This may be near the top of the most ridiculous articles I’ve read in a while.

So ridiculous, in fact — That it has encouraged me to post about it.

So, according to Matthew Garrett, disabling your flash player will help you save lots of energy, so disable it! He complains that when he visits myspace, his machine gets overloaded.

Well, Matthew — 2 things:

1. Get a faster computer.
2. Stop going to myspace, that site sucks by itself, aside from Flash

I’ve been in several debates and discussions with people who just do not like flash for their own reason. In most cases, their argument is legitimate, and I just don’t share their opinion. In this case, it is just a double whammy — not only do I disagree, but his argument is completely ridiculous.

Sure, saving power = good idea. But to go so far as to bash a specific technology so insignificant compared to other power-hungry things, it just seems really bizarre & far fetched to me.

Ok, I’m done. I feel better now.

Well, this morning I checked out my site while looking for some old info I had saved here, and I noticed that my usual index of this site was set to a blank page displaying “haha you got owned”.

I immediately checked my database, which was also wiped clean. I wasn’t too concerned at this point because I had backed up everything just a week ago.

I wont detail my suspicions on how this occurred, for security purposes. But I have fixed the security hole and have retrieved the last IP that was able to successfully view my web page, and it was not mine. It was probably some silly script kiddies. Doesn’t hurt me much.

Backups, for the win!

So last month I built my dream machine.

I have been planning to do this for roughly 2 years now. So I finally saved up and took the leap.

Here are the specs:

• Case: Silverstone TJ09
• Motherboard: Intel Bad Axe 2 (LOVE this!!)
• CPU: Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M shared L2 Cache
• Hard Disks: 4 X 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache, result: I set 2 to a RAID1 configuration for a default backup of OS installation. 2 Additional drives set up standardly.

  Update: I actually ended up reconfiguring my RAID to a RAID10 configuration (2 stripe + 2 mirror). The results are outstanding.

• Total available disk space: 750GB 500GB
• Fans: CPU: VIGOR GAMING CLT-M2I 92mm, 2 top dial-controlled 120mm fans, 1 front intake 120mm fan, 1 rear exhaust 120mm fan.
• Video Card: ATI Radeon X1950XTX 512MB (not multi-gpu, I dont see how a performance increase would be possible!!)
• Sound Card: XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro (I know my motherboard is a better sound unit, not to mention it has 8.1 channel audio, I just wanted something separate from on-board)
• TV Tuner Card: ATI All-in-Wonder 650
• PSU: ThermalTake 700W

Those are really all that are worth mentioning, I am using my old dvdrw & floppy drives, nothing special about them.

Now, here is some pics of my rig! I should also mention; I just realized I am not great at taking photos! That or for the life of me I can not seem to fix the horrible common blur problem I am having with my camera. Anyway, enjoy!

I am in the market for a new computer, but with a twist.

You see, I am builiding my own and I already have:

• ATX Demon Case
• 400GB (200GB x 2) Maxtor 7200 RPM hard drives
• DVDRW (forgot the speeds:P)
• Nada

Obviously, what I need is a motherboard/cpu combo. I am looking for something powerfull, and reliable. I do game from time to time but more importantly I just need it to run at the best of it’s ability the majority of the tiime.

I tend to like AMD instead of INTEL, but I am open to suggestions.

Price range? Under $1000.

Make your suggestions in the comments. Thanks all!