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SexSwap 11.16.2001 no.219
News Tips Trix

SexSwap is part of Gamma Entertainment
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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.

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I am talking about completely hella massive. This weeks issue once again tops the scales with tips, trix, and plenty of b.s. :] Let me touch on just a few of the topics in this weeks issue. I start off with nothing but good news about the internet sector, growth and shopping. Awesome Adam chimes in with words on the state of search engines. Dan from Gamma writes in with a rare billing scoop from visa and mc. Bill has an awesome use of the waybackmachine! How about a story on disposable cell phones...one is made of paper. Then more stories on DNS from Bruce, running sendmail from Scott, and a wierd version of roll over buttons that took me a while to figure out for Eric and I had to reinstall GoLive to do it. Maybe soem DreamWeaver folks can say if it can be done it in...I looked and it did not seem able. Then, if you love harware, there is the gigantic section at the end on upgrading 4 boxes to 1000MHz and 1000mb ram with all the laughs and tears along the way. This is then followed with the building of the AMD 1333 1U BEAST BOX! If you are bored to tears with hardware, then get out the kleenex or skip the last sections :)

on with the show

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INTERNET NEWS THE MEDIA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO HEAR
I wanted to summarize and show a trend in some previous news stories....these have been in SexSwap news over the past months. As I keep saying, the Internet Shopping Snowball is getting bigger and gaining speed and cannot be ignored much longer

Report: Consumers Spend Nearly $4B Online in July
www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/13018.html

Study: E-Commerce Sales Rise in August, Top $4 Billion
www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/13764.html

Report: Online Shopping Surges to $4.7B in
www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/14179.html

Study: Global Holiday Net Sales To Top $25B
www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/14300.html

Study: E-Commerce Will Thrive Despite from Richard
www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/14640.html

And then in this weeks Advertising Age (Nov 5 page 14)
www.advertisingage.com
www.adage.com

they have a story called "A bubble of bad news hides the true web reality". Exactly the news I am searching for. They go on to give some exciting statistics such as "people who say the internet is more essential than TV are now a majority and growing", "people with high speed spend DOUBLE the amount of time online", internet traffic has quadrupled this year!", people are using te internet 20% more, and more. I wish I could find the story on their website but it is not out yet. Most of us webmasters are online all the time so this is normal for us but now Johnny Q Public is following suit. The internet is the greatest communications device ever created!

Then! This weeks Business2.0 ...even more exciting stats. (this will be online in a few weeks at this url)
www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,17358,FF.html
now there are over 100M americans online! that is triple the number in 1997! almost 20% have highspeed (triple who had it in 2000 early). Over have of people online have now made a purchase! that is almost double the number of 1999. These growth rates are HUGE. The news still doesn;t see it but these first few articles like the ones above are showing the complete POWER of this communications medium. I am a betting man and I bet on the internet! :]

Hey! Do your shopping at Amazon this christmas! Why? Because I got 1000 shares of their stock in my hot little hands :) hee hee hee haaa. And I am betting they are going to make it.

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YAHOO SELLS OUT by Awesome Adam
news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7866475.html?tag=mn_hd

Awesome writes
This smells of the beginning of the end. The ultimate sellout as I see it. When Yahoo dropped Inktomi in favor of Google, I thought that move was brilliant. The perfect hand crafted directory fueled on the backend with Google's laser beam relevancy. What a perfect combo. Now it's all about $$$$. My prediction is that by the end of 2001, the major search engines will be reduced to nothing more than an online shopping mall. We are almost here. For example my 11 year old daughter needed help with her school science project on monarch butterflies. Take a look at what Yahoo produced...
search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=monarch+butterflies

Only 7 of the top 20 listings have any academic value. Most of the top 20 sites want to sell you monarch butterflies for release at weddings! :-) 5 years ago I made money with the engines by spamming them, today the way to make money with them is to buy their stock :-) Take a look at Overture formerly GoTo
finance.yahoo.com/q?s=OVER&d=c&t=1y&l=on&z=b&q=l

Guru-O-Gif writes
I completely agree. I even see things blacker. In 2 years, there will only be one search engine GOOGLE. They just kick ass. I think Yahoo is going to have a hard time staying afloat. How many top 7 search engines have died....literally BLOWN millions
OpenText
Web Crawler
InfoSeek
HotBot

the old 3 are almost dead
Lycos
Excite
AltaVista

and Yahoo will follow unless they FIRE 3000 stupid workers. Us porn folks could run that whole fucking site with 42 people! Not sure if people can see this link
moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/results/hilite.asp?Symbol=yhoo
Yahoo lost almost $200M last 12 months. AND the revenue is drying all up. Yahoo has 3259 workers...HOLY WASTE. at $60k a year each = $195,000,000 HEY...amazing...I just found Yahoo $200M..they would make money if they saked these insane levels of employees! GOOGLE rocks...I only hope they continue to.

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MYSTERIOUS NETWORK SOLUTIONS EMAIL from Richard
Richard writes
Have you ever seen anything like this? I think that it is a marketing ploy. I have not sent anything to Network Solutions, therefore, they are trolling for business.

-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 8:50 PM
Subject: Network Associates Webshield - e-mail Content Alert

Network Associates WebShield SMTP V4.5 MR1a on fearless intercepted a mail
from
<> which caused the Content Filter Block all COM files to be
triggered.

Guru-O-Gif writes:
Has anyone else received one of these wierd messages? What does it mean and what is NS saying? Is it a marketing trick? email me andy@lips.com

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PORN - ITS A GOOD THING from Evil Ed
here is a great story sent in from Ed on how porn on VCRs and internet has opened the huge door of free speech and the mind police are now loosing the battle of what is "offensive". To take offense is such a subjective response that it is pure BS anyways.
reason.com/0112/cr.ng.pornocopia.html

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PORN FEELING THE SLOW ECONOMY IN SOME SECTORS from SignGuy
www.msnbc.com/news/654448.asp

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ADULT WEBMASTER BILLING SCOOP from Dan
Dan from Gamma wrote me with the latest scoop from VISA and MC. This will effect how all pay sites do business
Dan writes:
Big news coming out: Epoch, IBill, CCBill and Website billing received letters from Visa, MC and Amex saying that direct posting will not be tolerated no more starting on the 15th of November .... that means that we (and a lot of other big webmasters) can't have one signup form and try three different CC processors ... the surfers needs to go to all processors one at a time to try to signup

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PHIL DONAHUE WTC INTERVIEW
I got carried away and forgot this in last weeks issue. now be prepared...this is a minority opinion. I tend to side will Phil on these issues so I thought I would include an interview with him. Yes, I know flames might be shooting from your nose :) I wanted to show that there are other approaches to world confict. I wanted to find a right wing interview with Schwartkopt or someone like that for the other side of the story as well but so far have had no luck. if you find such and interview, please send it in andy@lips.com
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,35169,00.html

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BAG OF TRIX TABLE O CONTENT

NO FLASH AT SITE ENTRANCE from Rook
PRO-LEVEL USE OF WAYBACK MACHINE FOR DOMAIN NAMES from Bill
ADULT SEARCH ENGINES from Leo
MAINSTREAM AUTOMATIC HITS from Leo
EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT HARD DRIVES from Guru-O-Gif
ROLL OVER BUTTON TO CENTER PIC ? from Kevin
PRO-LEVEL SIMPLE SENDMAIL SET UP GUIDE by Scott
EASY DNS FOR FOLKS WITH DYNAMIC IPS from Bruce
BEWARE OF CROOKED DIALER SCRIPTS from Greg

MORE NEWS
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NEWS STRAIGHT FROM PAKISTAN
pakistannews.net/

LAID OFF SILICON VALLEY WORKERS ORDERED TO GIVE BACK BONUSES from poshspice
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2001/11/06/financial1405EST0040.DTL

STOCKS EXPECTED TO PRESS UPWARD from Richard
public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb1005331480706206120.htm

SHAMELESS PLUGS - CAVEAT EMPTOR
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GTW COMMUNICATIONS, INC
Dedicated Bandwidth and Co-location for the Adult Industry
www.gtwinc.com
greg@gtwinc.net

CHEAP ADULT WEB HOSTING FROM AWWG
100mb/ 1GB on Linux box for $12.50/month
www.awwg.net
info@awwg.net

VIXEN GRAPHICS (GRAPHICS DESIGN, SCANNING, PHOTO RETOUCHING)
Great prices, no upfront payment, in this biz 5.5 yrs!
www.VixenGraphics.com/
Webmaster@VixenGraphics.com

ESSENTIAL MARKETING SOFTWARE!
How about software that will post your ad to newsgroups every week!
netnet.to/mailloop
jabula@email.com

SOFTWARE HARDWARE
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COMMENTS ON 15 MPS FROM TWISTED PAIR from Wes
Last week I wrote about this new hardware that you can do mega bandwidth on several twisted pairs.
www.symmetricom.com/Products/2186_GoWide_v5.pdf

I wrote Wes the ISP for comments on it
Wes writes:
C/O or the telco equipment would have to support it. So both ends of the bonding would have to know about the other end. It can be done, but this is no way a standard solution. I really doubt that Verizon
could pull this off... For more bandwidth for you I would add on another T.. They can be bonded for a 3 meg throughput with cisco's on each end.

Hey! If you are looking for a mainstream or adult ISP for hosting in the So Cal area, you might give Wes the ISP a ring. He is also a top notch C++ programmer that actually used to work for Apple long ago and is also like Dayne, a heavy believe in the power of BSD. Wes provides me with the T1 to my cave :)
www.uia.net
drop Wes an email at wes@uia.net (he is the kingpin of the company)

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SAM SPADE fom SignGuy
sort of a swiss army knife of tools
samspade.org/t/

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UNIDEN RADAR DETECTOR
some the the new radar detectors coming out are trick de la trick. They use GPS and fuzzy logic to "remember" stupid microwave towers etc and get smarter the more you drive around since they can get better at locking out false signals. Just saw this one in Wired
www.uniden.com/product.cfm?cat=Radar%20Detectors&product=GPSRD&page=1#

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DISPOSABLE CELL PHONES
Yes! Hard to believe. 60 minutes and you can only call out...still, damn trick if you ask me. I gotta get one and try it out
www.hop-onwireless.com

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HOW ABOUT PAPER DISPOSABLE CELL PHONES
www.dtcproducts.com/home.html

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SEAGATE DISK DRIVE UTILITIES
www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/

TRIX
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NO FLASH AT SITE ENTRANCE from Rook
Rook writes:
www.zombo.com you
If you go to zombo.com (if you have the patience) will see why letting EVERYONE have a FLASH intro to their website is a BAD IDEA!!!!

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PRO-LEVEL USE OF WAYBACK MACHINE FOR DOMAIN NAMES from Bill
Bill wrote me this awesome use of last weeks story on the WayBackMachine
www.archive.org/internet/index.html
Bill writes:
I can't help but tell you how great that wayback machine is! In fact, I've found another use for it that is proving to be invaluable to me. I've been playing the expired domain name game lately, and since the sites I've been buying aren't up and running (of course) this is a great way to do a little research on them and see what type of site was on the domain. After checking the domain's link popularity on various search engines I can go to the wayback site and even find some of the pages that actually got that domain good search engine listings. So, that wayback machine allows me to research the domain a little further before I purchase the domain. I've even been able to take some of the old pages and the code that they used on the site to keep the good listings that the domain has.Don't know if you thought about this, but just had to mention how I've been putting the wayback machine site to good use.

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ADULT SEARCH ENGINES from Leo
Leo sent me a great email question this week
Leo writes"
I was wondering if you had a small list of the best adult search engines to submit to or could tell me a place where they may have them all listed.

Guru-O-Gif writes:
hmmm. I do not really know where that list would be...maybe ynot has that...let me check

GOT IT!
www.ynotmasters.com/listings/promotion/adult.html

HEY, check it out...I used GOOGLE and found tons more of those lists! this would make a fine script if someone programmed to submit to all of these
adultchamber.com/engines/
www.allsearchengines.com/adult.html

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MAINSTREAM AUTOMATIC HITS from Leo
Leo writes:
I forgot to tell you about this very neat place for "non-adult" traffic for anyone who may be having trouble geting traffic to their website,(and its free). the url is
autohits.4use.dk/
They have only been around for a few week's and I think they are like russian but any way what you do is go and join their group and they give you a url to go to and you basically watch other websites scrool across your browser every 20 secounds or so in return for every 5 websites you see they let 4 people see yours. There are a lot of similar programs to this one but this one is autoimatic and runs itself. I was one of the first people to join it and noticed in a week that "paypal" and "clickbank" had joined them to as they really seam to work well. I have an "od" website where I sell legal smoking highs,(I own a farm where I grow it myself) www.herbalhigh4u.com and it is hard to get traffic and exposure as it is not mainstreem so this works pretty good. I get between 1000 to 2000 visits a day and these are real people or hard clicks! Thanks Andy you are to much!

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EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT HARD DRIVES from Guru-O-Gif
www.storagereview.com/welcome.pl/http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/if/ide/modesUDMA.html

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ROLL OVER BUTTON TO CENTER PIC from Kevin
Kevin asks
I need help with a table so I can add my girl to the tgp

Guru-O-Gif writes:
Hmmm, I am confused? I make tables with software rather than by hand. What program do you use to make web pages? GoLive? DreamWeaver? FrontPage all of them have excellent table functions

Kevin writes
Thanks for getting back to me. I am using FrontPage2000. here is a link to what I am attempting to do. I have two books on FP and one on raw html, but cant seem to find the answer.

Guru-O-Gif writes:
I am not sure what you are asking can be done exactly as you wish. I seem to think it can be done in GoLive since I remember a tutorial or something with that kind of effect. I don't think it can be done with DreamWeaver since I just read the pages on it. I doubt it can be done with front page.

I can think of other ways to work around that aren't as nice
1. link to a new page so when they go over a new page comes up with her in the middle
2. use dynamically made pages which would be hard

you might not be able to do it with tables. I think it can be done in GoLive since it changes another object.
www.goliveheaven.com/oldsite/html/golivetut/rollovers3.html

let me load it up and see.....well, I could not find out how to do it. There may be a way but I don't see it. I still seem to remember something though. here is one attempt at a work around
trix.sexswap.com/roll_test/1.html

any other webmasters have a way to do this? I remember a tutorial on video by Lynda. Let me see if her site still exists...Yep!
www.lynda.com

Ah Ha! A perfect example of the rollover creating action in some other part of the page so I know if acn be done in GoLive...I just forget how.
www.lynda.com/resources/inspiration/rollovers.html
example
www.webmonster.net/
another example
www.stink.com/

Here is a tutorial of how to do it in GoLive
realworldgolive.com/more/setimageurl.html
and the page
realworldgolive.com/more/setimageurl_example/callytrip.html#

Using that tutorial, I was successful WOO HOOO
trix.sexswap.com/roll_test/url_action/index.html

so there is a trick and a half you can do with GoLive. Can anyone tell me if there are tutorials for this in DreamWeaver or FrontPage? email andy@lips.com

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PRO-LEVEL SIMPLE SENDMAIL SET UP GUIDE by Scott
Scott writes:
I sent you a mail ages a go about installing sendmail. I took your advice about it being a 10 man team job and never proceeded with the project. I just 2 hours ago found this excellent tutorial about setting up the kick ass Sendmail mail server alternative called Qmail over at
www.linux.com/enhance/newsitem.phtml?aid=12500&sid=93&page=1

and have now got a fully functional and working POP & SMTP mail server with IMAP support which has to be said is very cool. I know a lot of people are put of by the complexities of installing Sendmail, me included, but if you have some free time and a test machine I highly recommend you give this tutorial a try. Most informative and provides a great bases to build further on mail server knowledge. And from what I have read the capabilities of this mail server and administration of the config files are much easier than Sendmail so its a good bet all round.

If you want some more killer info on getting this baby up and running check out
www.lifewithqmail.org
also. Its another huge tutorial on everything about Qmail. Very nice.

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EASY DNS FOR FOLKS WITH DYNAMIC IPS from Bruce
Bruce writes:
www.easydns.com/dynamicdns.php3
I saw this ad for a DNS service for people with dynamic IP addresses. It seems a little bit pricey, but I'm not really up on what this stuff costs. Just thought I would pass this along, since I have been hearing grumblings about dynamic IP addresses.

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BEWARE OF CROOKED DIALER SCRIPTS from Greg
Greg writes
I've got the cops on one dude for this.Ya ever go to a website and the 'script error' window pops up asking you if you want to debug or run the page with the script error on it? Do NOT click 'YES' or 'DEBUG' because some guys can jimmy with it to make it a blind link or dialer initiater or even a 'change start page' or who knows what else. A client of mine recently got a big bill that turned out to be a dialer. What was slick is the bill from a collection agency didn't come from the company the dialer was from but from some obscure storage company. What we found out was the storage company 'bought' the debt from the dialer dude. They collect a percentage and when the unsuspecting dope who calls to find out what the big bill is about does alot of 'agreeing' on the phone with these guys. A few 'agreeing' emails too like address, phone number ISP etc. Now the sap is hooked. He's admitted enough details to say that he did indeed download and initiate a dialer that's when the hot one comes down that it's a PORN SITE and it'll come out in court or something. Unfortunately for the bad guy it works both ways. It's the old fashioned bait and switch with extra pressure. Shit like this is gonna kill the interactiveness of the web.

Guru-O-Gif writes:
I had a friend who had the same thing happen to him. One of his employees was using the computer and got trapped by these illegal dialer bullshit evil ploys and ran up a $500 bill. The phone company was very nice about it and asked if he wanted 900 numbers and other things blocks and he did and then he told them what happened and they were actually very nice about dropping the charges.

INTERESTING SITES
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WINDOWS RG (really good) FLASH COMEDY from Dan
Dan writes:
It seems like I'm always sending you funny flash sites... Here's one that will really give you the grins.
planetmirror.com/pub/winrg/winrg.swf

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ONLINE BETA from SignGuy
if you like beta testing, then check this out
www.onlinebeta.com/

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PET LOVERS BANK
well here is a niche site if I ever saw one
www.petloversbank.com/home.html

VOLUNTEER YOUR PC from Brujah
Brujah writes
members.ud.com/home.htm
this is like that SETI project, except this one processes medical and scientific research data instead of looking for aliens. it has a cancer project and a genetic research project. hook up your computers!

GURU OF GIF
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OLD BEAST BOX UPGRADES WITH PICS
It has been a couple weeks of collection piles of computer hardware to upgrade my existing boxes and to also build the first 1U AMD BEAST BOX. I took a zillion pics and will break the story down into the two sections. If you did computer hardware, I think you will enjoy the BS. If you hate hardware, you may find this equivalent to pulling teeth :] Get out those trusty screw drivers. Arm yourself with rubber gloves, pro master geek head lamp, 2 cans of compressed air, and a wood match stick to chew on. LET'S UPGRADE!
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00036.JPG.html

UPGRADING
In our last episode, Guru-O-Gif had just ordered no less than five PIII 1000 cpus or 1gigs as they are called. I decided to avoid playing with Celeron's and slockets since this was another level of learning I did not have the patience for. The week of installs started slow and I hit a lot of snags along the ways. To review the goals
1. take 4 boxes to 1000 cpu
2. take 4 boxes to 1000 ram

I had my ASUS manual collection ready to go
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00028.JPG.html

box review...

ASUS P2BD (dual cpu)
go from two 450s to two slot 1 PIII 1000s | 100 FSB (front side bus)
www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/Pentiumpro/P2b-d/index.html

ASUS P3BF
go from a Celery 366 on a socket card to a slot 1 PIII 1000 | 100 FSB
www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/Pentiumpro/P3b-f/index.html

ASUS CUA
go from a FCPGA socket 370 PIII 667 to a PCPGA PIII 1000 | 133 FSB
www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/Pentiumpro/Cua/index.html

ASUS P2B-LS (lan scsi)
go from a slot 1 PII 400 to a PIII 1000 | 100 FSB
the first box ever built by Gus the programmer and I
www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/Pentiumpro/P2b-ls/index.html

RAM
I ordered all my ram at Crucial and as you know, I consider then THE ONLY place on earth to order ram
www.crucial.com
The ram went in all the boxes like silk and I had no troubles. The 1000mb registered on all the boxes and everything was going great. BUT THEN, something wierd happened. My daily driver, the P2BLS rebooted and just locked right up at the black and white window scree with some nasty message like

"Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing
or corrupt. \WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM\ced

After an hour of fiddling I broke down and was called the $250 a call MS help line. Is that a racket or is that a racket? :] That is some HELLA good money to get people out of a jam. Freak...I should be buying copies of W2000 since I could crack them open each time I need help at a lower rate than $250 since there is a small warranty! MS had only seen this error on NetZero free internet accounts so I doubted the error was related. We had to do some witchcraft. Here is how we fixed it

Boot from CD
Choose REPAIR and then choose RECOVERY CONSOLE
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32|CONFIG
rn system system.xxx (i think it is rn for rename)
C:\winnt\repair\system
copy system c:\winnt\system32\config\system

so you are removing your current system which is corrupt and replacing it with one that was made when the system was fresh and new. The drawback is that you have to load all your rare hardware drivers. So why I am I telling you this? Stay with me young Johnny, the plot thickens. It was a dark and stormy night....

the fixed my computer and I had a skip in my step once again. A week passed and then I did a reboot and FUCK!

"Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing
or corrupt. \WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM\ced

same HELLA error and I was back on the phone to MS with the same case number. This time I got a saavier dude who said "dude, have you done anything to your computer lately...like motherboard related?". and I said "nothing...well I did swap out some RAM". He said that in their line of work, 80% of all computer trouble is SOFTWARE and then the other 20% is hardware and almost 100% of hardware trouble was RAM! I fixed the system again and pulled out all my ram. There were 4 sticks of crucial memory....BUT 3 had the exact same lot # and looks and one was slightly different...how about that. I found 4 completely identical ones and for 10 days....the system has been rock stable. So, even with the best ram, you may need to be cautious.

All the ram is now installed and all boxes are rocks.

CPU
the CPU upgrades did not go as well as I had hoped. Early in the week I was pulling my hair out and cursing like a sailor. I had a 50% success rate. Since then I bumped to 75% and I have one big bet for 100% but will not know for two weeks. Let me explain. Some of these upgrades require a certain model of mobo...like a lot 1.06 instead of a 1.04. This sort of thing is found on the newsgroups. Mine seemed to all be in that range...I just gambled. I tried to take pics of this number but it is too small to pick up on most boards.

P2B-LS
Sporting the large BIG HEAD spitfire sticker, it was time to work on this box
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00024.JPG.html
think I might get me the spitfire man as a tattoo someday
I had high hopes that this wold be an easy install and it was except for a small catch. I had two of these boxes and had already done one so I figured there would be few snags. One fear I had was that the bios on this second box was one level older and I was trying to avoid the flash the bios dance since my floppy drives never work when I need them to. This might have to do with dust :] Have you ever wondered where terrorists get all that Anthrax? I think they find it breeding in their home computers
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00038.JPG.html
This box was so full of shit that I did not dare aim the air-in-a-can anywhere near it for fear of causing asthma attacks on all neighbors within a 500' radius. Check out the emergency reboot CD. This is like barried treasure
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00039.JPG.html

I removed the old 450s and inserted the two new shiny 1000s and tried to boot.
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00040.JPG.html
We had bios POST and then a stop on error. Frick Frack Cadillac! More swearing. I thought that this was cash up in smoke. I decided to route around in bios. Ah ha! There was a CPU voltage error.
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00042.JPG.html
A few flicks of the switch, a quick hella ignore...we don't need no stinking core coltage error
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00043.JPG.html
hit the reset switch....WEEEE WOOOO we have lift off! One box done, and three to go baby!
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00041.JPG.html

NOTE: on this box I am unclear if the bios usd the jumpers or not. Here are my unusual jumper settings just in case
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00034.JPG.html
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00033.JPG.html

CUA
It was onto the fun 1U case.
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00016.JPG.html
Again, I have to reiterate how much I prefer these cases now. The wife is ready to disown me if I don't clear out these cases that continue to take more and more space out of the room
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00023.JPG.html
It is so much easier working on a one level surface than digging around on a verticle box with ribbon cables everywhere and ram hidden behind wire after wire. I see no need for mega boxes anymore since there are so many great motherbaords available with LAN VIDEO SCSI and I think even raid built in. The 1U cases are still foolishly pricey but have fallen under the $200 barrier lately which is about $150 less than they were a year ago and I would think they will fall under $100 within 12 months. On cracking it open, this case was crusty but certainly not as pad as the LS. A little air and she was good to go
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00017.JPG.html
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00018.JPG.html
The CUA is my newest motherboard and the install was pure butter zone. The ony work I had to do was get some alcohol and scrub off some old cheese silicone from the bottom of the old chip. I put on a solid dollup of white high temp silicone
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00019.JPG.html
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00015.JPG.html
and plugged in the new badboy. You know where we are headed? That's right young Johnny, No man's land...the place they refuse to tell you about in the ASUS manual :)
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00020.JPG.html
One snag...the processor came up as 667. Into Bios the G-o-Guf went. CPU speed...there was only two choices...667 or 1000. Select. We have POST, we have LIFTOFF. WOOO HOOO. I am two fer two.
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00022.JPG.html
and man, that board boots fast...hardly time to take a pic
One thing that I noticed on this board was my old ram sticks were too tall so I had enough new ones to replace the older wider ones
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00021.JPG.html

and then the problems started.

P3B-F
This box is affectionately known as "Mister Twister". I yanked out the celeron.
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00045.JPG.html
Ah yes, I remember buying this as an overclock experiment..how about those fans...4 total!
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there are a few too many wires on this little jobby. This was a celeron on a socket board.
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00047.JPG.html
In goes the 1000. BLACK SCREEN. No el post o. Hmmm. I then did some posting and research on Google's newsgroups with not much info. One guy wrote me I could do it with new bios and a cpu voltage adjustment...huh? After 5 atempts I decided to try the bios. You have to remember...we were headed to parts unkown. Yes Old Marge, I am talking about "no woman't land" (to give the girls equal time)
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00029.JPG.html
Here is why I HATE doing bios upgrade...I hate them because of fucking floppy drives! I tried 3 seperate drives FLOPPY ERROR (40). One of these drives was brand new so I decided it had to be a motherboard failure or floppy controller failure. I was ready to smash teh computer or order a new motherboard. Hey Wait. Coule there be another way to flash bios? I asked Craig the programmer and he said I could do it from DOS on an HD. This was a linux box so I first tried to find a linux solution. There is an open bios project but it looks to pretty well still be alpha and you gotta be pretty well versed in geekdom to know what they hell they are talking about. One other thing that is pissing all bios flashers off is that win2k and XP have no was to make a dos floppy to boot from so you have to track down old stupid versions of win98 to do anything. I was able to boot on my daily driver slamming in an old win98 IDE I had sitting around and then surf the net and grab the drivers and aflash utility. I then shutdown and shoved that drive into the P3B and rebooted. I was then in win98 and it found like 1000 drivers it wanted to load and ICQ was causing me grief trying to talk to the interent and I had no mouse. After 30 minutes I finally got to the START button and said RESTART IN DOS. Once in dos it was a breath of fresh air. The flashing took seconds. Pulled that drive and put the linux one back in. Inserted the CPU. Reboot. 1000 PIII found! WEEEE WOOO We have Lift off!
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It was a tough one that took a couple of days but I was now 3 for 4. I believe all the these computers were set to jumperless mode. I thought the P2B-LSs were jumpered but now I am not so sure and think the bios saw them.

and then the last challenge

P2B-LS
Still with me?
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00035.JPG.html
Hunker down, we are onto the last unit...but it is a tough one. If anyone is looking for smallpox, there might be some in here
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00048.JPG.html
How about that heat sink with 3 fan top. I am on this crusty PII 400 daily driver and am licking my lips to take it to the next level so I can re-gain my Crown in Hald-life and shred those teenage punks like I used to be able to. I even ordered a slick but cost effective $100 Geforce2 MX. Check out the SUMA Platinum badboy I have on order...kewl gold fan
www4.tomshardware.com/graphic/01q2/010530/geforce2-06.html

I begin the install of the chip. BLACK..no post. Bios is as high as it can get. No post. Lots of reading online. Seems difficult at best. Looks like I add a spare PIII 1k to my cpu junk drawer collection. I then found some very interesting site that have given me one last chunk of hope. Now this site is a little off topic but you can chcek out the success rate of over clockers and what they have been able to achieve
www.sysopt.com/overc/intelcpustats.html
It looks like that if I had to, I could try this and overclock to a 520
Intel Pentium 2 400 MHz 520.7 MHz 120.7 3

I could also probably shove in the PIII 450 and try a 550 over
Intel Pentium 3 Coppermine 450 MHz 550.0 MHz 100.0 1

or maybe a 579 over
Intel Pentium 3 Katmai 450 MHz 579.0 MHz 129.0 11

I want 1000! I did not give up. I stumbled onto this site...I hope I can still find it.
www.ctechnet.com/hardware/asus.htm#10100
It looks like there is hope with a slocket and FCPGA. And then I found THE GOLD. Remember last week I showed the interesting site that has databasing online...well I found that site well looking to turbo charge my dang P2B-LS. Check this page out
https://www.quickbase.com/db/6v74ue7a?a=q&qid=11

Several people have gotten at least 800MHz out of these crusty classics. I then went to the front of the site.
www.powerleap.com/Products/iP3T.htm

I took a gamble and pre ordered one of these 1200MHz screaming banshees! It says it works with the Asus P2B-DS which sounds dang close to LS so I will let everyone know if it works or is more crud. If I can get 800, that would be great. I would like 1000 but it might not be attainable. I should get the product late november unless they are crooks. WAIT! I just read on the DELL faq that 100fsm can attain 1000 and 66 can attain 800 ...interesting
www.roberthancock.com/dell/plip3t/
hardware.earthweb.com/main/article/0,,12108_921121,00.html

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THE NEW BEAST BOX | AMD 1333 1U | PARTS
I think I took far too many pics for stories this week. I am burning out. I need more coffee! I have a hundred stories to share on building the latest box. Maybe I can make a shopping list so if you want to build a semi identical one that you should have no troubles. I hit many a snag along the way. In the end, the snags were avoided and the new box is running like the road runner. It is the fastest booting BIOS box I have ever seen.

SHOPPING LIST
here is what you need to build you own 1U screaming road runner 1U AMD 1333. I am going to alter the list slightly since I hit snags that I think first time builders would want to avoid. In particular, I think this case is a little tricky for a first time builder since it is extra long and required special cables to get to the power supply. I also think the slim CDs are a pain in the as. I will give both lists so if you want to talk the black diamond hill, you can follow and avoid some of the troubles I hit.

REGULAR PARTS LIST
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CASE | BOOMRACK 1U $227
this is the case used in the first 1U build from a year ago and I think it is a better case for a first time builder. Note, this case does not come with a PCI riser card. Some cases do. You do not need one with this recipe and mobo
www.pcstop.com/product_detail.asp?ProdID=482192
www.boomrack.com/html/1u.htm
trix.sexswap.com/1u/index.html

CPU | AMD ATHLON T-BIRD 1.3GHz-266 $137
www.motherboardexpress.com/specs/index.cfm?ProductID=7893
now I might of been able to go higher but I was scared of making a mistake. I decided it would be safer at this level since I had read that the CPU should work and also, as you get into the 1500+ levels, you are using a CPU that makes a tremendous amount of heat and with a 1U case, there is no room for a proper heat sink. This is why I chose this CPU size

CPU FAN AND HEAT SINK $12
www.sofistic.com/cgibin/webc.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=80&p_catid=16&sid=33w8Nt0HEEfi1Z9-02101140123.04

MOTHERBAORD | ASUS A7S-VM $86
sorry think URLs are so long...find the motherboard section and then find Socket A Athlon/Duron
www.cdrexpress.com/cgi-bin/webcart/webcart.cgi?CONFIG=mountain&RET=25&RCATS=Socket+A&FIRST_TIME=Yes&START=1&DOSEARCH=YES&CODE=203
www.cdrexpress.com/D/FMPro?-DB=Items.FP5&-lay=Item_Detail_Page&-format=search_results.htm&-error=search_error.htm&F4%20Product%20Code==9946&-Find

RAM | CRUCIAL 1024MB $120
www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?model=A7S-VM&x=15&y=14
2 slabs of these
www.crucial.com/store/PartSpecs.asp?imodule=CT64M64S4D75

CD BLACK $62
www.motherboardexpress.com/specs/index.cfm?ProductID=9735

FLOPPY BLACK $21
www.motherboardexpress.com/specs/index.cfm?ProductID=10871

HARD DRIVE SEAGATE 24 GIG IDE ATA100 $97
www.motherboardexpress.com/views/index.cfm?ProductViewID=4&CategoryID=6

now I used a 60 gig drive but ASUS said their bios cannot see it at this time so don't go too big just yet

and that is it!
Video - built into that motherboard
Sound - built into that motherboard
Ethernet - built into that motherboard

TOTAL PRICE $762 + tax + ship

NOVICE PART LIST OPTIONS
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CASE | SUPERMICRO SC811-IDE $229
www.aberdeeninc.com/abcatg/CS207.htm
this is the actual case I used and I give it a 7/10. There are some things I really like about it and there are a few things I don't and will explain them in a minute.

SLIM CDROM $35 - $75
I found black slim at CDRexpress for $35. You have to use the slim in the novice case
www.cdrexpress.com/cgi-bin/webcart/webcart.cgi?CONFIG=mountain&RET=25&RCATS=IDE+Readers&FIRST_TIME=Yes&START=1&DOSEARCH=YES&CODE=208
but it was too late as I had bought here for $75
www.motherboardexpress.com/views/index.cfm?ProductViewID=4&CategoryID=3

ETHERNET CARD OPTION $55
the A7S-VM comes with a RealTek chip built in. I have heard mixed reviews on this chipset. Craig The Programmer said that he has used RealTek ethernet cards at some large porn sites and had no troubles with them. Wes the ISP said that they are teh worst card he has ever seen and even the programmers of the drivers hide easter eggs in their code saying "this card is junk". I did use the ethernet on the mobo for the time being and did a test. I downloaded a large file from lips.com at Dayne's in Ohio to Wes's in California on my new box with the RealTek and then on the other boxes with the 3COM 905b. The times were almost identical on both up and down. 9.98 seconds. The realtek had one time slower but one also faster than the 3COM. I did find that when I connected from my win2000 box and placed a file, the transfer pulsed...it would do 30% and freeze for half a sec, then another 30 and stop and so on where other cards are one motion. So far they seem ok. email andy@lips.com if you have any comments on these cards. If you want to be extra safe, you might go with a PCI riser card for $15 and the 3COM 905b or other industrial ethercard for $40

POWER SUPPLY EXTENDER
the one very wierd thing on this case was it was extra long and the design of the motherboard was such that the PS cable would not reach. I had to buy and extender cable.
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BUILDING THE NEW BEAST BOX | AMD 1333 1U
The parts started to roll in all week. Here is the case that I love and hate
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First I will tell you some of the good things on the case
- screwless 2 button entry
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- huge honking middle fan, see top left
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- 2 IDE drawers
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And here are the things that bug me about the case
- power supply cable is too short
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- pattern in back does not match motherboard
- only front is black, sides are metal
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- had to remove front of floppy to fit it
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THE SNAGS
there were 3 main snags that slowed the build. I have described two of them already.
1. needed power supply extender. It might of just been that this motherboard places the power in an unusual position. I found an extender online and it worked just fine. See the rainbow of wires loopig around here
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00072.JPG.html

2. In order to use the Slim CDrom and floppy in the bracket, I had to remove the face of the floppy or it would not fit. This was a little tricky. One bad thing about it is that the floppy is then always wide open and will get even more dust in it. I just leave a floppy in it all the time now
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3. I thought I threw away this critical piece. See this green connector
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I had never seen a slim CD rom before and almost through this in the trash...these are impossible to find and are needed to connect to the back of the wierd port on the CDrom that combines power and channels in one. Luckily I found it and was able to mount the unit
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00051.JPG.html
Here is that slimline cdrom
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4. 60 GIG IDE ATA/100
this was pro-level hair pulling. I posted to every newsgroups from here to china. I emailed, called and faxed Seagate and ASUS. Asus never wrote back by the way. Seagate wrote back once on the email and once on the FAQ. I could not get the bios to see this HD. I tried AUTO mode, and I tried LBA mode and I tried more than one cable and I tried the <32gig jumper and tried manually telling bios what kind of drive it was.
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00079.JPG.html
Finally after a week, I am almost certain it is a bad drive. I tried the drive in another box and it failed and I tried a ATA66 in this box and it was INSTANTLY recognized. I took some advice from a tech at motherboards express and set the jumper to CABLE SELECT and the bios said something like "FATAL ERROR ON PRIMARY HD". I am waiting for an RMA but used the spare drive to complete the project.

Here is a pic of the dip switches
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and proof of the red wire at #1 in testing
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00077.JPG.html

ATA100 TIP
to get maximum speed from these drives are higher DMA settings, you cannot use just any cable. The ASUS mobo CAME with the good cable. See this cable
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00100.JPG.html
it is extra thin and bendy. If you count the ribs, there are 80 ! This is the key. If you use a regular 40 pin cable, the drive will work but not have burst speed rates as high.

COOL CABLE
I was a little sad when I found this out since I bought some of that new round cable and MAN...it is really nice. I will be buying this stuff at longer lengths for future builds. It makes for such a clean look. These were a little short and I did not end up using them
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00070.JPG.html

THE BOXES
The motherboard
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The RAM
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00008.JPG.html
The FCPGA 1000
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00007.JPG.html
The rare PIII 1000 100fsb
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00004.JPG.html

AMD PRO LEVEL CPU MARKINGS
AMD uses a very accurate and complex system to differentiate their chips. Intel has been using every engineer they have to try and duplicate this chip labelling system. AMD calls it. SUPER SHARPE MARKER PERAMENTO
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00056.JPG.html
What a way to run a railroad :] let's see that again...that is some fine margic marker work at the AMD factory
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00055.JPG.html

CPU FAN
this is really my favorite part since you are flirting with the dark art of overclocking ;] On the right is the standard AMD heat sink and fan, and on the right we have the dark art of the 1U chassis builder
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00058.JPG.html
Now, this little an packs a punch and weighs more than the unit on the right. Let's flip them over and see why. Ah Ha!
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00061.JPG.html
A beautiful slab of heat dispersing copper that travels all the way through the unit. We will need this. I decided against heat tape and went with a honking dollup of white goo
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00064.JPG.html
Jim Grill and I aren't ones to spare the goo. I figure I want as much surface area transferring heat as possible
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00063.JPG.html

Now I did consider also adding a copper plate for even better heat...but on test fitting I got scared
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00059.JPG.html
The copper gets really close to the transistors etc on this unit and I don't know enough to be able to tell if that is a bad or good thing. To be safe, I figured it was bad and left it off
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00060.JPG.html
Look at this...that fan stays right under the power supply...a perfect fit...not too high
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Here is a far away pic and you can see the CPU in its home
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00099.JPG.html
I would say that the most dangerous part of the whole build is installing the fan on the CPU. It takes so much pressure and one slip of the screw driver and you drive a hole right through that motherboard.

WIRES
this case had a pile of extra wires. There was one for CHASSIS INTRUSION and what the hell is this one? OH? over heat?
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00075.JPG.html

OPTIONAL ETHERNET ON RISER
here was that optional PCI riser I was talking about above if you are against the RealTek chipset. You can get a rise (none in thi pic) and place your card here
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00074.JPG.html

WHAT'S IT LOOK LIKE IN ITS NEW HOME
Here is it under the first 1U, ready to crank
trix.sexswap.com/amd/index.html

FIRE IT UP
after a week of snags, finally the key turned and the beast roared to life
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00102.JPG.html
WOOO HOOOO

It honestly is so fast at booting that it is difficult to take a picture. I don't even know if there is time to hit DEL. I want to try it right now to check the temp. With the lid off, the CPU was at 50C ...a little toasty. If that fan ever dies, it is core metdown city. I thought about adding these mini fans but had no easy way to plug them in where I wanted or to mount them
trix.sexswap.com/amd/DSC00011.JPG.html
Back to heat...hooooo hoooo. Anyone want to fry up some bacon and eggs? There won't be any mission critical stuff place on this box just yet. Did a check

MB 40C 104F
CPU 81C 176F

that is pretty toasty :] 176 isn't too bad...I have had hotter saunas, but this is in the fall and with no CPU load. Seems high. Let me check the 1000 CUA intel

MB 37C 98F
CPU 57C 136F

hmmm, hotter than I thought, but you can see how it is 20+ degrees C cooler. AMD pushes their chips to compete with intel and this has to hurt stability. Performance is a trade off on the edge of the envalope.

SPEED TESTS
Hey! is there any speed tests I can do in linux to compare boxes for you folks? I don't really know of any and would prefer if they were not X windows based. If you know any, please email andy@lips.com

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ASUS TECH ON HD
I just got an email from ASUS on the 60 gig drive

Dear user:
Thanks for choosing ASUSTeK.
Now asus A7S-VM can't recongize 60G HDD.In th future asus will update the bios to support high capacity HDD.

hmmmm. I still think the drive is broken since I chose the 32gig setting and still was not able to bring the drive up. I will return it and try and if it fails, I will wait for another bios in the future.

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HOW CAN YOU MAKE A JAVA POP UP IN EMAIL
Ryan asks
I just received a cool email that when i just clicked to preview automatically popped up a console and a bunch of porn ads...I was wondering if you knew about this and maybe how its done?

Guru-O-Gif writes
I can't figure out how these are made. I would assume that it is some sort of html page emailer. Can anyone tell me how these pop open emails are made and what software is used? Please email andy@lips.com if you know

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BOXING | RAHMAN LEWIS II
Awesome. I think Lewis is mad as an angry bear and this should be a great fight.
news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/boxing/newsid_1653000/1653125.stm

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BUTCHER OF BAGHDAD #33 COBRA STORY
soon, very soon
www.cobralads.com/butcher33.html

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those are my stories

chow mein wayne


Andy
andy@lips.com

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