As you've probably noticed I haven't posted in a LONG time, no I'm not dead or dieing, I just haven't been on GS for a while, I've sort of moved on to another site, MAL, MyAnimeList.net, I know some of you already use the site, as for the rest of you, if you like anime I recommend you sign up right now. I don't think I'll start another blog on another site as I've determined that blogs aren't my thing.

In other MAL related news, I changed my list and profile sty|e, here's my new list.
In other news:
If you ever want to talk to me you can find me on the irc channel #myanimelist on rizon.net, I'm there most of the time, you can PM me in irc to start a private chat.

The weather here is crazy! it's snowing hard and it's SPRING! here's a pic of all the snow we have:


Good bye all

I originally had a "EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 FTW" on order but it never came (out of stock) and when EVGA removed the card from their site I canceled my order, on the same day EVGA released the "285 FTW" so I ordered it right away since I ordered it on a Friday (Jan 30) I had to wait a weekend for it to arrive , so that Monday (Feb 02) I found a nice box on my porch that said EVGA on the side .

I went and removed my old cards right away and installed them in a computer I put together with some old parts, Motherboard, CPU, RAM, and TV tuner card were all in my computer once before I upgraded them, my old PS3 hard drive (I had no other use for it) and a new power supply that I bought because I didn't have any others, I then installed Windows 7 on it (which has media center) and hocked it up to my TV, so it's now my Media center PC so now I can pause record and rewind live TV.

I then installed my new cards in my computer and they work great I ran 3DMark06 to see what my benchmark was and here's the results:

Old GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 7800 KO: 5349 3DMarks
New GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 285 FTW: 15639 3DMarks
I also ran 3DMark Vantage on my system and here's the results:

3DMark Vantage results: EVGA GeForce GTX 285 FTW: P15410 3DMarks

wow there's alot of code for just that little bit:

Code:

the results:<br/><a href="http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/3dmark06/introduction/" title="Futuremark 3DMark 06"> <img src="http://service.futuremark.com/images/productIcons/logos/3dmark06.jpg" /></a><br/><a href="http://service.futuremark.com/results/showSingleResult.action?resultId=9530646&resultType=14" title="ORB 3DMark06 GTX 7800 KO results">Old GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 7800 KO: 5349 3DMarks</a><br/><a href="http://service.futuremark.com/results/showSingleResult.action?resultId=9953718&resultType=14" title="ORB 3DMark06 GTX 285 FTW results">New GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 285 FTW: 15639 3DMarks</a><br/>I also ran 3DMark Vantage on my system and here's the results:<br/><a href="http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/3dmarkvantage/introduction/" title="Futuremark 3DMark Vantage"> <img src="http://service.futuremark.com/images/productIcons/logos/3dmarkvantage.jpg" /></a><br/><a href="http://service.futuremark.com/results/showSingleResult.action?resultId=780305&resultType=19" title="ORB 3DMark Vantage GTX 285 FTW results">3DMark Vantage results: EVGA GeForce GTX 285 FTW: P15410 3DMarks</a>

Back to the graphic card, I launched Crysis ans let it pick the best settings, and it set them at "Very high"!!! that's much better than the "low" it gave to my old GPUs

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In other news:
I've been extremely busy lately because of a show I've been doing at the music hall, it's "wizard of OZ", I'm doing lights, sound, and digital projection which involves recording 3 people and cutting out their heads to display as a video on a screen.

Also I created an image so large only my computer can open it, I've tried my moms computer, laptop, and dad's computer none of them can open it, the actual file size is 703 MB, and it's dimensions are 22358 x 3110. I'll try and post it later.

That's all folks

As of today I can say I've successfully bypassed my ISPs bittorrent throttling attempts, I did this by doing a few things:

1. I changed my BT port from 6881, which is in the BT port range (6881-6999) to 4472, which I randomly selected.

2. I turned on encryption, so my ISP can't pick out my torrent packets

3. I compleatelly changed the way BT operates (they way it connects to peers/seeds, etc.)

I've noticed a major speed increase, and before when I used BT my internet would stop working, now it's fine

To see if your ISP limits BT bandwidth here's a list of bad ISPs
And here's how you can get past you ISP, but the guide is designed for Azureus but I'm sure you could adapt it for other Torrent clients. The Link!