I love this player, so small, but yet, so cool.
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So with 6 days left, I've decided to offer you guys and gals some presents, gmail invites, I've got 3 left of the 200 i've given away so far. The first 3 people to comment and request one each recieve one.
Arent I sweet?
I blew 3 grand at futureshop the other day and I won't have anything to show for it till the 20th, yay.
Forget about lan partys being about Unreal, or Quake, or Doom. From now on, it's all about the Pong 4D.
Jenn mentioned I had a new case I was working on the other day, I didn't want to mention it until I had some pictures. Well now that I have some, all be it assy ones, it's time to share.
I'll toss up some spec's on that page in a bit, when I get around to it.
So, I discovered that when Rogers cycles my IP address it stays in the same subnet, (x.x.x.*), it will auto cycle my ip address sometimes, so thats rather annoying for DNS purposes. But theres a way to exploit that to my own gain. Rogers auto-cycles when your MAC address (think of it as a serial number for your router/pc) changes. With most routers, you can assign/fake a new MAC. This lets me auto cycle ip address through the subnet that rogers has me in.
Basically, what this comes down to is that if I have x.x.x.3 and rogers cycles my ip address and it becomes x.x.x.5 I know I'm in the same area as my old ip address, and can cycle my MAC address until I am given my old ip address. Yes, it's random, but its better then updating my DNS records and waiting 2-3 days for the change to propogate out.
I know this works because it happened to me tonight, and I managed to gain my old IP back, after several cycles.
All in all, good shit.
So, not that I don't like car audio, but when I order a linksys router off ebay, I don't generally expect to get a subwoofer in the mail.
Luckily the guy is going to accept a COD return to get it back to him, there was no way in hell I was paying shipping, and looks like I end up getting my router a few days later then I expected.
Do you have an ATI Radeon video card? If so, Adrian's Rojak Pot has a story up that shows you how to convert your Radeon based video card into a Fire GL card, with no physical modification through a process which modifies the video BIOS. The difference primarily between a normal Radeon video card and a Fire GL card is (drum roll.....) $120+ dollars, and enhancements designed for CAD and rendering programs. (entire list of certified programs that take advantage of Fire GL are in this PDF, including Adobe Premier) Video BIOS images are available here. Of course, modding your video card is certainly nothing new, as hacking ones BIOS can be an easy (if not somewhat dangerous) way to get more power from your investment. (Note: Although you can save a bad flash, the process is somewhat difficult. Attempt mod at your own risk.)
