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CNY Ngau Card Game

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 07:30:00 +0800

CNY Ngau Card Game

firstruler — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:47:05 +0800

For those who plays Ngau during CNY and have troubles calculating the score, I've written a program to "cow-culate" scores based on the input of your hand.

https://klyow.github.io/cowculator
It will take a bit of time during initial loading.

To use this simple program, just input your card values, i.e.
1-9 for card numbers,
T for Ten, J for Jack, Q for Queen, K for King,
A for Ace of Spades.
Note: Suits don't matter here, except Ace of Spades. For other types of Aces, use 1.

The program will calculate ALL possible Ngaus for your hand and rank them from the highest to the lowest score.

For those who play Joker variant, you may input X for Joker. For my case, my gang plays using standard 52-card deck with 2 Jokers. The Joker card be ANY card, thus guaranteeing a valid Ngau every time.

Please enjoy and let me know if there's any bugs! Happy CNY and gong xi fa cai!

Biostar Mainboard won't detect AGP VGA Card?

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 07:30:00 +0800

Biostar Mainboard won't detect AGP VGA Card?

firstruler — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:17:06 +0800

I hope that I'm in the right forum and there's no existing post before.

I had this Biostar mainboard with onboard VGA, and I tried to install a GeForce4 G4MX440 AGP graphics card to this mainboard. The problem is, when I use this graphics card, the screen freezes / Windows hanged, upon starting Windows (before the Windows desktop, taskbar is displayed).

I thought it might be the onboard VGA which causes the conflict, and I tried many ways to uninstall (from Windows) and disable the chipset via BIOS. But the screen still freezes.

Does anyone had this problem before? I'm using the onboard VGA now although I wish I could use the AGP card if possible. Any solutions or advice?

Thanks.