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This morning our cat, Neko the D caught and killed its second victim, or "prey", a 10 inch long "baby" snake (looks like a python-type) and left it to dry in the cold night's air, until it was recovered by my mother the next morning. Of course, I never forget to draw evidence to the story too.
You poor, poor snake.
2 thumbs up, Neko-D!
Rawr!!!Approximately around 8.20am this Friday morning, I heard a loud bang in our toilet. It seems like there was some kind of explosion.
Here was the resultant force:
Of course, we have another toilet but seriously man... I can't help but laugh at my dad sighing...
Moral of the blog: Try to fix your human can ASAP when you notice the tank getting shaky.
I felt like it's time to revive a dead blog so why the hell not I slap a random post for your reading pleasure? I'll try to not waste your time though--- this information can already be considered old, but informative nonetheless for most of us out there.
BTW, UNCHARTED and DEMON SOUL FTW!
10 COOL stuff you can do with your USB flash drive
I italicized the ones I really like.
1. Run portable applications - Don't really find this interesting.
2. Boot and operating system - Linux if you have Windows and Windows if you have linux. That's my pick.
3. Connect to a wireless network - Err... I don't really save much wireless data from place to place.
4. Create a password reset disk - Yeah, sometimes you can forget your Windows login password and you're practically doomed. What else to save you than a handy USB pendrive? Only trouble is, if you forget WHICH one... or if someone finds out your shit.
5. Boost performance - Yeah, more RAM does help. Wait, is it RAM? Whatever, as long as it ticks faster!
6. Manage it - Dunno bout this one. Won't use it and probably never will.
7. Use it as an MP3 player - Nahh. Not atm.
8. Password-protect it - Hmm. Locking your data could be the easiest and most practical/rational thing we should all do to out thumbdrive cause its too damn portable!
9. Run a web site from it - What's up with this use? I don't see much... use for a normal consumer like me. Well oh yeah see targeted audience.
10. Lock your PC - Very cool. Plug in your thumbdrive and your PC automatically ons, and pull it out and it locks itself. Your keyboard, mouse and any button becomes useless to you. Indeed it is like in the movies. But shit this thing is scaryy. Imagine losing your USB drive... wtf now? Coo but too risky IMO.
Read further: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=931
P/S: I'm not bored to tell you how, I'm just lazy to type! Which is why this blog seems dead now. Oh well, let me see how long the next gap of entry will be... =)
Last time I gave a short tip on how to proactively use the Media Player Classic or MPC for short.
However, my guide is definitely overshadowed by this awesome guide to everything you need to know and more about MPC, which is called the Homecinema and is the latest release by the developers.
Here's where you can find his guide!
Good luck and happy configuring!
FUP or Fair Usage Policy, that is what TMNet's Streamyx broadband will follow up on soon or is already on it by now.
Notice your internet slowing down, if you're on Streamyx? Well, rumors are going around that, streamyx is now capping your download speed to 40kbp/s (that's 40-- usually less) if you exceed a monthly download usage of 10GB. Unlimited Broadband eh? 2 mistakes there.
1. It isn't broadband just yet (copper wire... wtf right)
2. It is now limited--- very limited.
And urgh, P1 WiMax won't be much help now that so many people are already subscribing. Streamyx monopolizing isn't getting us better services by the day, in fact I dare say we are getting worst speeds.
Just take a look at one of these example of internet service in another part of our Earth:
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/broadband/compare.html
And uhh--- rant it out on here with our fellow army of Screamyx haters! Read this first though.
Salam,FUP: http://streamyx.com.my/customer_care/customer_care.php?id=customer_care_fair_usage_policy
2 Minggu lepas, aku dikejutkan dengan internet aku tetiba slow. Aku cek website TM, katanya dorang ada proses pembaikan kabel dasar laut. Tapi dah hampir 2 minggu. Baru-baru ni ada seorang pengguna streamyx berjaya mendapatkan info yang amat berguna.
TM sedang menjalankan proses menggunaan Fair Usage Policy di beberapa tempat secara berperingkat-peringkat. Fair Usage Policy adalah satu kaedah mengehadkan kelajuaan internet setelah anda mencapai bandwidth yang telah ditetapkan. Mengikut khabar angin, TM akan mengehadkan speed kepada 40Kbps daripada mana-mana speed sama ada 1Mb, 2Mb, 4Mb, dan sebagainya setelah anda mencapai maksimum bandwidth berjumlah 10GB sebulan.
Pendek kata, FUP sama seperti Celcom Broadband, Maxis Broadband, dan Pakej Home P1Wimax. Aku cuba mendapatkan kepastian daripada kawan karib aku yang bekerja di TM. Dia pun mengesahkan TM sedang menjalankan UJIAN FUP. Tetapi masalahnya, kenapa perlu menguji sehingga lebih 2 minggu terhadap akaun streamyx yang sama?
Semakin hari semakin banyak akaun streamyx yang dikunci dan dihadkan penggunaannya. Menurut maklumat dalam, TM akan memperkenalkan pakej terbaru mereka tidak lama lagi selepas keberjayaan FUP ini. Antaranya, mereka akan memperkenalkan Caj per Bandwidth. Amat meluatkan TM sekiranya mereka melaksanakan FUP tanpa memastikan lebih 90% kelajuan internet dicapai kerana setakat ini hanya 60-70% kelajuan yang diperoleh hasil daripada konsep base effort basis.
Aahh, bagaimana dengan pengguna SOHO, Enterprise dan Corporate?. Aku menggunakan pakej SOHO dan mempunya 2 akaun. Kedua-dua Akaun SOHO aku sepenuhnya disekat kepada 40Kbps.
Sedih dan amat menyedihkan. Kita tiada pilihan kerana TM mempunyai kuasa monopoli yang hebat. Terutamanya selepas TM memenangi kontrak HSBB. Begitu menghairankan HSBB boleh diberikan kepada TM walaupun telah memonopoli pasaran broadband negara. Sepatutnya kerajaan memberikan kontrak kepada lebih 21 ISP yang lain di Malaysia.
Sekali lagi, kita akan terkebelakang dalam mengejar teknologi. Apa-apapun, kita tunggu pakej terbaru daripada TM. Saksikan kelajuan broadband tanpa batasan!!
xDSL
It was a long holiday for me. The month of June just breezed through time, and before I knew it, I completely was oblivious to make any sort of entry for that particular month. No anime news, nothing. Wonder what I did the whole 1, 1/2 months of holiday?
In a couple of days I'll be returning back to my Uni, and that's when everything here comes back to a halt (not that it was ever moving, anyways). I got nothing new you probably don't already know, things that I have been updating for the past year, things like the FF series, new anime shows to look out for, etc etc. They're all a google click away, no?
So perhaps I'll just summarize things you should be looking out for if you share some of my interests. Things that are worth your time that I consider, was worth my time on.
- xxxHolic: Shumuki has finished their release. Both OVA episodes will reveal and continue to hide some of the mysteries you don't see. Good watch, and by the way, the OP and ED rock this time.
- Natsu no Arashi is another great anime by the animation studio Shaft (Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei and Maria-Holic to name a few). Funny and relentlessly forcing you to watch more and more. A must watch this season.
- Fans of Haruhi Suzumiya must not miss the omake-like release of Haruhi-chan and the continuation of the first season, the second Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is now available.
- As a fan of the fighting, adventure game Sengoku Basara or the English release under the name Devil Kings, I'd say the anime has been a great alternative to the game (and I dare say even better than the game itself!). Great 720p animation, and nice beat and story telling in this game to anime series. Must, must watch folks!
- Ever heard of Eve no Jikan (Time of Eve)? They are series of short OVAs, telling the life of a the real world in the future, in some 20XX year where humanoid robots are replacing humans but not like, you know, the fantasy tale where robots rule over the world aka iRobot. This time, they function stricitly accroding to how their owners want them to, until, well, one of them secretly functions out of this order. This has got to be one of the best science fiction OVA I've seen. Great animation and mysterious storyline, that's how you'll like it.
- Fans of CLANNAD should already finished watching After Story, but there's more. The newly released Kyou Chapter left me thinking, "Clannad never fails to draw out some tears from the viewers" after my recent watch of this episode. Its an OVA from the game, of Kyou's chapter and how fate ensues when Tomoya chooses the long haired twin sister.
- Final Fantasy XIV (14) has been announced to be released as an MMORPG. Wiki for it, it's still hot and... vague. =(
- If you haven't already know, Final Fantasy XIII is set to be released somewhere at the end of 2009, that is, this year!
- And oh, of course, don't forget that the new Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei is also getting some attention from horror and gore fans! Great alternative, in which this time, you get to see what happens when the curse does not exist, Keiichi does not arrive in Hinamizawa, and those main villains do not appear as the dam's case is solved and the town is going to be flooded with water! Wtf, right? =)
I guess that about wraps anything extra I gotta say before my abscence. It would be a long time to come before a new entry is available in the blog. Laters.~
Hey, I'm sure many of you watch movies and videos using the simplified version of the Windows Media Players called the Media Player Classic.
And today, I wish to share with you folks some of the useful shortcut keys to make quick changes while viewing your videos without the use of the mouse, because well, let's face it, we all grow tired of moving and seeing the pointer on our screen at some point. At least I did, so anyway, here you go!
To play: Video loaded, press space bar. Press again to pause.
To stop: Period, or fullstop (.).
To go fullscreen (adjust fullscreen type in options): CTRL + Enter/Return
Exit (to close the program): Alt + X
To close loaded video: CTRL + C
To minimize playing video (needs reconfirmation, just figured this out): ALT + Spacebar + N
To slow movie/video by one rate (continue to press to go slower): CTRL + Down arrow key
To hasten movie/video by one rate (continue to press to go higher speed): CTRL + Up arrow key
To mute (assuming you dont have a "mute" media button on keyboard): CTRL + M
Open quick file: CTRL + Q
Go Option mode: O (not zero)
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Well that wraps up the list of useful shortcut keys for the trusty MPC. FOr the rest, figure out yourself... (hahahaha *grins evilly*) or just use the mouse, alrighty? Hope this has been useful for you MPC "players" out there. Good luck and happy trying!
Fell in love with this song.
Suteki.
Japanese version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s76dPRY2-DU
Been a while since I've had an "Anime of the Month" entry, but this entry title is changed a bit to make it exclusive for May 2009. These anime titles started airing before May, but they are still the highlights of this month. I've been too busy to be watching too many animes lately so, I'm sure there are even better titles out there for the month. If so, please excuse my weakness. =)
So we've seen the demo for Final Fantasy XIII, a trailer showing a conversation between Stella and Noctis in Versus, and a trailer for Agito XIII as well (I didn't see this one yet though).
I'm emphasizing more on FFXIII's demo, for now. For starters, you can watch the whole thing here, on this person's YouTube channel: 
http://www.youtube.com/user/wanwano123
Awesome! It's all I can say. I didn't predict anything right since last year, but I did guess that the system was revamped! Finally we've got turn-based in the game again. Not that I disliked FFXII's system, but I always thought RPGs were meant to have tactical systems in the gameplay core, at least the main aspect of it should consist of one.
The almost seamless transitions between battle and cut-scenes that first was made Godly by MGS4 made the demo feel like the real, promising game.
You just gotta see it.
As for the trailers of the other games, why not go IGN or Gametrailers? They've got them for you.
FFXIII; coming Winter 2009. Winter? Bleh.
Hohoho! Yes, my break is almost up! I'll be able to update a lot more than recent months. Here are some scans from the trusty PlayStation magazine!
We'll be seeing the release of Advent Children Complete on Blu-ray for Japan very soon this month, and an American release on June, this year! What comes with the package? Well, you don't have to pre-order it since it is limited availability, but you get new 30-minute footage from the movie, a HD version of Advent Children (without the need to say... :P), a trailer for FFXIII, Versus XIII and Agito XIII! So yes, 70 dollars for the whole package. Pretty expensive for us living in Malaysia, eh? But who cares! Wait for the release! Uploaders will do us the favor without the need to even ask, hahaha!
Ah, if you haven't already know, a 300MB+ video (complete with subtitles) is out last month (yeah, I know I'm sooo late :~[ ) providing voice over, battling action for both CG and gameplay (not too much difference I'd say!) and of course, more into what we would expect (bummer the "In production part tho).
So, what the hell right? Go bloody download the damn thing HERE! That's a direct download URL.
That's all for now folks. Been dead and quiet here but I promise a little more update (and hopefully a lot more) during the next couple of months to come. =)
