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A while back I upgraded my main PC case which for the past ~12 years or so was an Antec from the late 90's. Old and busted Corsair just came out with this cool cube case that was supposed to be very roomy with great airflow.  I also wanted to replace the stock intel cooler since instead of upgrading my mobo and cpu, I was going to overclock my Intel Core i5-750 to get some extra speed out of it. I decided to go with the Corsair H110 280mm watercooler which would work in the Corsair Air 540 case. New hotness Corsair H110 Installation of the H110 watercooler was pretty simple. You simply remove your old cpu cooler, assemble the bracket that mounts the H110 pump / heatsink to your cpu, and then mount the radiator + fans somewhere in your case. The Corsair Air540 has 280mm radiator mounts on the front and top, so I chose to top to mount the cooler. H110 Mounted Finished install with radiator mounted on top inside of case.

A while back at Music Go Round I saw something propped up in the corner behind the counter. It was a Roland Juno-6 in what looked to be good shape with just a broken ARP mode select switch and a key with a broken end. They just got it in and didn't want to fix it so they were selling it as it really cheap. Like really really cheap. So I bought it instantly and went home and found a key and switch on ebay for about $10 each. Replacing the key was a fairly simple, but the switch was a little more involved. Roland Juno 6 with broken key and switch. Roland Juno-6 key replacement 1. Remove the two upper screws on the left and right side of the wooden side panels. 2. Remove the screws on the bottom of the synth that attach the keys to the frame. There will be two rows of screws aligned with the front and back of the keys. 3. Gently flip up the metal control panel lid. Removed 4 side screws to open control panel. 4. Remove the spring attached to the top rear of the ke...

I'v been itching to play Quake II again which was my favorite out of the Quake series. Quake 1 had a better deathmatch, but I liked the more futuristic feel to Q2. I have Q2 for steam and wanted to get it running with a modern engine mod and support for wide screen. I came across the "Ultimate Quake 2 Patch" which uses kmQuake2 as an engine. Check it out at the steam forums here:  http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1756937 Widescreen Fix: Open the folder "baseq2" and edit the file "kmq2config.cfg."  Find these lines to set your custom resolution: set r_customheight "xxxx" set r_customwidth "xxxx" Next find: set r_mode "x" Set it to "-1" to enable your custom resolution. Finally find this line: set cl_widescreen_fov "x" Set it to "0" to disable the FOV auto-adjust. Edit -- High Res Quake 2 Textures I came across this site which has really nice 24bit...

Awhile back I updated my FreeBSD 9 box to run with its new package management tool pkgng. This was a huge headache. The official pkgng repo is still not active and im using the one located at Exobetric right now. To use this repo add this line to /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf PACKAGESITE         : http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/${ABI}/latest After that make sure you have your system updated with the latest version of pkg as stated in the FreeBSD handbook:  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/pkgng-intro.html Finally if you run pkg update it will update the available packages from the repo. Then run pkg upgrade and it should upgrade all the installed packages. However for me there were a number of old or corrupt packages installed. For me some had to be removed using only the legacy pkg_delete tool, or some with pkg remove <package> After I had deleted the offending packages I could see what was left installed by running pkg i...

I needed to find the PPPoE password on my Actiontec Q1000, but the web gui was not allowing me to do it. So to grab the password, you need to telnet or ssh into your router. Find its ip, usually 192.168.0.1 and telnet or ssh in. Log in with your admin user account and password.Run the "dumpconfig" command and the last bit it spits out will be a section called PPPCredential. You can grab the password from here.  You should see something like this: ===Actiontec xDSL Router=== Login: admin Password:  > dumpconfig .....  <X_00247B_PPPCredential>       <Username>test@qwest.net</Username>       <Password>M43MF55vG</Password> This does not work sadly. The password is hashed or encrypted in some fashion. 

The Roland JP-8000 I have come into possession of needed a new battery in it, as it was displaying the "Low Battery" message. So after finding a good video on YouTube on how to change the battery I noticed the pitchbend wheel and the ribbon controller stopped working. I was thinking I broke something until after stumbling around google I found a very helpful post from Andy T over at Roland Clan. After the battery is changed, sometimes you need to re-calibrate the pitch and ribbon controllers. Resetting the Mod / Pitch Bend Wheel and Ribbon Controller: Found at: http://forums.rolandclan.com/viewtopic.php?t=27112 After you replace the battery in the JP,you will need to perform the following steps to get the bender & ribbon controller to work. 1. Before turning the JP on, hold down the SYNC, 12db/24dB and TYPE buttons. 2. Keep holding the buttons down and turn on the JP. It will take awhile but eventually the screen will show 1 midi test . 3. Press 3, display wil...

I'v been browsing University of Reddit's free online classes and came across a pretty decent and quick course on how to setup the Java Slick2D and Lightweight Java Game Libraries.  Check it out over here at:  http://ureddit.com/class/66847/using-slick2d-game-library-for-java .  Ill post some updates when I have something solid written.