Hey folks, remember me?

[Toaster]

Hey folks!
Been a while eh?
Thought I'd pop in for a looksie and see who (whom?) still haunts these hallowed halls. Sorry to have turned a blind eye to 'yall but life moves on.
I was surprized my old handle and password still worked......wow, had to have been....what....2 years?

[GaryRouth]

Hi Toaster

Most of the East Coast is asleep - but my goodness, wait till they wake up! (I'm out here on the West Coast, so it's not that late - and maybe Cricket will see your post, since he's in Hawaii) ---

Are you still out on Guam?

. . . Last post I remember was a resurrected thread about putting the hard drive in upside down - and one about trying to revive one a little longer by putting it in the refrigerator - stuff that's changed a little.

Nice to see you round here again - I started dropping by just before you headed out to the Pacific.
. . . Gary

[TwoRails]

Hey Toaster!!

How ya been?? I know people asked about you for a while... Glad to see you're still alive :)

Are you "back" now?? That'd be cool.

TwoRails

[Cricket]

Hi Toaster! Great to have you drop by! Yeah, it's been awhile.

:) Cricket

[Floppyman]

Hey Toaster,

Nice to see you drop in! How have things been going the last 2 years?

[HAL9000]

Yo Toasty!!!... Glad to see you're still alive... I miss your in depth techy comments on damn near everything.

[lil Jimmie]

Heya Toastie, Glad to cya around! Yeah we sure have missed your techie threads as well as some of your wild tales like your "How to get into Trouble" thread. :D

Gawd it has been three years since you said you were off to Guam.

[pam123]

How was the south pacific?
Welcome back!

[Panama Red]

Yours were/are some of the best threads in the archives, Toaster. Good to hear from you.

[Toaster]

Hello yet again,

I've been pretty much all over the phrikken place but now in Aridphrikkenzona.
(ok, Arizona, PHX to be exact.) Did some work for specialized....um....agencies and set up a few computational beasts. For the time being, I'm hanging loose in AZ and just watching the landscape melt. Email in and out of the south pacific was difficult at best via sat-link so I lost contact with the outside world for a while but I was too buzy to do much anyhoo.
Now, I'm just chilling and doing some R&D work and staying close to FAB-21.

Hey Doc, you still around chasing 'lil hotties at the library or did'ja give up and buy a years supply of hand cream? *chuckle* (Justa joke Doc)

Hey there flopster and Hal, missed ya's, glad to see yer still kicking.

I missed the "normal insanity" of this place and the occaisional "chip wars".

Been doing some interesting things with the P4 and the Xeons as well as the 64/128 bit beasts from MIPs and UltraSparc's.

Anyhoo, I'll keep in better touch (or been touched) and re-frequent (aka:haunt) the Mech.

Glad to see everyone still stays clear of normal lives (abbynormal?) and doing well.

[David M]

I don't remember ya...I wasn't around then. But from the responses you sound like a cool dude! Welcome back!

[Force Flow]

Nice to see you around again, Toaster. :)

[Nuclear Krusader]

Run for your life, VIA! Lest you be toasted.

[Hi Ho]

I think you must have left just before I joined! I have read a lot of your threads in the archives and have heard your name mentioned several times. Nice to see you back. :)

[Lamilia]

where is guam and what were you doing there? welcome back even though I don't know you. :D

[HAL9000]

It would have been just over 3 years ago that he left... I think the last discussion that Toasty and I had was about the SiS645 chipset... he had a chance to pick into it slightly and was able to inform me that it was pretty much a clone of the Intel chipset with a few tweaks... must be true.. 3 years and not a glitch from this system.

[DragonNOA1]

Quick and short, welcome! Hopefully you'll be able to post a little more often now than once every 3 years! LoL. Welcome back, good to see ya.

[Cricket]

where is guamGuam (http://www.answers.com/guam) is part of the Northern Mariana Islands (http://www.mapsouthpacific.com/micronesia/index.html). Toaster was working there (for the military or government?). I think he's a Electrical or Electronics Engineer. He used to be one of the moderators here.

:) Cricket

[Lamilia]

wow cool

[Toaster]

Guam was interesting and rather tedius, a stopping off point to many places with none near by. (That's the best I can describe it.) None the less, it was entertaining and theoretical. Glad to see so many new faces and many of the old , this site seems to be doing well and that's good. It'll take a bit to reaquaint myself here so be patient huh?

Hal, it seems SIS stopped getting interesting after the 645DX chipset and slip back into the "bargain basement", shame, they had some ideas and tweaks Intel never gave much thought to. I too stil own one, rock stable.

I havent been arrested again (Imagine, the agency I worked for quoted my post nearly word for word and simply replied; "that's original") so no real fun yet.

Done some interesting poking around in the "Itanium" and I-II as well as a dozen P4 chipsets. (actually, I found "unused" registers for "PAT" in the BX and I810 chipsets and the nearly forgotten 860/E) More when I find my notebook........now where'd that go..... :confused:

[Floppyman]

I still remember when I proudly exclaimed that I had overclocked my Slot A 550mhz Athlon 100mhz to 650mhz by purchasing a "goldfinger" device to increase the multier to 6.5 (I must have been about 16 at the time). Toaster chuckled and mentioned that I should have just gone with Intel since all you had to do is up the FSB and they'll fly.. :D Well, several years later now you'll be happy to know that I run two Intel Pentium 4 systems that I'm very happy with. So in essence I took your advice Toaster -- it just took a while to sink in :D

[Statica]

Hey Toaster .. welcome back and good to see you around.

[bigandy]

Welcome back Toaster. I wasn't around before you left but I do remember reading some of your posts through searches of the forum and in the archives.

[HAL9000]

Hal, it seems SIS stopped getting interesting after the 645DX chipset and slip back into the "bargain basement", shame, they had some ideas and tweaks Intel never gave much thought to. I too stil own one, rock stable.


So any lil tweaks that one should know about? .. mine was just the 645 w/400Mhz FSB.

[Lord Prism]

Good to see ya toast! Been a while. :)

[Cricket]

Hey Lord Prism, haven't seen you around much lately either.

:) Cricket

[diver203_98]

Hey Toaster it is good to see you back. I also read some of your posts as well. But I can't beleive it was that long ago you left. And I agree with Cricket...Lord Prism it has been along time since I've seen you here too.

[Lord Prism]

Not a two year stint like Toaster...

.... but we started a new job and new life in Texas this year and it's been keeping me busy.

[TwoRails]

And a Welcome Back to you, too, Lord Prism!! :)

[enhanced08]

wow, toaster! nice to finally meet you. im enhanced if you havn't noticed already. i have heard and read a lot about you since i've started here. i think one of the first replies to one of my first posts mentioned your name! lol hope to see you around more often! :)