kaliwanagan

Not yet dead

Although barely hanging on X_X

It's the home stretch of my semester here in Angers, France and so I'll have to be extra dilligent in studying. When I get back home I'll start updating this blog (and start coding for OpenKore again)

Temporary hiatus

It's been really hectic lately, with school requirements and stuff. But I'll try my best to update my blog.

Maybe I'll post my todo list here. The problem with a todo list is ... I'm constantly reminded and obligated to do them X_X

Living in Angers

I have arrived, and just got an internet connection, so I can probably start to brush up on whatever is happening online.

For starters, it would seem that inRO had the same packet changes as bRO, pRO, as well as idRO had. Maybe the server operators are taking advantage of the fact that a good public fakeServer hasn'tbeen written yet? Well, let them sit on their laurels. As long as the primary weakness of their approach isn't addressed, fakeServer will get written - somehow.

For the server operators who read this blog, welcome :)

My laptop

Just in case anyone's interested in how my laptop looks like.

It runs K/Ubuntu very well, with only a few minor glitches (like the screen going awry when something goes full screen, some sound multiplexing problems, etc) but I'm thoroughly satisfied with it.

New Blog Engine soon

I'll be shifting to a new blog format as soon as I have time to properly create the designs. Currently the blog runs on thingamablog; however I came upon a blog engine called blosxom that totally blew me away. Past content won't be lost however, as I will be migrating my past articles too.

Happy New Year

Admittedly, I had a boring New Year. I hope yours was more interesting.

Installing Windows on a USB Flash Drive

Bet you didn't know it was possible :)

Find out how here.

The Real End of Classes

And so ends the second trimester with my submission of the Supply Chain Management report.

Vacation time!

In other news: Ever since Yahoo! Mail dropped pop3 support, I've been on the look out for "fetchyahoo" programs that will allow me to download my Yahoo! mail to Thunderbird (my email client of choice). When I was still using Windows I used to use YahooPOPs! for that functionality. Now that I've switched, I'm using this: Webmail for Thunderbird. It's an ftp site of all the latest binaries for the Webmail extension to Thunderbird.

Drive crash

My 80gb Seagate Barracuda just crashed. X_X

Now starts the painful rescue and backup attempt of my data (good thing most of the important stuff has been moved to my laptop already.

End of classes

Finally! It's the end of classes. All that's left is the Operations Research paper for submission on the19th of December, and I can start having my Christmas vacation. I can also start coding for OpenKore again since I'll have enough time to hack around the bot.

Offline

Today my cable company (Destiny Cable) cutoff my Internet connection.

I can't really say I'll miss my cable per se; rather what I would miss is the connectivity. When I first go t my cable internet connection, it was a great experience. Sometimes I would reach up to 700kbps during early mornings. However, as the months went by, their service went from good to worse to terrible. I can't stand getting disconnections and really bad ping times during rush hours. At those times, dial-up was even faster.

I'm considering switching over to Smart Wi-Fi. At the very least, it's a lot cheaper than what I paid for my cable (around P1,700 whereas Smart Wi-Fi costs only P998) . At best, it would be a reliable internet connection. I'd need to set it up before I leave for France, since I would need the connectivity to save up on bills - using VoIP instead of the traditional phone lines.