Evaders Squadron Coding [ESC]

Lego Star Wars II

Woohoo.. (yea I used that fountain with the score multipiers, sorry.. I'm not waiting all day to get 50M+ studs)

ASCII Art Spam?

You know, these spammers will do anything... don't they realize more obfuscation they use on their spam, the less likely that anyone will view it. It's stupid to think anyone would put in the web address because they see it in an ASCII art spam.

Note: I had to switch colors white/black and even play with the contrast to make it slightly readable. Dumb spammers

Folding@home: Mid-June

Added a lot more points with the Radeon card. And now just installed the Nvidia beta client... at least 2000 PPD, though I am trying to install the newer drivers which should increase this.

I have a total score of 134065 from 842 WU.
Current ranking is 24807 of 1009868, which is a move of 16000 ranks since the last post. Excellant :)

8 total processors (1 added with the Nvidia card).. though I've dropped the normal CPU client from both the Radeon and Nvidia machines. That will drop the active number to only 6 processors.

See the stats here: SWR Folding@home team

Folding@Home: Mid-April

In about 1.5 months, I've contributed 318 WU from 7 processors and total score of 69376, ranking of 41626 of 964937

This is almost double the WU I've sent in since the beginning of March. And ranking up about 20,000 more spots. Now the trick.. cracking the top 10,000. I bet here it really gets saturated with those people who really contribute clusters to folding. We'll see.. perhaps another three months?

I added the GPU2 client with an Radeon HD 2600 Pro and it adds almost 500 PPD!

Folding@Home - http://folding.stanford.edu

Folding@Home

A personal update for my Folding@Home performance

I've contributed a total of 160 WU with a total score of 41551 and a ranking of 60294 of 930764

Wonder how long it will take to crack the top 10,000.

CVS vs SVN

I've really considered moving to SVN (Subversion) several times. Why?
- It's up-to-date, latest with atomic commits, yada
- It has great merging tools
- It works with all many tools like bug trackers.

The only thing that is stopping me is that
TAGS = BRANCHES = COPIES

For Nuke Patched Core, each tag is just that, a tag property written on one individual file in the main trunk.
I can tag for different releases (Patched75, Patched76... phpNuke75, phpNuke76...) and I can see which tags are available. Once I make changes, I just bring the tags up to the current version. (Even add tags as necessary for those that weren't patched but now are)

This kind of system means I can essentially patch different versions in parallel. There are subtle changes between phpNuke versions, so I don't want to share the trunk between all of them.

When SVN tags something, it puts it into a tags folder. There is an ancestry relation, but I have to manually go and look for which tags are out there; find the tag folders and merge them individually. That's a lot of work.
Branches are also tags... they just go into the branches folder.
And all of these are just "cheap copies" of the actual trunk file. Once I edit the trunk, I have to spider through the different revision trees to determine where it needs to be updated.

In CVS, I view the tags and apply them in one step. Easy. And check out the tags for easy packaging by an automated system.
I don't know how I can set up SVN to work the way I want to easily. I know it supports some kind of properties per file, but all the easy shortcuts want a folder(tag/branch) path and a revision number.

Do something nice for the New Year!

You can do something nice for the holiday. And its free too.. no money required.

Donate your idle computer cycles to science. Stanford's Folding@Home project uses your computer to help simulate protein folding.

Every good community has a team. So join our SW:Rebellion Network Folding Team - team# 96904
You can install it no matter what operating system (Windows / Linux / even PS3...). Just install a client and let it go.

AMS Venus T4U Review (3TB in a little black box)

The AMS Venus T4U (DS-2340UBK) is my dream machine. As I have data on lots of random IDE hard drives, this simple 4-bay hard drive enclosure is what I've been sorely needing. While you could make an entire desktop tower with RAID and the works, my primary system has been a laptop. Thus I've survived on single hard drive enclosures, swapping drives in and out when necessary.

Is it worth buying? After a few weeks with it, my answer is yes.
Read on for more details, specs, and images....

QABoom - Open for Discussion

A new site I'm a part of - its a social network mixed with a question and answer site! check it out!

Languages Removed

I removed the multiple languages from the main phpNuke packages. They added a lot of files where most people just use English.

I will have seperate language downloads available, but for now, you can grab them directly from the CVS. They are tagged 'zlang-languagename' for example, French is now tagged 'zlang-french'

Should save the trouble of installing a large amount of needless files. You'll get the English files, and only install the other languages that you want!