General

I hate this shit. My CD burner just died on me... Its been dying for a few months now, since the beginning of February, but now it's just dead. I have a Yamaha 4416S internal drive, it has worked great since I got it around mid 2000. When I try to burn stuff now, I get "spindle servo failure" and "track following error" with any type of disc and any cd burning program I use. Those errors mean the drive is fucked and needs to be repaired.
I don't know how or where to get the drive fixed though!!! If I bought it from Sears, I know I could get it replaced - with no questions asked, - but I got it from CompUSA or something.
I e-mailed Yamaha about it, but I haven't gotten a reply yet... I have 5 CDs worth of crap on my hard drive I want to burn and then delete.
If anyone can help me in finding a super fucking cheap replacement - or can help me get my drive fixed, please, e-mail me! I hate being without a burner.

Ok, here are the links to my older site layouts...

From Jan 28th, 2000.
From July 1st, 1999.
From October 22nd, 1997.
From November 6th, 1996.

I'm still looking for older ones. I have had my site hosted on so many providers, and it still shocks me to see a site of mine hosted on Tripod 5 years after setting it up. I have long forgotten the password to access the account, so it will remain as is, forever, bad links and everything.
As a side note about the site layouts, don't expect to have shit work in them... ;p

I now have a web/java interface to my BBS, so you can play LoRD or whatever without having to download a Telnet client.

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The only real difference between using the web version and using a real telnet client is the nasty fonts, but I'm looking into fixing that. ;p

To help let people know whether or not my home "server" is up (which runs my BBS and a web server), I have placed a link to an image on my home server at the bottom of this page. At the very bottom of the menu, if an image displaying the word "UP!" appears, it means my server is up and should be fully functional. If the word "UP!" isn't there, then the web server or the whole server is down, which means no BBS and no LoRD for a lot of people.

I have uploaded some Brooktree 848 WDM drivers (Win2k compatible) to my web server. Click here to get them. I have used these with my STB TV PCI.
I will add a section for the drivers to my Files section sometime in the future (which could be anywhere from 1 day to 4 years).
The reason I posted these was because I pretty sure others out there may want some WDM/Win2k drivers that work with their STB TV PCI card.
I hope to someday have a better "hacked driver" section of my site, containing modified drivers I have used in the past.

Anytime in school when I was bored (which was most of the time), I would always doodle on whatever was in font of me (usually not a book though)... One of the things I would draw would be some random landscape, and like a series of lines to make some kind of bridge to make the land passable. Obviously, it seems I wasn't the only person who has done this. Today I found a link to a program called Bridge Builder. You are given some landscape that has what looks like a lake in it. You then must place pieces of a bridge in such a way that the bridge can support its own weight, and the weight of a train. Check it out, it's quite adicting.

After going through some backup CDs of mine, I came across some zipped up sites I use to have... I have them uploaded to the server now, I just need to post the links to where they are at... I will do that later.