Maple story private servers

Lately I have been getting back into maplestory by playing on private servers. I quit playing Maplestory because training my character on Nexon's servers was slow and boring. But when I found out how easy it was to play on a private server, I signed up right away. The server I am currently playing on has 500x experience so leveling up is a breeze. It also has the benefit of being less populated than the official server, so less kill stealing and generally less lag. Playing on private servers seems pretty fun so, my new goal is to create my own private server for personal use. However there are a few problems at the moment. The developers of the OdinMs source are currently in a legal suit with Nexon at the time. Getting the source code may be a problem. Another problem may be finding out how to set up the stupid server properly. Oh well, If I cant make my own server I'll just stick to playing on them.

Power supply exploding

Today at work i was working on a computer that required me to install a copy of windows xp on it. I plugged it in and then went to turn it on and realized that I had forgotten to flip the switch. I reached back to the power supply, and when a flipped the switch, a loud bang and a big flash followed by a cloud of smoke came out of the power supply. Fortunately the computer was not damaged, although the power supply is going to be RMA'ed. The power supply was an Enermax noise taker 420 watt. For the rest of the day I was hesitant to touch any power buttons for fear of getting zappped.

Portal

I got an awesome game called portal. If you haven't played it you should. Anyways, after playing the game for about an hour it started to crash on me. I thought at first that it was just a bad file or something, so I reinstalled the game. After crashing on me several more times after that, i decided to check my video card temperatures( I have an Nvidia 7600gt). After running the game my temps were about 65 deg. C. That seemed pretty hot to me and that seemed to be why the game was crashing after playing for a while. It never crashed right away if my computer had just been sitting, but if I had played it for a while and got my graphics processor hot, then it would crash. So I went into my Nvidia control panel and made some tweaks to my GPU fan speed settings. Now when portal runs the fan on my video card spins 50% faster than normal. I will have to play for a while and see if this change keeps my game stable and running.

Sad face: xbox headset mod doesnt work

It was all good in theory, but after I soldered the 3.5mm mini jack connectors onto the wires for the headset and plugged it in all that anyone heard was static. I asked my friend over Skype to listen to his xbox headset over xbox live and tell me what he heard. he said static and gurgling noises. When I tried to record a message on xbox live all that played back when I previewed my message was static and gurgling noises. :(
Oh well.

thinking of upgrades

I was at frys electronics today and I saw a whole bunch of things that I could put into my computer as upgrades. I wanted a new headset, an x-fi sound card, a new power supply, a 9600 gt video card, a video capture card, a bigger hard drive, and windows vista. But now that i think about that, isnt that list a processor and a motheroard short of a new computer? why upgrade when I could just build new.
Since the hardware companies are always releasing new stuff, where does this upgrade cycle end? By the time you buy it its already outdated.

xbox 360 headset mod

I am working on a design for an xbox 360 headset plug that I can use to connect my 360 headset to my computer's mic and speakers. I want to do this because I use my computer to output the sound for the 360. I thought it would be nice to use the same headset for the computer and the xbox. This way I wouldnt have to put on the goofy xbox headset on top of my computer headset just to talk to people on xbox live.
I thought that I could strip the wires off of the xbox headset and instead of having a speaker and microphone, I could replace them with 3.5mm jacks so that I could plug it into my computers front audio ports. I'm not exactly sure if this would work, but I cant really think of another way. If I am imagining this correctly I think that the microphone lead from the xbox headset would need to plug into the speaker jack on my computer, so that when I talk into my comp. headset it outputs to the microphone of the xbox. Right?
I'll probably start within the next week or so and then I will see how it goes.

new blog

just got this blog. w/e. i have nothing to post about at this moment but I will keep you updated.