Author: xorprime

1. Replace stock fan with Talismoon Whisper
2. Replace thermal paste with AS5, just a drop in the middle of gpu and cpu
3. Do the fan shroud mod
4. Put a nylon washer (2mm) under between the x-clamp and mobo
5. Operate the 360 standing up above madcatz stand

360 running stable priceless, wasted time pricey.

P + (-P) = Zero ;
Zero is perfection

1. X-Clamp replacement, specifically, the RJBTech Mark III style. It’s by far the best. Even lawdawg uses this method himself now on his own xbox.
1. Clean heatsinks with ArticClean system to remove old gunk. Replace thermal pads/compound on both heatsinks with Artic Silver Ceramique (I don’t like the Silver 5 stuff as it’s capacative and you’re placing it on an exposed core with components with exposed legs surrounding them. Plus Ceramique does not dry out nearly as fast as Silver 5)
3. Lap and polish your heatsinks. I did both of mine to a literal mirror polish (2000 grit paper followed by polish). Took about an hour.
4. Add copper ram heatsinks to the two exposed ram chips on the top of the board, and to the southbridge. Glue them on with ArticSilver Ceramique adhesive not the crappy tape that most come with.
5. Make sure the ram on the bottom of the board (all four) have thermal gap filler material
6. Add thermal gap filler material to the ram under the GPU heatsink. I realize you may not have any.. I might be able to get you some. I have a “source”… When it’s a dedicated source and anyone can buy from them I’ll post up. I hope to have a reseller and part number for the $#!t I’m using soon.
7. Cut the metal mesh/grid out completely that is in front of the fans, so that only the plastic grille of the case itself remains. The plastic grille is more then enough protection the metal is overkill and is extra air resistence. Cutting the plastic grille too is even better but I liked having a bit of fan protection. You could also just enlarge the holes.
8. Replace fans with the tailsmoon fans
9. Do the RJBTech fanshroud air splitter/divider. Cover the top of the GPU heatsink and seal it to the shroud as well per his instructions

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Use au.pool.ntp.org as NTP Server

Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters\NtpServer
b. In the right pane, right-click NtpServer, and then click Modify.
c. In Edit Value, type Peers in the Value data box, and then click OK.

No reason to be late this time!

Reference:
http://au.pool.ntp.org/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042

Simplistic Complexity Apache 2.2, mod_proxy_balancer, & Mongrel on Ubuntu 6.06
Reference for my brave journey on Rails. Just killing time ;-)

http://www.valibuk.net/?p=41
For the love of Gentoo, I have to say goodbye to Ubuntu Dapper because Apache 2.2 can be resolved by unmasking and not just by compiling from source (3rd party apt sources are not future proof)

recompile kernel with /dev/nvram support
nano -w /etc/modules.autoload/kernel2.6
=c=
nvram
=c=
modprobe nvram
USE=”xosd” emerge -avDt tbp #xosd is to display OSD in X

nano -w ~.fluxbox/startup
=c=
tpb &
=c=

nano -w /etc/udev/rules.d/10-custom.rules
=c=
KERNEL=”nvram”, NAME=”%k”, MODE=”0664″
=c=

reboot to initialize udev

Since acx module (driver for Linksys WPC54Gv2 PCMCIA) does not work with Suspend2 2.6.16-r8, it’s time to leap forward and use Beyond Sources kernel for gentoo.

mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/beyond-sources && cd /usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/beyond-sources
wget http://beyond-sources.generation.no/gentoo/2.6.16-beyond4/beyond-sources-2.6.16-r4.ebuild

nano -w /etc/make.conf
=c=
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=”/usr/local/portage”
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=”/var/tmp/portage”
=c=

echo ‘sys-kernel/beyond-sources ~x86’>>/etc/portage/package.keywords && emerge beyond-sources

things to enable
/dev/nvram
agpgart
locales
scsi for usb
acpi thinkpad
suspend2 > swap
p4 m
governor
netfilter
traffic shaping cbq

# boot manager , add this resume2=swap:/dev/hda6
nano -w /etc/lilo.conf
=c=
image=/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.16-beyond4
label=gentoo
read-only
root=/dev/ram0
append=”init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda5 udev resume2=swap:/dev/hda6″
initrd=/boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.16-beyond4
=c=
sbin/lilo

# re-emerge modules
emerge -avDt x11-drm
nano -w /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
=c=
agpgart
button # to play around with LID state for sleep on lidclose
=c=

emerge -avDt sys-kernel/module-rebuild
module-rebuild populate
module-rebuild rebuild
modules-update

# Hibernation, remember to issue /sbin/lilo and dont hibernate after a kernel recompile. Edit /etc/hibernate/hibernante.conf and /etc/hibernate/ram.conf accordingly

hibernate-ram
hibernate

Xfce terminal has a file action support for url so the output of the script will be displayed on Terminal and the url can be click from there.

# this will emerge the xfce dependencies
emerge -avDt xfce-extra/terminal

# curl is needed to read on rss page
emerge -avDt curl

# adapted script
nano -w ~/.rsschannel/slashdot
=c=
clear
url=”http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot”
curl –silent “$url”|egrep “(title>|link>)”|sed -n ‘4,$p’|sed -e ‘s/