| -- Status Update -- | |
| 2009 VPPs: | 913,648 |
| SNE Pace: | 94,388 AHEAD |
| Currently Playing: | Persona (PSP) |
On Saturday the Flames dominated the Oilers, leaving 3-0 versus the Greasers this year (5-0 vs the division too, die Canucks die). I also had a rather stressful session in which after going up to +$1400 I preceded to get owned back down to +$800 table profits on the day. The most memorable hand during the fall was getting 77 in on J87 rainbow vs an utter retard who min 3b me with Q8o. Sure enough he goes runner runner straight. Despite the poor ending to the session, the overall profit and huge Flames win had me feeling really good. However, when I went to take a shower before bed, the towel rack in my bathroom decided it no longer wanted to bear the burden of towels as one end ripped from the drywall. This annoyed me greatly as I am just getting used to home ownership, have quite a bit going on right now and really don't need something extra to eat up time.
Unfortunately, things would get worse. I should mention first that I have planned to build myself a new computer for some time, and the task was scheduled for late Novemmber/early Decemmber, after I reach SNE. I was going to consider it my celebration present to myself I suppose.
As I have a degree in software engineering and have always been software saavy, up until yesterday I have never been bested by any sort of virus or malware. On Sunday, my computer picked up some sort of very new rootkit (which hides in kernel files you can't see) and started causing me major problems. Scouring the internet, there were several other reports over the previous two or three days of people with the same infection, and so far, zero solutions to the problem. Obviously my AVG anitvirus had failed, and while there are a few tools available to detect and attempt to remove rootkits, many of them will recommend you format and get a fresh start because the operation is simply so dicey.
Thus, as my options were basically to format my existing machine or build my new machine with Windows 7 a little ahead of schedule, I chose the latter. On the positive, it is Monday night and I am posting from my new box which has been functional for 5 hours or so (after purchasing the hardware around 4pm, Monday), and is predictably being barraged with installs and a massive database import of my last ~3 million hands of poker. This was by far the cleanest build I have ever done (I've built four machines previous to this one), and most definitely also the quickest. I also picked up a new pretty baller gaming keyboard, mostly just because it looks awesome. Windows 7 seems to not suck which is nice.
Here's a breakdown of my new machine:
Case: Antec 900 Ultimate Gamer Case
PSU: Corsair 750W Modular Power Supply
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965
Motherboard: Gigabit GA-MA790FXT-UD5P
Memory: 8GB (4x 2GB) Mushkin Redline Dual Channel PC3-12800
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 1.5TB + an old 200gb drive to transfer stuff from my old box
Video Card: ATI Radeon 4890 1GB
OS: Windows 7 Professional Edition
Anyway, the biggest issue I've had so far is that I couldn't get BetPot AHK working properly even after all the tweaks 2p2ers have recommended for it to work on Vista. Luckily this caused me to try out TableNinja, which I have configured to behave just like my Betpot used to, and it has far more awesome options I'm sure I'll start using in the future. I'll be purchasing it for certain. You'll likely see me back grinding a little as early as tomorrow, as my massive import of 3.2gb of HHs should finish in about 7-8 hours.
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