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Cy-Fox and Metallix want YOU!
Posted: Apr 30 2009, 02:39 PM Forum Archived News View full topic
Sonic Blast is reforming the Graphics Army and we could use a few good men (and women too) to make high-quality graphics for =SB=. Banners, signatures, awards, and skins will be your objectives, and your hands, art utensils and graphic editing programs will be your weapons and your tools. What're the perks of joining the Graphics Army? -Access to an 'eyes only' forum that's only visible and accessible to Graphics Army members and the SB staff for project deployment. -A prestigious ranking system (like Call of Duty 4!) where advancement in skills and in project completion nets promotions. -The ability to contribute to SB's day to day operations ~~-The ability to throw fruit and vegetables at Venny.~~ How do you apply? PM, E-mail or IM me or Metallix (I'm the easiest to get access to) and we'll get the ball rolling. My contact info: E-mail: cy-fox(AT)live(DOT)com MSN/WLM: cy-fox(AT)live(DOT)com Yahoo: milesthecyfox AOL: MilesProwerCyFox Steam Friends: Amadeus2XM10 XBOX Live (through my PC): Amadeus2XM10 I'll also be available on XFire as soon as I reinstall it and retrieve my profile. That'll be updated when it comes available. Now get out there and apply! -Cy-Fox System Operations and Security Administrator

Posted: Apr 30 2009, 02:39 PM Forum Archived News View full topic

Sonic Blast is reforming the Graphics Army and we could use a few good men (and women too) to make high-quality graphics for =SB=. Banners, signatures, awards, and skins will be your objectives, and your hands, art utensils and graphic editing programs will be your weapons and your tools.

What're the perks of joining the Graphics Army?
-Access to an 'eyes only' forum that's only visible and accessible to Graphics Army members and the SB staff for project deployment.
-A prestigious ranking system (like Call of Duty 4!) where advancement in skills and in project completion nets promotions.
-The ability to contribute to SB's day to day operations
~~-The ability to throw fruit and vegetables at Venny.~~

How do you apply? PM, E-mail or IM me or Metallix (I'm the easiest to get access to) and we'll get the ball rolling.

My contact info:
E-mail: cy-fox(AT)live(DOT)com
MSN/WLM: cy-fox(AT)live(DOT)com
Yahoo: milesthecyfox
AOL: MilesProwerCyFox
Steam Friends: Amadeus2XM10
XBOX Live (through my PC): Amadeus2XM10

I'll also be available on XFire as soon as I reinstall it and retrieve my profile. That'll be updated when it comes available.

Now get out there and apply!

-Cy-Fox
System Operations and Security Administrator

I'm actually staying
Posted: Apr 29 2009, 07:56 AM Forum Act II: Newbie Resort View full topic
Don't mind TUC, he somehow managed to smite his way out of the psych ward. Which he'll be going back to..now swipes cane at TUC

Post your Pic
Posted: Apr 29 2009, 07:50 AM Forum Act I: Chit-Chat Hangout View full topic
lilsonic Apr 16 2009, 01:05 PM Cy-Fox Apr 16 2009, 12:58 PM You brought it on yourself looking like Jack Black pal. The only thing you can do to me is make Peter Weller references. Agreed to the fact that he looks like jack black. So, we have come celebrities here huh. Fist it Tom Cruise, and now Jack Black... Anyone else? Well if we have Tom Cruise, Jack Black and all...then I'm Peter Weller

Post your Desktop v2.0
Posted: Apr 28 2009, 02:26 PM Forum Act IV: Casino Park View full topic
It's finally happened. Modern computing for me.

Fastest Internet in America
Posted: Apr 28 2009, 02:21 PM Forum Act I: Chit-Chat Hangout View full topic
I'd do that if I lived in Philly. Which I don't. Bah, just wait, Boston'll have it faster!

The Tornado in FSX
Posted: Apr 27 2009, 07:07 AM Forum Act II: Sonic's Moonlit Realm View full topic
No love for us out there in FS95, FS98, FS2000 and FS2002-land? D: I'll have to buy FSX (and a joystick) somewhere sometime. Heh, maybe it can be rigged to do the aircraft carrier mission from Acceleration.

Cy-Fox's SB Interview
Posted: Apr 21 2009, 08:36 PM Forum Act III: Entertainment Ocean View full topic
How I got hired as an administrator here =P

Signature Extension
Posted: Apr 21 2009, 07:50 PM Forum Archived News View full topic
After receiving complaints on the timetable for the signature purge planned by Blizshadow and about the way it was spontaneously announced and executed without proper planning and discussion of it, I have decided to take personal control of the project and as such, have decided to extend the time table from one day to Monday, April 27th, 2009 by midnight EST. You have until then to check your signature against the =SB= rules related to signature length and content and to also edit your signature to meet those standards. You may request that your signature be given a final check by e-mail, instant messenger (my IDs available in my profile) or private messenger to me or another administrator. After midnight on the 27th, all non-conforming signatures will be removed or edited. This will allow those of you who do not appear on a regular basis to have a fair chance at fixing things up as the others.

Signature Extension

Posted: Apr 21 2009, 07:50 PM Forum Archived News View full topic

After receiving complaints on the timetable for the signature purge planned by Blizshadow and about the way it was spontaneously announced and executed without proper planning and discussion of it, I have decided to take personal control of the project and as such, have decided to extend the time table from one day to Monday, April 27th, 2009 by midnight EST. You have until then to check your signature against the =SB= rules related to signature length and content and to also edit your signature to meet those standards. You may request that your signature be given a final check by e-mail, instant messenger (my IDs available in my profile) or private messenger to me or another administrator. After midnight on the 27th, all non-conforming signatures will be removed or edited. This will allow those of you who do not appear on a regular basis to have a fair chance at fixing things up as the others.

Another Purge On The Way
Posted: Apr 21 2009, 07:35 PM Forum Archived News View full topic
In that case, I am granting an extension to next Monday and will make myself available by PM and IM services for signature review requests. All one has to do is link me to your profile if you want to know if your signature's too large. One day is rushed and you did go about this as a lone wolf, Bliz without any recent discussion of the issue and the planning and execution of its resolution. You all have until next Monday. Use your time wisely.

Another Purge On The Way

Posted: Apr 21 2009, 07:35 PM Forum Archived News View full topic

In that case, I am granting an extension to next Monday and will make myself available by PM and IM services for signature review requests. All one has to do is link me to your profile if you want to know if your signature's too large. One day is rushed and you did go about this as a lone wolf, Bliz without any recent discussion of the issue and the planning and execution of its resolution.

You all have until next Monday. Use your time wisely.

Sonic Blast Wins Thrice at EGAs
Posted: Apr 18 2009, 01:08 PM Forum Archived News View full topic
Dude...totally. Of course we did! (XD)

Just A Flippin' Hedgehog!
Posted: Apr 18 2009, 12:58 PM Forum Act II: Sonic's Moonlit Realm View full topic
This is awesome, it's going to replace the Rickroll for me

Sonic Blast Wins Thrice at EGAs
Posted: Apr 18 2009, 12:50 PM Forum Archived News View full topic
(Mirroring courtesy of Sonic Source. Metallix will be sent copies) Your votes have brought about the boiling of the lava at the Lava Reef in the Best Sonic Source category, winning the gold with 16 votes, beating Lava Reef by 9 votes. In the Best Layout category, Sonic Blast took it unopposed with 16 votes. And finally, best of all, Sonic Blast won the Best Site of 2009 award, the clincher of the EGAs with 14 votes. Icee will be passing that award to me on Monday to mirror. Also the joint Sonic Blast-Sonic Source project Casualty @ Station Square managed to tie with FastFeet Media, 11 to 11, therefore resulting in a win for both.

Sonic Blast Wins Thrice at EGAs

Posted: Apr 18 2009, 12:50 PM Forum Archived News View full topic

(Mirroring courtesy of Sonic Source. Metallix will be sent copies)

Your votes have brought about the boiling of the lava at the Lava Reef in the Best Sonic Source category, winning the gold with 16 votes, beating Lava Reef by 9 votes. In the Best Layout category, Sonic Blast took it unopposed with 16 votes. And finally, best of all, Sonic Blast won the Best Site of 2009 award, the clincher of the EGAs with 14 votes. Icee will be passing that award to me on Monday to mirror.

Also the joint Sonic Blast-Sonic Source project Casualty @ Station Square managed to tie with FastFeet Media, 11 to 11, therefore resulting in a win for both.

Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks.
Posted: Apr 17 2009, 09:39 AM Forum Act II: Video Game Station View full topic
Mah Boi, . You must board a ship-ship-ship-ship-ship...and clean the floors of Hyrule before you can have DINNER on the Train.

What do you want to be when you're older?
Posted: Apr 16 2009, 06:46 PM Forum Act I: Chit-Chat Hangout View full topic
Quote: 2. be the best computer solver there is! Bring it on buddy boy. I Garland, shall.... Eliminate the competition!

Post your Pic
Posted: Apr 16 2009, 12:58 PM Forum Act I: Chit-Chat Hangout View full topic
You brought it on yourself looking like Jack Black pal. The only thing you can do to me is make Peter Weller references.

New Laptop "SKYNET" Ordered
Posted: Apr 16 2009, 12:37 PM Forum Act I: Chit-Chat Hangout View full topic
Heh heh heh. I remember the old MSI from school. It was a beast. Counter-Strike matches during lunch and the end of the day in 2006, Call of Duty 4 in 2007 till graduation. And they were specific to our department. Too bad I can't find any pics of the model. I actually think they were custom built from MSI..

New Laptop "SKYNET" Ordered
Posted: Apr 16 2009, 12:15 PM Forum Act I: Chit-Chat Hangout View full topic
So I got my paycheck this morning and I was planning to go to Wal-Mart to buy a $600 Hewitt Packard Pavilion G60-249WM if I could get a little assistance from my sister (which fell through). So I ended up cruising around eBay and I end up finding an excellent MSI laptop which is a slightly scaled down model of the original laptop I was planning to get (if I hadn't gone on a Steam/GOG.com/GamersGate/eBay spree, but meh. Good deals there). The original laptop I wanted to get was an MSI GX630 which was decked out with a lot of nice things. That would've cost $800, and I wasn't going to wait for my Dell to deteriorate further (Hinges breaking while playing Civilization III for Christ's sake >.>) As I mentioned earlier, I was cruising around eBay and I found that FrostyComputers.com, which is based in California, has the MSI GX610 for $500. Conveniently, I had $520 in my savings. So I checked the systems out and these are the specs for my system: MSI GX610 Neo Edition Manufacturer: MSI (Based in Taiwan) Processor (Advertised): AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56 Clock speed of 1.8 GHz, Two 512 KB caches Processor (Ordered - I'll cover why there's a difference later on) AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-53 Clock speed of 1.8 GHz, 1 MB cache Display Dimensions: 15.4" widescreen (1280x800 pixels for you resolution heads out there =P) Memory: 2 GB of DDR2 RAM Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 2600 Comes with 256 MB of DDR3 memory, supports DirectX 10 Hard Drive: 160 GB SATA drive Operating System: Not included but MSI computers do support XP (quite well I should say), which is very important to me. Optical Drive: DVD +/- RW and CD-RW combination Networking: Integrated 802.11g wireless card, Bluetooth and Gigabit Ethernet system. It looks like there might be a 56Kbps modem on there too but that for all I know, could be the Bluetooth connector ("Way to keep up with the times, Cy" [/voice of Valsione leaking with much sarcasm]) Extras: HDMI connector, integrated 1.3 megapixel digital camera Sub-Total Price: $499.99 UPS Ground Shipping: +$15.98 Total: $515.97 Now for the review. Haven't gotten the system yet but there's enough positives for me to bring about a review of the distributor. FrostyComputers.com like I mentioned earlier, is based on California. After completing my order, I called them up to make sure my payment would get through to them promptly and had the pleasure of actually dealing with the owner-operator, a pretty nice guy named Ben/Frosty. Ben was very friendly and even let me know that he was out of the model that had the Turion 64 X2 as I showed earlier in the specs. He informed me that I could get one with the Athlon 64 X2 processor with the same speed and specs. I dealt with an Athlon 64 X2 desktop in vocational school which I loved like it was my own flesh 'n blood (and steel and silicon =P), and it rocked. So I had no problem with that :D. We even got to shoot the shit for a bit and I come to find that he used to work for MSI, so that was pretty awesome. Also talked about IT certs. I'll be waiting until next week but I can already tell that I'm getting a good deal. It's not everyday that you can deal with the OwnerOp. Like he himself said, these days you get bounced around with the Big Boys and outsourced to India and the likes. He likes to do things the old fashioned way. In fact, I come to find out that he used to outright ship while waiting for payment to clear but then he got burned a couple times, which seeing as these systems aren't exactly old 486 laptops, I understand completely why he's not doing insta-ship. So FrostyComputers gets an A+ and a gold star from me for pre and post order service. I'm going to even put up an ad so that you can look around his inventory. I've dealt with a lot of computers over the years. Out of the phased out systems, A Compaq Presario, a Compaq Armada, a Gateway Solo 2100, TWO IBM ThinkPad 600Es (Yuck, Trackpoint drift both times. Never making THAT mistake again), a Toshiba Satellite 4010CDS (A cream colored ThinkPad 600E with a 233 MHz processor to me. Yuck), and a Dell Latitude C610 (which is sitting in front of me). Soon, to join my faithful party of my Compaq Presario CDS 520 486 desktop, my Dell Dimension XPS T-500 P3 desktop will be the MSI GX610 Neo. And the fate of my loyal Dell Latitude C610 has yet to be determined. This is what I have planned for it when it comes in: -Installing Windows XP Professional and possibly Linux or a BSD distribution in a dual boot configuration. If not, I'll virtualize the -NIX I wa nt to use. -Installing Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and VMWare Server and setting up the following OSes to be virtualized: 1.MS-DOS 6.22 (Standalone) 2.MS-DOS 6.22 with Microsoft Windows 3.1 Operating Environment (Windows for Workgroups 3.11 doesn't cooperate well with Virtual PC when EMM386's being used. I might VMWare that configuration) 3.MS-DOS 6.22 with Novell NetWare 4.11 (IntraNetWare). (Definitely VMWare) 4.MS-DOS 6.22 with Novell NetWare 3 (VMWare too. Might have to downgrade to DOS 5.0) 5.Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 Workstation and Server (SP5) 6.Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Server (SP6a) 7.Microsoft Windows 2000 Server (if I find it cheap on eBay) 8.Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard (Through Dreamspark ) 9.Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard (IF it fits) 10. OS/2 11. Linux (May vary. Most likely a combination of or one of the following: Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSolaris, Damn Small Linux) 12. BSD UNIX (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD comes to mind) 13. Other future OSes to test and play with I'm going to interlink them all together to where they happily work side by side or in certain combination (Mind you I've got 2 GBs of RAM to play with. 1.5 taking XP into consideration). NT, 2000, 2003 (and 2008 if it goes on) Servers will form the core of my domain (called CYBERDYNE. Heh heh heh. Speaking of which, the MSI will be named "SKYNET"). The NetWare server will form its own CYBERDYNE NDS directory that will co-exist with the CYBERDYNE domain, and as I'm just jumping into Linux and UNIX, who knows what I'll do there. Down the road I might throw in Windows 95 and Windows 98 for giggles and laughs. I will not touch Windows Mistaken Edition (deliberate misrepresentation) or Windows Vista just as I wouldn't be found driving a Chevrolet. I'm also going to deck it out with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 through Microsoft's Dreamspark and get some other nice programming toys for it and of course there will be games. Modern games, old games (what would you expect from me?). It's going to be awesome. Thanks for reading, and if you're in the market for a new machine, give Frosty Computers a look

New Laptop "SKYNET" Ordered

Posted: Apr 16 2009, 12:15 PM Forum Act I: Chit-Chat Hangout View full topic

So I got my paycheck this morning and I was planning to go to Wal-Mart to buy a $600 Hewitt Packard Pavilion G60-249WM if I could get a little assistance from my sister (which fell through). So I ended up cruising around eBay and I end up finding an excellent MSI laptop which is a slightly scaled down model of the original laptop I was planning to get (if I hadn't gone on a Steam/GOG.com/GamersGate/eBay spree, but meh. Good deals there). The original laptop I wanted to get was an MSI GX630 which was decked out with a lot of nice things. That would've cost $800, and I wasn't going to wait for my Dell to deteriorate further (Hinges breaking while playing Civilization III for Christ's sake >.>)

As I mentioned earlier, I was cruising around eBay and I found that FrostyComputers.com, which is based in California, has the MSI GX610 for $500. Conveniently, I had $520 in my savings. So I checked the systems out and these are the specs for my system:

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MSI GX610 Neo Edition
Manufacturer: MSI (Based in Taiwan)
Processor (Advertised): AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56
Clock speed of 1.8 GHz, Two 512 KB caches
Processor (Ordered - I'll cover why there's a difference later on) AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-53
Clock speed of 1.8 GHz, 1 MB cache
Display Dimensions: 15.4" widescreen (1280x800 pixels for you resolution heads out there =P)
Memory: 2 GB of DDR2 RAM
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 2600
Comes with 256 MB of DDR3 memory, supports DirectX 10
Hard Drive: 160 GB SATA drive
Operating System: Not included but MSI computers do support XP (quite well I should say), which is very important to me.
Optical Drive: DVD +/- RW and CD-RW combination
Networking: Integrated 802.11g wireless card, Bluetooth and Gigabit Ethernet system. It looks like there might be a 56Kbps modem on there too but that for all I know, could be the Bluetooth connector ("Way to keep up with the times, Cy" [/voice of Valsione leaking with much sarcasm])
Extras: HDMI connector, integrated 1.3 megapixel digital camera

Sub-Total Price: $499.99
UPS Ground Shipping: +$15.98
Total: $515.97

Now for the review. Haven't gotten the system yet but there's enough positives for me to bring about a review of the distributor. FrostyComputers.com like I mentioned earlier, is based on California. After completing my order, I called them up to make sure my payment would get through to them promptly and had the pleasure of actually dealing with the owner-operator, a pretty nice guy named Ben/Frosty. Ben was very friendly and even let me know that he was out of the model that had the Turion 64 X2 as I showed earlier in the specs. He informed me that I could get one with the Athlon 64 X2 processor with the same speed and specs. I dealt with an Athlon 64 X2 desktop in vocational school which I loved like it was my own flesh 'n blood (and steel and silicon =P), and it rocked. So I had no problem with that :D. We even got to shoot the shit for a bit and I come to find that he used to work for MSI, so that was pretty awesome. Also talked about IT certs.

I'll be waiting until next week but I can already tell that I'm getting a good deal. It's not everyday that you can deal with the OwnerOp. Like he himself said, these days you get bounced around with the Big Boys and outsourced to India and the likes. He likes to do things the old fashioned way. In fact, I come to find out that he used to outright ship while waiting for payment to clear but then he got burned a couple times, which seeing as these systems aren't exactly old 486 laptops, I understand completely why he's not doing insta-ship.

So FrostyComputers gets an A+ and a gold star from me for pre and post order service. I'm going to even put up an ad so that you can look around his inventory. I've dealt with a lot of computers over the years. Out of the phased out systems, A Compaq Presario, a Compaq Armada, a Gateway Solo 2100, TWO IBM ThinkPad 600Es (Yuck, Trackpoint drift both times. Never making THAT mistake again), a Toshiba Satellite 4010CDS (A cream colored ThinkPad 600E with a 233 MHz processor to me. Yuck), and a Dell Latitude C610 (which is sitting in front of me).

Soon, to join my faithful party of my Compaq Presario CDS 520 486 desktop, my Dell Dimension XPS T-500 P3 desktop will be the MSI GX610 Neo. And the fate of my loyal Dell Latitude C610 has yet to be determined.

This is what I have planned for it when it comes in:
-Installing Windows XP Professional and possibly Linux or a BSD distribution in a dual boot configuration. If not, I'll virtualize the -NIX I wa nt to use.
-Installing Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and VMWare Server and setting up the following OSes to be virtualized:
1.MS-DOS 6.22 (Standalone)
2.MS-DOS 6.22 with Microsoft Windows 3.1 Operating Environment (Windows for Workgroups 3.11 doesn't cooperate well with Virtual PC when EMM386's being used. I might VMWare that configuration)
3.MS-DOS 6.22 with Novell NetWare 4.11 (IntraNetWare). (Definitely VMWare)
4.MS-DOS 6.22 with Novell NetWare 3 (VMWare too. Might have to downgrade to DOS 5.0)
5.Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 Workstation and Server (SP5)
6.Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Server (SP6a)
7.Microsoft Windows 2000 Server (if I find it cheap on eBay)
8.Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard (Through Dreamspark

)
9.Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard (IF it fits)
10. OS/2
11. Linux (May vary. Most likely a combination of or one of the following: Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSolaris, Damn Small Linux)
12. BSD UNIX (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD comes to mind)
13. Other future OSes to test and play with

I'm going to interlink them all together to where they happily work side by side or in certain combination (Mind you I've got 2 GBs of RAM to play with. 1.5 taking XP into consideration). NT, 2000, 2003 (and 2008 if it goes on) Servers will form the core of my domain (called CYBERDYNE. Heh heh heh. Speaking of which, the MSI will be named "SKYNET"). The NetWare server will form its own CYBERDYNE NDS directory that will co-exist with the CYBERDYNE domain, and as I'm just jumping into Linux and UNIX, who knows what I'll do there. Down the road I might throw in Windows 95 and Windows 98 for giggles and laughs. I will not touch Windows Mistaken Edition (deliberate misrepresentation) or Windows Vista just as I wouldn't be found driving a Chevrolet.

I'm also going to deck it out with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 through Microsoft's Dreamspark and get some other nice programming toys for it and of course there will be games. Modern games, old games (what would you expect from me?). It's going to be awesome.

Thanks for reading, and if you're in the market for a new machine, give Frosty Computers a look

What do you want to be when you're older?
Posted: Apr 16 2009, 11:36 AM Forum Act I: Chit-Chat Hangout View full topic
I wanna be a Certified Novell Engineer, a Certified Linux Engineer AND a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Certifications for the win

Hot Fuzz!
Posted: Apr 16 2009, 05:40 AM Forum Act III: Entertainment Ocean View full topic
Best movie ever made next to RoboCop, am I right?

How many games do you get in a year?
Posted: Apr 16 2009, 05:14 AM Forum Act II: Video Game Station View full topic
I think my response would have to be scaled down to "How Many Games do you buy in a week" Seriously, I buy at least one game (when I'm on the cheap, mind you) a week. In fact I'm waiting for an old DOS one (in its original box with manuals and both sets of disks, one set being the OLD OLD 5 1/4" 1.2 MB (or maybe its 360 KB...) floppies)

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