Doris Miller

Today was a day like any other... chemistry in the morning, math after (I must admit that I Really like linalg..especially since I'm so good at it!), then physics (which passed by really)....but of course, the highlight of my day was Doris Miller, the humanities teacher.

Just like last week, this quote is sufficient and self-explenatory of her: "Oh sure, I would love it if there were a policeman in front of my door every morning...I couldn't ask anything more then to live in a country where there's a policeman in front of everyone's door. You shouldn't expect any privacy in public. I think there shoudl be cameras everywhere". I wanted to raise my hand and say that such a country did exist, it's called Nazi Germany. There's also Communist Russia.

But of course, I smiled and agreed.

I feel a bit happier today...but I had a weird discussion with my mom.

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[M]o.o.d: 60% Happy, 40% Depressed
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Some chinese song I found on my iPOD.
[L]i.k.e.d: Feeling better...
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Discussing with my mom.
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: Math
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: Humanities
[M]: Yes. [T]: 1
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "You should expect no privacy in public." - Doris Miller

Dragostea din tei

God...that song...it's everywhere. Those romnanian female-behaving / looking..ah..effeminated...singers (Trying to be politcally correct) are everywhere with their annoying eurodance song. Everyone is like obessed with Romania or something now. Ugh...can't we be known for something else. Speaking of Romania, the guy already bought an LCD screen. Bummer.

I went to a Chinese Event today where there was typical high-pitched singing. I have no problem with that, but the speaker was right in front of our table and the sound system sucked, so instead of a melodious high-pitched voice, you ended up hearing a digitalized chirping ear-piercing unberable 120dB noise...my ears still hurt.

I'm so tired I didnt' even feel like blogging today...oh well...I did...but nothign much to say anyways... I need to cheer up for next week... I guess there's something on my mind I need to identify.

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[M]o.o.d: 100% Nothing
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: The Romanian song is stuck in my head :( :( :(
[L]i.k.e.d: The Event today wasn't that bad..it's been two years I wanted to go. The food was super good!
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: The bad speakers/microphone.
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: It's Sunday...what do you think?!
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: It's Sunday...what do you think?!
[M]: Yes. [T]: 1
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "Enron: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt / equity swap with associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows' milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the feng shui is bad."

TGIF

Today was a rather uneventful Friday...

I came to school at 10:30 hoping to take my math class, but I had no idea where it was, so instead I did my physics homework and talked to my cool teacher for a little review of NYA mechanics. It felt really good to understand everything and do the electricity/magnetism problem right in the first try.

I then talked for two hours with my organic chemistry teacher and another chemistry teacher about all sorts of moral issues in biotechnology, his wife, school, chemistry, physics and etc.

Then I saw Caro and we went together to the Honours Science meeting to see the new crop of students...nothing special there...we ended the day by a little shopping at Fairview, then I went home.

I don't feel so good lately...I wake up in the morning fine, but by the time it's night and I go to sleep, this weird depression hits me and I get all sad. By the time I wake up it's gone. Weird.

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[M]o.o.d: dunno...
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Nothing special...
[L]i.k.e.d: Seeing cool teachers and going shopping with my gf.
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Feeling tired
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: Didn't go to any class...
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: Didn't go to any class...
[M]: Yes. [T]: 1
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "Communism: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. Then the government sends you to prison."

Getting better

Well,

Things seem to have relaxed a bit. I got a workable WinMe Image that can repro teh SF bug that I have to fix....school wasn't that bad...I finished at 1:00 and went downtown with Caroline...

I just had a small homework today...and that's about it...I have some more for Monday but nothing big.

I did some more VB reversing today... was fun. I got the laptop money and I'm shipping it tomorrow morning first thing.

I'm going to go to my math class from 10:30 to 12:30 tomorrow, instead of the 1:00-2:30 one...then I'll spend some time with Caro..

A romanian guy called to buy my LCD Screen...I Hope we'll work out a deal...600$ more for me. I also sold chemistry at 85$.

Well..not much happening, not much to say.

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[M]o.o.d: 100% Nothing
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Got an M2M song stuck in my head...Our Song.
[L]i.k.e.d: Finally seeing Caro....and getting our locker in a good place.
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Feeling tired
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: Physics
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: Only had Physics and Organic, none were bad.
[M]: Yes. [T]: 2
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "The Wise man speaks because he has something to say. The Fool speaks becausehe has to say something" - Plato

...

Wow,

Just when I thought it couldnt' get worse....

Well...today wasn't so bad from one point of view...the courses...English was bearable (Odeta is in it haha)...although I said hi to this slut and she looked at me with this face of disgust. Stupid...what kind of last name is "War" anyways.

Phys-ed was uneventuful...class lasted 30 minutes... then I tried to find Caro but I didn't see her anywere...and went for a 1-hour Physics Lab with my cool quebecoise teacher. We played with Van der Graaf machines.

The bad stuff is that of course, the SF version I sent to Daniel had a bug, I lately seem to have weird pains in my stomach/urinating, I still have a headache, and it also sucked not to see Caro all day (I didn't see anyone I knew all day actually). Rather depressing. Oh and the blood results from Billy came back...turns out he suffers from anemia. Joy.

At least I fixed the SF thing Daniel wanted, and I tested it in Windows Me and it seems to work too. Hopefully that will be one of the last exechook fixes.

I'll blog at home...

Hell Part Two

In between a horrible headache and a general state of suckyness, I've managed to get past the second day of school.

On the menu, a nice Organic Chemistry class, which was a 1-hour long review of hybridization. That's never bad but I hope the next classes will be some new stuff... still haven't learnt anything to help us do the homework.

Then I had a nice course of Physics, where I found out that my phys teacher really is a 25 year old quebecoise girl who barely graduated. She's really nice, cool ,and interactive, and she let me have the lab on Wednesday. This means I almost have Friday off, except for math 1:00-2:30 that I "should attend if I'm having problems". I'll try not to miss it more then 6 times (out of 15).

That also means Thursday I get to finish at 1:00, which is really cool. I don't know if Caro will want or can to go somewhere with me...depends of the days. I might want to get my CDs from Podaru since my mom has been bothering me with that for a while and I want to do my yearly laugh-at-mariano thing. But I'd really rather see my gf... I didn't see her at all today except for 2 minutes in the morning.

It's really starting to be depressing like that...I feel all isolated... I have to find a way to remote-connect to home and do some ROS/VB Work to keep me active during breaks (althought I dont have many).

Then I had a regular Math course.

Then I had the humanities with the crazy cat lady. Suffice it to say, yes, she's crazy... (she got sexually harassed by a teacher, and also "elaborated a mystery no other philosohper had ellucidated in 100 years" and then had to re-do her phd homework because the teacher thought it was prepostrous)....she also wants us to document EVERYTHING including "According to the medical encyclopdedia brittanice, the human heart pumps blood"...because it's something that might change, and it's not common knowledge....WTF??? whoever doesnt think its common knowledge should be shot!!! Anyways, she wasn't exagerating, she wants EVERY statement to be backed up by a footnoe. Yes, even "humans are mammals". After she gave us a 10 minute break after an hour, 30 out of 46 people left the class and never came back. Considering the course drop/exchange stuff is going on next weekend, I guess I'llb e the only one left in that class.

I also had the fucking displeasure of fixing a bug in the *OLD* sf code that I had to find and make sure it still worked and then fix the bug. Since it kept crashing on my Pc I had to set up the tests on another one... I hate this...I can't wait to get that re-write done and have a more stable environment.

In good news, I got ROS to load a simple Visual Basic EXE using a micro-runtime I wrote...maybe that will be a good past-time.

Fuck my head hurts...I hope squash will be cool tomorrow and the physics lab too...as for english, I don't even want to imagine.

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[M]o.o.d: 100% Depressed, Sad, Angry, in Pain
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Around 100 songs on my iPOD during bus trips...
[L]i.k.e.d: The VB Runtime
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Everything that happened today...and having nobody there...
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: Physics
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: Humanities (I think every Tuesday this will be here)
[M]: No. [T]: 0
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "If you don't give the source of a fact, such as 'the heart pumps blood', you're plagiarizing and will be expelled since I will report you" - Crazy Teacher

Hell Begins

Well this is my first blog of the day...Monday August 23rd, beginning of school.

I'm in the library now, since I don't feel like going upstairs to the computer room. My English teacher sprained her ankle, so this d00d gave us the class outline and told us to leave. A great beginning!

Seems like the whole class is ready 5 short sorties for 2 weeks, then reading 3 books (including Anne of Green Gables..YUCK!) for the rest of the semester, each with three movies. There will be two essays (50%), a reading exam (20%), in-class work (15%), oral (10%) and participation (5%). Typical English stuff....I hope it all goes well!

I'll blog after math.

Well..I just had math. The bad news is that I still have class on Friday. The good news is that the teacher told me I could skip it once in a while...as long as I can still keep up with the course. So that means on Fridays when I wanna go out and have some free time or have a huge weekend project, I can stay home. The good news is that because of this I finish at 1:00 on Thursday, so I can go home even sooner.

See you after chemistry.

Well organic wasn't so bad...it was a boring 2 hour lecture because the labs werne't supposed to be ready. On the good side though the teacher looks pretty cool and reminds me of Suzanne in a way...but he's really funny and childish. The math teacher didn't seem bad either...she's just a bit lost and I heard that if you don't do stuff her way you fail...so I'll do it her way and pass. I'm trying to suck up to her. Well this ends my day here at Abbott...5 minute English class, typical Math class, and 2 hour lecture-in-lab Organic class. Oh, and Charlie (the teacher) seemed me to know me. Probably my benzene burner incident from last semester.

Tonight I'll fix SF to take advantage of the few days I have without homework.
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[M]o.o.d: Ugh. School started. 100% Neutral
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Black Eyed Peas - Where is the love?
[L]i.k.e.d: Surviving the first day of school.
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Crying all night yesterday and not being able to sleep.
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: English
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: Organic Chemistry (because no lab)
[M]: No. [T]: 0
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "Copying from one person is plagiarism. Copying from many is research"

The stench of school approaches..

I have a massive headache tonight, so I need to go sleep...here's a short roundup of the latest happenings:

- Timo's computer now runs at 35 degrees idle after the chipset fan installation and artic silver 5. He's now cutting the additional chipset heatsink (which he didn't need) into 4 Video RAM heat-spreaders. The 2nd news: he accidentally bought another chipset fan and still has tons of Artic Silver 5 left...and hes giving it to me :D

- SPAMfighter's long-lasting exechook bug is related to Win9x. I've installed winme(YUCK!!!) in VMWARE and will be doing my best to fix this on Sunday before school starts.

- I saw Caro on Friday & Saturday and had quite some fun, except that now I have to sell the pants she just bought at blue marine on ebay (cause they suck!) Anyone interested?? 20$ US!!

- I sold the laptop at 940$ CSD! I never expected it to go so high.

- I'm getting Vonage VoIP in 2 weeks and cancelling cable TV.

Last but not least:
- I'm starting school on Monday.

Oh, and I've done some more VB reversing work for fun: http://www.relsoft.net/Articles/VB/vb.pdf

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[M]o.o.d: 100% Happy
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: D12 feat. Eminem - My Band (this song rocks!)
[L]i.k.e.d: The time spent with Caro & VB Reversing.
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: School starting soon.
[M]: Yes. [T]: 1
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "You're not here to learn, you're here to get an education" - EIM Quote.

Whoa.

My mom got her birthday gift this morning. A ring. She made a whole bitch fit about it and how much she disliked it and told me to give it away. Whatever, I hate people that are never happy. Whatever happened to "it's the thought that matters". Besides, it's not like it was free anyways, even it it wasn't the 3000$ she was expecting. Oh well.

Daniel (my boss) tried out my SPAMfighter rewrite and everything worked amazingly well. There were only a few bugs that I instantly fixed. The only things that still need re-writing are the COM Core and the Graphics.

Then I went out with Caro to shop around and we got hungry. Kelly was supposed to eat with us at Tres Amigos but she disappeared again, as always (and ended up calling at 5...).

Then we went to my house and ate... After that, I brought her to her bus station and went on to Timothy's house, where I finally had the chance to set up his new computer. It was a bitch, but I got it running. The problem is that it's doing around 60-90 degrees heating. He's going to buy some thermal paste today, as well as heatsinks for the Video RAM, plus a fan and cooling kit for the Northbridge/Southbridge. At least 100$ more. Intel is pushing my limits with their heat problems.

I finally got home where I re-wrote the whole COM Engine for SPAMfighter. It worked great on my computer. Daniel will have to test it tomorrow.

Life Status has been upgraded to 0.7! I'm planning some new features when school starts Monday... (Best/worst class maybe)

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[M]o.o.d: 100% Happy
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Eve - the can't get enough song...forgot the name..its old
[L]i.k.e.d: The time spent with Caro. Not even installing a computer could top that.
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Nothing. This day was amazing. No work + gf + computers.
[M]: No. [T]: 0
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "Sigh, I'm going to prostitute myself" - Computer genius explaning that he's going to fix a computer for 20$ by "prostituing" his valuable knowledge instead of the 500$ a store would charge.

Rewriting

I've spent all day today re-writing something that took me 4 months to do. I erased it all and re-wrote it from scratch in about 3 days.

It's 2 times smaller (60kb to 30kb), fixes 36 bugs (Till now), adds 6 new features, works up to 365% faster in some scenearios (and at least 50% in general usage), and loads a full 5 seconds faster then before (basically instantly).

Sometimes I think it burns/kills my brain cells, but actually I think it keeps my brain active and alive. Anyways, all that was for SPAMfighter. Meanwhile, still no word on the f*cking Exechook crashes.

And no time to work on ReactOS or the VB Runtime stuff...hopefully I'll get to that tomorrow.

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[M]o.o.d: 70% Happy, 30% Tired
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Black Eyed Peas - Let's get it started (still!)
[L]i.k.e.d: Spending 15 hours re-writing something and making it better.
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: The exaustion that followed.
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "If at first you don't suceed, try, try, try again"

Wazaa

It's been a slow day lately so I havne't had much to write...

I've fixed one or two more SPAMfighter bugs and re-wrote three more functions that I'm going to test tonight.

ReactOS can now run SkyOS Apps, but it also can't install past the 2nd-stage loader for some reason.

I'm really thinking about going to LinuxWorld Germany October 26th-28th to attend and exhibit at the ReactOS Booth with the other developers that will be there. I've made quite a lot of friends my age (well, 3 or 4). I was telling Caroline it's pretty funny they all have girlfriends since the same time I do. And the ones that are in their 20ies ended up marrying them. LOL, I'll tell that to my mom as a counter argument :P

Yeah so I'd really like to go there...I've found plane tickets for about 500$ US Round-Trip, which isn't bad at all. And I'd really love Caroline to come. Filip from ReactOS is trying to convince his gf to go too :P

Last night, I went to see Collateral with Timothy. The filming looked like the producer ran out of money and did everythign with a Sony Handycam. It really looked like those cheesy made-for-TV productions...the night scenes were pixelated and really looked "real" in the sense anyone could've filmed it. Don't worry however, the movie is EXCELLENT. The acting is wonderful, Tom Cruise is finally playing a good role for the first time since... hell, 1994. And Jamie Foxx is wonderful too. Quite an original Hollywood movie, reminds me of the old detective movies they used to make. I loved it.

I'm also having fun reversing the VB Runtime...it's useful for quite some uses ;)
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[M]o.o.d: 30% Tired, 70% Worried
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Black Eyed Peas - Let's get it started
[L]i.k.e.d: VB Runtime reversing is fun.
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Hearing some news on the phone this noon.
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "Vincent: Max, six billion people on the planet, you're getting bent out of shape cause of one fat guy.
Max: Well, who was he?
Vincent: What do you care? Have you ever heard of Rwanda?
Max: Yes, I know Rwanda.
Vincent: Well, tens of thousands killed before sundown. Nobody's killed people that fast since Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Did you bat an eye, Max?
Max: What?
Vincent: Did you join Amnesty International, Oxfam, Save the Whales, Greenpeace, or something? No. I off one fat Angelino and you throw a hissy fit.
Max: Man, I don't know any Rwandans.
Vincent: You don't know the guy in the trunk, either. " -From Collateral

Happy Birthday Mommy!

Today is my mom's birthday (11th actually). So hip hip hurray.

I don't get to be home alone anymore :(

Hmm..I was frigging exausted today....I went to see Princess Diaries 2...and it sucked...made me fall asleep almost. But it was great spending some time with Caro. The night before I stayed up till 4am watching Harold and Kumar go to WhiteCastle...it's really an experience...its kinda like BEING in the movie...since you feel high, and the action is between 11pm-7am anyways. It was a damn funny movie...I really recommend it to people of all ages!

I'm helping Art Yerkes on ReactOS to get the ext2fs driver working for now. That means that ReactOS would be able to boot from/read ext2fs partitions! (Ext2fs is the file system used by Linux).

I was too tired to do much work on SPAMfighter today. I'll do that tomorrow...some weird new issue with exechook. I also got a new sale on Relsoft and have to help someone with the product.

Oh yeah, the funniest part of today was that my dad forgot my mom's birthday. Say it with me, "Shame".

Ok...it's 3am again and I really need some sleep. I'm not waking up till 2PM tomorrow.

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[M]o.o.d: 100% Happy & Exausted
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: DDR Butterfly - Anaconda Remix
[L]i.k.e.d: Seeing Caro... another Relsoft sale, my mom's bday.
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: My current state of exaustion.
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "Life is a ladder. Some people go down, some people go up. I take the elevator."

Embrace a snake and it will bite you.

Well, not much happened today... I saw Caro, Kewen ended up at my house and made food, and I did some more work on the I/O Manager in ReactOS. There's a _NEW_ issue with SPAMfighter, I'll have to look into it tomorrow. I also sold my laser on ebay for 300$ :)

Now I'd like share a personal story with you.
You see, I am the president of this company called Relsoft Technologies, and I now get around 250MB/day traffic, and hundreds of hits because of my article (and probably more once the NTFS article is up). I kindly gave my friend a subdomain. Then I spent an hour configuring a forum for her, and gave her full admin access (oh the stupidity).

So of course I post a message on the forum saying hi to all those people and that if they need anything done on the server, they can message me. What does my friend do? Delete the message.

Then I give myself admin access on the forum and do some maintenance work, like installing new modules and updates (to make sure my corporate website won't get hacked). What does my friend do? My friend not only DELETES my account, but also BANS my email/IP.

Now I find this utterly retarded. For starters, this forum runs on my SQL Database (SQL is a database format). All the forum posts, users, etcs, are actualyl entries in this database. So while my friend can ban me and feel proud as an admin on the frontend (Forum)...I'm still in control of the actuall SQL database where I can do where I want.

Worse, I actually gave my friend the fucking website and forum address. Now tell me, if some guy gives you the key to his house and lets you move in, are you going to change the lock and make sure he never gets in? It's still his fucking house, and he's sure as hell going to kick you out of there.

So of course I could either tell my friend to fuck off and post stupid messages on the site of forum (similar to graffiting your roommate's house after you get in), or I can simply delete everything and never talk to this person again (similar to kicking your roomate out and telling him to fuck off).

Now I always knew my friend was kind of a bastard, but I was willing to accept that. I mean, after all, I've done bad things in life to be first and on top too, so I can't blame my friend. As long as it didn't personally affect me, I don't care. But banning me from my own company website kind of pushes my limit. Besides, it's truly stupid. It's kind of like comitting suicide. You're fucking with a free service someone is giving you.

Siwen, I really thought you were smarter then that. I mean, sure, beat me in a competition, hack my website, blow up my PC, fire me from your company...whatever, those are good ways to piss someone off and show you're better. But...banning me from my own website? Now that's just retarded honey. Goodbye, YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK!

Oh yeah, some lessons in life for everyone
1) You know when Linux people tell you never to give root access to anyone? Don't.
2) Don't fuck with the wrong guy and think you'll get away with it.

I wrote a lot about this...it really amuses me... I guess for most people, this would hurt them. But I always knew my friend was like this, so I wasn't expecting anything better. I always thought she'd do something more evil though...not something as stupid as this. Oh well...it amused me!

Can't wait for Princess Diaries 2 tomorrow! And Caro!! YAY :D

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[M]o.o.d: 100% Laughing my ass off
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Usher - Yeah
[L]i.k.e.d: Seeing Caro, Kewen's soup, seeing yet another friend backstab me.
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: SF having another problem.
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "Embrace a snake and it will bite you"

Home Alone

Well, this is it, Day One of being all alone for a week.

I had lots of "Fun" trying to give Billy his medcine...after 24 minutes of exasperation with all sorts of tricks, i finally just took his guy, slid his mouth open and popped the pill inside. Took 4 seconds, and we were both much happier after. Sigh, a new adventure tomorrow morning.

I added the Rundown functions for ReactOS today as well as some basic Pool Quota and Priority stuff (ExAllocatePoolWithQuota/PsChargeProcessQuota & Friends). Tomorrow I'm fixing up that SF bug and from then on I have a week to get the signature working (I've got it all set up through Microsoft, just gotta pay them 99$ (daniel will reimburse me).

In doom 3, I've reached hell... I hope there's only one map as frankly I'm getting tired of the game...but this map is really cool though.

Oh well, downloading a couple of e-books now, and going to play till 3 or 4AM :P
I'm also eating cookies.

C.L: I'm sorry...

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[M]o.o.d: 60% happy, 20% tired, 20% Guilty
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Lasgo - Feel the Fire
[L]i.k.e.d: Doom 3
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Being a bastard in GB.
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "I'm not smarter then you, I'm just faster at Google."

Bloogy

Time to blog again...it's been 2 days...been kind of tired and not much happening lately.

Looks like the SF Exechook issues are finally fixed...except maybe one that's going to take me a minute to fix tomorrow.

I'm working on Rundown functions for ROS right now...just 5 functions that aren't that hard to implement. Also trying to see which exported functions aren't tagged.

I went to Laronde today and it was pretty fun...didnt do much but still...then I went to eat...all with Caro duh :P

Haha she really likes the gigantic paul frank seat i got her...I'll bring it to her house Saturday evening.

Oh, Billy also got a dental cleanup which became a whole operation because his two teeth got infected...they got removed, but now I have to give him 4 pills everday for the next two weeks...pain killers and antibiotics, or else he'll die.

I also started playing Doom 3, and it really kicks ass!

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[M]o.o.d: 90% happy, 10% tired
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: The annoying theme song from White Chicks
[L]i.k.e.d: Caro!!!
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Not being able to spend the whole day with her :P
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "smerk! macro-shaft 8^>"

Weee

Hayo~

The STUBS ARE DONE!!! YES!!

Also figured a way to fix the SPAMfighter Hook bug. If it works, the only thing remaning is the signature and then it's DONE!!! YES!!

I'm almost done implementing SYSENTER for ReactOS + I've forwarded the alignment bug to RedHat + NTOSKRNL/WIN32K/HAL can all be built with optimization. Once the top two things are done, then the work I had planned out for ROS is DONE!!! YES!!!

So it looks like everything is coming to closure right in time for starting school (August 23rd)

Apart from all that, I had a really great day today...nothing else to say.

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[M]o.o.d: 1000% Happy!!!
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Ring ring ring ring, banana phone...
[L]i.k.e.d: Caro!!!
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Not being able to spend the whole day with her :P
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "This business is binary. You're either a 1, or a 0. Alive, or dead."

Midday Blogging

Well I usually blog at night but I was too tired last night.

I had fun yesterday, went to Bob's house and there was a pretty little surprise waiting there for me ^^. Then we went to eat to a resto...some of the food wasn't good...like instead of mayonnaise..it was a mix of sour cream and God knows what. I don't usually complain about restos but ..yeah that was special.

Found a site + Bob sent me a RAR with like 400 java games for the cell phone... I'm going to copy them all and then pass the wire (99 cents on ebay versus 79$ in store). I also found out the phone perfectly plays mp3s. Oh well, can't match my iPOD.

Kanna from the MS OE team told me I should contact a Microsoft Escalation Engineer to get a "Request for Collaboration". I think that bascicall means paying a lot of money so I can take time from the developpers (who I know are all working hard on SP2/SP1/Longhorn).

I've just finished implementing SYSENTER support in ReactOS in the Native Call Interface...there's no way to debug it so I'll just have to test it blindly...not very fun... it's almost as bad as going from real to protected mode.

I also have to work on the SF Signature using the Winsock Hook Way, but first i have to fix some exechook error...maybe I should just dump it and go back to OEInject.

I'll blog back tonight.

Manchu...wok?

I saw The Manchurian Candidate Friday...it was pretty good...not as good as the original I hear, but still pretty powerful in our day and age.

The SPAMfighter Signature is giving me some problems though, but I managed to get hold of two developpers for Outlook Express (including the Lead Developper) who seem to be willing to help out. I hope it'll be fruitful.

Apart from that, Caro finished the Rtl Stubs so only Se are left... I think I'll do them probably...not that many.

I'm really hoping to have the Spamfighter signature stuff by next week...if all goes well, I should have a solution from MS on Monday...if not, I have a backup plan (Winsock API Hooking...not as clean, but I know it'll work).

Then I'll do SYSENTER for ROS.

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[M]o.o.d: 80% Happy, 20% Tired
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Hoobastank - The Reason
[L]i.k.e.d: Answer from MS, seeing Caro on Friday (pretty!)
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: The heat outside...
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "Ich bin ein Berliner" - JFK