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I had to clean everything inside my PC today due to heavy dust accumulation and in the process remove the processor fan to clean it and the heatsink below it. However, while I usually mark the "right side up" for the fan, I'd forgotten to do so this time. While it made sense to keep the AMD logo on top, I was still not confident to start the PC without being completely sure. Google spouted advice hither and thither, but the general consensus appeared to be as follows:

• CPU fans should blow air into the heatsink.
• Case fans should bring cool air into the cabinet.

A hilarious piece on Pachelbel's Canon in D.

After watching the anime, Hajime No Ippo a few months back, I was looking to sate my addiction via the manga which is still continuing (the anime covers only about a third of the entire story thus far). For those of you who, like me, didn't know where the anime (plus the specials) ended with respect to the manga, the following might be of help:

Volume 33 - chapters 290 and 291 [Hayami vs. Kobashi + Makunouchi meets the doctor Sanada (missing in the anime)]

I watched Shrek 3 yesterday and I am still in mourning over it. What was an entertaining part 1 has been sodomised into mindless drivel that is neither well written nor well animated or well voiced for that matter. I sincerely hope that there isn't going to be a part 4.

Hollywood should be banned from making sequels based on the commercial performance of a movie.

If you haven't already done so, check out Frets on Fire, an open source clone of the guitar hero franchise. Instead of a toy guitar, you are to hold your keyboard upside down and use the function keys as frets while "strumming" via the return key.

There are also a bunch of communities who add frets-on-fire files for a growing library of commercial songs as well.

Good shit.

I quite often want to / have to leech all files of a certain type from a website. The best way to do this is by using wget. The following command will download all files of type mp3 from a website:
wget -r -l1 -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 http://example.com/mymp3s

Do this from within the folder where you want to download the files to.

This is actually more for my own record so that I don't have to man and google next time, but I'll try and explain all the switches when I'm motivated to do so :)

Today's Song of the Day is the aussie band Wolfmother's big hit - Woman. It and much of the other Wolfmother songs harken back to the glory days of the 70s and they are apparently heavily inspired by Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Moreover, for a three-piece band, they sound fucking tight, and the vocalist, though he looks like a nutter, has a very Plant-sy voice.

Here's a simple how-to on restarting services in KDE. I will be alluding to this article in other guides on this site, rather than repeating myself every time - Lazy organisation, I call it :)

1. Click on KMenu and select System settings.
2. Select the Advanced tab and click on System services.
3. Click on the administrator mode button and enter your superuser password.
4. In the huge list of services on the left, navigate to the service you would like to restart.

Tor is an open source project that allows users to utilise the Internet anonymously through the use of something along the lines of distributed proxies - the Onion router network. Privoxy is more of a local web proxy that, when configured correctly, can protect your privacy by filtering such information at the source. Together they are an effective and user-friendly (but not necessarily perfect) solution to preserving your anonymity on the Internet.

The all knowing Oracles at Google revealed today that the song in the Motorola Razr ad (with the chick and dude fighting alá The Matrix) is Le Disko by Shiny Toy Guns. Another (more innovative) google revealed that I could legally download this (and two other songs by Shiny Toy Guns, besides other artists) song for free at spokane7.com's download site which states explicitly: