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|30th Nov 2012, 06:44
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Just want to show you guys im in the middle of a bunch of things at the same time on the build so once i post some updates there will be allot of them and then i will have the thread moved back to the Build Log section.I am currently working on 4 builds right now well actually 3 as i just completed one for a client 2 are the Mods you guys see posted here and the other is a new test bench that i badly need for product testing and my own research. I also have been putting together guides for everything i have been doing which you will also see soon but right now im focused on the Phantom 820 and the JukeBench Mod.
Here is what i am working on now as well as my Google sketches and some designs i left out that would give the project away.
First i will start with just a few Photos of the first phase of the design (Not to exciting but in a way it is because i see what it looks like done and you will also soon).
Taking measurements on Paper and then i transfer them into Google Sketchup and then order what i need and start cutting.
As most know from my previous projects i dislike the stock motherboard trays so here i am designing the fix for that.
5.25 bays will be Modded but i want to try to keep them usable in this build but if not i already have a plan be for that. Plus a bunch of mods going into the drive bays.
Messy scribbles but this is how it all begins every build.
Thats about all i can share on that part right now without giving away the whole theme of the build and its way to early for that..
Take Care and more to come soon.
Last edited by mybadomen; 13th Dec 2012 at 16:32.
|30th Nov 2012, 06:59
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Getting the Pump Ready.And i made it sorta a Tutorial at the same time for those that never seen inside a D5 Pump before.
This is the Pump going in this build and before its asked yes the wife will be sleeved also
Here is a Stock D5 (MCP655) which come in many flavors , Single speed,Variable speed, and just about every brand name carries the D5 under a different name. One in this little guide is Swiftech variable speed, but like i said brand and speed control doesn't matter its all the same.
D5 stock pump:
First spin of the big plastic nut that you see me taking off now. Left to loosen it.
The Pump should now Split in 2 parts as shown:
The old top we can now put away because we will no longer be needing it.(Make sure you save the O-ring that is inside the old top in case you plan on putting it back together later.)
Now we simply remove the plastic nut from the wire by sliding it down over the wire. We will no longer be using this either.
And here is what we are left with the actual D5 pump itself.
There are a bunch of different tops on the Market to choose from. I just happen to be using the EK CSQ Plexi Top for this pump which is a high flow top so not only do pump tops improve the looks of a D5 but also the performance.
First i slide the new back plate over the wire with the inside groove facing the front of the pump. This back plate takes the place or the Plastic nut we removed earlier.
The new Top should come with a new O-ring which simply slides over the pump as shown.
Next since i don't want to scratch the pump top i place it face down on a piece of soft foam in the direction i want the top to sit when i place the pump into it.
Simply Place the pump assembly onto the top lining the screw holes up at this point.
Most Pump tops will come with all the tools needed and the hardware to assemble it. So take the small Allen wrench and the long screws as that's what we will need next.
This part is rather important since the Plexi or whatever top you are using can easily be stripped.Turn all the screws in with your fingers a good 5 threads before using the Allen wrench to avoid stripping the delicate threads.
Now use the Allen wrench and tighten the screws evenly in a criss cross pattern. Just snug them don't crank them down as you will destroy the top. All you are trying to do is compress the O-ring which don't take much pressure.
And there we go ,Not done yet but starting to look like a much better pump then what we started with and we should only be minutes into this project.
Next we need this Plate that comes with the kit. This is the Mounting plate to actually mount the plat inside the case. Optional mounting kits are also available again from different manufacturers.But this is what comes supplied. Also the last 2 screws (The short ones) are used in this step.
On the Bottom of the Pump Top you will see 2 holes.Make sure you are looking at the bottom as the other 2 holes on the side are for LED's if its a Plexi clear block.Easy way to tell is to make sure the holes have threads inside as shown in photo.
Next the same thing start the screws with your fingers first and then snug them with the Allen Wrench.
On the EK tops there are 2 outlets and 1 inlet so the Pump Top comes with 1 Plug so you can choose which outlet to use. I will show both outlets blocked so you know which are the outlets.
And finally drop in the Fittings and there you have it. Allot better looking pump with a higher flow rate and the use of G1/4 compression fittings or barbs.
If you actually followed this guide you would see the whole precess only takes a few minutes tops.Its a very simple Mod that any one can do to their pump thats make a huge difference in both looks and performance..
Now i am just going to do a simple Mod that makes a huge difference. This is only optional and you can use your own creative ideas on yours. I decided i wanted to make the back of the pump Chrome as i had some old Chrome Vinyl i had for using on cars. Its kinda like a stick on Chrome used for decorating cars. Any auto shop should carry it.Or you can simply paint your pump or even use Di noc its basically whatever you want to do.
This took 2 seconds to do and made a huge difference:
And finally a side by side before and after or what we just did.
Hope you guys enjoyed the Update/Guide and hope it helps someone out there.
|9th Dec 2012, 12:10
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Update 6
Hiya Guys i'm back with some more updates. I decided to hang low for a bit and stop logging and just concentrate on Modding. But now im back. I have tons of Photo's for my logs and a bunch of new guides also that i havent decided where to post them yet.
So with that being said Lets get moving on to the build Log which as always i try to share as much as the process as possible so newcomers to this wonderful world of modding can have something to go by. It just makes me feel better showing how its done and explaining it rather then just posting pictures of completed parts.
Last Time we left off we were at about this point in the build.
The case in its stock wardrobe.
Here was me just trying somethings and getting some measurements. Mainly when things start to click and i get that little light bulb over my head.
My scratching. Lol dont look like much but later in the log it will make sense.
I removed the top and front of the Phantom which both come apart basically the same so i will show just the top as its the one that's a little more difficult.
The Top
First i flipped the top over and you can see the 2 Mesh filters a bunch of screws and a new clip system from NZXT that i will explain in the next few photos.
Here is a shot showing the screws and more importantly the new clip system they are using on the 820.
Next i removed all the screws and then figured out how the clips worked.To release the clips i used a small iPhone Flathead screwdriver and put it in between the clips as shown in the photo and gently pry outwards. (Away from the middle of the top) They seem they could break very easy if to much force was used so if you try it be careful.
And when your finished it should look just like this.If you break a thing or 2 just throw them over your shoulder and mod something to replace them. Lol just kidding.
Ok here are the Pieces i am going to be starting with.But the painting process of those build will be done in a few stages and not to bum you out but that will be in the next update as i am trying to keep updates 15 photos or less do to some forum restrictions.
Ok now i am going to go over the materials i will be using and like i said continuing after into the next update.
As many of you already know i can spray basically any paint and have 12 Real pain guns and a few airbrushes but after painting enough and trying plenty of paints i decided i will be just using Krylon Fusion Rattle cans. It is an incredible paint for both plastic and metal. No adhesion Promoter needed for plastics with this paint nor primer on metal (Unless its bare metal i would still use an etching primer. Anyway incredible paint. Dont believe me go buy a can and try it i promise you'll love it.
Next thing i will be using is a wet/dry sandpaper i have a pack of 220 and a multi pack . I usually use a 400 myself personally for this kind of thing. Dont but crappy sandpaper get wet/dry you wont regret it.
I also will be using some mechanic towels (Blue in photo) a lint free micro fiber cloth and some rubbing alcohol I prefer 70% but 50 % will do also if its all you can get.
Never ever paint even spray paint without a mask. for spray paint in a well ventilated area use either of the ones in the photo but when you start getting into guns and Lacquers and more aggressive paints you should upgrade you masks. Its your life and your lungs and the 5 pack of masks you see cost me 1 dollar so their is no excuse not to wear one.But of course i am only giving advice as i would hate to see anyone get hurt over something so simple.
Stay tuned for the rest of this update and more soon and its nice to be back. I think you guys will really get a kick out of where this build is going.
Take Care my Friends,
To be continued ......
Last edited by mybadomen; 9th Dec 2012 at 12:32.
|13th Dec 2012, 06:47
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Hiya guys and thanks for coming back to check out another update if you are here This update is just continuing on from the last and seeing there will be a few different times i am painting on the case i will try and keep them in order the best i can.
Ok so last update we left off showing the meterials i was going to be using to paint the Mesh on the top and the fron of the Phantom 820 the old fashion Spray bomb method which with the right paint can be just as durable as using my guns and look just as nice to a point of course.
Here i will walk you through what i did to prep and paint the mesh. and here is where we left off in the last update.
The Mesh just removed .
First i washed them in some luke warm water with Dawn brand dish soap to remove all the grease or anything that could be on the case.It is important to do this before sanding as the sanding will just spread the oils or whatever is on the case or part you are painting all over the place. ( Sorry no Photo of this step wasnt even thinking about it at the time i did it) But its simple enough.
Next i decided to go with a 400 Grit wet/dry sandpaper for the Mesh because i dont want to remove the old paint, I only want to remove the shine or basically scuff it up so the paint can bond good to it. Seeing i know how good this Paint bonds i know i can easily get away with a 400 grit which is finer then a 220grit. (Higher the grit the finer the sandpaper).The reason i dont want to remove the old paint is because i will then be left with bare metal and in that situation you need to use an etching Primer before you can paint.
Sand everything and both sides.Try not to miss places as that will be the place you have the chance of peeling paint etc. With the paint i am using i doubt it ever but just be be safe thats what really should be done.
Now as in the update before this i showed and talked about the materials i would be using and as you can see i am using the 70% Alcoholand shop towels to wipe everything clean until no black shows on the towels. I then at then end whipe it quick with a clean Microfibre rag or a Rak rag depending on what i am painting. Microfiber is fine for what i am doing.
Here is how dirty it was even though after sanding it seems to be clean. So if i just painted without cleaning there is a good chance the paint would peel or fish eye on me.
Here is a Photo showing the mesh Properly prepped for painting, If you look close you can see its lighly scuffed up but not down to metal. (Dont worry there will be spots you go through to bare metal just try to avoid it is all)
Next i hang the Mesh in my Messy Shed i i have been mosty using my shop inside the house now so havent got a chance to get it more organized. Besides that i blew all the dust out first with my air compressor and Vaccumed .Its also good practice to wet the floor if you are somewhere that is possible to do to keep the dust down. But again with what i am painting here its not really that necassary.
Note i am hanging the mesh by one of the clips in case i get a mark from where the hanger was ,this way the clip is hidden when the mesh is put back into the case.
Sorry i never get Photos of me actually spraying besides 1 time i think i did .Reason for this is the pain will destroy my camera as its floating in the air sorta like dust when im painting.Not to mention its a bit hard to focus on laying the paint down nice with a camera in my hand.
Anyway start with whats called a Tack coat. This is just a very light coat of paint that barely covers at all and then let it sit in the case of the paint i am using i gave it about 3 minutes as the complete dry time is 15 minutes but remeber thats still not the pain fully cured but it is handable.The reason for a Tack coat is to help avoid getting runs while painting and also to help the paint bond better also so it is rather important. Never try to just paint anything in 1 quick coat and always leave time in between coats.There is a good reason for this also. If you just try and throw a heavy coat of paint on something its for 1 most likely going to run on you or fish eye and also the top of the Paint will dry before the lower coats leaving the paint sorta sealed in so it cant dry. would be a soft finish or peal all kinds of nasty stuff so basically Tack coat and leave time between coats.
Showing the prepped and Finished Mesh:
Looking Very Nice and very durable.
And everything else on the build is in shambles as im working on a few things at the same time on it so ignore the inside for now.But the white Mesh fits where i am heading with this build just right and i think im pretty pleased with it so far but tons to go as far as painting and Modding.
Thanks for Looking guys and i still have allot more to still get logged so will be back very soon with more.
Take Care and Keep Watching.
|13th Dec 2012, 13:52
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|13th Dec 2012, 18:38
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Thanks Bill,
Hiya again Fellow Modders / enthusiest /Overclockers / etc .
Today's update i would like to start by thanking another talented Modder named Kellen aka (Kaged) many of you may remeber him from his Pink Cancer awareness build that he Modded and raffled off and then donated the 100% of the proceeds to a cancer awareness program. He has also built another Phantom recently called "Lucky 13" which is also another nice mod. but the reason i am mentioning him is many of you may have already known but many dont.Kaged was the person that made all my Vinyl Decals for "Mass Effect 3" and the Masking for "Venom" but the funny part is i have a high end plotter sitting in my house that i just didnt know how to use. So some of the delay on the project is i wanted to learn Corel Draw ,The Plotter software ,how to work with Vectors,Welding Vectors etc. After a few nights with no sleep and Kaged on my PC via remote desktop i finally learned it all and this will be my first Project making my own Masking and Vinyls.So i think a huge Thank you goes out to Kaged for all the help he has given me with this as its not a simple thing to learn and took many days.
That being said lets get on with the Update :
First off this is a Plotter for those that never seen one. This specific one is a Graphtec America Plotter and goes for roughly $2400. new without the stand but you can buy Plotters for a less that will basicaly do the same thing i believe the cricket is similiar also. This particular one cuts Din noc etc and meterial from 24 inches wide to any length. This Plotter was also a gift from someone for my birthday that i work for.Anyway what a plotter does is can take a drawing or name etc and cut a certain metarial like a sticker etc without cutting all the way through. Most sign makers use plotters or t shirt makes.
Here is the plotter i will be using
And here is the Plotter actually working.This is after i made the design i wanted,Converted it to Vector ,Improved the quality of the image and welded it also . (Welding basicaly makes sure the blade dont cross itself or go off the path that you want cut.Its hard to explain but if interested in it more you can Google Plotter welding) and finally i end up with a .cdr file that i sent to the plotter and position it where i want it then send the command to cut. Sorta like a printer.
Here are the first cuts i made but the face was a bit to big so i resized it and tried again. Live and learn .
The material i was cutting was a medium tack masking but when i was finished i relized i had no transfrer tape which is extremly important to apply the masking or a decal and you will see why soon.So what i did was thought about it and went to the local hardware store. I happened to find some low tack Clear Contact plastic used for lining drawers and it was basically the same exact thing as transfer tape so i came back home and could continue working without another delay.
Here is the Contact drawer liner i bought and the other thing in the photo is a cutter i use for all kinds of projects but goes perfect with the plotter.
Now what i have to do is carefully lay the transfer tape or in this case the drawer liner over the masking so it should look something like this when completed. (This is a completed Masking ready to go).
Now that i have the masking i need to clean the surface that i will be painting and placing the masking so just like in previos post i used alcohol ,Shop towels and Microfiber cloth.
First i clean the surface good with the Alcohol
Then i wipe it clean with the Microfiber cloth ,I will repeat this again right before applying the masking to make sure there is no dust at all.
Now we take the backing off the masking (Not the clear transfer tape but the other side) And i then center or position the masking where i want it and since this is going on a pointed area i place the center of the decal or masking on first and then work away from the center with a credit card or squeegy to make sure there are no air bubbles in the blue masking.
Next its time to peel the clear transfer tape off and this can be tricky depending on the design you are working with. The best way i found is pull towards yourself keeping the transfer tape pulled way back as shown in the photo. Also of you have long thin lines in your work start where the line is conected and then pull the tape from that point to the tip to avoid peeling the masking off.
And its off. Not i just make sure there are no bubbles or more important any spots that are lifted where i will be painting as that will destroy the paint job.The reason is the pain will go under the lifted area and just make it messy looking.
Now we simply mask of everything we dont want painted.I am using a medium tack painters tape. (Dollar store i think i got it)
I forgot to mention this the previous update but when i do use Spay Paint i always warm the can in luke warm water first.Thius makes a huge differents in the way the paint flows from the can and gives a smoother finish.
Next i peel the masking off. It takes a little time to get the perfect timing down on when to remove the maksing as to early the paint can be ruined from stringy looking paint thats not dry yet and to late the paint will be stuck to the masking and peal off with it. Its usually not a problem so dont worry to much about it as i am just saying it could happen.
In this case it came out perfect
And still more painting to go but here it is with the door back on for now
Hope you liked the update and like i said the painting is far from done as well as the build as a whole .
Keep watching lots more to come
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|23rd Jan 2013, 00:41
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Delayed again waiting on some materials that im hoping wont take to many weeks to get here and just getting over a Flu for over 2 weeks. Time goes by so fast. And oh yeah . I changed some Plans so everything is coming apart to the bare frame again.Will keep you posted when its ready.
|24th Feb 2013, 20:33
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Here is the latest work on my "Legion" Build and sorry updates are not going as fast as my prior builds but to be honest financially and time wise its very difficult for me as a dad of 3 to afford one mod on top of another even if they are sponsored Mods they still cost allot and i am doing my best so hope you enjoy the build. I figured i would finally come clean and just tell you guys why it takes me so long on these current builds.
Well with that out of the way here is the new Acrylic i made to be part of a motherboard tray when its completed. (The blue is just the protective layer) the color is solid white. Also thi is the second time this was made as i broke the first one.More work has to be dont to it but here it is at this point.
Next came sleeving my PSU. I really dont like extensions at all do to the extra wire and plugs so as always i am doing the whole PSU.
This Sleeving job is being done a little different as i am actually using the new Modsmart Kobra Max Paracord sleeving. This can only be purchased as either a PSU kit or as Extentions but since the owner sponsors me i asked for some of the wire to use on my PSU. The reason you cant but this sleeving alone is because its a New type of Paracord that's actually formed tight to the wire and it would be impossible to put on without a machine.Anyway the stuff is absolutely amazing and i love it. The tight to the wire look is extremely clean looking and easy to work with but don't get me wrong the way i am doing it is still a pain but you can buy the extensions ready to go.
First off the PSU i will be sleeving and rewiring is the Enermax Platimax Fully Modular 1350w (1600wPeak) PSU. Thanks to Enermax and their help with the project.
Here is the Mess i have to work with after cutting the factory sleeving off Looks fun don't it. Yes allot of work but well worth the final results.
Its always fun to find wires crimped together like this photo and makes sleeving just that much harder but i am noticing this in many new PSU's coming out now.So it ends up being a rewiring job rather then just a sleeving job. Every harness is like this on or worse.
I decided to use Red plugs with White and Black Modsmart Kobra Max Paracord (Majority of the color being White) Here are some of the wires done. Looking way better then the photo above.
Thanks for Looking and adding more updates now.
|24th Feb 2013, 21:04
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Completely missed this one, looking nice & good in depth logging, appreciated.
Hmm vinyl plotter, probably a tool to buy somewhere up ahead, looks like they are awesome for making difficult stencils, the one you made turned out excellent.
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|24th Feb 2013, 21:12
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This update will be a 2 part update do to the amount of Photos i separated it into 2 parts that still make sense.
This Update will be on the GPU's and Blocks going into Legion.Legion will be running 2 Nvidia GTX680's with EK's new CSQ line of blocks and there installation .
First off here is the package sent by Nvidia as part of the sponsorship of the Legion build.
Ok lets get started. In this update i will go over doing a single card as if i was going to only run 1. Here is the 680 we will be working on.
First on these cards its very important not to miss this screw on the GPU bracket or you have a chance of breaking your card.
Next you want to remove all the screws on the back of the card that it says to remove in you block instructions. Use directions as it varies from GPU to GPU.
Now carefully split the stock cooler from the GPU also being careful of the small fan wire when separating them. Unplug the Fan wire and you should end up with something like this.
Remove all the thermal Pads and clean the thermal paste from the GPU itself.So its nice and clean like this:
At this point cut the new thermal pads according to your instructions and apply them to the card where the directions also show. And add new thermal paste to the GPU of your choice.I think i used MX4 and you can do the pea sized drop or use an X pattern when applying.That's up to you.I didnt show this photo as the directions should def be used for this part.
Here is the block i will be using the EK FC 680 GTX CSQ block (Nickel/Plexi)
Place the block on the card gently with the screws ready to go.Try not moving the block around at all once you set it down.
Next its time to add the back plate that i should mentioned has to be purchased separately from the block. Here is EK's new CSQ Back plate. I think its damn sexy.
And finally here is what a single GTX680 looks like dressed in EK CSQ Nickel/Plexi Block and Back plate.
Of course there are many different fitting configurations you use on a single card setup like this with the new CSQ blocks.I am only showing this setup as there were complaints or rather confusion when the cards first releases but now EK added another block that gives more options with the newer kits so all issues are gone with that problem. Sorry i got my blocks early so i dont have that adapter to show since i dont need it anyway.
Take care guys and will show the Dual setup in Next Update which will be a short update.
|24th Feb 2013, 21:30
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Update Or rather extended from last one.
Hiya Guys back to finish off the GPU setup that will be going in Legion so i will get right to it.
Ok last update i showed the single card setup but Legion will be running dual 680's so this will be a really quick update.
Basically all i am going to be doing next is adding an EK GPU Bridge and Blank off do to the spacing on the Asus Rampage Formula IV x79. Since assembly of the bridge is simple there is really no need to show how to assemble it so here it the EK CSQ Triple Serial Bridge with blank off. This gives me the ability to add third card if i chose to in the future but i highly doubt i will be.
The Bridge simply screws right on the the cards do to the new CSQ design. Here is the block that would be on the Card where you can see it is threaded.
And assembled here is what everything looks like for Legion's GPU power.
Lastly this is how Legion sits at the Moment but tons will be changing soon so keep watching for it.(Ignore the red and black cables)
Thanks Guys for looking and i will do my best to get you updates when possible.
Take Care
|10th Mar 2013, 04:26
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"Modding Top of the case (Rad Support) to fit the EK XTX360 & 6 Enermax Cluster Fans"
Hiya guys i am back with another update ,I know going slow but it will get there. Anyway when i started planning this build which i never really actually plan a build but i did know i wanted an EK XTX360 Rad on Top & the EK XTX240 down Bottom with Push/Pull Enermax Clusters. 6 on top and 4 on Bottom plus my Intake and Exhaust fans of course.
Well after a bit of not thinking of it and working on other things i decided to fit the XTX360 in place (Those not aware its the thickest of the EK line Rads.In this order XT/XTC/XTX) . Seeing my Mass Effect 3 build had the XTC420 up top and is a Switch 810 and the NEW Phantom 820 is the same size and was made for water cooling with holes up top for a 360 or 420 rad i figured i would drop in the XTX 360 with room to spare.
Well when i got the EK XTX360 out of the box and seen how huge it was next to the case i had a feeling i was in for a fun time getting it in. Well right off i bolted it in and it was was to far back and way to low.There was no way possible to get fittings on without some major modding which i went ahead and started.
Its Kind of hard to explain as i forgot to take photos before i went to work but i will try to explain the problem of the Rad fitting.
In this Photo if you look on top of the case the top dips down almost an inch and it is directly centered bringing the Rad to close to the motherboard and rear PCI cutouts of the case.
Here is just another Photo showing how low the Rad is sitting as well as how close to the motherboard it is not to mention the rear fitting threads are literally sitting on the PCI bracket cutouts of the case.
Goal of this Mod: To Fit the EK XTX360 up top , To move it forward and a little of an inch forward from the back. Do the Mod without sacrificing the built in Hue lights, Access to to G1/4 Threads on the rad. And of course to keep everything clean looking in the end.
Here is a good shot showing the issue at hand (Sorry found these photos after )
Ok just the brunt of the work will be in this update the details and making it pretty will come in another when i know all the cutting is done.
Lets Get Started:
First i had to get a new piece of metal ready to make the new Rad support (Raised and Moved) so i got out some i believe 24 gauge sheet metal and went over to once again another antique tool which is still doing its job like the day it was new. (I love working with Old tools)
Old School Sheet Metal Sheer
This shot is showing what has to go. Its just not happening for me.
And next for the Not so old school tools. I love Using the Plasma cutter the thing is the bomb.I am now cutting out the area i showed in the photo above with the white square.
Next was time to take out the RotoZip with the angle head attachment which is one of my favorite modding tools and remove the paint that's in the area i will be spot welding. (Another tool i haven't got to play with much)For case modding its ideal compared to welding in my opinion.
Here is the new Rad top being welded together using the Spot welder /Tack Welder or whatever you know it as, I circled it for those that dont know what a spot welder is. This is a 220volt one but you can also get a smaller 110 one also.
Well like i said this update will just be the brunt part of the work. Cleaning it up and cutting out slots for better airflow around the fans is next as well as painting etc. All part of a Process and want to just get what i can while i have the use of these great tools for the day.
As you can see crude but in the end will serve the purpose perfect and be awesome.
Here you can see i have it marked out for more cutting and Dremel work when i get home. I will also smooth it out more and use a filler of some sort to make it look factory when finished.
Smoothed a out a little more as i had a little extra time and worked on straightening the inside edge a bit more.
And Last thing for this update as its getting late and i also did some other fun stuff during the day is to Punch out the 2 holes i need for the rad ports . Just in case i need them.I used a small Knock out tool to do it. You may have seen Bill Owen use the large one for Punching through cases to put in 120mm fans etc in some of his videos.
New Update soon showing the top all finished.
Hope you enjoyed the Update and thank you for watching
Last edited by mybadomen; 10th Mar 2013 at 05:00.
|10th Mar 2013, 14:12
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|13th Mar 2013, 15:22
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Excellent progress. How much did that Spot Welder run you?
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|13th Mar 2013, 22:37
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Location: Massachussetts ,USA
Posts: 164
Hiya Guys again,
Well if you look at the last update you can see we left off with a New top for my Phantom 820 Legion build making many changes to comfortably fir an EK XTX360 Rad with 6 Enermax Cluster Fans.
Ok so the job was done but it was very crude cut and it was def not optimized for airflow and that's where this update comes in.
Here you can see the basic shape is there but still a mess to deal with. Plus if i bolt a rad on the way it is it will restrict at least 25% or more of the airflow from the Fans.
So i grabbed one of my Dremel's and of course my awesome Smith & Wesson Safety Glasses from Mnpctech and got to work.
And after a little time with the Dremel its time to dig out my beat up files and do some hand filing. (Probably not necessary but im pretty picky)
Now you can see why it was so important i did all that Dremel and filing work. If you look now all of the Fans power will be pushing and Pulling air through the Top rad. Cluster Fans from Enermax are powerful yes but also pretty silent when they run but they def push allot of airflow.
As you can see from this Photo i went from not being able to even fit the rad or get to the fittings to now fit the Rad with 6 Fans and plenty of room to get to the fittings. And yet the Hue lighting is still there also.
Next it was time to try to weld around the rim where the metal was cut to make it look a little better and for a little more strength . Si i grabbed my Mig on low power and tried doing my best to fill the holes from the metal we used which was scrap and tried to fill the cap between the 2 metals to later smooth out.
Me Ready to go !
This is what i am stuck with unless i use body filler which since this will never be seen i dont want body filler in my PC where it will crack when moving it. (Might add something to make it cleaner later because even though its not seen its still bugging me.
By looking at the Photo you can also see how much its moved to the right and forward.
Photo from Underneath :
And Rad sitting in place (Not tight) but there for measurements.
And that's it for this update guys still tons to do Modding the 5.25 bays will probably be next for better airflow of the bottom front fan.
Until Next Update Take care and Thank You for Looking and all your Support.
|22nd Mar 2013, 00:43
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Iceland
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ohh my that's some nice work right there
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|10th Apr 2013, 17:41
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Massachussetts ,USA
Posts: 164
Progress to date on "Legion" will try to add more photos of the actually Using the tools etc soon. It still has to come apart a few more times before starting the theme. But i have a vision of it now and i am on a roll.
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text: (This kind of feels like one of those anonymous meetings you see on T.V. these days) Hey y'all, My name is Mike, and I have a truck. It's a 1989 GMC Suburban 4X4 with 32 inch tires and a lift kit. It came to me like that actually through my sister who owned it before I did. I fell in love with it and bought it from here about 6 years ago when she stopped driving it. This is my first real foray into owning a 4X4 even though I owned one before(it was a D***e that blew up two weeks after I purchased it). I have little to no experience in using four wheel drive so y'all may see a few questions from me in the future about that. I have joined other forums in the past for my other cars and have found them to be greatly helpful. That's why I've joined here as well. I am looking at replacing my front buckets for a bench this weekend and need some info. But I'll post about that in the proper thread, if I can find it. In the meantime, thanks for welcoming me in. Mike Sullivan

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what do those AR45 uppers go for ?
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what do those AR45 uppers go for ?
A complete upper in the configuration shown is $850 + shipping......with the current parts situation I do have a waiting list....but we are working hard to resolve that.......
All group buys require approval from either gunco (Bob) or myself. Contact one of us before any funds change hands.
Already have approval from Bob on this..........If necessary I'll forward the PM to ya.....probably should have stated that in the original post.
gonna wind this up on the 7th of June.......so if you want one post up.
Ok so I already am in for 1 black. If you can swing a blem in a green/coyote/brown/buff, ( any wood/field color) I want one in that too. So total of 2 if different colors.
please pull me from the group buy, car troubles last night, and there went my play money :(
Ok....gonna call this one closed.........I'll send out instruction PM's here in the next day or so......
waterpump went no biggie just an added expense
If everyone here will send their contact info (FFL Shipping address) to my shop email.... firstname.lastname@example.com with "CAV group buy" in the subject....I'll figure out shipping and email you back and then you can send in payment with a copy of the FFL you want it transfered to. I'll also find out about the colors for sure and let you know in the same email. Please include your real name and screen name and "Gunco" in the email as well.


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As noted in this thread, financial institutions engaged in lawless behavior have hardly been prosecuted.
Also consider this: http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2012/02/chris-whalen-jpm-has-mf-global-money.html
But in quiet whispers, the Street knows the truth, that the money was stolen, not once but twice. And even these hard cases are shocked. The first time by MF Global and from the very top, and then afterwards in the courts and the regulatory bodies that used the bankruptcy to take the funds from the customers and give them to the creditors.
And it does stink to high heaven. But the clean up men are giving the evidence a thorough scrubbing while justice waits, Chicago-style.
It has placed a chill on those trading in the US markets. Even they are frightened of such lawlessness. They can't help but wonder, who's next? And how far will they go?
Do you worry at all that the trust/confidence you have in the financial institution/brokerage firm will be upheld during times of distress?
How are you hedging it, if you believe such a worry about 'vanishing customer funds' is genuine?


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The Commerce Commission will push on with its review of what Chorus charges internet retailers for some wholesale services, despite Government intervention.
In a draft decision last December, the commission proposed cutting what Chorus charges for unbundled bitstream access (UBA) by 27 per cent. This service enables internet retailers to supply broadband services to households and businesses without the need to replicate Chorus' local copper lines or have their own equipment in telephone exchanges.
If the commission's UBA decision was finalised, Chorus has said it could reduce its annual earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (ebitda) by $150 million to $160 million from December 2014, when the price change would come into effect.
The Commission was due to finalise its UBA price decision in June but in February Communications and Information Technology Minister Amy Adams announced she had fast-tracked two telecommunications regulatory reviews.
This meant the implementation of the commission's UBA price-setting would be pushed out "a date no later than November 2015", the minister said.
Despite this announcement, the commission today said it would finalise UBA pricing in August this year.
In a statement, the commission said it had fully "reconsidered its timetable in light of the Government's announcement" and had consulted with industry on its implications.
"Despite the proposed deferral of these 2014 deadlines, we have concluded that the grounds for delay are insufficient to outweigh the 'reasonable efforts' imperative in the Act," said Telecommunications Commissioner Stephen Gale.
In its statement this morning, the commission said amendments to legislation in 2011 introduced a cost-based price for UBA from December 2014.
Under this, the Commission is required to make 'reasonable efforts' to complete the UBA price determination - using international benchmarks - by December 2012, and to allow sufficient time to derive the UBA price from a cost model by December 2014 if requested by industry, its statement said.
However, Gale said that if a cost model is required for the UBA pricing, this process could extend into 2015 which would be more compatible with any changes arising out of the Government's review of the Telecommunications Act.
InternetNZ said it welcomed the Commerce Commission decision to keep on with its review.
"The price that the Commission determines at the end of this process will be an important benchmark for the Government's forthcoming review of the policy framework for telecommunications regulation," says internetNZ spokesperson Susan Chalmers.
The law leaves the Commission with a clear duty to complete the pricing review, she said.
"The industry and the markets need to know what the final price would be under the law. Completing this price review will improve consumer and investor certainty."
"Whatever plans for legislation the Government settles on, we hope they will welcome the Commission's work as a credible and useful input for the important policy review that kicked off in February," says Chalmers.
Overall, along with most of the telecommunications industry, internetNZ supports the Commission in this decision.


text: I have 2 big beautiful bruggmansias, just about to be moved outside for the season. But I have read that "every part of the plant is toxic", at least to humans, and I assume to animals also. Should I donate these plants to non-bee folks far from known hives? Or is this plant OK for bees? What about the resulting honey? Is that toxic to people?


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Mary Scott was born and raised in Chicago and was fortunate to participate in organized athletics in elementary school, high school and college. Mary graduated from Concordia University in Chicago with a bachelor's degree in Secondary Education with a Physical Education major.
After graduation, Mary was hired as a physical education teacher and coach at Martin Luther High School, Maspeth, NY. While there, Mary was chair of the physical education department, began the girls' volleyball program and taught health courses. She also assisted the girls' basketball team. During this time, Mary completed her master's degree in Athletic Administration from Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.
In 1984, Mary was hired by St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, a participant in the NCAA Division 1, as the head coach of the women's volleyball team.
Mary was hired as a member of the faculty at Concordia University Irvine (then Christ College Irvine) in 1985. As a member of the faculty, Mary designed and wrote courses for the exercise and sport science major and the sport management program. She taught all level of courses within the major and the program as well as for Concordia University Educational Network (CUENet) and the school of education.
Mary's goal was to build the women's intercollegiate athletic program. For three years she was the head coach of the women's volleyball and basketball teams and was appointed Athletic Director in 1988. As Athletic Director, Mary oversaw the successful development of the intercollegiate athletic program, led the institution's entrance into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and the Golden State Athletic Conference (GSAC). She oversaw all aspects of the athletic department including hiring, sports information, athletic training, game management and facilities; and developed fundraising initiatives, including two golf tournaments and summer camp programs.
In 1996 Mary was appointed as Vice President for University Services where she supervised all contracted services for the campus including bookstore operations, copy services, facilities, and food service; supervised campus security operations including transportation and emergency preparedness; oversaw the design and construction of two residence halls, the campus student union, new outdoor fields for athletics and students, and re-models of two existing buildings into faculty office space. During this time she continued to teach courses in Exercise and Sport Science and Educational Leadership and wrote course content for use on Blackboard and WebCT. She earned her doctorate in Education from Pepperdine University. The title of her dissertation is, "Critical Factors Used as Criteria for the Selection of Qualified Candidates, Particularly Women, for the Position of Athletic Director in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics."
In 2000 Mary was appointed Vice President for Administration. In addition to her duties in University Services, Mary oversaw the hiring and termination of all staff and faculty; oversaw the design of Grimm Hall, the new campus administrative and classroom building which opened in March 2006; represented the university in the community; continued to teach courses in Exercise and Sport Science and Educational Leadership; and served as a lead instructor for the Concordia University – Shenzhen (China) Education Bureau (SEB) educational partnership.
Currently serving as Executive Vice President of the University and Provost since 2006, Mary supervises five deans, the associate provost, the registrar's office, the office of global programs, department chairs, 97 full-time faculty, over 220 part-time faculty, the library, and various members of the staff. She leads faculty searches, hiring, development, rank and contract processes; oversees the academic governance of the institution including significant re-structuring and committee elimination during the 07-08 academic year; oversees the accreditation process; and leads the development of new academic programs from inception.
Mary has been honored to have been selected as the NAIA District 3 Athletic Administrator of the Year (1990 – 1991 and 1991- 1992) and inducted into the Concordia Irvine's and Concordia Chicago's Athletic Halls of Fame.


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Anyone watched that new TV series "Person of Interest"? At the risk of being called a wild eyed crazy-that place needs to be blown sky high!!!
We Are This Far From A Turnkey Totalitarian State - And nobody caresWe Are This Far From A Turnkey Totalitarian State" - Big Brother Goes Live September 2013
George Orwell was right. He was just 30 years early.
In its April cover story, Wired has an exclusive report on the NSA's Utah Data Center, which is a must read for anyone who believes any privacy is still a possibility in the United States: "A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade.
Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the worlds communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks.... Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trailsparking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital pocket litter.... The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013." In other words, in just over 1 year, virtually anything one communicates through any traceable medium, or any record of one's existence in the electronic medium, which these days is everything, will unofficially be property of the US government to deal with as it sees fit.The codename of the project: Stellar Wind.
As Wired says, "there is no doubt that it has transformed itself into the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever created."
And as former NSA operative William Binney who was a senior NSA crypto-mathematician, and is the basis for the Wired article (which we guess makes him merely the latest whistleblower to step up: is America suddenly experiencing an ethical revulsion?), and quit his job only after he realized that the NSA is now openly trampling the constitution, says as he holds his thumb and forefinger close together. "We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state."
There was a time when Americans still cared about matters such as personal privacy. Luckily, they now have iGadgets to keep them distracted as they hand over their last pieces of individuality to the Tzar of conformity. And there are those who wonder just what the purpose of the NDAA is.
In the meantime please continue to pretend that America is democracy...
Here are some of the highlights from the Wired article:
The Utah Data Center in a nutshell, and the summary of the current status of the NSA's eavesdropping on US citizens.
Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the worlds communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trailsparking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital pocket litter. It is, in some measure, the realization of the total information awareness program created during the first term of the Bush administrationan effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans privacy.
But this is more than just a data center, says one senior intelligence official who until recently was involved with the program. The mammoth Bluffdale center will have another important and far more secret role that until now has gone unrevealed. It is also critical, he says, for breaking codes. And code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handlefinancial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communicationswill be heavily encrypted. According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: Everybodys a target; everybody with communication is a target.
In the processand for the first time since Watergate and the other scandals of the Nixon administrationthe NSA has turned its surveillance apparatus on the US and its citizens. It has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas. It has created a supercomputer of almost unimaginable speed to look for patterns and unscramble codes. Finally, the agency has begun building a place to store all the trillions of words and thoughts and whispers captured in its electronic net. And, of course, its all being done in secret. To those on the inside, the old adage that NSA stands for Never Say Anything applies more than ever.
...Shrouded in secrecy:
A short time later, Inglis arrived in Bluffdale at the site of the future data center, a flat, unpaved runway on a little-used part of Camp Williams, a National Guard training site. There, in a white tent set up for the occasion, Inglis joined Harvey Davis, the agencys associate director for installations and logistics, and Utah senator Orrin Hatch, along with a few generals and politicians in a surreal ceremony. Standing in an odd wooden sandbox and holding gold-painted shovels, they made awkward jabs at the sand and thus officially broke ground on what the local media had simply dubbed the spy center. Hoping for some details on what was about to be built, reporters turned to one of the invited guests, Lane Beattie of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. Did he have any idea of the purpose behind the new facility in his backyard? Absolutely not, he said with a self-conscious half laugh. Nor do I want them spying on me.
Within days, the tent and sandbox and gold shovels would be gone and Inglis and the generals would be replaced by some 10,000 construction workers. Weve been asked not to talk about the project, Rob Moore, president of Big-D Construction, one of the three major contractors working on the project, told a local reporter. The plans for the center show an extensive security system: an elaborate $10 million antiterrorism protection program, including a fence designed to stop a 15,000-pound vehicle traveling 50 miles per hour, closed-circuit cameras, a biometric identification system, a vehicle inspection facility, and a visitor-control center.
Inside, the facility will consist of four 25,000-square-foot halls filled with servers, complete with raised floor space for cables and storage. In addition, there will be more than 900,000 square feet for technical support and administration. The entire site will be self-sustaining, with fuel tanks large enough to power the backup generators for three days in an emergency, water storage with the capability of pumping 1.7 million gallons of liquid per day, as well as a sewage system and massive air-conditioning system to keep all those servers cool. Electricity will come from the centers own substation built by Rocky Mountain Power to satisfy the 65-megawatt power demand. Such a mammoth amount of energy comes with a mammoth price tagabout $40 million a year, according to one estimate.
Presenting the Yottabyte, aka 500 quintillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text:
Given the facilitys scale and the fact that a terabyte of data can now be stored on a flash drive the size of a mans pinky, the potential amount of information that could be housed in Bluffdale is truly staggering. But so is the exponential growth in the amount of intelligence data being produced every day by the eavesdropping sensors of the NSA and other intelligence agencies. As a result of this expanding array of theater airborne and other sensor networks, as a 2007 Department of Defense report puts it, the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (1024 bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytesso large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)
It needs that capacity because, according to a recent report by Cisco, global Internet traffic will quadruple from 2010 to 2015, reaching 966 exabytes per year. (A million exabytes equal a yottabyte.) In terms of scale, Eric Schmidt, Googles former CEO, once estimated that the total of all human knowledge created from the dawn of man to 2003 totaled 5 exabytes. And the data flow shows no sign of slowing. In 2011 more than 2 billion of the worlds 6.9 billion people were connected to the Internet. By 2015, market research firm IDC estimates, there will be 2.7 billion users. Thus, the NSAs need for a 1-million-square-foot data storehouse. Should the agency ever fill the Utah center with a yottabyte of information, it would be equal to about 500 quintillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text.
Summarizing the NSA's entire spy network:
Before yottabytes of data from the deep web and elsewhere can begin piling up inside the servers of the NSAs new center, they must be collected. To better accomplish that, the agency has undergone the largest building boom in its history, including installing secret electronic monitoring rooms in major US telecom facilities. Controlled by the NSA, these highly secured spaces are where the agency taps into the US communications networks, a practice that came to light during the Bush years but was never acknowledged by the agency. The broad outlines of the so-called warrantless-wiretapping program have long been exposedhow the NSA secretly and illegally bypassed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which was supposed to oversee and authorize highly targeted domestic eavesdropping; how the program allowed wholesale monitoring of millions of American phone calls and email. In the wake of the programs exposure, Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which largely made the practices legal. Telecoms that had agreed to participate in the illegal activity were granted immunity from prosecution and lawsuits. What wasnt revealed until now, however, was the enormity of this ongoing domestic spying program.
Luckily, we now know, courtesy of yet another whistleblower, who has exposed the NSA's mindblowing efforts at pervasive Big Brotherness:
For the first time, a former NSA official has gone on the record to describe the program, codenamed Stellar Wind, in detail. William Binney was a senior NSA crypto-mathematician largely responsible for automating the agencys worldwide eavesdropping network. A tall man with strands of black hair across the front of his scalp and dark, determined eyes behind thick-rimmed glasses, the 68-year-old spent nearly four decades breaking codes and finding new ways to channel billions of private phone calls and email messages from around the world into the NSAs bulging databases. As chief and one of the two cofounders of the agencys Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center, Binney and his team designed much of the infrastructure thats still likely used to intercept international and foreign communications.
He explains that the agency could have installed its tapping gear at the nations cable landing stationsthe more than two dozen sites on the periphery of the US where fiber-optic cables come ashore. If it had taken that route, the NSA would have been able to limit its eavesdropping to just international communications, which at the time was all that was allowed under US law. Instead it chose to put the wiretapping rooms at key junction points throughout the countrylarge, windowless buildings known as switchesthus gaining access to not just international communications but also to most of the domestic traffic flowing through the US. The network of intercept stations goes far beyond the single room in an AT&T building in San Francisco exposed by a whistle-blower in 2006. I think theres 10 to 20 of them, Binney says. Thats not just San Francisco; they have them in the middle of the country and also on the East Coast.
The eavesdropping on Americans doesnt stop at the telecom switches. To capture satellite communications in and out of the US, the agency also monitors AT&Ts powerful earth stations, satellite receivers in locations that include Roaring Creek and Salt Creek. Tucked away on a back road in rural Catawissa, Pennsylvania, Roaring Creeks three 105-foot dishes handle much of the countrys communications to and from Europe and the Middle East. And on an isolated stretch of land in remote Arbuckle, California, three similar dishes at the companys Salt Creek station service the Pacific Rim and Asia.
In other words, the NSA has absolutely everyone covered.
We now know all of this, courtesy of yet another person finally stepping up and exposing the truth:
Binney left the NSA in late 2001, shortly after the agency launched its warrantless-wiretapping program. They violated the Constitution setting it up, he says bluntly. But they didnt care. They were going to do it anyway, and they were going to crucify anyone who stood in the way. When they started violating the Constitution, I couldnt stay. Binney says Stellar Wind was far larger than has been publicly disclosed and included not just eavesdropping on domestic phone calls but the inspection of domestic email. At the outset the program recorded 320 million calls a day, he says, which represented about 73 to 80 percent of the total volume of the agencys worldwide intercepts. The haul only grew from there. According to Binneywho has maintained close contact with agency employees until a few years agothe taps in the secret rooms dotting the country are actually powered by highly sophisticated software programs that conduct deep packet inspection, examining Internet traffic as it passes through the 10-gigabit-per-second cables at the speed of light.
The software, created by a company called Narus thats now part of Boeing, is controlled remotely from NSA headquarters at Fort Meade in Maryland and searches US sources for target addresses, locations, countries, and phone numbers, as well as watch-listed names, keywords, and phrases in email. Any communication that arouses suspicion, especially those to or from the million or so people on agency watch lists, are automatically copied or recorded and then transmitted to the NSA.
Everyone is a target.
The scope of surveillance expands from there, Binney says. Once a name is entered into the Narus database, all phone calls and other communications to and from that person are automatically routed to the NSAs recorders. Anybody you want, route to a recorder, Binney says. If your numbers in there? Routed and gets recorded. He adds, The Narus device allows you to take it all. And when Bluffdale is completed, whatever is collected will be routed there for storage and analysis.
After he left the NSA, Binney suggested a system for monitoring peoples communications according to how closely they are connected to an initial target. The further away from the targetsay youre just an acquaintance of a friend of the targetthe less the surveillance. But the agency rejected the idea, and, given the massive new storage facility in Utah, Binney suspects that it now simply collects everything. The whole idea was, how do you manage 20 terabytes of intercept a minute? he says. The way we proposed was to distinguish between things you want and things you dont want. Instead, he adds, theyre storing everything they gather. And the agency is gathering as much as it can.
Once the communications are intercepted and stored, the data-mining begins. You can watch everybody all the time with data- mining, Binney says. Everything a person does becomes charted on a graph, financial transactions or travel or anything, he says. Thus, as data like bookstore receipts, bank statements, and commuter toll records flow in, the NSA is able to paint a more and more detailed picture of someones life.
Can you hear me now? The NSA sure can:
According to Binney, one of the deepest secrets of the Stellar Wind programagain, never confirmed until nowwas that the NSA gained warrantless access to AT&Ts vast trove of domestic and international billing records, detailed information about who called whom in the US and around the world. As of 2007, AT&T had more than 2.8 trillion records housed in a database at its Florham Park, New Jersey, complex.
Verizon was also part of the program, Binney says, and that greatly expanded the volume of calls subject to the agencys domestic eavesdropping. That multiplies the call rate by at least a factor of five, he says. So youre over a billion and a half calls a day. (Spokespeople for Verizon and AT&T said their companies would not comment on matters of national security.)
In fact, as you talk now, the NSA's computers are listening, recording it all, and looking for keywords.
The NSA also has the ability to eavesdrop on phone calls directly and in real time. According to Adrienne J. Kinne, who worked both before and after 9/11 as a voice interceptor at the NSA facility in Georgia, in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks basically all rules were thrown out the window, and they would use any excuse to justify a waiver to spy on Americans. Even journalists calling home from overseas were included. A lot of time you could tell they were calling their families, she says, incredibly intimate, personal conversations. Kinne found the act of eavesdropping on innocent fellow citizens personally distressing. Its almost like going through and finding somebodys diary, she says.
There is a simple matter of encryption... Which won't be an issue for the NSA shortly, once the High Productivity Computing Systems project goes online.
Anyonefrom terrorists and weapons dealers to corporations, financial institutions, and ordinary email senderscan use it to seal their messages, plans, photos, and documents in hardened data shells. For years, one of the hardest shells has been the Advanced Encryption Standard, one of several algorithms used by much of the world to encrypt data. Available in three different strengths128 bits, 192 bits, and 256 bitsits incorporated in most commercial email programs and web browsers and is considered so strong that the NSA has even approved its use for top-secret US government communications. Most experts say that a so-called brute-force computer attack on the algorithmtrying one combination after another to unlock the encryptionwould likely take longer than the age of the universe. For a 128-bit cipher, the number of trial-and-error attempts would be 340 undecillion (1036).
Breaking into those complex mathematical shells like the AES is one of the key reasons for the construction going on in Bluffdale. That kind of cryptanalysis requires two major ingredients: super-fast computers to conduct brute-force attacks on encrypted messages and a massive number of those messages for the computers to analyze. The more messages from a given target, the more likely it is for the computers to detect telltale patterns, and Bluffdale will be able to hold a great many messages. We questioned it one time, says another source, a senior intelligence manager who was also involved with the planning. Why were we building this NSA facility? And, boy, they rolled out all the old guysthe crypto guys. According to the official, these experts told then-director of national intelligence Dennis Blair, Youve got to build this thing because we just dont have the capability of doing the code-breaking. It was a candid admission. In the long war between the code breakers and the code makersthe tens of thousands of cryptographers in the worldwide computer security industrythe code breakers were admitting defeat.
So the agency had one major ingredienta massive data storage facilityunder way. Meanwhile, across the country in Tennessee, the government was working in utmost secrecy on the other vital element: the most powerful computer the world has ever known.
The plan was launched in 2004 as a modern-day Manhattan Project. Dubbed the High Productivity Computing Systems program, its goal was to advance computer speed a thousandfold, creating a machine that could execute a quadrillion (1015) operations a second, known as a petaflopthe computer equivalent of breaking the land speed record. And as with the Manhattan Project, the venue chosen for the supercomputing program was the town of Oak Ridge in eastern Tennessee, a rural area where sharp ridges give way to low, scattered hills, and the southwestward-flowing Clinch River bends sharply to the southeast. About 25 miles from Knoxville, it is the secret city where uranium- 235 was extracted for the first atomic bomb. A sign near the exit read: what you see here, what you do here, what you hear here, when you leave here, let it stay here. Today, not far from where that sign stood, Oak Ridge is home to the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and its engaged in a new secret war. But this time, instead of a bomb of almost unimaginable power, the weapon is a computer of almost unimaginable speed.
At the DOEs unclassified center at Oak Ridge, work progressed at a furious pace, although it was a one-way street when it came to cooperation with the closemouthed people in Building 5300. Nevertheless, the unclassified team had its Cray XT4 supercomputer upgraded to a warehouse-sized XT5. Named Jaguar for its speed, it clocked in at 1.75 petaflops, officially becoming the worlds fastest computer in 2009.
Meanwhile, over in Building 5300, the NSA succeeded in building an even faster supercomputer. They made a big breakthrough, says another former senior intelligence official, who helped oversee the program. The NSAs machine was likely similar to the unclassified Jaguar, but it was much faster out of the gate, modified specifically for cryptanalysis and targeted against one or more specific algorithms, like the AES. In other words, they were moving from the research and development phase to actually attacking extremely difficult encryption systems. The code-breaking effort was up and running.
The breakthrough was enormous, says the former official, and soon afterward the agency pulled the shade down tight on the project, even within the intelligence community and Congress. Only the chairman and vice chairman and the two staff directors of each intelligence committee were told about it, he says. The reason? They were thinking that this computing breakthrough was going to give them the ability to crack current public encryption.
So kiss PGP goodbye. In fact kiss every aspect of your privacy goodbye.
Yottabytes and exaflops, septillions and undecillionsthe race for computing speed and data storage goes on. In his 1941 story The Library of Babel, Jorge Luis Borges imagined a collection of information where the entire worlds knowledge is stored but barely a single word is understood. In Bluffdale the NSA is constructing a library on a scale that even Borges might not have contemplated. And to hear the masters of the agency tell it, its only a matter of time until every word is illuminated.
As for the Constitution... What Constitution?
Before he gave up and left the NSA, Binney tried to persuade officials to create a more targeted system that could be authorized by a court. At the time, the agency had 72 hours to obtain a legal warrant, and Binney devised a method to computerize the system. I had proposed that we automate the process of requesting a warrant and automate approval so we could manage a couple of million intercepts a day, rather than subvert the whole process. But such a system would have required close coordination with the courts, and NSA officials werent interested in that, Binney says. Instead they continued to haul in data on a grand scale. Asked how many communicationstransactions, in NSAs lingothe agency has intercepted since 9/11, Binney estimates the number at between 15 and 20 trillion, the aggregate over 11 years.
When Barack Obama took office, Binney hoped the new administration might be open to reforming the program to address his constitutional concerns. He and another former senior NSA analyst, J. Kirk Wiebe, tried to bring the idea of an automated warrant-approval system to the attention of the Department of Justices inspector general. They were given the brush-off. They said, oh, OK, we cant comment, Binney says.
In conclusion, the NSA's own whistleblower summarizes it best.
Sitting in a restaurant not far from NSA headquarters, the place where he spent nearly 40 years of his life, Binney held his thumb and forefinger close together. We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state, he says.
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ZeroHedge | On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
Black Blade: Kind of strikes me like "Skynet" becomes self aware in 2013. I remember when the Feds demanded that AT&T and other phone providers give them access to all comunications several years ago. This could be the end result.
When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America , you get a front row seat. - George Carlin
Anyone watched that new TV series "Person of Interest"? At the risk of being called a wild eyed crazy-that place needs to be blown sky high!!!
CIA Head: We Will Spy On Americans Through Electrical Appliances
Global information surveillance grid being constructed; willing Americans embrace gadgets used to spy on them
Steve Watson
March 16, 2012
CIA director David Petraeus has said that the rise of new "smart" gadgets means that Americans are effectively bugging their own homes, saving US spy agencies a job when it identifies any "persons of interest".
Speaking at a summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA's technology investment operation, Petraeus made the comments when discussing new technologies which aim to add processors and web connections to previously 'dumb' home appliances such as fridges, ovens and lighting systems.
Wired reports the details via its Danger Room Blog:
"'Transformational' is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies," Petraeus enthused, "particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft."
"Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters — all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing," Petraeus said.
"the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing." the CIA head added.
Petraeus also stated that such devices within the home "change our notions of secrecy".
Petraeus' comments come in the same week that one of the biggest microchip companies in the world, ARM, unveiled new processors that are designed to give practically every household appliance an internet connection, in order that they can be remote controlled and operate in tandem with applications.
ARM describes the concept as an "internet of things".
Where will all the information from such devices be sent and analyzed? It can be no coincidence that the NSA is currently building a monolithic heavily fortified $2 billion facility deep in the Utah desert and surrounded by mountains. The facility is set to go fully live in September 2013.
"The Utah data center is the centerpiece of the Global Information Grid, a military project that will handle yottabytes of data, an amount so huge that there is no other data unit after it." reports Gizmodo.
"This center—with every listening post, spy satellite and NSA datacenter connected to it, will make the NSA the most powerful spy agency in the world."
Wired reports that the incoming data is being mined by plugging into telecommunications companies' switches, essentially the same method the NSA infamously uses for warrantless wiretapping of domestic communications, as exposed six years ago.
Former intelligence analyst turned best selling author James Bamford, has penned a lengthy piece on the NSA facility and warns "It is, in some measure, the realization of the 'total information awareness' program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans' privacy."
» CIA Head: We Will Spy On Americans Through Electrical Appliances Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
I highly recommend James Bamfords book entitled The Shadow Factory.
The beast is being loosed.
i wonder how many terrorist they have actually caught after spending all those billions/trillions of $$ borrowed from china?
you know the irony is these super computers are built with parts from china that have built in spy ware.
so china is privy to all the date the US collects on its own people!
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"private emails"???
email has never, never been legally private. If this is "news" then wired has had it's head in the sand for over 30 years.
If you want private email, get PGP and send your public keys to your contacts via US Mail or other legally protected means. Everything else (gunco included) you should treat as though being talked about in the middle of a huge crowd of eves-droppers.
I have a daughter. I tell her, "911 is what you dial after you're raped. 1911 is what you should have before they try."


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A new website has been launched to promote Rio Dell and Scotia. The new Rio Dell-Scotia Chamber of Commerce website was launched in mid December and is intended to provide a starting point for people interested in information about the Rio Dell-Scotia area.
The website was designed by Rio Dell-based Problem Solving Applications (PSA), and consultant/service technician Billy Long. Long is a third-generation resident of Rio Dell, according to Jim Rich, chamber president.
"We are really impressed with the new website," Rich said, "and things are just getting started."
Ultimately, according to Rich, the site will allow the Chamber of Commerce to communicate that things are very different than they used to be.
"The site was developed with a focus on 'News, Events, and business Resources,'" Long said, "and the ability to publish and obtain this information in simple and useful ways."
He describes the website as a "living document," where information can be added continually, as it becomes available.
Log on to www.riodellscotiachamber.org and if you are interested in starting a business in Scotia or Rio Dell, there is a list of resources available to help navigate the process. There are links to the California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, information about business licenses, and the ability to download a membership application.
"As the Rio Dell-Scotia Chamber of Commerce moves into 2014, we are seeing some very new and positive changes coming in our community," Rich said. "We are working hard to build membership, which will in turn strengthen our business community as a whole."
Business membership dues are $25 and individual membership dues are $10. The Rio Dell-Scotia Chamber of Commerce meets every third Tuesday at noon at the Pizza Factory in Rio Dell.
Interested members of the public and business representatives are invited to a chamber mixer on Friday in Rio Dell. The gathering will take place at 406 Wildwood Ave., the home of the Chamber of Commerce and the Eagle Prairie Arts District, from 5-7 p.m. The Scotia-Rio Dell Chamber of Commerce can be reached by calling 506-5081.
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The Rio Dell-Scotia Chamber of Commerce has a new website designed to strengthen the business community, and will host a mixer at the office (pictured here) that it shares with the eagle Prairie Arts District.


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– April 11 2011
– Year XI
Issue 139 • In most African countries TV broadcasting and
telecommunications are treated as separate, vertical markets. But
digital convergence means that telecoms operators have become involved
in broadcasting and broadcasters are looking at how they can deliver
internet and voice services. Kenya launched Africa's first real
"triple-play" offer -- where customers pay for a package including
television, telephone and internet-- but in most countries till now the
two sectors have been regulated separately. Digital migration is also a
key moment to promote local content production in a continent where up
to 90% of TV programming is made by non-African producers. A new site from APC and Balancing Act
provides African policy-makers, regulators, broadcasters and civil
society organisations with information
on the benefits and challenges related to digital migration and
reports on the experience of Ghana,
and Senegal
(in french).
(APC and Balancing Act for APC) - African countries have committed to
migrating to digital broadcasting by June 2015. It will be a costly
process and it is not clear who will benefit -- or where the resources
needed to make the transition will come from. A new website provides independent
information for policy-makers about making the transition and reports
on digital migration in Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal. More>
ISLAND (KAH for APCNews) -- APC members elected a new board of
directors for the world's oldest online network during a ballot at the
eleventh face-to-face APC council meeting on March 20. More>
(GJ for APC) – The aptly named icanstalku.com
attempts to expose the dangers inherent in posting information -- in
this case pictures -- online in a rather unconventional way: the site
regularly updates its news feed with individuals' user names and
locations, all gleaned from photos posted to Twitter. More>
New research Media Piracy in
Emerging Economies: A study on Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia and
South Africa from SSRC
APC wrote the South African chapter
research findings in a nutshell
Case study: Pirated DVDs in a Cape Town township
piracy to copyright reform –APC proposes new model
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"The Adler University's social justice focus closely aligns
with my commitment to socially responsible practice
and incorporating competence in working with diverse
and underserved communities."
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Core Faculty, Psy.D. Program
As a long standing member of the Adler faculty, I am involved in teaching and training students in a variety of areas and my interests include clinical child psychology, child development, and assessment. Additionally, I have teaching and research expertise in areas of cultural and individual diversity, particularly bilingual learning and assessment, Latino/a mental health and multicultural treatment models.
In training future psychologists, I emphasize developing awareness of the impact of diversity and systemic and structural influences as well as the integration of power and privilege issues. I am also directly involved in clinical training and supervision in my role as Training Director for our Adler Juvenile Justice Internship program, a collaboration with the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice, providing training opportunities within a juvenile correctional setting.
Adler Universityl's social justice focus closely aligns with my commitment to socially responsible practice and incorporating competence in working with diverse and underserved communities.
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Traditional teacher supervision has long been a pro forma process that results in a few "dog and pony show" performances, with the principal completing some check-list based paperwork. Fortunately, this is changing, as ample evidence emerges showing that the process has not contributed to teacher effectiveness.
The supervision of the principal, however, is a sorely neglected though vital function. As research also is showing that principal quality has a direct and significant impact on student achievement, it makes sense that the evaluation and supervision process here needs to change and evolve as well.
But how?
Traditional supervision of staff has two purposes: quality control and professional growth. As researchers who have worked with new and veteran principals, we believe the supervision of building-level administrators has a third purpose: nurturing school cultures that build and maintain professional learning communities that focus on student achievement.
In schools that are developing these true communities, supervision is an ongoing coaching relationship in which teaching practice and student outcomes are public and the commitment to continuous improvement is shared by everyone -- teachers, administrators, and students. Our review of research on adult learning, learning communities, and best practices in supervision has led us to conclude that effective principal supervision processes share common characteristics -- and we would like to share those with you.
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Although Benjamin Netanyahu's next defence minister shares his deep distrust of the Palestinians, the two could yet clash about when - and whether - Israel should go to war with Iran.
Ex-general Moshe Yaalon is a loyalist of Netanyahu's Likud party who, as a senior if sometimes sidelined member of the outgoing coalition government, routinely boosted the rightist prime minister and his strategic outlook.
But the hulking, bespectacled Yaalon, 62, also has a record of breaking ranks when he perceives unreasonable risks.
As military intelligence commander in the mid-1990s he disagreed with the left-leaning government's optimism about fledgling peace talks with the Palestinians. Promoted to armed forces chief of staff, he saw his tenure cut short after he opposed Israel's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip in 2005.
Those objections dovetailed with Netanyahu's, who cites repeated Palestinian revolts against the Jewish state, and the Islamist Hamas takeover of Gaza, as justifying his reluctance to give up the occupied West Bank.
The ideologue Netanyahu and the plain-talking, part-time farmer Yaalon have, however, differed in private about tackling Tehran's nuclear drive, a more remote and formidable challenge.
An Israeli official said Yaalon was among half the ministers in Netanyahu's inner security cabinet who, in the past, voted down his proposals to attack Iran in defiance of U.S. calls to hold fire while international sanctions are escalated instead.
"Yaalon is hawkish about the Palestinians like Netanyahu, but he is cautious on Iran," said Amotz Asa-El, fellow at the liberal Jerusalem think-tank Hartman Institute, who has followed the incoming defence minister's military and political career.
He said Yaalon might serve as a "counter-weight" to any renewed bid by Netanyahu to go to war - unless Israel receives hard intelligence its arch-foe is about to build a bomb, in which case, Asa-El argued, cabinet support could be unanimous.
The Iranians deny their nuclear projects have hostile designs and point to Israel's assumed atomic arsenal as the main regional menace. While advancing sensitive uranium enrichment, they resumed talks on a compromise with world powers last month.
Yaalon's military pedigree largely mirrors that of outgoing defence minister Ehud Barak. Before reaching the high command, they both headed Israel's premier special forces regiment, in which Netanyahu served as a junior officer, and thus enjoy decades-old rapports with him. There the similarities end.
Barak, a centrist one-time premier, was crafty in statecraft and conferred monthly in Washington, though his maverick views were seldom welcomed within Netanyahu's nationalist coalition.
Yaalon, said Asa-El, "is less impulsive, more low-key, more calculated and generally more modest" than Barak.
He can also be impolitic. That may make it harder for Yaalon to explain Israel's West Bank settlements, overseen by the Defence Ministry, to foreign leaders who believe they undermine any prospect for revived peace talks with the Palestinians.
Whereas Barak consistently voiced trust in U.S. President Barack Obama, Yaalon last year questioned his resolve to curb Iran. After the Democrat's reelection to the White House in November, however, Yaalon took a different tack, noting with approval U.S. military mobilisation in the Gulf.
Dennis Ross, a former Obama adviser on the Middle East, said that while Yaalon will get American respect for his experience in uniform, Barak's legacy will be difficult to live up to.
"No successor (to Barak) will come in with that same kind of stature" in the Obama administration's eyes, Ross told Reuters.
Known by his childhood nickname "Bogie", Yaalon led Israeli commandos in the 1988 assassination in Tunis of PLO strongman Abu Jihad. As general he favored tough tactics against Palestinians revolting in the West Bank and Gaza - putting him in the sights of war-crimes suits by their supporters abroad.
He now faces new domestic fights in the form of defence budget cuts and a long-delayed review of the exemptions enjoyed by many ultra-Orthodox Jews from compulsory national service.
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- July 12 2010 - Year XI Issue 124 - The third report from APC and
Hivos in the Global Information Society Watch series is on "access to online information
and knowledge to advance human rights and democracy". It
reveals how vulnerable the internet as we know it is and unpacks key
issues – including open standards and access to educational materials
and libraries. For the first time GISWatch also includes an innovate
section that visually maps global rights as seen through an analysis of
Google searches, as well as a visual analysis of tweets sent out during
the 2009 Iranian political crisis, which we feature in this edition of
MONTEVIDEO (Rogers, Fieke
Jansen, Michael Stevenson and Esther Weltevrede for GISWatch) - In a
unique study, researchers from the Netherlands asked, if you type the
word "rights" into Google.co.uk, do you see the same types of rights in
the top ten search results as if you type "derechos" (rights in
Spanish) into the Argentinian Google? The answer is no. The
search results showed that the "rights of the over-indebted" is unique
to Ivory Coast as was the "right to education in a native sign
language" to Finland. The results –which have been turned
into a unique rights-map-- together with an analysis of tweets during
the 2009 Iranian election crisis are published in Global Information
Society Watch 2009 which highlights the use of online information for
advancing democracy and human rights. More
CALGARY 8 July 2010 (LC for
APCNews) – As part of its plan to bring an end to violence against
women in the country, Cambodia's Ministry of Women's Affairs will set
up a Gender Issues Observatory, the first of its kind in the country.
The news was announced at a workshop organised by the Ministry and APC
member Open Institute as part of the Take Back the Tech! To end
violence against women initiative in twelve countries. More
SOFIA (BlueLink for APC) -
campaign to expose illegal logging is a new wall against the extinction
of forests in Bulgaria. The campaign combines digital tools and green
activism in an online system for filing whistle-blower alerts. More
BUDAPEST (Green Spider for APC)
- APC member in Budapest, Green Spider, is challenging Facebook and
YouTube by offering a home-grown Web 2.0 suite for Hungarian activists.
"In the face of the overwhelming monoculture of corporate social
networking tools, the service has taken off amongst grassroots
activists, community organisers and charities in the Hungarian social
and environmental movement," says Green Spider. More
JOHNANNESBURG (Sally-Jean
Shackleton for GenderIT) - A draft Bill proposing a ban on sexual
content on the internet and cellphones submitted to the South African
Department of Home Affairs in May 2010 claims to have the best
interests of women and children in mind but has set alarm bells ringing
in the women's movement. "The Bill equates women with children –taking
a protectionist approach to the rights of women-- and promotes state
censorship," says Sally-Jean Shackleton, director of Women'sNet, a
feminist technology organisation based in Johannesburg. More
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Episode 26 - Nvidia GeForce GTX 285/295 and stories in games
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The CPC podcast is back for 2009. Among the topics of discussion by Clive, Mark and Alex are Nvidia's attempt to go green by jumping on the environmentalism bandwagon with low voltage GeForce 9600 GT cards, and the revelation that Eidos is preparing to be acquired by an external bidder. The panel also mull over the fact that id Software has hired a proper writer to pen a story for Doom 4, and why stories in games are important. On the new hardware front, there's the GeForce GTX 285 and 295 to consider, and of course, guess the game music competition and the games chart also return.