see it as a poor solution
if you use a KVM switch. One other choice is to use an AGP adapter card.
I do not know of anyone who has tried this since it is a rare solution.
I do know where you can get such rare cards :) LAN is on a couple of
the boards and this leaves the one slot for video. The LAN is a choice
of RealTek or Intel. Craig the programmer tells me he has used RealTek
many times and it has worked well. I checked and I believe there are
linux drivers for these LAN chips.
2. No Half Height Cooling
Fan Rated For a P4
There are handful of 1U half height cooling fans but none of them are
yet rated for a P4. This does not mean that they will not work. It does
mean that you are pushing the envalope. I have found one or two rated
for a AMD 1600+ so I am pretty sure that is enough for a P4 2000mhz.
Here are some I have found lately
www.spirecoolers.com/products/5r56b3.htm
direct.mwave.com/mwave/doc2/A14085.html
www.compute-aid.com/1uhsfan.html
www.plycon.com/lpgorb.htm
3. Do the fans fit the new
Chip footprints?
Even if you use those fans above, do they fit a 478 pin and 423 pin
footprint? There are a couple of radical soultions that might work like
a Peltier cooler.
www.leufkentechnologies.com/page8.html
or something like this with brass glued to the chip
www.zalmantech.com/BR123.html
4. Since there is no video
on board, you need the rare AGP riser
Well well well, 3 holes in the ground. Here is the site to bookmark
for rare risers
www.adexelec.com/product.htm
maybe one of these would work
www.adexelec.com/agp32.htm#AGPTX4-9
ow to be more radical, I would start with this new product since it
is more flexible and would allow some misalignment error
www.adexelec.com/agp32.htm#AGPFLEX
If you do use Peltier etc, you have to make sure you have a big enough
power supply
5. The ASUS P4 boards require
a 4x 1.5v AGP card
Use a AGP4x cards (1.5 volts). Using an AGP 1x or 2x card (3.3 volts)
may damage P4 motherboards. Well this is not too bad of a problem. I
think I found one for $60...they are usualy on the high side of cheap
cards. The ATI Raedon old models say they are 2X4X bus cards and they
can be found in the $60s. There may be other cards cheaper.
direct.mwave.com/mwave/doc2/507992.html
that is where my research
has lead me so far. There seems to be an enormous amount of cases out
there now. Some are less than $200 and some are $600. I have found hot
swap dual drive ones for $300...but they require half height cdrom and
floppy which is cool but costs more. I think this time I want a box
with a 300w or at least 230w power supply. Cheaper boxes all have the
very low power supplies which is ok if you don't run much, but if you
run a giant drive or peltier and things, then get more power.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MORE NEWS ON P4 MAKES 1U
SEEM UNLIKELY
New Case and New 12v power supply needed. Also heatsink screws into
case. You can read several reports on this. Jim also wrote me that it
requires a special metal plate behind it that ASUS using on their board
custom and can be read about at gamersdepot article on the bottom
www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1360&p=9
www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001120/p4-13.html
www.intel.com/support/processors/pentium4/apptech.htm
www.gamersdepot.com/hardware/motherboards/asus/p4t/side.htm
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
P4 1U SERVER - GTWEB TO THE
RESCUE from Jim
Jim writes
I called the people at Gtweb today and ordered a few cases and some
slide
rails for another unit we have. I asked about P4's.... below...I got
this:
www.gtweb.net/cs440.html
in black of course : ) and two fans:
www.gtweb.net/hw125.html
I have decided on two PIII
850 w/ 133 FSB, 512MB non-ecc RAM, ASUS CUA mobo. I ordered almost everything
today. When I asked about the P4's they told me that the only thing
stopping them was the fan and they were working on a deal with a manufacturer
to provide the part. They can't confirm when exactly this will be available
but to check back in a few weeks by phone. What they confirmed for sure
is that the P4 case will be a new design made with the mounting for
the through-the-board heat sink built in so this will be a new case
design. I'm exited to see it. They make a good case for a very competitive
price.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MONITORING A LINUX PROCESS
from Justin
Last week there was a command from Robert that went like
ps ax | grep hlds | grep -v grep
Justin writes:
This could also be done with:
$ ps ax | grep [h]lds
INTERESTING SITES
/******************************************
AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT ENGINE
I go to this site to see if I should ever build a helicopter :) there
seems to be a good amount of deaths for the model I was considering.
You can search any model plane or chopper orver any time period
www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/query.asp
GURU OF GIF
/******************************************
DOG STORY CORRECTION
I think my sad story from last week was a little confusing. I just wanted
to make it clear that it was our two 'regular dogs' that did the attacking
(Pepper and Whitey)...the two tiger striped 'pitbulls' (Diva and Candy)
did not. Whitey was a dalmation-pitbull mix. I still have no idea why
it occured. I think there were just too many dogs in a tight spot and
tensions flared. Nature's harsh survival of the fittest.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PRO-LEVEL PITBULL INFO
I wanted to babble a little more about this breed of dog that is always
on the news since there are many myths about them that need to be dispelled.
They can make a wonderful pet in the right home. One thing most people
don't know is that the majority of Pitbulls love people. If pitbulls
hated people, evil dog fighters could not control them and would themselves
get attacked each time they tried to fight their dogs. Any 'human agressive'
dogs are generally put right to sleep at any pound around the country.
Most pounds put pitbulls to sleep automatically. We have probably had
50 pitbulls come through our house on the way to rescue. They are all
healthy and happy dogs that are as strong as oxes. My wife likes the
smaller female ones. The big trouble with pitbulls is that they do not
fight like regular dogs. Regular type dogs fight with their mouth biting
and barking, and feet pushing. They make a huge amount of noise and
bite many times and generally give up when the weaker dog retreats.
Pitbulls do not fight at all like this. They make no sound, and they
bite once. The grab something...usualy they go for the neck, and they
just will not let go. Their jaws do not lock as many think...they just
are programmed from years of idiotic breeding. They clamp on. They then
begin to pull and rip. You can beat them on the head with a club....I
have, and they will not let go. You can spary pepper spray on them.....I
have, and they will not let go. You can yell at them and they will not
let go. Sometimes if you wait an hour, they might let go. The only thing
that I ever found that worked to break up a pitbull fight was water.
Two of my wife's rescues bit each other one day when she was out and
we were way at the back of the yard. I grabbed them and was literally
laying on them trying to get them to stop...no luck. They were like
carrying me around. After 30 minutes of us all looking at each other
in an embrace of death as all three of us panted while lying on the
ground, I decided to suck up all my energy and drag these dogs 150 feet
to our pool. I was able to do this...they never budged or let go....into
the pool we went. Dogs do not like drowning and the situation was solved.
I have also used the garden hose in the nostril manouver and the 5 gallon
bucket of water on the head trick...they all seem to work pretty well...you
still have to work some magic once you get them apart so they don't
re-grab.
One thing we have learnt
over the years is that pitbulls make the best pet as the "only"
dog..no buddies. They are not good with other dogs. Let me clarify that.
They might love and play and romp around with their buddy for 3 months
or 3 years or even 5 years, but a day comes along when a fight happens
(common with most dog groups)...and then it is trouble...mainly because
of the method they choose to fight by as explained above. Since the
fights are much more dangerous than regular dog fights, it then is not
good to have two pits or a pit and another dog(s) as buddies since dogs
tend to want to battle each other for some stupid reason now and then.
Our mistake was we just never thought that "Whitey" had the
pit mentality since she was so much dalmation. She had never instigated
a fight here....although she had been bit once by another rescue. My
wife indicates she is no longer going to rescue anything pit related
due to the dangers involved in a multiple dog household but she wants
to remain very active with the rescue group. They have a cool site where
see volunteers called Pitbull Rescue Central
www.pbrc.net
and here are listings of the dogs all around the country looking for
homes
www.pbrc.net/doglist/
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BEAST BOX 4 - THE PARTS HAVE
BEEN ORDERED!
woooo hooooo! I love this crap. Well I thought hard and long on the
P4 and it could be done but it would be a pile of work and cost 2-3X
as much as this setup. I decided to venture into the world on the melting
AMD chips just this one time. I always like to try everything once :)
Next box will be the P4 and by then the parts will be available. Here
is the shopping cart as I just ordered it tonight. I used 4 stores to
make the purchase. I actually did not use MWAVE this time, as much as
I tried to, just because they have a small motherboard selection and
only had CPUs so I was able to find more parts together elseswhere.
from here I ordered
www.motherboardexpress.com
AMD Athlon T-Bird 1.3 266 bus $139
SuperMicro 1U case with swap IDE bays $320
Panasonic slim CD-ROM $75
Teac Black Floppy $24
Seagate 60gig $175
www.aberdeeninc.com
SuperMicro 1U case with 2 swap IDE bays $249
www.cdrexpress.com
ASUS A7SVM-LM $91
www.crucial.com
(2) 512k sticks of ram at $57 each
www.sofistic.com
Thermaltake 1U rackmount cooler CPU fan $12
total right around $950
with tax and shipping $1200
The reason I bought the case
at aderdeenic and the cd and floppy at moboexpress is that I had ordered
the model at motherboard express and Jim Grill wrote me "dude,
that case is for scsi". I went "oh shit". he cases looked
identical and one was a b at the end of the number which I guess is
scsi so I called and cancelled the case there and ordered it where I
first saw it. This was a little dumb since I know found the correct
case over there as well but the phone guy told me they did not have
it. Here they are
www.aberdeeninc.com/abcatg/CS207.htm
www.aberdeeninc.com/abcatg/CS206.htm
Not sure if it is a good
case or not. I decided to go up one level this time...you can get a
base model like my old boomrack for less than $200 now. I really like
the idea of 2 drives since this helps with backup, repair, testing if
a drive is bad and I like that I don't need to take the case apart to
do this. If you want a great base case, this would of been my choice...300w
power supply!
www.compute-aid.com/rack1u.html
HEY! I am like an idiot...this also has removable drive bays too :)
and it cheaper and has better power. $178
www.compute-aid.com/rack1u.html
No floppy though unless you rig it for the 5.25 slot and I though I
found a bracket somewhere to do this. Ah yes, you could use the bracket
here with that computer to get the floppy in
www.online-spectrum.com/accessories/cd_fd.htm
I see it says it is for dual CPU so maybe it is two 150w to make 300
I saw some really nice cases
out there but could not bring myself to spend $500 on one right now.
Here is a slick scsi case
www.caseoutlet.com/IPC/CT-S123/CT-s123-oc-600.jpg
www.caseoutlet.com/IPC/CT-S123/CT-S123.htm
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ASUS CUA VS ASUS CUSL-M by
Jim
Jim writes:
We have had bad luck with the CUSL2-M with slackware because the 815e
chipset from Intel. It seems there are a few devices that remain a mystery
that seem to be proprietary to Intel that just don't jive with Linux.
We have three of them running right now and plan to phase them out as
soon as possible. They are slow compared to the CUA, which uses the
Ali Aladdin TNT2 chipset. It's like night and day even with simple things
like compiling new kernels. The CUA is the one we have had up for as
long as 187 days with no problems. I couldn't tell you exactly what
the problem is; only that it exists and I would not recommend the CUSL2
or CUSL2-M (same except mini ATX format) for Linux.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HARDWARE UPGRADE HOOTENANNY
I got too excited looking at all those computer parts for a new box.
The addiction was rekindled and I was ready to check into Betty Ford.
I could not hold back...it was time to upgrade my 5 or 6 servers. I
took an inventory to start
IP NAME MOBO BIOS BIOS NEW
CPU RAM
.101 mister twister P3BF 1003.a 1006 celery 366 786k
.108 spitfire CUA 1002 1007 PIII 666 262k
.102 taunt top P2B-D 1011 1013 PIII 1000s 1000k
.107 taunt bottom P2B-D 1010 1013 PIII 450s 1000k
.110 andy P2B-LS 1012 1012 PII 400 384k
.109 sanya ? dr730 PIII 450 756k
The wife generally won't
let me touch here computer as she claims "you touch too many buttons"
so I only had to worry about the top 5 boxes. The goal was to make each
box 1000mhz and a gig of ram. I was going to go for celerons but worried
about all the voltage stuff I had read so I went with PIII 1000s with
100 front side bus...rare as hen's teeth...had to really search the
web to find them. See that old PII...that was the classic first BEAST
BOX 1 built by me and Gus the Programmer back in the early SexSwap days.
You can find babble about it in the old old issues
trix.sexswap.com/SWAP43.HTM
trix.sexswap.com/SWAP42.HTM
I use that as my daily driver
and it is getting a little long in the tooth for gaming. It was cutting
edge and $5k in July of 1998! I decided to treat myself to a $95 video
card...wait til you see this bad boy.
TOTAL UPGRADE COSTS with
tax and shipping and reseller chicanery
$1500
not too bad :) - $300 a box.
I think it will be coin well spent. Craig is hammering the servers with
600+ spidering a massive mysql database and the boxes do matter in terms
of how many spiders were can release and how fast we can fuss with the
mysql tables. Jim Grill and I talked a lot about motherboards this week.
If you want a great mobo that is not pricey, get a ASUS CUA (video and
sound on board). This is a sweet board that boots like lightening and
kernel compiles like lightening. You can use a PIII 933 on it...I am
going to push it and attempt a 1000 with 133 bus...will let you know
how it goes. The CUA is a perfect 1U board.
I did a lot of shopping in
new sites. Here is one I like a lot
www.googlegear.com
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FRESH DIAGNOSE
www.freshdevices.com/
I found this great free piece of software you might try to look at all
the harware on you computer AND it also does some testing! You can do
performance tests and find everything in you box. A great piece of code.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ULTRA UNREAL from the Baron
Of Bandwidth
The Baron writes:
UltraUnreal, our new league and ladder stuff is starting to get some
press as we get closer to opening, we've also got GXP sponsoring our
lan and online tourney prizes!
www.gx.com/gxp
www.ultraunreal.com (our main site)
www.gamepig.com/articles/leagues/league_interview3.html
(rhakka is my head admin)
We've also been pimped by
Gamespy too.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UFC - FRIDAY!
well fight fans, you cannot miss out on this awesome Friday night of
fight action. Get out that DIsh and that Cable and that credit card
and order this fight from veas since it is going to be HUGE. Not pro-level
huge but damn good - level huge. Let's check out the fight card and
see what is in store
COUTURE RIZZO
NEWTON HUGES
PENN UNO
RODRIGUEZ WILLIAMS
BARNETT HOFFMAN
TANNER MOORE
BARONI LINDLAND
TAVERN MIR
ok, here are the fights you
want to watch for...it is one damn fine night with I think 4 heavy weight
boughts.
COUTURE RIZZO
www.ufc.tv/events/ppv/ufc34/ufc34fightCard.asp?fighterID=20
www.ufc.tv/events/ppv/ufc34/ufc34fightCard.asp?fighterID=8
Couture will win. Randy the natural Couture is an olympic class wrestler
and has gone as an alternate to the last 4...yes (16 years) olympics.
He is smart as a whip and thinks on his feet. He will want to get in
and clinch. Pedro the Rock has lost 3 tough decision...but hey...he
let it go to the decision...knock you opponent out and there is no decision.
I think Pedro is damn tough and top15...but one level under couture.
This is a great headliner.
RODRIGUEZ WILLIAMS
www.ufc.tv/events/ppv/ufc34/ufc34fightCard.asp?fighterID=68
www.ufc.tv/events/ppv/ufc34/ufc34fightCard.asp?fighterID=28
Ricco Suave Rodriguez...girls, this guy is a hunk a hunk a hunka burning
love. He is this monster sized pretty boy with knees of steel. Pete
Williams, rumored to be on roids, has his hands full and I think Ricco
takes the bacon.
BARNETT HOFFMAN
www.ufc.tv/events/ppv/ufc34/ufc34fightCard.asp?fighterID=7
www.ufc.tv/events/ppv/ufc34/ufc34fightCard.asp?fighterID=9
If there is one fight I am dying to see, it is this one. Josh, the Baby
Faced assasin with all his baby fat against Bobby, ex NFL football player
Hoffman. I used to give Hoffman no respect, yet he is the real deal
and is very tough. I think Barnett is a student of the game and will
easily take Hoffman with his mind.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It has been a busy week of
recovering and ordering computer junk. I hope to have lots of pics and
box building for next weeks letter. I told Wes the ISP that I was using
an AMD chip in a 1U server and his quote was "I wouldn't use an
AMD chip in a window 98 box" :) hee hee haaa. I would have to agree
that I have read nothing but heat horror stories on the AMD side of
the fence but have some Guru-O-Gif heat tricks up my sleeve. Hey, check
out this site...I ordered last night at 1am...got a letter this AM saying
shipping in one hour...now that is SERVICE..these lads are the KINGS
of all things CPU FAN
www.plycon.com/
check this new bad boy radiator whacky cooler out...my my
www.plycon.com/cpuzen.htm
slick but won't fit in a 1U. The trick with the 1U is the size makes
it always tough to cool a chip.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
thanks again for the supportive
emails. I miss my dogs but am better understanding and dealing with
it. My operation pain is almost gone...only hurts when I laugh :)
those are my stories
chow mein wayne
Andy
andy@lips.com
SEXSWAP PRO-LEVEL TRIX ARCHIVE
trix.sexswap.com
GAMMA WEBMASTER CHAT
chatboard.gammae.com/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi
GAMMA FREE HOSTING
www.erotism.com
MAXIMIZE GAMMACASH
maximize.gammacash.com/
GAMMACASH
www.gammacash.com/
|
