I have, as any one thats read this before recently upgraded my machine to one of them funky new dual core pentium chips. Ok, for a while the machine did have this bad habbit of crashing, especialy in games, but also some time just over night.

I was worried, as every one would I guess, but it seems to have sorted it self out. I thought it would really, new chips can have issues with burn in, as they get hot they change shape, but over time this should go away.

Any way, all that aside I have only had one crash of late, and it was over 30 degrees in my flat at the time, so fair enough. I thought I was going to crash it was so hot....

So, as it seems stable enougth I thought I would see what over clocking could do. I have a 2.66 gig chip, using Asus' funky tool I have clocked it up to 120%, I now have 3.2 gig. Nice.

Well, to test it, I have been running a bruteforce attack on a word document. Ok, so its not the most logical choice, but given a 6 letter password thats a hell of a lot of combinations.

So, the tool I am using dosn't want to utalize both processors but that just means I can still use the PC. I've had it running at 100% load (about 50 to 60% of both processors) for over a day now, the processor is running about about 56 to 59 degrees, it hit 60 brifely once, but then its still quite warm in here. About 22 ish.

I think I might try running some harder tests, some thing to strain both processors, see if it can get up to cooking speed :-) If it gets to hot, I might have to get over my fear or water and electricity, and get some water cooling, that would totaly rock :-) but I will have to talk to women in to it first. She seems to object to my inner geek worshiping at the temple of hardware.... :-( *cries*

I was playing around with some AJAX, you know, to see what could be done with it. I've seen a couple of places that use "live chat" applications, some in Java, some Active X. But I thought it would be handy to have one writen in in Java script, and ajax.

So, thats what I have done. If you want to have a play with it check out it here

Its not perfect, but it works. Most of the time :-) I'll have to track down why it is that now and again it stops updateing.