RyokuKitsune

Well I just installed a new heatsink, against my better judgment I've been running for about a year on a tiny little heatsink for a 80-90w CPU I had laying around when my liquid cooler died. The immediate results of installing it are fantastic. I had a small army of fans, internal and external, blowing on my system to keep it cool but with my new heatsink installed I'm down to just the one and its not even trying that hard rite now. I've had problems with my system getting to warm to do anything regardless of ambient temps but now things are cool enough that I can crank up the voltage and clock speed of my CPU back up to where it should be and not worry about cooking the most important part of my system.

I'm not to happy with the configuration of the heat sink because my Motherboard is really awkward in my case. I think of the 3-5 heat sinks I've had installed in this case maybe 1-2 where venting in the rite direction, i.e. out the back exhaust fan. Pretty much my fan is currently drawing air from up against the partition above my power supply and venting everything towards my video card. I'll come up with a way to work around that shortly so it doesn't run the risk of over heating my GPU during gaming or rendering when such a time comes around.

The options of orientation of the heatsink where much better for Intel socket types because the mounting plate is symmetrical in two axis however for AMD users the configuration of the screw holes prevents using the easy install plugs that would allow me to aim the exhaust of the small tower out the back of my case. I suppose its better than nothing because its doing a much better job by its self than 3-4 fans did in its absence. I had the CPU DC fan and a stacked fan of similar size on top of it with a fan controller plus a window fan outside my case blowing out any build up by keeping ambient air circulating, it was a high pressure vortex in my case. With the air pressure what it was before it was a wonder anything cooled off at all but it was effective enough to keep my CPU or Mobo from starting a weenie roast in my case. Now I see that it was all just a wonderful waste of time if I'd only been prepared enough before hand and gotten a heatsink that actually was designed to do the job of my jerry rigged solution to the problem.

I was a bit leery of changing out the heat sink in the first place because the history my CPU has had with the game of heatsink musical chairs I've played over the years. Prior to my liquid cooler I changed out the heatsinke with my room mate and bent a number of pins. When the liquid cooler died I discovered that my room mate (who installed it for me) slathered on to much thermal past to be efficient so I over taxed it and in the end killed it [the liquid cooler]. Further more when I pulled out the CPU to clean off the old gook I noticed that some of my pins have burn marks on them from repeated shorts in the bent pin territory.

While its working just fine now I had/have some very realistic fears that its not going to hold up to much longer. Hopefully it won't just start throwing errors out at me in spite of its user and give up the ghost to soon but we'll see. I haven't been to good to it over the years but at least its in better shape than its been for the recent past few months.

Update complete its time for me to go to work, I just got over a stomach bug that put me down for almost a week and now I have to live threw a 9 hour shift on a sabotaged sleep schedule. I came home yesterday and tried to take a nap which turned into me falling into a coma for 10 hours. I woke up this morning (?) at 11:30pm last night and I have to be to work at 6am (of which I'm leery I'll actually make on time but I digress)

cheers!

I admit to being one of those people who paid $30-ish to play an awesome mod. From the moment I saw my first Youtube video I was hooked. I couldn't not play the game so I hopped on to Steam and warmed up my new debit card to make the purchase.

The past few days I've had a chance to play Day Z have been interesting, I'm sure best described as newb floundering. Today is an interesting example for a few reasons. As of rite now I'm chronicling the first experience with the human element as well as some surprising behavior I did not see coming out of the zombie horde immediately after it happened.

Well to start off I spawned in one of the regular spawn points outside a sea side freight yard and managed to find myself a hatchet straight off the bat. There is a warm place in my heart for the inclusion of melee weapons in the mod even if you don't start with one. In the past few days I haven't found a single fire arm but more than enough hatchets to defend myself with. I've actually gotten pretty good at defending myself in a face off of blunt objects, Zombies or otherwise.

After entering the freight yard I'd alerted a zombie or two of my presence and instead of trying to fight them off at a dead sprint I hustled into the warehouse where I come face to face with the second or third person I've seen since playing. Everyone else I've come a crossed has been woefuly unprepared as I am since most player on player action I've seen happens near the spawn points. We where on equal footing down to the hatchet we both wielded.

I looked at the player and made a decision to take a swipe at him and then take off running. I didn't intend to kill him but my instincts told me that if I wing him good enough to need a band aid he probibily wouldn't chase me. Turns out my instincts where right and he came at me after I took my cheap shot and ran. I made sure to run back out past a zombie to get a little bit of chaotic back up and as soon as he was out the door he took a swipe or two from zombie fingers as we both darted a crossed the pavement. I kept checking over my shoulder and made sure he was bleeding before taking the chance on defending myself. I was out of range and ever time he took a swing the zombie would take one at him until he thinned out his health.

When I stopped to deliver what I thought was the finishing blow he took the death throw swipe at me and broke my arm. Then, now low on blood, the zombie took a swing at me and broke my leg. I got the kill on the other guy and zombie, to my somewhat muted delight it was a bandit kill. Gomer had tried to get PvP kills deliverance style but the plan backfired. I was now pretty wounded to the point my screen was blurry and desaturated but I could still crawl. There was a town in the distance so I thought to myself, "what the hell, might as well go out in a mob of zombies..." and crawled my way a 1/4th mile to the closest building. I managed to pick up a few bandages (I never got to use) as well as some ammunition in the vein hope I'd actually find one of those mythical fire arms I've seen so much of on the You of tubes.

As I was doing the caterpillar threw the sea side town I managed to crawl up on some zombies. Death wish mode fueled, to my complete surprise, I managed to assassinate them with the hatchet from a throwing distance to your average trash can. Still looking for the final kicks of my current character I shimmied along further into town and made it almost to the other side before getting caught outside a house on the wrong side of a fence as two zombies ambled past. They where literally in range to walk on me and the only reason I didn't start flailing my ax was because of how successful my last 3-4 zombie kills where.

To put it into perspective; an average sidewalk width was all the real-estate I had to my person at the moment, no tall grass or shrubs between us and as close, as a creepy guy sitting next to you on the bus; they ambled along. "Humph, that's interesting" I thought as the broken leg icon taunted me forcing me to crawl. I'd managed to sneak my way past over two dozen zombies and take out a good half of them by the time I made it to an enter-able building, to be honest I was hoping for a pub as those are some of the rich spots on the loot maps I've found floating on the web. I went threw and started checking rooms until I heard someone over voice chat.

Considering my last encounter with a player I figured it was a bandit but I was so fresh off the beach that it didn't matter weather he actually killed me. If he was in the same condition as the last one I had a fighting chance. I got the obligatory "friendly" out of the way in case he actually was and started crawling around the ground floor before getting stuck in a door way. The downside of crawling is that you can get hung up on a cheeto in shag carpeting and run the risk of horribly maiming yourself if you bend the wrong way coming out of a door. Like a fool I said I was stuck in a door way and the guy had time to search for me as I managed to free myself. Without so much as a word he appeared over me and put 4 bullets from a Macarov in my spine and that was all she wrote.

I learned a very valuable lesson towards looting thanks to taking a zombie to the femur. They can see you from pretty far if your at a stand or crouch but if you are an inch worm its like you don't exist. Just be weary of that last exposure bar on your meeter because that's the difference between hiding and getting curb stomped. Secondly the life lesson with bandits is to always have a bandage handy and to be Mr.Nice-Guy while conservative safe at the same time in those chance encounters. Squeeze off a warning shot first and head for the hills. If you both aren't looking for a confrontation then the likely outcome is that you break in opposite directions. If you find yourself face to face with a bandit giving chase then, well; at least you got the first shot off. Remember aim for something substantial so you have time to run and give them incentive not to chase you down. Finally when in a pinch zombies make good backup if you can wrangle them towards your intended target, something bandits could learn from. Death by zombie is a legitimate tactic even if you don't get the points for the kill.

Good hunting and good luck surviving! Back to the wasteland of Chernarus for me!

Recent tensions have been lifted while more RL drama unfolds. My reprieve of stresses from internet battles has come to an intermission while I get rained on for factors beyond my control by housemates and family. I can't help but pout a little at the inter personal relationships as people stress about things I both neither have control over nor have a particular part in other than being member of this commune.

I'm heading off today towards another day labor staffing agency in the hopes of getting work to put me threw until the end of next month. I'm kind of bewildered on the logic behind it other than the basic premise that we could use the inflow of cash into the house, considering present dramas. I'd be more than happy to get a steady job and travel for it since 2/3rds of the public transit system for the metro area is at my finger tips though as anyone can attest rite now the job market sucks.

After the band breaks up come the end of next month I won't be able to rely on the place I'll be going to for temp assignments. I won't have transportation by then. Its kind of contingent on getting a job that a vehicle other than a bus is involved, at least so I hear. I haven't actually gone down to the office yet and apparently its about a 2 hour process of being prodded and probed during the application process.

Oh well nothing I don't expect from it by now. I'm just about the only person in the house who can pass a drug test and doesn't have some kind of lean or garnishment on my paycheck. $60 there abouts a day is better than digging thew whats left of my state tax return...

I figured I'd write something so my page wasn't so stale. the last journal about SOPA PIPA is a bit dated so I'll bump it off my front page.

new news same as old news folks. RL drama mixed in with old battles on the net. garbage in garbage out. moving along...

Ryo

I woke up to a rude awakening this morning when I went threw to check some of my messages on DA. On the front page where random journals are mixed in with news posts I found a journal that someone had written that said that SOPA was passed. This isn't the case but my heart stopped for a few beats and I almost passed out, seriously I was that freaked. The journal was a rant and then it went on into other wild claims that the bill was renamed to something else and passed. After hitting up some mainstream news sites I got a little comfort from the fact that this rabble-rouser was just stirring things up.

I was tempted to leave him an angry message for scaring the crap out of me but that's just what his message was designed to do.

We all know about how MegaUpload was taken down yesterday [1-19-2012]. Even if they can fight off the legal recourse of the indictments and seizures of property its unlikely that they will be back on their feet before some form of the SOPA and PIPA bills pass. The move by law enforcement was a tactical attempt by the RIAA and MPAA to cripple MU from doing business if they do escape punishment from these seemingly trumped up charges. While they will be grandfathered from prosecution of the SOPA and PIPA powers of the entertainment industry; they will essentially be required by law to make the necessary changes to their service before they open their doors again. Contracts will have expired for storage rental in their cloud, hardware will have to be globally reconfigured and hundreds of IT techs will be needed to do this. The cost of getting all this squared away is probably in the thousands of dollars just for the programing end of it but doing it all in days or even weeks will likely cost millions.

By this method they will have essentially destroyed any hope of MU returning, provided these bills pass. The same can be said for other business on line. Services like YouTube, LiveStream and Join.me will be required to make these kinds of radical changes to adapt to the legislation overnight likely causing a massive service blackout as the businesses who can make the changes sprint to put them into effect. For start up services or content services like those mentioned the consequence will likely be so catastrophic that they will be forced to close their doors. They can't control what their users post and at a great cost for failing to do so they would close their doors so their customers didn't make them accomplices from the raised bar of copyright liability.

That isn't all, other start ups like DeviantArt, InkBunny, FurAffinity, SheezyArt and any number of other currently legitimate mainstream communities will freeze. By the volume of content they provide vs. the amount of revenue they make from advertisements the lifeline of these businesses will be to easily severed and no one but the most desperate and loyal patrons will come to their rescue and sadly it won't be enough to keep these services going.

This isn't the end of the internet its just the end of the American host, websites will pick up and leave the United States in droves. For a while advertisements will stay on American shores but they too will go over seas. The only saving grace for communities like FA will be if the administration and ownership of the business is in a non extradition country that is outside of US jurisdiction of law. As we have seen with The Pirate Bay and MegaUpload this is only so effective.

While these sites operated for years without interference of international government the forces at work by the United States Department of Justice did manage to raid facilities and in the latter example actually arrest the CEO of the corporation the believed responsible for these "heinous" (written sarcastically) acts of copyright infringement. While those businesses will be free to continue to operate the owners and staff members will be essentially imprisoned in what ever country they find refuge in. Safe from extradition to courts which would seal them away but unable to leave for fear of the legal reprisal due to these pieces of legislation.

And what of the Hollywood companies during all this? They have been rich this entire time, they have been made to hurt a little by the consequence of the piracy they enabled by hiding their head in the sand to technology and software. While using the DMCA as a weapon against their own consumers they ignore the state of the media they release, instead of fixing the problems the cry out for more power while abusing what they already have against everyday citizens.

Children, mothers and fathers, Students and even government employees have been convicted and fined with penalties meant for organized crime. Foreign citizens have been extradited to the US for prosecution for something as simple as downloading music. If these bills pass they will still be rich and everyone, the world over, will be poorer for it. They will control ever piece of media with an iron grip on distribution and usage. "Piracy" , as they see it, won't stop it will just go further underground. Those services that haven't been making money sharing it ["pirated" content] will surely start just to pay the the bills to keep their services running.

The entertainment industry needs to fix the problem before they compound it. They have spent to long ignoring the problems with how they do business. While its true they have been bleeding cash its not because people are evil its because their outdated business model enables people to abuse the innocent nature of file sharing. DRM is not enforced, it is not universal a crossed all media and when it is, it's incompatible with everyday devices that consumers own. People find it easier to buy the broken forms of physical packaged digital media and rip the content into naked [insecure] formats and the "bad" people share those same files online.

The system of abuse starts with the way the entertainment industry is handling their products. DRM needs to be enforced and it needs to be easy to use so that consumers will tolerate using it. In this Digital Millennium we expect to find our entertainment online. Hulu YouTube and Pandora are wildly popular services. Itunes and Amazon have seen a massive jump in business in the wake of the MU take down however these sources of legitimate content won't last so long as people still have the opportunity to easily find the content from these outdated forms of digital media distribution.

The entertainment industry started all this mess, it time they fixed it and its shouldn't be by giving them a bigger stick.