Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Ahhh if you love drama and mystery anime.

'Higurashi no Naku Koro ni' is total mind fuck. Based on a game it follows chapters of what happens when you screw up in the game. That is my theory since I have only watched up to epi 10 and 4 epis per chapter. Each chapter ends badly so I presume the last chapter is where you sovle the game correctly to have a 'happy' ending. The anime is really a blast and well subbed by both 'Ayu' and 'We are IN Denial - WIND'.

Watch it from the sheer creepiness factor and great story. Voice actors here really gave some of the best performances. Hahaha, if any girl in real talks to me like they do when the 'creep factor' is on I tell you this; I may not be able to sleep at night.

Update: I see there are 20 epis and from what it looks like 4 chapters to one of the 4 girls. Since I bet choosing any of the 4 girls to investigate leads to bad endings and horrible/sad background stories about them then the real culprit should be actually outsider of that circle of friends. The cop maybe? Since you do see him in everyone of the chapters so far. Or is it deeper than that.

Monday, June 12, 2006

Dude I have the same prob.

http://www.sinfest.net/d/20060529.html

Another good comic.

Here is one for the guys.

If you guys think you got a fair size throbbing hotrod in your pants then here is a comic of the exploits of one such as yourself.

http://www.leasticoulddo.com/

I am a cynical guy.

I was told this by Mae (did I spell that right?) so here is some cynical comics. Gotta love em.

http://70.86.201.113/imageserv2/stilltemporary/archive.html

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Articles.

As promised to Ming here are some of my old articles. I'll post another 2 more next week.

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VAIN Emergency System

So I was thinking of a good system that emergency services can use in times of natural disasters, fires, rescue, etc. called Video Audio Interface Network Emergency System.

Basically the hardware needed for this is:

Foldable 15-20 feet transmitting antenna.
Laptop for communications.
Handphones with extreme battery life and video recording.
Small 5-6 feet relay antennas that run a bateries.

How this is done is the team sets up a command centre with the large antenna and the laptop hooked up.

Every man has a handphone with a special sim card that can be switched to the VAIN cell network from the normal normal networks.

Once this is done emergency service member spread out to cover the location bringing along the relay antenna should the coverage of the main antenna not reach certain area. The relay antenna relay and boost the signels from the handphones.

With that emergency service members can give live visual and audio reports of the situation back to the command centre via the video recording feature of the handphone. This helps a in few ways: one, specialists in the command centre can give instructions to others in field concerning certain problems like poisonous gases, structual assessment, medical info, etc. Two, it allows specialists on the field to forwarded info needed by other members in other areas. Three, it can be used so that all members on the field can view and be updated live critical situations. Four, allows trapped civilians to be forwarded to a rescue member closest to them so that information can be shared in their rescue.

Basically, a scenario would like this. Person trapped in a building on fire calls for 911 for help. 911 forwards the call to the commander centre on the scene. After gathering details from the person including if possible visual information the command centre can use the relay aantennas to help triangulate the exact whereabouts of the caller. The caller can be forwarded to a rescue operative that is nearest to him or other operative incase the caller needs certain info like how to deal with medical problems or safest escape routes or even how to reach the nearest operative.

The relay antennas are meant to be disposable. But should be retrieved later either for spare parts or if in good condition, recharged and used later.

So what you all think?

Stress test between the dual cores of AMD and Intel.

Fun fun fun... look at them fry!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh9kSS-NiNM

Best damned looking laptop or micro pc?

My birthday is the 28th oct. You beeotches know what to get me.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/unboxing-the-sony-vaio-ux50/

My favourite tech blog.

Simpily amazing. Accurate and to the point.

http://sharikou.blogspot.com/

Politics among gamers.

Here is a tale that should make you think about online gaming clans:

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Shah81, let tell a little story:

I was once known as Scorp76 in that server before they had starhub host it for them.

At that time I complete all the training expect that stupid, crawl on ur ass for 10 hrs SF training. Which made me sad since then i couldnt play on any SF maps. Then when i came to the Singapore Kaos server they had SF weapons on as a forced class. Cool that quenced my thirst for the M4A1. Then I notice that the Colt shakes quite a bit. I did some research and it confirms that without SF training using SF guns worsens ur aim.

By then I was on the server for 1 weeks every day. So i searched around for a hack to auto clear the SF training. I found out that glugbot has the most painless to use bot training command of all the hacks. So i used it. Cleared the training n even up my sniper score from 37 to 40. I uninstalled the glugbot n went back to the server. PB could not detect the current glugbot at the time. So i told Photomurray about it (at that time he was not a server admin). He was a bit disappointed that i used a cheat to complete the SF training but none the less life went on. Later, got to know God Above too.

Not long Photo was given admin privileges which soon after we go on TS together to help ghost against the other players in Urban Assault. Especially, against Milokaw. All through that time I urged them to install glugbot so they can see how it works n then identify other players that use it by the way they play.

Glugbot btw has wallhack, aimbot, nade distance indicator among other stuff. So basically, players that sit far back getting headshots with 1-2 bullets r suspect. Or players that stand behind a wall n move their rifle in such a way that they look like they r tracking another player.

Yes, Photo and God uses admin controlls to follow the opforce players they suspect of hacking through this method even though they did not bother to install glugbot to really see how a player that uses it behaves in game.

Now concerning Snake, at that time Snake used to pop up a lot in odd places in Urban killing n moving fast. This, recently when playing Boarder as it came out, i realised is the same tactic i use too. Which is rush the weakest line of the enemy, penetrate through, then raid them (attack from the rear as they advance they positions). Of course at that time i was only like honour 35 or somthing so i didnt know that. Basically, at one point i got frustrated and Photo and God got frustrated (we use slow advance, no covering of the rear n camp tactics which dont really work well in Urban against good players) so they said, 'do u think Snake is cheating?' I said, 'Hell yeah.' Then with that God said, 'then he is gone permanently from the server.'

Now God owns the server n runs from his house. And pays for being a honour server in AA. So basically, he could do whatever the hell he wants.

Fighting Co*k did try to appeal against the ban but he made sound like Snake was a whinning kid. So we laughed. Basically, i was in with the power group so i too abuse my standing with both admins against players that i thought hacked.

Later, I was offered admin position on the kaos server as u can see in this email here:

Subject: pb_power
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 01:25:56 +0800
Hello Scorp

OK, very simple...

When you play you have a couple of options to do with players that are abusive, tk or in anyway destroy the game for others.

So let say you have found a player that is irritating and his name is godofson, you do this steps all in the console:

1: type pb_plist [brings up all connected players and their player slot. The player slot is the first number in a row.
2: type pb_kick # [the # represents the player number, take care you get right number otherwise wrong guy get kicked. Does happen..malu]

Alt to a kick if he comes back to disturb over and over:

pb_sv_ban # [the GUID of that player is kicked and banned forever]

If you made a mistake:

pb_sv_unban ********* [Unban the GUID you have banned by error. The ********* represent the name of the player]

If you have forgotten the name or it's spelling, you can tell me and I give you the last banned players and tell me who and I'll remove it manually in the .dat file.


Please do not abuse, since if they complain they come to me and I will be unable to explain unless you are on TS at the same time. But normally with any ban made by Murray I do not question why since I trust his judgement.
Also, he can reply in the forums if the banned d*** comes back. You can't since you are not registered there.


Hooah
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Here is an email incase from Murray or PhotoMurray to prove that yes we ghosted the hell out of a lot of players during the Urban Assault map days:

Subject: ts changes
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:20:15 +1100
hey haven't seen you on for a while. some changes on ts, user can't go out side the lobby now or send text message due to dickheads on there so now you will have to ask johan to let you register (not hard to do) then its the same as normal. you can't register without a server admin to open it for you, I'm not a server admin. Johan will have np allowing you but you have to be there so he can do it. just to let you know that its not a problem on your side or with ts. dickheads that were spaming and finding ways around there bans are to blame, as always dickheads f*** it up for us all. Hey flash you soon.
Murray
p.s. thought you might get a laugh out of this pic.


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I was admin for about a month, i was even inform through TS since we talked mostly in there that if i thought Dawenzi or Milokaw were cheating to boot their asses from the server. I never abused this as i realise just how power crazy the Kaos clan is especially God n Photo. Only ppl i did finally boot r the ones that broke the no swearing rule after 3 warnings.

So i was admin for about a month then PB found one f***ing glugbot file that stayed in the system (an ini file named as glugbot, and yes i actually show it but since it didn't have the exe file for it i thought it really wouldnt be able to run at all or consider a threat but pb just picks up any files even if the all the important system files to run glugbot was removed) even though i uninstalled the program.

So i told them, 'yeah i did tell u had glugbot installed to complete SF training.' N they all go, 'yeah but no. But yeah but no.' N being abusive. Then i told them, 'If i was using glugbot i wont be letting that f***ing Milokaw n Dawenzi noob my ass like i was some 4th grade kid teething on a mouse.' (Well it was less colourful than that but u get the point.)

So I got MAC banned on the server. Only recently when i got a new mobo i decided to create a new account, glugbot train it to pass SF n play again.

And that is the whole sordid story.

*******

Yes that makes me fairly guilty too you can read more at this link --

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=197283&st=540&p=7400636&#entry7400636