Vistula Queen R.I.P.
The Pirates of the Vistula Twilight 2000 Module has officially ended with the sinking of the Vistula Queen near the turning basin of the community of Sielce. Campaign date: 10 September 2000
The Pirates of the Vistula Twilight 2000 Module has officially ended with the sinking of the Vistula Queen near the turning basin of the community of Sielce. Campaign date: 10 September 2000
Background: Locust is my Frankenstein’s monster, an amalgamation of spare parts collected over the years to make a fourth computer that I could tear down and reformat to suit whatever I wanted to test at the moment, without losing any…
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I wanted to make sure to document what temp probe monitored what in Earthquake so here’s a short list, mostly for my own use: 1. Water temp from radiator 2. Processor temp 3. Ambient room temp 4. Top HD (HD…
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I modded the Headcrash case to have four green LEDs on one of the 5-1/4″ bay covers indicating activity on each of the four hard drives. It’s an easy mod that involves cutting holes in the bay cover and connecting…
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I finally got around to rebuilding Locust, and in the process fried my v330 vid card (hence the crappy 2mb PCI graphics card in the specs). I was switching the blow direction of a fan while the machine was on…
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The smoke has cleared and the boats have sunk and the Vustula Queen has reach Warsaw. We finished the Pirates of the Vistula Module the other night. Check out the details in the Twilight 2000 campaign log. We’ll be starting…
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I got antsy and decided to make Plague all EIDE and make Locust an all SCSI machine. My reasoning behind this is that the P3V4X has an ATA-100 interface and the mobo in Locust, the P5A, only has an interface…
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In the Beginning: Last Fall I decided to build myself a new workstation and spent some time looking around for parts to build myself a cool-looking and awesome-performing machine. After poking around in various hardware and tech sites, I decided…
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I split apart the order of events into months so it loads faster. There were just too many images loading for its own good. The printable version is still the complete version but is now white text on black background…
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I wiped Headcrash for the umpteenth time last night to install and configure a new drive subsystem. I broke down and bought a SCSI RAID 2100s drive controller from Adaptec on ebay the other day and four 7200rpm Ultra 160…
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