WTF 18x

So, I accidentally forgot to set max speed when burning DVD. Thanks to Taiyo Yuden Blank DVD Media and SONY DRW-830A, ImgBurn smartly set the burning speed to 18x.

And it never actually reach that speed –

I 23:13:25 Average Write Rate: 15.426 KB/s (11.1x) – Maximum Write Rate: 23.131 KB/s (16.7x)

Yeah – 15 MB/s average and 22 MB/s maximum. The harddisk is also reaching its limit. I wonder how will the speed be if I tried to burn a 4.7×109 bytes data… (this one is 3.55 GB)

Got pawned… by gparted

(Gparted is an open source partition editor)

Here’s the chronology:

  1. SP3 got!
  2. Install!
  3. Decided to install on old system (20 gb partition)
  4. Finished install
  5. Installed lots of programs
  6. Wanted to install NWN2…
  7. …not enough space!
  8. No worry, there’s still 50 gb space I can use to enlarge the partition
  9. Ubuntu + Gparted come to rescue!
  10. Resized in blink of eye
  11. Open the partition with Ubuntu… looks fine
  12. Restart!
  13. Nothing happen orz
  14. Boot with Windows XP Installation disk (fixmbr/fixboot)
  15. Restart!
  16. Still nothing happens orz
  17. Try repair!
  18. Restart!
  19. Now there are fancy characters on screen…
  20. wtf
  21. Rinse and repeat from step #11
  22. Still error!
  23. WTF
  24. Reinstall come to rescue o_O
  25. That, and one day work gone *poof*. Redo from beginning 👿

Lessons learned.

Easy way to create rather secure and easy to remember password

Long title is looooooooooooong. LOL.

The steps:

* Create (long) sentences (usually two) that’s easy to remember and contains numbers and symbols (ex: I have smartly bought & waste money on manga that the anime has just aired this season, Zettai Karen Children, for $10. It’s a good read though!)
* Take first letter of each words, except for numbers and symbols (from above: Ihsb&wmomttahjats,ZKC,f$10.Iagrt!)
* That’s it, LOL. (and the example above is too long. 2 sentences with 5 word each should be sufficient 😛 )

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Multi-booting Windows, (x/k/ed)Ubuntu, OpenBSD

I actually liked Windows’ boot manager: it’s simple that it’s stupid (LOL)

But that’s it: I’m not going to use other boot manager if there’s any Windows installation in same drive (assuming all OSes are in same drive).

For OpenBSD, it’s really easy: just read the installation faqs. 😛

For (x/k/ed)Ubuntu, there’s no instruction available but it’s not much different with OpenBSD’s:

  • At installation, make SURE to install GRUB on the ROOT partition of the system (using advanced option on last step) – and take note the location (ex: /dev/sda2)
  • After installation you’ll get to Windows directly without given choice for OS: don’t worry, we’ll add it now
  • Go download dd for windows
  • Use dd --list to see which is the Ubuntu root partition. Easy way: Harddisk# is the same as system partition – usually C: drive. Then for Partition#, use this formula: /dev/[s/h]d[a-z]#. So /dev/sda2 would have partition number 2 (Partition2)
  • Then do this: dd if=?DeviceHarddisk#Partition# of=c:ubuntu.pbr bs=512 count=1
  • And edit boot.ini (System Properties → Advanced → Startup and Recovery Settings → Manually edit startup file). Add line like this: C:ubuntu.pbr="Ubuntu"
  • Reboot, there’ll be Ubuntu in boot choice list.
  • There might be another countdown… to remove: go find it yourself 😛
  • Yay finished

AVG8 WTF

It uses 40MB of memory and eats all cpu resource when opening a folder with lots of application in it.

Will do a wait and see approach for a month before uninstalling it and replacing with something lighter like free antivirus from Avast! or Avira.

Ubuntu lol

Ha. So I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop.

  • Mplayer works (just search it on its package manager interface). Styled subtitle also works albeit with glitch on font rendering.
  • Using intel graphic chip helps greatly when using it as no need for additional driver.
  • In general, using not-so-new hardware means that there’s high chance nothing will be need to be done to use linux perfectly (?). Laptop’s volume control (via keyboard shorcut) also works. So does the touchpad and battery and wifi and… everything 😛
  • Uninstalled again though, as I need space for data XD

On web based games…

A few days ago, I have to wait someone for one hour. And since I’ve got nothing to do, I go checking my old account at MonstersGame. Fetch graveyard loot, challenge the ancestral (and win). Then saw that there’s new version of it but not yet applied to all servers – and – a new game (or maybe not so new, but at least it’s still only has one world).

Tales of Magician. Got curious and played for the lulz.

Here are some differences with MonsterGame, Knight Fight, and some other games from RedMoon Studios:

  • Stats gained from level: no more buying stat with ingame money. Which means it’ll be much more balanced and characters will have same total stats on same level.
  • Diversity: more attack variations (that is, spells). Unlike MonstersGame, where there’s no attack variation, or KnightFight / TechWarrior, where only two choices: full def / full atk (in case of KF), or energy / physical (in case of TW) – in ToM, one can choose either focus in one element tree, or divide on two, three, or more element tree.
  • Items: well, the items are much more expensive (and money is harder to gain) – but there are less dependency on items in this game: weaponry doesn’t directly add damages, it adds up in percentage.
  • Faster to level up: Now I can level up much faster thanks to the fact that if I fight against higher level I’ll get five(!) times more experience compared to when fighting against same/lower level. Level 6 in 2 days wasn’t possible in any games before (it actually possible if you’re willing to gimp your character thanks to the need of money to raise stats – but since raising stats doesn’t use money in this game, whatever LOL)
  • Faster and less discrimination: 10 minutes attack delay and 90 minutes free exp compared to 15 minutes attack delay and 60 minutes free exp from other games

Well, that’s it. I’ll try this for few more days just for the lulz. 😀

And

Also tried Ikariam. This one is city building. Not going to tell you anything else though as I R LAZY. 😀

Random links

  • http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/14/super-genintari-project-is-finished-and-ready-to-make-you-enviou/
  • http://otakuism.animeblogger.net/?p=2548
  • http://shop.broccoli.co.jp/maker/ef-the_latter_tale/
  • http://www.froth-bite.com/forums/index.php?topic=1715.msg11727

Protip

  • If you’re looking for great images, check out the ones from either Tinkle (てぃんくる) or Mikeou (みけおう) 😀
  • Go to Icie’s site to get some of them (no link for you. HAHAHA)