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Well I have started having problems with my Creative X-Fi Audio card once again, there drivers seem so dirty, a lot of extra crap is installed along with the drivers, I mean what happened to the days when you would download a driver that was just the basic files that was required in order to use the hardware.

An example of this is a driver I downloaded for a USB based TV tuner, it was a 12mb file (give or take a few 100kb or so) I extracted it with 7-zip and went into the folder that contained the files and I pulled the files that I required, well that the operating system required and there where 4 files totaling 255kb in size, you should have seen all the other crap that was in there, 80% of it was not needed.

The only reason I use this card over the on board is because it has a lot more volume and depth than on board, on board has a serious lack of tonal volume so to speak.
The creative card has major problems in games, UT3 audio is all over the place and don’t even get me started with Bioshock, that game use to have perfect audio but now it is so bad that the game is un-playable…

I went to download a new driver or the latest driver for the card which is over 1 year old now as you can see in the image below.

Dated the 02/07/2009, what the hell.

The image below shows the extracted files and what seems to be a lack of support for windows 7.

4 main items and the Setup.ini file shows XP and Vista only, now I now that Vista drivers will work on Win7 but that is just slack guys.

Don’t even get me started on that crap and totally useless Creative ALchemy, the latest version wont even detect any games that I have installed, when there should be at least 20 games in the list, if I go to add one it just comes up with a error message saying the game has all ready been added but there is nothing in the list.

Creative it is about time to pull your fingers out of your arse because there is no way in hell that I am going back to on board audio and I simply don’t have the funds to buy an alternative from another manufacture, not that I would because most of them still seem to use some sort of creative chipset.

Channel 7 (prime) are set to launch a new channel called 7mate which is a male orientated channel set to launch on the 25th of September.

A quick video below shows some of the line up.

The first broadcast television channel to cater for men 16-49.

Some of the line up according to prime is the Family Guy, American dad, 30 rock, how I met your mother, That 70′s how, scrubs, Caprica, Stargate Atlantis, warehouse 13, fifth gear, the universe, life after people, the boneyard and many others including first run big movies for the blokes such as strangers and primeval.

Sounds quiet good to me.

I was accessing my web site today and down in the status bar at the bottom of Firefox I saw i1.ytimg.com and I was wondering what it was, from what I can tell it is a cache that stores a static thumb nail of you tube videos and other cached items, hence its name “yt” is for youtube and “img” I would assume is for image.

I checked my main page which contains different posts and a few of them had youtube videos and to my surprise one of the videos didn’t have a thumbnail so I refreshed the page and now it displays correctly and the status bar no longer shows i1.ytimg.com

There seems to be a few sub domains like i1, i2, i3, i4, etc.

From The web site traffic spy “The i1.ytimg.com Server is powered by video_thumbnail_server webserver software” just what I thought.

There is also the s.ytimg.com which seems to be something different altogether, there is some information here and here relating to that one, seems to be related with flash and your web camera and microphone, you can adjust the settings here for all web sites and from what I can tell all browsers.

Just thought I would share that we have joined the rest of the world and now have a Blu-ray player all setup.

We also go a few titles on special at JB Hi-Fi, 2 movies for $20 isn’t bad.

Might visit them next time I get paid and purchase 2 more for $20.

I have purchased a new NXZT Vulcan computer case which according to the specifications takes a 200mm side mounted case fan, so I purchased the Thermaltake 200mm blue led fan which should fit perfectly.

Well it didn’t, looks like the specifications should have stated a 220mm fan because that is actually what it takes.
So I had to come up with a small mod in order to fix the problem because I had no desire to send the unit back to PCCaseGear down in Melbourne.

As you can see it now fits, the fan come with the white spaces and the large bolts, I just used some scrap metal and some smaller bolts to mount it all.

Are you using OpenDNS and can’t get to Deviantart.

This will fix problems with deviantart not displaying correctly or displaying only text or what seems the CSS not displaying.

It seems that deviantart has many sub domains, so entering the actual IP address seems to solve the problems.

I have found that you need to allow 3 domains or IP address in your account settings under manage individual domains.

The 3 items that you need to allow are:

http://8.10.77.140

http://8.10.77.142

deviantart.net

I have never needed any others, I don’t know if you will require different IP address, I don’t think you will.

A short simple solution.

The first video shows a few issues that I had with the case.

I will post pictures of how I fixed the 200mm fan mounting issue.

The second video is of the completed setup.

A few small issues that I had with the case where overcome, I am still a little worried about the top handle and the serious lack if support that it has.

One of the best plugins I have used is called Fluff Busting Purity or Facebook Purity.

It is a plugin that removes all the useless posts that applications post on your Facebook home or news page.

As in the image below it displays a few items in a small bar.

The below image shows the default options which are accessed by clicking on the F.B. Purity link that is displayed in the image above.

There are many options that i will have to play around with.

This is actually a Greasemonkey script.

Fluff busting purity can be downloaded from here.

GreaseMonkey can be downloaded from here. (needs to be installed first)

This is a great plugin which I highly recommended to anyone that receives a lot of unwanted items on there facebook news/wall feeds.