Blog from Hell

Well this hasn't been a nice week until now.

I don't feel like blogging... it's not of anyone's business.
I feel like a total fuck up.

Extended Leave of Absence

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[M]o.o.d: 100% Worried
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: di.fm trance radio stream
[S]t.u.p.i.d [T].h.i.n.g: sigh.
[S]m.a.r.t [T].h.i.n.g: All these SF fixes and ideas.
[L]i.k.e.d: Friday & Fixes
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: I was very depressed and still am.
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: No classes
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: No classes
[M]: Yes. [T]: 1
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "If 25% of people are crazy, and in a group of four people you think everyone is crazy..."
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Oh no...where have I been? Heh.

Friday was a cool day...I went to school to get Caro's phone (to exchange it)...waited 2 hours for the Boss...who will exchange it for Monday. Then we went to my house for 30 minutes and then she left.

Saturday and Sunday, I've been working continously, non-stop, on SPAMfighter. I've cleaned up the code numerous times, made it more readable, used invoke, coinvoke, real APIs, modified the ASM parser, and now finally I'm adding invoke for local functions, for the ultimate cleanliness. The sum of these last 4 months is finally cumulating. I've had a major issue with the new APIs, but I've discovered the reason (Bound Import Table) and I think I've got a fix for it.

Tomorrow I start at 10:30, and I have my Math Exam. I hope I'll do good on it, it's a good motivator. On the other hand, I've forgotten to hand in my Lab Report to Charlie...I'm screwed.

Tomorrow I will also finally do something that's been on my mind for months now...that nobody knows...my dark secret...heh... wish me luck.

Updates

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[M]o.o.d: 100% Happy
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: di.fm eurodance/techno radio stream
[S]t.u.p.i.d [T].h.i.n.g: Didn't do anything stupid :P
[S]m.a.r.t [T].h.i.n.g: Nothing particular either.
[L]i.k.e.d: Going to Caro's house.
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Wonderful day..
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: Physics
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: Oranic (We had a midterm)
[M]: Yes. [T]: 1
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "Why did the chicken cross the road?. To lay the egg that came before it."
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I had a wonderful time today...the Organic exam wasn't that bad, and I think I got in the high 70ies, low 80ies...I'm certaintly hoping to do better, but this is what I expected for this first exam, beacause I had missed 2 important classes because of Busses/Traffic.

Physics was cool and went by fast as usual, today we were taught capacitors, which I already knew, so nothing too big there either.

I finally got Caro's cellphone, but it turns out it's black and white, really cheap, no java, mp3 etc...except for the 1Mbit Internet which is _Really_ fast, everything else sucks. Tomorrow I'll try to change it for one of the color phones, which is also free...I don't know if that will work however, since unlike GSM, CDMA is registered directly to an ESN, so I have no idea how easy it is to desactivate and re-activate another cell phone, or even if they can keep the same number (Without cloning the ESN which isn't what they would do for a free phone for a student).

I got Amarok under Linux to stream me some nice music from DI.FM....makes a really good ambiance...if only the speakers would work 5.1...crappy on-board soundcard =(

Today I felt really happy... in a way I hadn't felt for a long time...it's as if my heart was being tickled in a pleasurable way...instead of the feeling of pain people usually associate. It was wonderful...and I smiled for hours after that... I steel feel like that... special unexpected things make you feel really great!

I've also decided to open up my blog to comments, pinging weblogs.com & friends, and adding a hit counter, since I got over 300 visits to Relsoft.net from this page...which means that over 300 people have read my blog only since September 1st. Hi everyone! Now that this is public, I'll try to use less inside jokes :P Oh, I've heard commenting makes people write really nasty comments...so I hope it won't happen. I suppose I should give a short profile of myself as well.

I'm 18 and a half, go to school in Montreal, Canada, and I'm a Kernel Developer for ReactOS (www.reactos.com) as well as a programmer for SPAMfighter ApS (www.spamfighter.com). I do some freelancing online as well for private parties. Apart from that, there's not much to say about me... You can pretty much read the blog to find out for yourselves.

Peace out.

Free Cell Phones for All!

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[M]o.o.d: 50% Happy, 40% Worried, 10% Depressed
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: iPOD had no batteries.
[S]t.u.p.i.d [T].h.i.n.g: Didn't do anything special today.
[S]m.a.r.t [T].h.i.n.g: Got Caro a cell phone with a nice deal.
[L]i.k.e.d: Selling the screen.
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: How I'm feeling now.
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: Physics Lab
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: N/A
[M]: No. [T]: 0
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "There is always choice. We say there is no choice only to comfort ourselves with the decision we have already made. If you understand that, there's hope. If not... " Lady Morella to Londo, Point of No Return
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Today was relaxing day..... in the morning in English some Maritimer Poet came to talk to us...he had a wonderful voice so he was nice to listen to...then I skipped Gym because I didn't have my clothes and was super tired.... I took this time to check out the deal Bell had for cell phone. Free 1X-CDMA phone and 25$/month for 100 minutes and unlimited weekend/evenings, plus I convinced the rep to give 2 years of free CallerID...also get the handsfree set, a pouch holder, and a car adapter included...anyways I got all that for my gf and her cell phone looks really cool. Just have to pick it up tomorrow at school since it was too busy today.

Then in physics lab it was a problem session (ie: talk), and then a quiz on which I got 10/10 again. Tomorrow I have an Organic Chemistry exam and I have a feeling I will fuck this one up (unlike Math/Physics which I seem to be doing very good in). Oh well, the Final replaces a Term Test so I guess this is the one I'll be replacing.

My mom tried to kill my cat yesterday so I'm not too happy about that either.

I sold my screen today and now I'm on my old 17'incher...looks small but still acceptable...I can't wait for the 22incher though...a massive beast. Oh and this monitor is white like the new one... I actually think white fits better...its more soothing for the eyes. Anyways...

I kinda feel like shit today because it's our 30th month together and I haven't done anything to celebrate...I really suck....if I won't have this exam tomorrow I'd be more enthousasitc...oh well, I'll try to do something tomorrow since we finish early.

Die Bus Die

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[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Ferry Corsten Trance Nation 4
[S]t.u.p.i.d [T].h.i.n.g: Didn't disillate cyclohexane well.
[S]m.a.r.t [T].h.i.n.g: Found out about CMessageListEventProxy
[L]i.k.e.d: Finishing phase 2 and discovering new things.
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Nothing
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: Math
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: Organic Lab
[M]: Yes. [T]: 1
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "The lenscap" - Sky Captain
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When I got home today I was very pissed...I spent 2 hours in the 225 on Cavendish/Cote-Vertu. I have no idea why I didn't take the 216.

Plus, some more bad news:
- I have a bad feeling about the Chemistry Exam, which is thursday!
- I had a crappy Organic Lab again!

On to the good news:
- I seem to be doing really good in math
- I seem to be doing ok in physics...just need more practice before the test
- I'm selling my 19' CRT on Wednesday for 200$, and selling my LCD this week for 525$. 725$ but no screen...well I've bought a 22' CRT (Viewsonic) with an incredible resolution of 2048x1536@80Hz (works up to 2536x1940@60Hz). This will really help me for my eyes and also let me be more productive. This screen only cost me 290$ Canadian...with shipping it will go up to 350$. Still leaves me 375$ as profit.
- Phase 2 of SPAMfighter rewrite is complete...testing phase now in process and moving rapidly
- I may have found one of the only remaning golden keys to OE's COM interface...the MessageList event. I will have to work on this one after the rewrite.

Apart from that...my life is fine...I'm preparing for some renovations at my house...fixing the bath..thinking about wires in walls...thinking about replacing the moquet with parquet, fixing lighbulbs, clean up my office, put ceramic tiles instead of lineoleum, fixed 3 phones, got a new wireless base, and soon I'll install my chipset cooler from Timothy. So things are pretty active around the house which is cool.

I also don't feel tired anymore and my health seems way better....
On a final note, on the 22nd (That's tomorrow), I'll have been dating Caro for 30 months (2.5 years). W00t.

La vie en rose

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[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Super Tux Music
[S]t.u.p.i.d [T].h.i.n.g: Left something behind...
[S]m.a.r.t [T].h.i.n.g: Got cooperation from MS.
[L]i.k.e.d: Caro & The Movie
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: 3 hours on my crappy phone.
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: No class, did homework.
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: No class, did homework.
[M]: No. [T]: 0
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "The lenscap" - Sky Captain
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Today I'm posting this from BlogThis, a built-in bookmarklet in firefox which should simply things...we'll see how it looks finalized.

Anyways, my blog now has an RSS feed. If you have firefox, you can add it as a "Live Bookmark" by clicking on the RSS button on the lower-right corner of your screen (you need 1.0PR). Else you'll have to use an RSS client. Oh, speaking of FFox, I found out it's the name for an adorable animal called Red Panda, of which there only exist about 2000 left in China. And also, let me tell you about www.spreadfirefox.com...I haven't joined, but I recommend you do. They already beat the 1 million downloads they wanted in 10 days, only in 100 hours. Help them reach 2 million!

I did some work on SF for the first part of the day and now I got it loading up. Then I helped Caro with her new Linux install (yup, she's one of them now), and now I'm trying to get ATI's drivers working...I don't really feel like signing up for Mandrake Club, so I'll try to compile/install them myself...they gave me some weird font problem i'm hoping to fix myself for now.

I've decided FUCK lcd screens, I will get myself a 22inch Viewsonic with 2048x1936@79Hz resolution, and try to sell my current LCD/CRT for 700$ together, so the screen will only cost me 200$ net.

I drank 10 glasses of wine this night so I think I'm going to head straight to bed..

Sky Captain

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[M]o.o.d: 100^100^100% Happy
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Super Tux Music
[S]t.u.p.i.d [T].h.i.n.g: Left something behind...
[S]m.a.r.t [T].h.i.n.g: Got cooperation from MS.
[L]i.k.e.d: Caro & The Movie
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: 3 hours on my crappy phone.
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: No class, did homework.
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: No class, did homework.
[M]: No. [T]: 0
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "The lenscap" - Sky Captain
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Hello hello...

I'm back from the Premiere of Skycaptain and The World of Tomorrow... it kicked ass! I've never seen such good CGI/GFX in my life...it was amazingly cool, and had a great plot too (Except for the airplanes going into the water without exploding...you see..it's all a matter of surface tension...OK I stole this from Timo, I don't really care about it :P)

Microsoft called today and I now have an Escalation Engeneer as a direct channel between me and the OE Team. I've emailed all of them and thanked them for their great work and I hope we will be able to find a solution together Monday or within the week.

Caroline also installed Linux today...the install was a bit problematic with the mouse and screen resolution, but it seems to be all right now. The initial setup is always a bit of a pain...I'm trying to get a remote connection working so I can do some of the more complicated tasks (like setting up symlinks/path etc).

I'm dead tired now do good night.

Thirsday

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[M]o.o.d: 100% Happy
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Ipod out of battery.
[S]t.u.p.i.d [T].h.i.n.g: Woke up late
[S]m.a.r.t [T].h.i.n.g: Hmmm...installing KDE 3.3 seems to be working well!
[L]i.k.e.d: Finishing early
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Being late + massive homework, caro going home.
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: Physics
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: None
[M]: Yes. [T]: 3
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "Somewhere out there, an asian girl is conspiring for you to fix her computer" - Tim Geoghegan
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Hello Ladies and Gents.

Today I was late because I overslept =(. I got to class 40 minutes later and once again missed stuff important for the Organic Lab... but I'll go see my teacher tomorrow and get some help from him.

Apart from that I had physics today with an easy in-class quiz where I got 10/10...it was patheticly easy. Then I went home to work on SPAMfighter, installed VMWare for ReactOS, and called Microsoft for Product Support for that question I wrote about earlier. After being transferred through 10 different, but very nice and qualififed people, I'm finally supposed to get called tomorrow by the Outlook Express team. I had to do a lot of concinving to get there, but I hope I'll survive tomorrow.

Tomorrow is Skycaptain and the World of Tomorrow day...It got 90% on rottentomatoes, so I can't wait to see it! I hope my gf can come, then I have to see it in the afternoon with Timo...but it's one of those movies I don't mind seeing twice :P

Oh well...gotta do my chem homework now!

THE FINNISH ARE FINISHED!

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[M]o.o.d: 20% Tired, 40% Happy, 40% Neutral
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Some techno song stuck in my head...
[S]t.u.p.i.d [T].h.i.n.g: Freaked out that the Ebay phone didn't register with the base station.
[S]m.a.r.t [T].h.i.n.g: I haven't done anything really smart today.
[L]i.k.e.d: Canada winning the Cup
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Not seeing Caro all day.
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: Math/Phys.
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: Humanities (do we really have to repeat this every Tuesday)
[M]: No. [T]: 0
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "In a world without doors and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?"
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W00T, just came back from the World Cup of Hockey 2004 and we KICKED FINLAND'S ASS!
I'm really happy for Canada, especially for Mario Lemieux...comes back after battling with cancer and a hip operation and serves as captain of a team that 0wn3d. He really deserved it, they all did.

School was the typical long day today with a bunch of courses...organic went by faster and was more fun, then I did humanities homework during the break, and finished Matrix Inversion in Linear Algebra. Physics was mostly revision of Electric Field and then Humanities was only 2 hours, which is a Good Thing.

Doris was telling us today how there are chemicals in the water that are making all boys/men fucked up and feminine, how in 25 years we'll be 10 billion, and how in 30 years we will run out of ressources and all die and there will only be 100 000 humans left and no animals and then there will be an ice age and WE WILL ALL DIE IF WE DONT SAVE CATS!

Time to work a bit on SF and do a stupid Gym homework. How the heck am I supposed to write 200 words about my squash skills...Geez.

-_-

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[M]o.o.d: 60% Tired, 40% Tired
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Nothing really...
[S]t.u.p.i.d [T].h.i.n.g: Messed up synthesis.
[S]m.a.r.t [T].h.i.n.g: Did huge work on SPAMfighter rewrite.
[L]i.k.e.d: The Organic Lab
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Messing it up.
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: Math.
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: Organic
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Ugh...today I did not get a lot of sleep so I had a really bad day...I was totally exausted and bloated too so I had gaz problems and that didn't feel really good.

I also kinda sucked at my organic chemistry lab, and only got a 36% percent yield, instead of 40-60%. It also took us a long time and we didn't have binders. I definately gotta come more prepared to Organic Labs, now I know.

At home I almost completed re-writing the Graphics Core of SPAMfighter and there is only one big function remaning to be re-written...

That's all...really tired.

Another week begins...

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[M]o.o.d: 100% Happy
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: California Dreaming Techno/Dance Remix.
[S]t.u.p.i.d [T].h.i.n.g: Ate 200kg of Pizza Last Night
[S]m.a.r.t [T].h.i.n.g: Quickly found SF Bug before it was able to become a nightmare.
[L]i.k.e.d: Movie, food.
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: School starting tomorrow.
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: None today.
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: None today.
[M]: No. [T]: 0
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "If you're not paranoid, then you're not paying enough attention. "

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Ughh...hiii.

Today I saw my father and went to see Resident Evil 2. It was a cool Zombie movie, not as lame as I thought it would be. Actually had some nice twists and the ending screamed "Resident Evil 3".

Then Jung-Na called and said if I was wearing an orange t-shirt... I looked all over the street but didn't find her until she came. Since I hadn't seen her last week when I was supposed to, I went to L2 to eat because I was starving. Then I went home...

I've been still working on SPAMfighter...there was a bug in the code compilation so I had to change about 100 things to make it work right...and the bug was something very insidious. Now there is still some little graphic bug but after I fix it the menus should be fine again. The app is now at 32kb (it was at 36kb yesterday). Load time is even quicker!

Ugh, school starts tomorrow. Yet another week of hell...

Oh, also, Mei is learning Fortran at Mcgill...that's rather funny I found, because nobody uses Fortran anymore... I thought my dad was the only dinosaur that still remembered it.

Finally, I've upgraded ALESH (Alex's LifE Status Header) to v.0.9 with two new features.
It's also got this new cool name.

Oh Ho Oh!

Hmm...apparently I haven't blogged "in a long time". Well yeah, I've been busy, as Timo always says.

Last post date was the 8th...so...what happened on the 9th? Oh..it was Thursday. OOh! That was an exciting day. At 4AM in the morning, 7 trucks crashed into each others on Highway 20, blowing it up in pieces. Of course, I had no idea of this as I approached the 221 bus stop. I then saw a line of people going all the way from INSIDE the metro station to the bus stop, something I had never seen before (at least 100 people in line). Since it was raining, I assumed that the bus was late and it had just gotten there. Nevertheless, I got in line with the 211 bus, since even if it takes 10 more minutes to get to school, I'd actually have a hope of getting into it. Just then, another 221 arrived, and I ran back into the second line that had formed and got a seat (thank God...

...) because I ended up spending TWO hours on the Bus. This is because the highway being closed, all traffic was rerouted through small suburbian steets. It was hell, everything was clogged and full and couldn't move, policemen were desperately trying to make traffic work... all in all, it took 1 hour 30 to get to Dorval (it usually can take as little as 12-15 minutes). I called my Chemistry teacher on the road, and when I go to class 30 minutes later, he finally started the course, after blabbing on other things (coincidence? I think not :P).

That's pretty much it for Thursday... I had Physics after and then I went to Fairview with Caro.

Friday... I got to school, didn't go to math class because that class would've been a repeat of what my class Monday is going to be, but I handed in my homework and quiz. Then I left downtown with Caro where we went window-shopping and had some Bubble Tea. It was pleasant.

At home, I took out an old network card I found and put it in the Server, now the Network Works. I suppose the on-board NIC died or something, during the power failure. Anyways, onboard sucks so it's a bit faster when trasnfering over the LAN too, now. I proceeded to install my developer tools and I am now back to writing code for SPAMfighter. Linux is also working great, and WINE is much much better then what it used to be.

I've also watched some movies to kill time... Chronicles of Riddicik, which was surprisingly good, and Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid, which was a mediocre popcorn film...still enjoyable though, but full of cliches.

Ah, finally, today. Well today I was supposed to see my dad, but I'll see him tomorrow. I spent the day doing work in SPAMfighter and talking with the ReactOS people (worked on the Changelog) since our 0.2.4 release is Monday!!!

That's about it.

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[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: The Rasmus - In the Shadows
[L]i.k.e.d: Everything is pretty cool.
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Arguing over stupid things I shouldn't argue about...
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: None today.
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: None today.
[M]: Yes. [T]: 2
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "“Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.”

Windows NET server cannot find NETwork

Hallo hallo, it's me again.

I resurrected Timo's dead DVD drive (the one I was supposed to fix 4 years ago) in order to salvage my Windows Server 2003 install. The registry got repaired, and it booted up fine...except it won't connect to my router anymore. It's either "invalid IP" or "cable not plugged in". At this step, I'm still hoping some software problem (or maybe a router reset) would fix it. I've tried with 2 cables, so that's not the problem. At the worst, the internal LAN port died..but why would it? The router sees it as active! I can't reset the router yet though, since I'm downloading something off IRC and Bittorrent.

Apart from that school was fine. Tuesday is my big day (8:30 to 5:30 of non-stop classes, except a break in which I do homework). Chem was akalyl naming, break was humanities homework (1000 word summary of utilitarianism), physics was short as always, math was a one-hour quiz that took me 25 minutes (and I had the same answers as the girl next to me, who got 90% last semester). Then humanities with Doris Miller was well...priceless. Once again, I shall sum it up: "I think yelling and loud parties are unacceptable. It's not your right to do such things, it is my right not to hear them. So you either move in the woods, or not do it."

Here's hoping the server will work so I can get back to programming. Oh, the ghost image perfectly extracted and I got all my files out of it ;)

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[M]o.o.d: 100% Happy
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Radiohead, mix of best of their songs on CDs.
[L]i.k.e.d: Meh...getting a glimpse of my gf today
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Net problems with server...
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: Math
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: Humanities..duh.
[M]: Yes. [T]: 2
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "If I burst out laughing at you, it's a good thing...it means you've provoked intelectual pleasure and happiness inside of me, so much that I need to laugh." - Doris Miller

@#$@^%$#

Today was a very shitty day!

First I wasted my time going to Futureshop, got yelled at for being late (Because the metro had just left), then found out it was CLOSED!

Then, I went to this place to get shoes for Caro, but the lazy bum seller couldn't find the shoes, so we both lost our time going there.

Then, my mom went crazy and made me go back home, so I had to leave Caro in CT. Then I ran my ass off until I almost had a heart attack to make the round-trip in 30 minutes...but I was still late.

Then I ate some good food and bought her some nice pants. The only highlight of the day.
Fuck Labor's Day!

Oh yeah, Podaru also lost my DVDs! So my mom got even angrier at me!

I also acted like a stupid prick today.
This sucks. The fuck with this day.

Hello from the Linux World!

Today, Sunday September 5th, 2004, marks my official switch into the Open Source World.

After months of switching to Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, 7zip, Azureus, AbiWord and a host of other free and open alternatives to Microsoft products, Windows had nothign left for me, and I decided it was time to go inside the Linux Zone.

I was amazed by the simplicity of setup, and (lol) the well-designed x-sane scanner application. Everything seems to be runnign smoothyl (without Raid, since I found out the so-called "hardware" Intel raid is just a software driver hack for Windows XP). However, it runs just as fast, and perhaps even faster.

I am however experiencing a little dillema...the one of gaming. Granted, I dont' game much, but every now and then some killer game comes out. I know most run fine in Linux with WineX...but it's just not the same, especially since I play games the day they come out. And for all these games, I got really good hardware for them...so now it kind of feels useless since Linux doesn't need it that much. However, thinking about it from another point of view, it's not really that bad, since I was planning a major upgrade somewhere near my 19th birthday, with all the brand-new CPU/Chipset/RAM/GPU technologies that came out and will be mature by then. But then, if I only buy that computer for games, which I don't do much of, won't it be a waste? And if I start using it as a main machine, I'd drop Linux again.

So, thankfully, I've thought of this nice solution:

Until upgrade: Main P4 computer - Linux. Windows XP installed on a small partition on my second hard disk. Dual-boot whenever a new game comes out and I *have* to play it. No other apps except MSN for chatting during those days.

Backup P4 computer behind me - Windows Server. Main programming machine for SPAMfighter/other projects. Connection assured through Remote Desktop Connection Client.

After upgrade: New P4 Computer - Windows Gaming Machine. Takes place of current Backup Machine. Used extensively for gaming instead of dual-booting Linux Machine. Will also be the "Beta test" machine once Longhorn betas start.
Backup Machine - Becomes dedicatted developement platform.
Current P4 - Remains day-to-day Linux Machine.

Eventually, there will be further upgrades into the future (december 2005, early 2006) so that the backup server and current p4 will both become pentium 4 EEs, and their current CPUs will be sold.

Well my whole weekend has been busy with Linux, so thank god tomorrow there's no school.

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[M]o.o.d: 100% Happy
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: Nothing yet :P
[L]i.k.e.d: LINUX!
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: I can't extract my ghost backup image yet :S
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: No Class
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: No Class...
[M]: No. [T]: 0
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."

All about MaPo

Well...today was a weird day.

First of all, I wake up 30 minutes late...run to catch the bus for my 8:30 class...and I get kicked out for not having a new bus pass. This even though I showed the driver that I had 40$ on me, and that I would buy one at JAC (we have a store there).

If I were to buy a bus pass, I'd have to take the bus at 9, which would get me to school at 10. My class finishes at 10:15...so that was useless. I decided I would attend class at 11:30, when I have physics. However, instead of doing 11:30-1 = leave at 10:30, my head did 11:30+1 = leave at 12:30. So I told myself to take the nap..and by the time I woke up at 12...I realized that physics was no-go either. With school out of the question, and my mom begging me to go get her DVDs, I went on to Marianopolis (MaPo). What follows is a retelling of the sights.

As soon as I got off the bus stop, I called Kelly, who was in the same time calling me from her bus and waiving at me. She told me she'd be back in 15 minutes. I walked towards MaPo.

First person I saw, right in the doorway was Jia, talking about Christiannity with another Chinese girl. I waived and went on...when I was suddently attacked by Tina, the violin player. After a brief exchange, I pressed on.

I see Minzheng (dengdeng, the huge head from EIM), who is asking everyone "have you seen Carrie?". I think I probably misunderstood the name, and he is looking for Curry or something. In the same time, Kelly comes back, who also talks about Carrie with Minzheng. I still don't know who this person is. I walk with Kelly to Gavin's eating spot, where the ugly Kelly is also eating (the one that makes the EIM people barf). Gavin reports that Carrie is right behind, coming towards. I turn around to take a look, and lo and behold, 'tis Carrie Qin!

I am greeted by a big pamflet that's being distributed to everyone, "Marianopolis Chinese Club". I flip through the pages, and Carrie is the new president and ruler. That explains why every Chinese person is looking for her. While Kelly goes sell a 25$ used book for 40$, I intercept Ioana Antonescu, the EIM bol, and enter a nice discussion with her. After 10 minutes, Kewen finally comes and interrupts out of nowhere, and Ioana leaves. I give her the Math Book, and proceed to talk gossip with Kelly and Gavin.

Balblabla, they leave to class, I talk a bit with Kewen, then finally go to the student lounge, where Xiao, Lichen are talking. But first, I stop at Magazines Campus where I get a nice Wired Magazine subscription for only 40$/month, compared to the 85$ I currently pay by buying it at the depanneur. I join both their clubs (Origami and Bridge), and then Siwen comes. Suddently, Xiao and Lichen realize they have "to go eat somewhere" and leave, while Siwen is yelling after them "where are u guys going?". Siwen is thus left alone with me, which she seems to enjoy as much as a needle up her ass. She gives me a muffin. We fight. A guy comes to do her homework for her. I tell her to f*ck off, and leave, since Podaru (my main goal of the day) finally arrives...without my CDs.

I leave home, and return to my duties. MY MUSCLES REALLY HURT FROM SQUASH! I CAN BARELY WALK!
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[M]o.o.d: 100% Happy
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: "Where's Carrie" - MaPo Remix.
[L]i.k.e.d: Seeing Ioana Antonescu...
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: Not going to school, seeing some freaks.
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: No Class...
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: No Class...
[M]: No. [T]: 0
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "Chinese people don't usually say things directly, but prefere a more round-about approach to communicating" - Booklet of MaPo Chinese Club

Squash Masta

Wednesday is the start of my short days (3 courses, then 2 courses, then 1 course).
English was berable...then there was gym... gym was really cool. I beat everyone in my team at squash by like 14-0 or 14-4 or scores like that. Either they really suck or I'm really good...but it wans't fat guys or anything.

Then I had a physics lab where both power supplies were broken so we wasted 30 minutes trying to realize that (with the help of the electrician and teacher who couldn't figure it out until i said "maybe it's broken").

No homework for tonight either...and I feel really great today.

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|-= Alex's Life Status v.0.8 =- |
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[M]o.o.d: 100% Happy
[L]i.s.t.e.n.i.n.g. [T].o: I don't want you to know (no that's the name, really)
[L]i.k.e.d: Managing to see Caro and being happy today.
[D]i.s.l.i.k.e.d: I was crushed this morning.
[G]o.o.d [C].l.a.s.s: Gym (Wow, I never thought I'd say that)
[B]a.d [C].l.a.s.s: English
[M]: No. [T]: 0
[T]o.d.a.y's [M].e.s.s.a.g.e: "Good things come to those who wait, great things come to those who ask" - Personal Quote of mine...