Diary: August 2004
I am getting lazy with my updates again. This is probably at least partly due to me not being bothered. I'll also blame the amount of spam I've been getting, since I seem to be spending most of my free computing time sorting that out - last month I recieved around 65,000 spams, thats an average rate of approximately 1.45 spams per minute. Impressed? So if you e-mailed me and I didn't reply, it didn't get through - try leaving a comment...
I went up to Loughborough last weekend, first time on a motorway, and it ...
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So, the spam situation was getting a little extreme. With 27669 between the start of this month and up to midnight this morning, I'm averaging 1.75 spams per minute. Real e-mail tends to get a little lost amongst that. While my own filters could filter about 50% of the spam out a few months ago, I was lucky if it was getting 5% of it as definite spam, and probable real mail was regularly hitting 1000 emails a day - needless to say, most of them were spam.
A couple of days ago, I set up my mailserver as ...
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So, guess who bought Doom 3 yesterday morning?
And guess who ordered a new machine to play it on, the day before?
And guess who paid £10 for next day delivery?
And guess whose new machine still hasn't arrived?
On Thursday, I made sure that everything I ordered was in stock, placed the order at 11am, and then yesterday I emailed them asking why it still said it hadn't been printed. They said 'Oh, the graphics card is not in stock'. I pointed out that it was, and they went 'oh, ok, we'll post it then', but ...
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Oh my god cpu alarms are annoying.
So all my stuff has arrived, and as usual, I'm having some fun and games. The good news is that everything fits, but only just. This is mostly the fault of my graphics card - an nvidia 6800 gt beastie - which is taking up 2 pci slots, but in reality, because of the massive intake fan, it's taking up 3 or 4.
Then there was the problem with it not booting up. Turns out I needed a second power cable, with a little square thing. Pita with an old psu, but after ...
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Doom 3 is most pretty. As is Vice City! Mmm!
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