Well another week another load of crap to take care off. So what’s up with me? I’m sure everyone is dying to know.
Watched Eragon
It was a good movie. Of course it just does not even compare to “The Lord of the Rings”. Damn Peter Jackson, I love him for giving us LotR but I hate him for ruining every other fantasy movie. So Eragon is good, not fantastic, but its clearly building up for a second and maybe third movie, just hope it does well enough for a sequel to be made. Its feels a bit Star Wars like, just substitute “dragon rider” with “jedi knight”.
Playing Online with the Raving Lunatics via Hamachi
Hamachi is quite easily one of the greatest programs I have ever installed on my PC. No need to deal with that “blue server” crap, now we can log on and play with each other online. So far its DotA when there’s enough people. We really should play Judgement Day more. I really sucked at it though, I can’t read any of the descriptions on my TV. Its not so bad for DotA since I already know what is where and recognise the icons and recipe requirement, but with Judgement Day I don’t even know what is what.
Looks like if we are going to play seriously I will have to buy myself a monitor. I saw an Acer 19 inch widescreen LCD monitor going for RM690 at Imbi Plaza. Do you guys think it’s a worthwhile buy? I’d thought of buying an LCD TV, like a 32 inch one but the prices are just was too high. Problem is that my TV is flickering a lot these days and I worry I might start having seizures watching it and I still need something to play PS2 and Xbox one. Well I’ll sort it out eventually.
Night of the Living Dead is a way cool Warcraft map. Its was loads of fun except the code I wrote down didn’t work, though that could be an error on my part. Plus it is so small and the units are kinda boring looking. SWAT vs. Resident Evil is something I’m not sure how I feel about. Its fun but the fact that you can suddenly die and that its impossible to revive at early levels takes the piss out of it.
NOTE TO WARLOCK!!! If you want you can always email whatever maps you’ve downloaded and want to test directly to me at my Yahoo account. I’ll download it independently and then it won’t take so long when we hook up online. Also you could just send me the exact link you downloaded from. I don’t want to go searching for it because of the possibility of different filenames.
Playing Xenosaga Episode 3: Also Sprach Zaratusthra
I love this game and I enjoy the combat way more than I did FF XII’s battle system. Well I enjoy it when the game actually lets me play since true to the Xenosaga series there is a LOT of cutscenes in there to go through. One annoying thing is that there are a lot of segments with spoken dialogue where you have to press a button to go to the next sentence. It’s a stupid thing since you can easily spend an hour pressing nothing but the O button over and over to get to the next line. They should have made it automatic.
The E.S. (the robots they use) combat is the best out of the series so far. It doesn’t beat Xenogears, partly because the robots in Xenogears were so bloody cool looking. But with all those cool super moves and finally being able to activate your Vessel of Anima, it just rocks.
Trying to figure out the best way to download porn…and some mp3s, movies and music videos *grins*
I already have Limewire Pro, but as far as movies go it really sucks. Actually Limewire seems to be in decline lately, I can never find a healthy supply of anything these days. On the adivice of a friend I downloaded a program called “Bearshare” but I can’t test it out just yet since my resolution is too low to properly view the window, and of course if I increase the resolution I can’t read anything. So I’m looking for some advice from the technocrats on this blog.
Is Bearshare any good? I’ve been thinking of downloading eMule or was it eDonkey but I’m not sure, I used it like a year or so ago but then it suddenly became extremely difficult to download and at time wouldn’t download even when 100 people were online with the file I wanted. Limewire of course is filled with junk downloads.
As far as Torrent downloaders go I’ve got BitComet installed, its always worked fine for me and I like the interface, but I’m looking for some decent torrent sites. Right now I mostly go to Mininova, but are there any better ones to check out? Please post links when you comment.
Spending most of Saturday trying to install my goddamn hard drive
So despite the advice of the Ravers, I went and bought a Maxtor 250GB SATA hard disk instead of a Seagate. I got conflicting advice from my friends in K.L. with one in particular having gone through 3 Seagate HDDs and all of them crashed, but had a good ride with Maxtor. Plus seeing as how Maxtor now owns Seagate I guess it makes little difference.
The reason I was having a problem was that everyone was telling me to focus on this whole master/slave thing. How it works is that for CD-ROM/DVD-ROM and Hard Disk Drives (HDD) you have channels on your motherboard, one channel is basically one plug and you attach the cable and connect 2 devices. One must be set as master and the other as slave.
However both my HDDs the new and the old were plugged into 2 separate channels and so both were masters. Problem was that Windows would detect my new HDD but would not install it and kept listing it as a removable device. Turns out that Windows support for SATA HDDs is a bit dodgy so I have to manually install is after digging knee deep into some menus and I had to modify my registry so that SATA devices are not listed as removable. Also, SATA HDDs do not have a master/slave setting, all SATA HDDs are masters unlike the older IDE HDDs.
So if anyone ever buys a SATA HDD be warned, plus if you’re having problems I can show you how to deal with it now. At least I’ve got more space than I know what to do with, spent some time on Sunday copying all kinds of stuff. |
At 7:33 PM,
A viewsonic 19 inch LCD should cost less than RM 800. Widescreen if youlike.
At 10:02 AM,
Yup I saw a Viewsonic 19inch widescreen on sale for RM 700 at Imbi. Acer with the same specs is RM 690. I figure Acer is a more reputable brand right?
My real problem is that my TV is nearing the end of its long life and I need to get something cheap to use for both my computer and video games consoles. TVs have low rez and the LCD TVs are way too costly, at least 3.5k howeevr LCD monitors don't have the inputs for my PS2 and XboX, unless I buy a TV tuner card, dunno how much that costs or if its worthwhile.
I could get s 34inch High Def CRT TV for retty cheap, but I dunno how my computer output will look like. See the TV I have in mind supports 1080i resolution, that means the vertical resolution is 1080 pixels. However I can only input the video signal from my PC using an S-Video cable. So I'm no5t sure how it will look and I can't seem to find a concrete answer online.
Need to find someone with a laptop with TV output so I can take it to the shop and test it. Can't be carrying my computer around town
At 5:14 PM,
Hello all.am messaging from cambodia now.found time to visit this blog hehe.I'm in the taxi waiting to reach our nexr temple destination.see u guys when I come home.take care
At 5:09 PM,
HEY!! that wasnt ANONYMOUS!! it was meeeee!!
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