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Friday, October 31, 2008
Happy Halloween!
posted @ 10:19 pm
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
School these 2 weeks has been a total waste of time. Basically about five people bring their laptops, and then we spend 2 to 3 hours each day playing games such as Little Fighter 2, Red Alert 2, Counterstrike, and a lot of NES emulated games such as Mario. Blah.Here's my overall results this year:
H1 General Paper: D
H1 Chinese: D
H1 Geography: B
H2 Chemistry: B
H2 Physics: B
H2 Mathematics: E
I just watched a Warcraft retrospective video. Its about how Warcraft has grown since the very start, with Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. Pretty interesting. I'm going to watch the retrospective on GTA now. Here's a link if you want to watch some. There are other games as well.
http://www.gametrailers.com/retrospective.php
posted @ 5:24 pm
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
I'm going to be sharing with you my experience with a torrent just yesterday. I'm also going to rant.So, yesterday I downloaded a torrent. Just a simple 500mb file, the comments were good, the seeder/leecher ratio was good. So I proceeded to download it. So, after downloading, I did a virus scan (which I do with everything I download), and it was clean. So I went on to install it.
Unusually, it took a really long time to open the setup. While opening it, my anti-virus program detected a trojan called "Inject.fzr", and it was on the svchost file. I denied access, and I continued to wait for the installation file to open. I assumed it was a false positive, as there were about 3 to 4 comments saying that the torrent was clean. After a minute or so, I started to feel uneasy over that trojan.
I went to Google the trojan's name, and for a moment I was relieved. There was only one result found about that trojan, and that usually means that it is a false positive. Still, I went ahead to click that search result. What did I see? That trojan, "Inject.fzr", was added to the database just two days ago, on 14 October. Remember I downloaded the torrent on 15 October. Then I went to check when the torrent was uploaded. It was uploaded on 14 October.
"Something's not right here..."
Thoughts went through my mind. I've heard of bogus torrents before, where there might be unrealistic numbers of downloads/leechers/seeders for that file. I took at look at the statistics. A little over 4000 downloads, 400+ seeders and 100+ leechers. It doesn't seem wrong, does it? The thing is, there were about 10-20 other torrents that offered the same exact file. Why would this torrent be so special to have such good statistics? Just one day after uploading, it has the most seeders out of all the other similar torrents.
That's it, its a fake. But should I continue installing it? My anti-virus program is rather powerful.
Well, in the end, I decided to stop the installation, and delete the file. I did a full virus scan, and my computer was clean. I'm wondering if I should comment and warn others of this torrent, sneakily containing a trojan that is hardly a week old. Smart bastard, whoever uploaded that file.
posted @ 6:50 pm
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
This wouldn't make sense to you if you didn't play Starcraft or Diablo 1 or Diablo 2.A few days ago I watched the Sound-a-like contest that happened in Blizzcon three years ago in 2005. Most of them were pretty good, some just gave you that "? wtf ?" feeling or expression. There were too many Murlocs though. The whole video is 25:39 minutes long, so I cut out the two best and uploaded it here. Originally I planned for it to have the video and stuff, but there were some problems with the sync between the sound and video, so I just uploaded the sound on Youtube, and I added the words to the voices.
The guy who did Deckard Cain had some good actions and expressions, too bad you can't see it here. If you guys are interested, the guy who said the battlecruiser is at 4:10 minutes, and the guy who did Deckard Cain is at 14:55.
Yes, the host is kind of an idiot.
Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GznQo4Uolsc
posted @ 9:59 pm
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Sunday, October 12, 2008
This is a cinematic from the game Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction. Its the opening cinematic for the expansion, and I cut this portion of the video out just to upload it here. Personally, I found the way he died rather funny. The sound, the way how it was so unexpected, and the way the man just split into pieces. I'm not weird, the demon, Baal, laughed too.posted @ 10:09 pm
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
I just completed a skirmish game of Dawn of War: Soulstorm, and geez, it was good. It was a 2v2, my team having two Imperial Guards and the enemy having a Chaos and Eldar. Good battles happen occasionally, but what made me want to put this screenshot up is the number of deaths.
That is 1399 units killed in the course of battle. I just calculated, and that is half a unit killed every second. To make it sound more imaginable, that's one unit killed every two seconds.October 11, 2008. It was a great battle. The Imperial Guards had the upper hand early game, swarming their opponents with their countless number of conscripts. The Imperial Guard stood their ground at the critical point on the battlefield, gunning down any intruder who dared to invade their territory.
But alas! Their foes soon gained the upper hand, as they started to roll out their heavy machines onto the battlefield. The Imperial Guards had no choice but to abandon their posts, and fled like chickens. The enemy soon knocked on their door, with the sour smell of death lingering near the headquarters.
"Where's our artillery support?" A desperate Imperial Guardsman yelled.
More and more soldiers started falling, limbs were mercilessly sliced off helpless soldiers with a fountain of blood flying beautifully in the air. The squad's morale inevitably broke, and their fighting capabilities rendered useless. The squad's commissar, who lived by the motto, "fear ensures loyalty", shot dead one of his squad members. Freaked out, a surge of adrenaline pumped the squad back up, knowing that they'll either die fighting the enemy, or die being a coward. As countless number of men were being sent to the frontlines to hold the enemy, a similar number of men falling to their deaths.
Suddenly, a familiar "boom" pierced the air, followed by the familiar sound of heavy bolters. Bodies of the speedy Eldar flew into the air, performing a wonderful circus act for all to see. The cavalry had arrived. Two Leman Russ tanks and a Baneblade stood majestically behind the relieved infantry, raining destruction onto their enemies. The Chaos and Eldar armies soon thinned, and encouraged by the sight, the Imperial Guardsman pursued the remaining few who seemed intent on fighting back.
The Baneblade is the Imperial Guard's oldest tank, forged on Mars itself. It is equipped with a battle cannon paired with a coaxial autocannon, a demolisher cannon, 3 twin-linked heavy bolters, and 2 lascannons. That is a whopping 11 barrels of destructive fury on a single tank (each set of heavy bolters has two barrels).
Once the enemies were dead, the Imperial Guard regrouped, ready to lay siege to their enemies. Three squads of Imperial Guardsmen, one squad of Kasrkin, one squad of Ogryns, two Leman Russ tanks, one Baneblade, and three Hellhounds set off towards their enemies base. As the enemies base loomed in the distance, the Imperial Guard were attacked yet again. It was a small strike force, but they put up a fight nonetheless. Suddenly, a great red horned demon flew over the heads of the Imperial Guardsmen, landing beside the Baneblade. It was the feared demon, the Bloodthirster.
This freak of nature stands 30 feet tall, and it lives only to destroy and kill, nothing else matters to it. By dropping its axe on a mere human is enough to turn you into a pancake.
The Bloodthirster landed with a dull thud, emitting out a shockwave that sent the infantry flying in all directions. Although it didn't kill them, this shockwave made a deep dent on their morale. The whole contingent focused fire on the hideous demon, hoping to bring it down before any serious damage could be done. The Bloodthirster swung his ridiculously giant axe at the Baneblade, causing some superficial dents on the Baneblade's tough armour. The Bloodthirster was starting to show signs of weakening, and it soon fell on its knees, unable to continue in battle. The final blow was dealt on it, and its spirit rose into the air, leaving behind nothing else but a patch of blood.
The Imperial Guard soon reached the Eldar's base. Unfortunately, the base was nowhere to be seen. The crafty Eldar, masters of speed and stealth, had managed to stealth their whole base before the Imperial Guard could lay waste to it. An invisible turret shot at the Imperial Guardsmen, and soon a radar scan from the Imperial Headquarters revealed the base. Hell arrived on the battlefield that day... and the buildings started crumbling one by one, turning into a giant pile of unidentifiable rubble. Nearby, the other Imperial Guard contingent was laying waste to the more heavily defended Chaos base, with its countless number of anti-vehicle turrets built around the area. Laughter could be heard from the Baneblade as the turret's missiles started to tickle the tank.
The Eldar and Chaos put up a strong defense, but it did not prove to be enough. The Imperial Guard emerged victorious, and they trotted back to the headquarters in their blood-stained uniforms.
posted @ 10:43 pm
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Friday, October 10, 2008
I haven't completed Spore yet, I've played until the Space Age. I don't know if I'll ever feel like continuing and completing the game, but here's some screenshots of all my 12 creations so far.
End of first stage------------------------------------------------------------
End of second stage------------------------------------------------------------
End of Tribal Stage------------------------------------------------------------
Start of fourth stage
Start of fourth stage
Front of City Hall
Back of City Hall
House
Military Ship
Military Land
Economic Land
Entertainment House
Factory
Military AirEnd of fourth stage
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Start of Space Stage
Spaceshipposted @ 5:28 pm
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Its Open House in my school today. Of course, such events are a waste of time. There'll be another time-wasting event tomorrow and on Friday, which is AC Games (think Sports Day).Since there was nothing much to do, I went to the computer lab to do some stuff. I managed to complete my I&R (part of some crappy subject called Project Work), so I don't have any work to do until official lessons start. So I went to screw around with the computer. First, speed test of the school's internet connection. Here are the results.
I don't think that is the fastest I've seen so far. I've seen speeds of about 130 000kb/s if I'm not wrong.Next thing I did, is to open 1000 tabs in Firefox.
The amazing thing is, after opening 1000 tabs and letting the system stabilize (right after I open the tabs, Firefox will lag), there was absolutely no lag at all. Then, when I closed the 1000 tabs, it closed almost immediately. Unfortunately task manager was disabled so I couldn't see how much resources Firefox was using. In contrast, my crappy computer of mine, which I adoringly name it "Trash", is capable of lagging with 1 open tab. Even as I type this, it lagged. Then for some reason, the whole computer froze and I had to pull the plug (again). I think I'll go for a 3 hour full virus scan. On second thought, nah. Who cares about this computer. If I fully paid for and owned this computer, you know what I'd do to dispose of it? Since its a laptop, how about jumping on it (with shoes of course). I was also thinking of throwing it down the building (safely, I'm not a killer litterer). Maybe throwing it against the wall with all my might (which isn't a lot) would be good. Too bad I won't be doing that. My Dad would be wondering where it went.
Then I watched a lot of "Just for Laughs" videos on Youtube. Spent about an hour or so watching such videos. Interestingly, my school has blocked Facebook in one of the computer labs, and I was trying to bypass the block. Sad to say, I have to conclude that Singapore has a censorship system that rivals that of Korea. I did manage to open the Facebook log-in page, but that was just from Google's cache (stored websites in Google's database). Nothing else worked. Proxies (which are blocked in the first place), translators (which is also detected as a proxy), mobile version of Google, using a website shortener, it all failed. The only way might be to either use programs, or to use more drastic measures.
posted @ 6:44 pm
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