randomshinichi

pretty sure that nobody comes here anymore. Anyway, the new layout is thanks to upgrading to the Sponsored accout, although there's a FUCKING HUGE ad frame to the left, as you can see. It's not very sightly.

The Component theme is the only layout that's worth using on Livejournal, and I'm using it just because I can. :p

But I'm still not updating here. Plug:

http://randomshinichi.efx2.com (better design too!)

It's been a couple weeks since we ceased talking to each other, and a couple weeks after the incident that I finally began to piece together all that happened during those two short days. When I first heard about our friendship stopping, I panicked:

Three replies to one:

Don't worry, it won't happen again....

So let us break it down. I was practicing my teasing skills... and somewhere along the way I turned into a prick instead of a rose. You were sick and tired of it. And thus, you broke off relations.

Perhaps I was a little rude. I wasn't aware, thought I was being 'cocky'. Methinks there could have been nicer ways to tell me I was being rude. But maybe your slight hand gestures didn't catch my eye. Instead, the silent treatment was probably a last-ditch resort to gain my attention.

Please, when you want to break off relations, warn me about it a few weeks beforehand, and tell me what not to do. After all, that's what friends do, don't they? They help each other.

I would love to apologize - however, I'm not going to. The reason being that the silent treatment was totally unnecessary. Okay, I'm rude, I get it. My parents don't give me the silent treatment when I'm being rude; they discipline me. The Bamboo Freak put up with my ill humour and even shot back 'Is that your brand of humour now?' And she's still my friend.

Thank you. Through this experience, I have learned at least six things pertaining to females in general. I will always think of you as my once upon a time friend. But you can't please everybody.

Too bad - your loss. But you seem to be getting along well. Good luck.

It looks pretty, the My LJ page is easily the best improvement of all. Not it's much more quicker to update your page, and besides, the widgets aren't from windows! Nice... they probably ripped this one out of B3/KDE.

And the Tranquility II theme is new. Looks nice.

Too bad, though, I'm already at EFx2. However that last entry on pedophilia seems to have alienated me :D

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Jesus, was my last update after Chris left? That was a long time ago....
As I can't help pimping the other blog so much, I even forgot to update the links on this page to point to the new Animeplease website. How irresponsible am I.
First off, here's my new blog:
http://blog.efx2.com/user/randomshinichi/
Second, courtesy of Florian, my Austrian friend at school, I have now a site on his place. I post songs there sometimes. Even had a new design, because I have more space to store gfx on now.
http://server.canta.ch/animeplease/
Enjoy!
I have homework next dammit

Long time no see.....
Stayovers are really cool, but when it's time for the friends to leave you, you do kinda feel a sense of pointlessness to life after that. Especially about videogames.
Final Fantasy feels boring now.
Tales of Phantasia, Star Ocean, Doom, they're all boring now.
Stayovers sure bring you into the dumps.
What's more depressing is that I'm supposed to be happy that we just had a stayover, but since the friend left, nothing, see, really floats your boat now.
About the Genting trip..... that was a pathetic flop. Next time this happens, we're going to Genting, and we're going GOOD - no one's backing out at the last minute. jesus christ.

Lot's of things have happened. I still haven't got my DVD burner nor an Audigy 2 Value (oem) yet, but here's what I uncovered so far....
http://www.livejournal.com/community/galaxyangel/
Reason enough for me to continue updating. I wonder.... what shall I talk about now?
urrrrghhhhh.......... nothing more now. I'll probably post techie stuff here while blog.efx2.com will be relegated to my life.
Or not.
Man, I sure like communities.

Yup.
It's been a long time.
Which is why I'm updating my Livejournal and my animeplease!!! website later on when I finish making some abstract images to go along with it and convert the rest of the content over to HTML content. As the site grows, this will become harder to transfer to new site designs....
I'm brushing up on elementary CSS. Right now, it seems that nothing's working at all. I have to get some text on the right, but the position: right just doesn't seem to work. What's absolute mean anyway?

http://blog.efx2.com/index.php?uid=1782
For now, all future updates will be at this site.... sorry, dunno why, but I really like the other site more. Perhaps because it doesn't talk about features that are only accessible by paying, and it has lots of upcoming features, but one really cool reason to go to that blog is the design. Man I love the design.
Meanwhile, this site will still stay up. Until I decide what to do with it.

This afternoon, I was thinking that everything is pointless. Indeed, some things are pointless indeed in life... but of course, anything I say here will immediately offend some of the readers here... so I'll just shut the fuck up and continue with happy thoughts in mind.
Today, I will do:
1. Sound card - Audiotrak Maya 5.1 MKII or a Creative Ectiva 5.1. Only because the Maya MKII has a better DSP, but is more rare, so the Ectiva is a fallback plan.
2. PS2 - plans coming along. But first, 512MB of RAM. now that I have a working UDMA Maxtor, I'll be able to use my money for better stuff.
3. That's about it for now.

Life is taking a downturn for now, and obivously, so is my social life. I'm in serious need of sleep, but let's consider tomorrow's schedule!
9:00 - 11:00 am - TECH TEAM MEETING
4:30 - 7:00 pm - West Side Story
Sad. So, I'm supposed to get some sleep? no fucking way, not with that dratted tech team meeting. Heck, they don't even want me in it in the first place.
yay.
Just thinking of that makes me feel really alone, even when surrounded by computers.
But ISKL guys should be emailing me right now (like they'd care to) saying that Friday's a holiday too, you dumbass. But what they forgot, is that they gave us a ton of homework before then. World Studies 2's Essay, for instance. And the Math Linearity Project.
So what's happening on the Computer front?
I've been installing video codecs. No, not DivX, Xvid, or the usual stuff.... this is a cleaning up. Sure, my computer can play lots of those video files out there. But! and BUT! yes there's a lot of "buts" in today's update - my directshow filter organization is a mess. As a result, I just uninstalled Xvid (to the extent that I could - when it comes to dealing with Window's quartz.dll, you don't want to meddle anymore... or nothing else will work). And uninstalled everything else, and installed ffdshow. I'd recommend this to everyone out there - it decodes and encodes every mpeg4 codec out there, like divx, xvid, and even has a few Microsoft WMV encoding options in there as well. Tried to find a special Athlon XP version, but the site couldn't upload it to me. Too bad.
Then I installed VobSub, and Direct VobSub. Yes, I had them before. But DVS was screwing up sometimes, so I felt that a reinstall was necessary.
I can now say that this all works quite well. I've got some knowledge of the video system in general, and Galaxy Angels was a blast. I'll get the later episodes some day.
Now only to make embedded subtitles in .mkv and .ogm formats working in Linux...

I finally solved the issue of non-working DMA on my Maxtor drive (on my old computer!)
After exhausting all possible resources (Maxtor's PowerMax, other hard drive utilities, constant checking of the DMA checkbox in Windows 98 to no avail), I finally got the idea in my head that I should check that Maxtor 6L040J2 for any hardware anomalies. And I pulled the thing out and found it was a real pity that there was a shield covering the chips and stuff. I couldn't see a thing. So, the only place left to look at was the connector side of it. And there I found a problem.
You see, there was a pin. And there was a cable. And this cable had a blocked hole on it somewhere. This wasn't supposed to be a problem, but once I tried to put in the cable the wrong way round, the blockage forced one unlucky pin backwards into the drive. And that pin was crucial to making DMA work.
So I set about to make it work. I found a pair of tweezers that mom uses to pull her eyebrows out (or something like that, don't know why anybody would want to do that though). And used them to pull out that pin. It was quite obstinate though. Didn't like to work. So I tried hanging the drive from just that one pin held by the tweezer. And it popped out a little, just enough for the thing to work at ATA-33 right now (that's the maximum the 440BX chipset supports). It's not on the same level as the other pins, but it seems to work. Hopefully the damn thing won't get loose now, and start ideas about popping back into the drive. Because if it does, I'll have to whip out the....super glue. I do hope super glue doesn't conduct electricity when dry....
I think I'll go download Gentoo now. Malaysia is finally being cool, here's a nice resource for those Linux fans in Malaysia. Remember, it doesn't just have Gentoo!
http://mymirror.asiaosc.org/

I've been thinking about installing Gentoo on a slow machine like my Celeron 433. Well, in reality it's not really that slow, it's just that the hard drive likes to work at a measly 2MB/s. oh... man.... compiling stuff on this thing is gonna take forever. But I'll find a frontend for ipfilter that'll work, hopefully, so I can get Bittorrent up and running on that thing. I'll try resolve the dma timeout issue again, I think.

Some day.
Nothing improved.
I downloaded more PSFs from Zophar's Domain, but they didn't seem to help my mood.
Neither did getting apps for my TI-83 Plus. With a max of 160KB of Flash ROM, what is there to get excited about? except for math, but even so we're just doing stupid little shit like matrices.
arrrgh.
Some life.

my Ti-83 Plus!! yay!
Ok, so it's a Pacific Blue TI-83Plus, but... I won't go raving on and on about how I'm quite excited about this.........and just installed Java J2RE 1.5 before this. Oh yeah, the new J2RE is quite fast to start. The applets load quite fast now, but Java seems more determined to stay in my tray as a tray icon now.
All right, so I got the TI-83 Plus. What do I do? check out TI-Graphlink/TI-Connect, of course! Graphlink complained that it didn't want to work with Windows XP/2000. So I tried TI-Connect, and apparently TI-Connect is the successor to Graphlink. Yay.
So I looked for TI-Connect on the CD. But it was version 1.2.1, while I wanted version 1.5 (I did my research on the internet, see. I'm gonna install MirageOS on this TI-83Plus thing soon......). So I went to education.ti.com and tried to download TI-Connect. But it asked me to sign up!
Fortunately.... for Firefox, LONG LIVE BUGMENOT!!! Just right click on the place where it says to sign up, select BugMeNot (here, www.bugmenot.com for the extension to firefox) and it submitted a bogus login which immediately worked.
Hey TI-Connect just finished downloading. I'm off to make my calculator work now!

Everybody's gone to the cybercafe. Looks like I'm stuck behind here. I'm not very happy at this....
I'll go home and play Final Fantasy VII after the West Side Story rehearsal. It's really restricting me on a lot of levels now.
Today, the health class had a very pointless argument about whether parents' ideals were correct, or was it our ideals that were correct. I suppose I'm growing, because I think the parents' ideals are. I've gotten sort of a grasp about what to talk about them and when to say it.
English was boring... as usual, if it weren't for my friends I would have put my feet up on the desk, listened to the Secret of Walter Mitty (movie's) music and called it a day.
Spanish? haha... we couldn't find the class anywhere in the morning.... I Was thinking of calling it a free period. But apparently they were in the library all the time taking that horrible test, and now I think I flunked that test which I took later....

First off, I have to apologize to all people who are bisexual.... in sexual orientation and in body for using a negative connotation of the word "gay" on the issue of taking...........email surveys. Absurd, you might say. But it might be a sensitive topic for many.
On the bright side..... I have no homework. And I got a fairly good score on the Science test, 71.5 out of 78. And the math test? easy bull, not as challenging as the science. I think these new influx of straight As will finally convince my parents to get me a DVDRW burner.... thus relieving me of having to save another RM300 up again...phew.
And.....it is with great happiness that I present...................
THE W-SUMMON MATERIA. YESSS!!!!!!!!!I GOT THE W-SUMMON MATERIA IN THE GOLD SAUCER IN FINAL FANTASY VII!!!!!!!!!
ahem. Which probably means I have now a chance of beating the Emerald Weapon, but first? Yes, of course. First, let's not get too carried away.....I still have that whole heap of Materia to master and then divvy up among those who are going to fight Sephiroth.

Nothing really happened just now. Ismail didn't do anything....
Thinking of installing Gentoo now on my old machine. Windows 98 seems really swap happy, which is unfortunate since the hard drive on that computer refuses to do UDMA. Which means? PIO of course. 2MB/s for a hard disk transfer rate is SO last decade, so much that I am forced to run a lighter operating system such as linux or something that fills up more RAM than swap space.
On the other hand, those 4GBs of Azumanga Daioh, and MONSTER episodes.....
nah...
or probably yeah.....
dammit I need a new hard drive. One that does DMA, goddammit! Not just some crap that does 2 megabytes per second..... fuck man.
so.... what's my agenda look like now?
1. Sound card (TBSC)
2. 512MB DDR2700 RAM
3. New PS2
4. 80GB hard drive that actually does DMA
5. hmm.....128MB of RAM for old computer?
6. DVDRW drive? probably, if I don't get it for my birthday.
7. dunno. Damn. All this adds up to about RM2000 already. This is horrible......

Is talking about bad translations in KOF:Maximum Impact.
KOF Maximum impact's sfx (kyo's flames, iori's...blue flames) look horrible. But other than that, the girl are looking very sexy in 3D.
I'm in school now. We have West Side Story rehearsal after this.
Ismail's looking over my shoulder now, and he's annoying. And Lucas is touching my shoulder instead of merely looking over it... ahh ahhh ahhh I'm being assaulted!!!!

Today I'm not going to play very loud music. We just got headphones in the lab today, yippee!!!! Because ever since the beginning of this school year, lending out headphones is prohibited. So, when a couple of headphones (albeit not working that well) were left behind by the multimedia class, we rejoiced. And played kof2003. Man Aikmun got good at that game. I'll have to practice on Expert mode then on the console settings in the neogeo emulator then, I guess.
Sigh. This is boring. Nobody's online. I think i have no homework. And when I actually check, I still don't have any homework. what do I have tomorrow?
Spanish
Health
English
Choir.
Oh wait, I still have to colour that drawing for english. Damn.