wolfy teaches you stuff #1: modifying oem info (click here to see a demonstration and the method)  

if you have not figured out from the picture how to change the information listed in your [right click 'my computer] System Properties-General tab, this is fairly simple. First, search for your 'oeminfo.ini' using the search feature or just find it in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM . If you do not have one, which is the case for non-brand name, built-it-yourself pcs, open up notepad. Now type [General], then press enter to go to the next line. Type Manufacturer=What you want here. After that, press enter to go to line three. Enter in Model=Another free line for information. If you would like a button you can click for more information, rather, "Support Information", skip a line. Key in: [Support Information], then skip a line and put Line1="Don't forget the parentheses" Repeat this step for more, albeit changing the numerical value. Save the ini file, or if you did not have one before, save it as "All Files (*.*)" and type this as the file name: oeminfo.ini . To have a picture like mine, use a bmp bitmap file that is no greater than height, 172 and width, 115 pixels. Save it as oemlogo.bmp and place it in your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder. Right click on "My Computer" or whatever it is named, and there should be the fruits of your labor. 

wolfy teaches you stuff #2: how to use semicolons (click here to see a picture of a semicolon)

the semicolon, a combination of a period atop a comma, is strictly a mark of separation. It's not exactly a colon because it does not introduce anything. And not a comma which encloses. The one and only purpose is to separate parts of sentences that cannot be separated by commas. The semicolon has a longer pause as opposed to the comma. It separates independent clauses (complete thoughts) of a sentence when clauses are not already joined by coordinating conjunctions such as but, or, neither, for, yet, and, etc.  Also, a semicolon separates independent clauses of a sentence when the independent clauses are joined by coordinating adverbs- which are thus, however, consequently, accordingly, besides, moreover, and therefore. 

A classic example I use is a sentence with "however", "albeit", and "but" with a semicolon: "Software companies put much effort into registration protection; however, it is just a couple of clicks away at wolfyserver." By the way, in formal writing, never start a sentence with however.

One more function semicolons serve is that they separate items in a series when there are commas which already separate the words. You use a semicolon, because simply, without them you would not be able to distinguish what is what.

There are Chinatowns in Boston, Massachusetts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; New York City, New York; and San Diego, California. (I think, or maybe it's San Francisco? email me with the answer!)

RULES- 1. A semicolon is always placed outside quotation marks, unlike other punctuation.

Read chapter xvi "The Cold War Around the World"; read it and pay attention to the details this time.

RULES- 2. A semicolon that is next to words in a parentheses is always placed after the closing parentheses.

Leon eats all kinds of shit (with the possibility of actual stool...); lasagna, however, is what made him puke in Latin class.

wolfy teaches you stuff #3:personal hygiene - hair

If, for any reason, your hair smells (spare me the details), there is a simple solution to get it smelling neutral or actually fragrant. Also, it makes you feel cleaner and more refreshed. How you ask? No, it's not soap- that gets your hair all fuzzy and messed up. Use any type of toothpaste (preferably mint) and lather it into your hair. Rinse, and it feels like you just washed away all that oil and smell! Clean & Clear or Neutrogena cream do the job as well!

wolfy teaches you stuff #4:physical aesthetics - hair

Nowadays, everyone has dyed hair. especially Asians...yes I am Azn, although I don't prefer to use that term. Don't get me wrong; I'm proud of my heritage, although there's no need to flaunt it. I mean, [Asian] people write the Azn. abbreviation on book bags, call Caucasians bacquai & guaillos, African Americans huaiguais, and other derogatory terms not worth mentioning. Also, I got these idiots im-ing me with names like asianriceboy86 and chinkodemayo. I admit, it's humorous at times; ok, that Asian rice song http://crus.darknebula.org/Asian.html was extremely funny. But, I just don't go for that. It's like what my French teacher Mme. Brune said about showing nationality- It's all up here (points to heart), and I don't need to wear the flag on my pants. Anyways, sorry about that. Back to more focal issues, like hair! (there's a song about it by someone... it's like "Gimme beautiful hair, long beautiful hair! grow it, show it...") Highlights and hair dyes indeed bring out the attention of others. You don't have to change your hair colour to like completely green or purple. I think highlights are supposed to complement your wonderful hair and not outshine it. What I go for is subtle strand highlights- especially for like blades of hair or where your hair parts. A simple way to achieve this is using Helen Curtis's Salon Selectives: Lighten Up foam material. This is a leave in conditioner which can act like hair gel or spray while gradually lightening up, not changing, your hair colour. I have jet black long, sharp hair (not down my neck, but longer than those buzz cuts), and I don't think you can lighten up black hair (thus, they only come in blonde, light brown, med. brown, and auburn). Nevertheless, I got my hair to subtle brune and complete brown with the Blonde & Auburn formulas. Just touch up the tips of your hair, and after 1-2 weeks you can see it. The reason I go with subtle highlights (indistinguishable from afar, but noticeable at eye contact distance) is that my friends and girls go: "Hey James, since when did you dye your hair?" I can either respond: "I don't know." or (in a disbelieving manner) "Um no.. I never dyed my hair." to keep them wondering and at a state of interest. Additionally," it's natural" or "Just recently." I can't explain it, but it just looks better and will get people to notice you more as opposed to dying your hair entirely. As a Helen Curtis spokesperson.. wait, I mean.. yeah um it's only at an attractive price of $5.99 at your nearest pharmacy or supermarket. That's "Lighten Up" people! Subliminal Message: Get Dyed Hair and Use Salon Selectives

wolfy teaches you stuff #5:poetry & literature - lupism

Ok, I'm not sure about this, but just read this file- lupism.nfo. It's an experimental literary technique I invented while bored. You might catch on or you might just not get it. Send comments and death threats this way. (if you still don't know how to open a .nfo file, read the faqs section.)

wolfy teaches you stuff #6:time management & resourcefulness

Chances are you might know this, but I must mention it so everybody knows. How to find words in a document or html page- Press Ctrl + F. This acts like a search feature altogether. Since wolfyserver doesn't use a search engine and all the files are just listed- Ctrl + F will save you a lot of time. Try it and find how many times i use the word 'wolfy'.

wolfy teaches you stuff #7:chemistry and laundry

If you get nosebleeds, shaving cuts, or just like to murder a lot of people- the best way to get rid of blood on your new white polo or t shirts is to get a tub or basin, then put the articles of clothing in. Use liquid soap, or rub the clothes with the soap bar, then put tons of detergent (be sensible here) and bleach in. Leave it for 2 days to a week. Then empty the basin, put the clothes in a washer and dryer to get it smelling fresh.

wolfy teaches you stuff #8:windows xp & compatibility issues

If you have windows xp, then you must have made the tough decision of parting with your old games and software. since windows xp is like 2000 and NT series, it is not compatible with windows9x & ME. There is a solution, though. Upon installing windows9x programs, right click on the setup.exe the program has (or some other name in the case) and in properties, set the compatibility to a 9x mode, preferably 98 or ME, then run it. This way, you can still get the eye-candy of xp while being able to run all programs.

wolfy teaches you stuff #9:Emulating 3DFX Glide API

As you may already know, Glide Wrapper is the term used here. It is basically a dynamic link library file modified to tally the specifications of your Direct3D/OpenGL compatible card. You can change the settings on most occasions because mainstream Glide Wrappers provide an .exe file to enable/disable features such as SSE/3DNOW support, different rasterizers, buffer modes, and even colour depth. Most of the time, the Wrapper instructs the user to put the .dll (glide2x.dll or even glide3x.dll) in the game folder. That does not work most of the time. Instead here's what you should do. Take the dll and drag and drop into the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ folder. Thus when you run a game's video device setup, 3DFX/GLIDE will be recognized. There are several key factors you should take in account, however. First, most of these wrappers don't work or won't work for your graphics card. Experiment often. Secondly, sometimes putting the glide2x.dll just won't do it; it still will not be recognized by games using the Unreal Warfare engine. A simple solution I used was to drag and drop my voodoo5's 3dfx glide3x.dll (located on my second computer) and place it in the system folder. That seemed to have solved the problem. Also, I recommend you either use Clide Wrapper or RadeonGlide2x (for ATI Radeon I-8500 cards). These were the only two that seemed to work for me. The thing about my version of Clide (R2.4) was that it couldn't run in fullscreen and most of us know games in windowed mode are not accelerated by the graphics card- so my xp1900+ and ATI All in Wonder Radeon 7500 DDR got 29fps and pitiable image quality. In RadeonGlide though, my image quality was on par with voodoo3/5 cards. FPS was 110 (In Full Screen Mode), very nice. Also notice that even if you run in Full Screen, the maximum resolution is 800*600. I tried to set it higher but the game (Unreal Tournament) returned to 512*480. Why? Well I can't believe even I, a hardcore 3dfx fan, would forget. Voodoo2 cards (because we are using glide2x.dll) was, respectfully, only an add-on 3d accelerator for your 2d card (Voodoo3 was the first to combine both). The Voodoo2 1000 was a PCI card and thus supported the innovative SLI technology, which allowed you to combine 2 voodoo2 cards and produce nearly double the frames per second. It carried onto the Voodoo5 5500 PCI and I think perhaps even the Voodoo5 6000 PCI (2x means 256mb SGRAM). SLI works by one card drawing half the screen and the other card doing the rest. The max resolution of one voodoo2 card in Glide was 800*600- it just couldn't work at any higher resolution. Fans fortunate enough to go out and buy another voodoo2 card could now run games at 1024*768 resolution. So that explains the 800*600 limitation. If you need the glide3x.dll, just go to google.com and type in the file name. I wouldn't substitute glide2x, even though we all know it (3x) is  soo much better, for Direct 3D because the API is like, what, seven years old? Even though you can be able to play old-skool games in 3dfx mode, the fps and potential of your graphics card will drop around thirty to sixty percent- that's FPS and quality. But it is very nice to have a card that can do DX8.1/OpenGL/GLIDE2x/maybe3x!

wolfy teaches you stuff #10:Pronouns and how to speak correctly

Whether in speech or formal writing, in the event that a verb is omitted but understood, put the verb in in your head to see if the pronoun is used as its subject.

Example: James knows more than he (does).
Wrong Example: Dan knows more than him (does).

Example: You are not better than I (am)!
Wrong Example: You are not better than me!

So when you are about to say ...
Edna is prettier than her

think again and say ...

Edna is prettier than she.

wolfy teaches you stuff #11:MS Office XP annoyance

Whenever you start MSWORD XP, this thing called ctfmon.exe always shows up. This does not only drain resources (and prove fatal for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) but it conflicts with some programs you might have. I really, really hate this thing and on Microsoft's website help section, it says there's no solution into getting rid of it (I don't know if it has been solved by now). It is so annoying! Just like MDM (microsoft debug manager, which on my Alienware is not present) running in the background! Both these stupid microsoft little programs do not serve any particular purpose. Plus, whenever I try to run my Creative DVD-ENCORE DXR3 software, it crashes because of this! How do I know? Well every time I start it up, it crashes! Also, when you kill ctfmon and then run the software, it works perfectly. Anyways there is no definite solution but in your MSCONFIG's (Start-Run-msconfig) startup tab- uncheck all ctfmon and Office Startup. That way the next time you start up, it's gone! It only comes back if you run Microsoft Word again, but that's pretty hard to avoid. So you have to repeat this procedure over and over again for the most part. Funny thing is I sometimes just use Word Pad instead of MSWORD included in my $540 office suite, which I thankfully, did not pay for, heh. So I just wrote this because of my detestation of ctfmon! It really doesn't do anything at all!

wolfy teaches you stuff #12:Turkish Words

Did you know that giaour is the turkish derogatory name for non-Muslim people or infidels? And deli is Turkish for "crazy." I found this out after reading Eclipse of the Crescent Moon.

wolfy teaches you stuff #12: Final Fantasy VIII

Many people don't know this but Squall is Laguna's son. Take all the names for example: Squall, Laguna, Raine- these names all refer to water. Remember when Ellone was talking about how Laguna could not visit the ailing Raine because he was too busy searching for Ellone? She mentioned Raine had a baby who was orphaned after she died. And, Squall was raised in an orphanage. In addition, if you looked in the Information section of the menu, Raine's last name is Leonhart- the same as Squall's. Finally, in Disc Four, on the Ragnarok, just before the time compression, Laguna's buddies talk about how Squall looks like his mother and it was fortunate he didn't look like his father? If you talk to Laguna, he's hesitant about talking to you more. Concerning the ending of Final Fantasy VIII, a lot of people think Squall dies in the end. Nevertheless, the observant and true FF fan will watch the ending straight to the end. The first ending credits finishes with Rinoa gazing up at the stars and pointing to someone the shooting star. After the second round of credits finish, we see that someone is actually Squall, who is pretty alive. This could be of two reasons- he wasn't dead in the first place or those flowers and feathers caused a full-life spell. So they embrace and kiss and that's when the game actually ends.

wolfy teaches you stuff #13: How to eat crabs (the crustacean)

I nearly forgot how popular blue crabs were around the Chesapeake Bay region until I went there on vacation with my family. In Baltimore, everywhere you go, you encounter seafood restaurants and those which offer crabs. Like it said on the pamphlet at this seafood place called O-something, ( I forgot the name) crabs are very hard to eat and provide little food although this meager amount of meat is the best tasting meat out there and it makes it all worthwhile. Leon told me crabs are like one of the worst foods nutrition wise. He said the meat consisted of much fat and provided little or no vitamins. I don't really think crabs have that much fat since the pearly white meat is like chicken white meat. Hmm, well it is soft. It's not oily though. As for vitamins, I think crabs have like omega vitamins or something? Well back to the issue at hand. The first step is finding a restaurant that specifically deals with hard shell (soft-shells are not really that great and they cost so much!) blue crabs. This is a fairly easy task in the Jersey area and Chesapeake Bay. This means the crabs will be fresh and fully seasoned. Just remember, if the restaurant has crab bibs, crab souvenirs, or little mallets to crack the crab- then it's a good place to eat. When I was dining, the waiter put brown paper covering the whole table and gave us bibs to put on, knives, and tons of napkins. Believe me, it can get messy. In these restaurants, crabs go from medium to large to jumbo. Almost 100% of the time, they are out of large and jumbo. (If you have never seen a jumbo blue crab, they are nearly the same size as one pound lobsters) Don't worry though, the medium crabs are fully developed and contain much meat. The ones the restaurant will give you are male crabs. These are commonly referred to as "Jimmies", like "crawdads" for crayfish in the southern states. Male crabs have taut, succulent white flesh whereas females do not. Some people like female crabs because they have eggs inside the shell which some may find very tasty. First, rip off the two claws. Break them at their joints and use an implement such as hammer or mallet to double tap (heh, MP10-SD) the hard shell. Then remove the shattered pieces of shell, and you can pull out the meat in the claws. You may pull out the other legs of the crab, though they won't have much meat. If you take the end joint with you when you break these legs, may times you can pull out a lump of meat. Now that you've finished with the claws, it's time to work on the handicapped, respectfully, blue crab. Flip it over so you can see this v-shaped flap at its bottom. Use a knife or your fingers to remove the flap. This way, you can now gently pry open the shell. Now the first things you will see are like a film of black stuff (which is the "devil"), the gills (? well those things that look like filters), and some green, yellow substance. You cannot eat the devil or the gills, so get rid of them. Now the green, yellow substance can be quite delicious to some people so it's up to you. Now use a knife to cut the body in half, where you see like a crease. Take one part, and examine the side opposite the legs part. Gently break open the light shell with your fingers, careful enough not to disturb the meat. It's like a door, once you've penetrated the entrance, you just dig in with your index finger to pull the meat out. There are many different ways to do this, so experiment and in due course, it'll come to you naturally. I personally like crabs with the Chesapeake Bay seasonings to just steamed crabs. It's quite interesting: Every restaurant uses a different kind of recipe and although it's based around the area's seasoning, they always put in their own secret ingredient. So you've finished your first crab! It's a little tiring at first but very rewarding. Eat two and you won't be satisfied. Six? You get the idea. But a dozen to two dozen, then you know why people love blue crabs!

wolfy teaches you stuff #14: Overclocking AMD XP CPUs- particularly xp 1800+

This is without unlocking the AMD XP cpu which can prove to be quite daunting and dangerous to the cpu itself. Tutorials on tomshardware.com (my fav. hardware review site) show you how to do this. You'll need the following things- Recent motherboard with KT266A, KT333, or even AMD 761 chipsets, heat spreaders for your DDR ram sticks (ThermalTake Passive/Active Memory Cooling), a half-full copper heatsink with 5000 and above rpm (water cooling is the best but expensive at around $200-300), lots of fans in your system (I have 10), metal or better yet, aluminum system case, and thermal compound for the cpu- Arctic Silver II and III work great. Currently, the process of overclocking is very simple- just configure everything in the bios. It's different for older motherboards but you wouldn't use an old motherboard for AMD XPs. If you have a Thunderbird 1.4, and a KT266A/333 board, then you can overclock the baby to 2.1 ghz at a stable temperature. For XPs, it's different. This is what I did with mine- Go into your BIOS when you start up by continuously pressing the "Delete" key or "F1". Go to Frequency/Voltage control. Set the configuration to manual. CPU speed is determined by multiplying jumper setting with front side bus speed. You don't need special ram such as PC-2400-3200XMS for this operation since it will be just a slight overclock. 11.5*133 is like the default for the XP1800+ (I am using this cpu because the majority of XP owners use this because of the value/performance ratio). That's 1529 which is the 1800+'s actual speed. You might think you can overclock this chip 200mhz and over, but that's impossible since the core is different than the TB's. I suggest you overclock the CPU by 8% and less of the original speed. Now my multiplier was at 11.5, meaning I could fiddle around with the FSB setting. It depends on the motherboard, but mine can do 133-200mhz FSB. At 145*11.5 (1.667ghz) I got a windows protection error. At 144 (use 1mhz increments when you overclock), still windows protection blue screen error. At 143, windows started up but had visual artifacts and crashed in a couple of minutes. 142- my games crashed after ten minutes. 141- 3D games crash rarely. 140- Super-stable with no problems. So I overclocked my 1800 to xp1900+ at 1.610. The great thing is that Windows, your motherboard, and all other programs actually think you have an XP1900+ in your machine! And benchmarks prove there is a slight benefit. Thus, by taking ten minutes of your time, you saved like $20-50 not buying an XP1900. Nevertheless, take in account the CPU temperature. I use a ThermalTake Volcano 7 currently in my Alienware because it's quiet. I gave my Dragon Orb3 to my friend because it sounded like a Jet-Engine. The Dragon Orb 3 is very good with overclocking since it has a copper base, the innovative fin design, and a 7000+ RPM fan! Those sharp blades can seriously slice one's finger off. The Ideal CPU Temperature is around 31 Celsius. If you overclock, then obvious it's going to be much higher. During the winter, the CPU overclocked to 1900+ is for me, around 43-45 Celsius which is not very good but still very stable. Right now, during the summer (with the AC off), the temperature is sometimes even 49-50 Celsius! Yeouch! Think about it, water freezes at 0C and boils at 100C. I can fry eggs on my XP chip. So now, I barely get program crashes, although Windows is still fine. I am going to sell this and get a Volcano7+ with pure copper heatsink and faster but louder fan. If worse comes to worse...then ThermalRight SK6 with 8000RPM delta. Hopefully, when the AMD Thoroughbred comes out and pairs up with DDR2700, we won't need to overclock to boast numbers against P4s.

wolfy teaches you stuff #15: Spelling Correctly

Ok I always spell apologize incorrectly for some reason. Here's a sure way you won't be able to get it wrong: Break it apart into three sections and go: A Polo Gize - So someone who wears a lot of Ralph Lauren. And the gize part probably refers to his or her insecurity with life and thus needs brand names to... hah- anyways...

wolfy teaches you stuff #16: Custom sub-profiles without the ads.

Quite a number of buddies on AIM have asked my how did I make my custom info. Most of you are familiar with subprofile.com and other info sites. They offer a convenient service with counters, guestbook and such things though with advertisements. These info pages are, in fact, regular html (htm in this case) webpages. AOL does not store these files- subprofile or neptune's servers put your information on their website and your info viewers access these pages. But first, you need to get through AIM so you can view extended infos. All links in AIM profiles open up a new IE window. You could have a profile like so; although, many want the nifty feature of viewing the profile in the profile window. Highly understandable. You don't need to be a webmaster to know this- just basic html or a good eye warrants. Locate your AIM folder in file:///C:/WINDOWS/APPLICATION DATA/Aim or C:/Windows/AIM95 in win9x. Locate your name folder. In my case, the dir is thatbiggbadwolfy. info.htm is the file you want to modify. You are allowed to have AIM running while performing the following: First, to make it easy- design your profile in AIM's profile edit feature. Put a link there- even though it won't be subprofile yet, just put it there. Open up Notepad and drag and drop "info.htm" onto the notepad. If you are new to HTML you may see some unfamiliar code. Nonetheless you will be to at least locate a URL. Now find the URL you just made. Mine looks something like this before the next step:

<A HREF="http://www.wolfyserver.org/info.htm">view my extension info!</FONT></A>

The text that says "view my extension info" will be what is showed and the link following is the destination. You can choose to change both to your liking. Needless to say, you will need some webspace for your info- since AOL is not hosting it. I would recommend a free, reliable, and banner-less host such as www.7host.com - 50mbs. So now the link is just a regular link, not a subprofile link. How subprofile works is it targets the link in the same window. HTML people- you know what I'm talking about. Now follow this:

<A HREF="http://www.wolfyserver.org/info.htm" TARGET="_self">view my extension info!</FONT></A>

Change link so it adds TARGET="_self" - do not forget to add the underscore. Also, make sure the page you make- your extended info page is saved in .htm format. Thus, AIM will allow your subprofile to be shown. Just to be sure, when you are finished it should show:

<A HREF="http://www.wolfyserver.org/info.htm" TARGET="_self">view my extension info!</FONT></A>

Remember to just change the URL and nothing else. When you make your profile page- be sure to not use any scripts, line breaks, pictures and the like. AIM does not recognize these features. It will be simply text- just as subprofile.com is. If you want infinite subprofile pages- make more links to your other pages with the TARGET="_self" feature. Always save files in .htm format. And remember to upload your files- so people online can view it. Use a full link- with the http: rather than a local C/:webpages/example.htm - Be creative, there are many ways you can express yourself online and AIM. Just remember- always be original!

do you have anything you would like to add or comment on? send some mail age james@wolfyserver.org