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( PS. I don't add new journal entries so often as I update the ones already here, see... )

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Serge Chapleau ( JavaScript and Shockwave, or Flash, required, but you get to see 'im's face, ah, though, he's a little weird... )

CyberPresse.ca Editorial where his works appear ( interleaved with another artist's works, this is in French... )

Many of them cartoons ( this is the link you want, to see 'em all, though
you'll probably need BabelFish to translate from Quebec French to American, for you... )

Lost Circuits Benchmarks, yes these are MS-Windows, yes the filtering-drivers make a big difference, but the lack of useless redundancy and blocking, lack of overhead and legacy-braindamage, and the newfangled SATA filtering-drivers, etc, combined, make a stunning difference...

... and .. CyberCPU.net benchmarks .. a parallel-ATA drive connected through a serial-ATA adapter, which I'd 'ave thought would slow things down, with the extra-link-in-the-chain, but the CPU-usage drops, hugely, which sort-of explains the "filtering" drivers' results in the first-benchmarks-link, eh?

Wild. I'm going for SATA/SCSI from now on, never any more parallel-ATA drive-based-systems again ( unless there's some other significant reason to do so, like .. mini-ITX motherboards simply don't have SATA yet ... ).

If you're after penguin-friendly adapter-cards, try Silicon Image chip based ones, like this one made by IWill ( Promise is absolutely opposed to open-source drivers, and Highpoint seems opposed, too, but SiI is being helpful .. 2.6 fully supports the 3112 chip of theirs )

Their Freeware page links to their FSRaid program page, and their FSRaid program implements protection for your files, against FileSystem corruption
- if you get Blue-Screened, and when you reboot your machine's-filesystem is corrupted, scandisk will probably create a few 'File0001.chk'-type files, with pieces of whatever it was that had been corrupted.

But, how are you supposed to know what got corrupted? MS-Windows doesn't tell you, and if it's part of Windows itself, your system's going to corrupt itself ( or fail-to-function-right ) continually, now...

With FSRaid, you will be able to make sure that you can
1. know if a file is corrupted ( a piece of a program, a document, anything ), and, if you're lucky ( the corruption wasn't catastrophic ), then
b) you will be able to recover the correct file and get-on-with whatever you really are about doing..., and
iii, you will be more free-from-bother, and therefore more able to gripe about my, ahem, mixing semaphores in this posting.

: )

The Canadian Marketing Association's **DO-NOT-CONTACT LIST**
you need this!

Kanetix where one can discover the cheapest insurance for one's conditions, for popular kinds of insurance.

CompareCellular.com, bloody obvious what they do, both plans and phones...

Google.ca, translated into Muppet Sveedish Chef...

Ahem.

An Independent bookseller, named McNallyRobinson.com.

A Canadian-currency version of Lee Valley Tools.

Bank Of Canada, Today's Bank-Rate
.. and the Officious Bank Of Canada Exchange-Rate page ( all currencies! ).

and CanadianISP.com for discovering what internet service provider you want to be dealing with ( in terms of plans, anyways, but double-check everything, since the plans/prices that the ISPs themselfs post aren't always accurate ).

and .. here's the journal of Canuckian s20451!
( thank-god I didn't grow-up with a name like that, sheesh! )

.. anndddd .. Environment Canada's Weather for Ottawa! .. so you can see why today's legislation was even odder than normal...

( if you want your city from the Great White North, then just change the airport-letters, YOW in this case, to whatever your city's nearest airport-code is... )

hehehe ... you may have heard of Comrade Black, eh?
here's the current loquation of Blak Envy, a site dedicated to glorifying his gloriousness, with actual quotes of 'im

( the peculiar speling I use for the site-name is deliberate:
the in-k-to-me search-engine, among possibly others, blacklisted the original site, because quotes of 'im were detrimental to his reputation, so he asked that that part of the 'net be .. disappeared .. from findability, and the only reason I know /that/ is because ..
of an article by Frank Mag stating that this had been done, and asking one to see if one could find the site using said search-engine, or, for that matter, ANY 'net-search based on that engine...