Archive for June, 2006

Now I know why it was on sale

Posted on June 25th, 2006 in The Joy of Techs | 6 Comments »

I decided that a new video card might be in order after upgrading to dual 19″ Hanns-G widescreen displays. I didn’t order a dual-head card as it is very difficult to create separate colour managed profiles for each (most dual-head cards use a single table for this, and working around it is a bitch). So I ordered a 256 MB GeFORCE FX 5200 AGP8x that I found on sale for $23.00. Can’t go wrong at that price, right?

Wrong.

Immediately upon installing the card I tried to spool up the driver CD that came with it and received this message:

The VGA detected seems not XFX’s product. Please go to www.nvidia.com to get the driver for the other NVIDIA VGA.

They can’t even ship the right driver on the CD that comes with the product? Shee-it. No wonder NVIDIA’s fortunes are in decline (and I’ll leave it to Nancy and/or Ray to comment on the lousy English in the error message). A quick trip to NVIDIA’s site allowed me to procure the correct driver, and my dual displays look fabulous now that I’ve got full 32-bit colour and monitor profiles running on both. However, I’ll be more cautious about sale items in the future.

Top 10 most horrifying spam e-mail subject lines

Posted on June 8th, 2006 in WTF | 5 Comments »

The only thing worse than finding spam in your inbox is finding porn spam instead. I’ve been getting inundated with this garbage as of late. Here are some of the ‘more interesting’ items I’ve found first thing in the morning. All have made the list for causing me to accidentally inhale my coffee while doing the early e-mail run:

  1. Check out this barnyard action!
  2. Granny still loves the anal sex.
  3. Crazy slut drinks horse sperm.
  4. School lolita rudely gangbanged video!
  5. Total ass destruction!
  6. Lucky horse getting s****d by a blonde slut!
  7. Bizarre oral dogsex series, my fave pics.
  8. This brave girl take three fist in ass same time!
  9. Cock torture and electrocution.
  10. See these illegals gang bang a chicken.

I tell ya, it’s getting to the point where I’m scared to check my mail. And I still think Mr. Axline is the one signing me up for this crap.

[sigh]

We now return you to our regularly scheduled hiatus…