Just like that and there’s 1 exam left. And 1 FYP assesment as well.
Went to watch WCG at Suntec yesterday after I took my flu vaccination jab. Got there about 1630-ish. First thing I didnt like was the long escalator rides up. Its on the top floor I think. Getting on escalator after escalator after escalator got me kind of restless especially since I’ve never been to such a big event before (so I guess I was kind of ‘sakai’/’swakoo’/ignorant).
After I got in just took a quick look around. Gamers playing on the right, in the middle is the main stage event with chairs for spectators, on the left lots of booths and stuff and on the far left there was commentary for a WC3 game. I came just in time actually to watch Singapore’s CS:S team, TitaNs, beat South Korea’s MaveNCrew in a 16-4 win. After losing the first 3 rounds they had a 14-0 streak if I’m not mistaken. Apparently TitaNs are playing their match now against Canada’s Team_EG. All the best Singapore. Don’t know why I’m supporting Singapore but I guess I should since I’m here for the moment and that Singapore is hosting the games so that I can actually watch it LIVE :D:D:D Anyway better get reading and off to church. Have a good weekend people. Study well and all the best

:P Ok now time to study for real time

And today I install Quake III. Still as fun as ever :D Need more mouse space on this cupboard though.

Good luck everybody, back to ready HR readings… :|

Think about it

I think. I hope. Been doing Operating Systems Assignment 2 or as I like to all it ass 2 :P for the past 2 days with my ‘mummy’ and the ‘maid’ :P Something tells me it wasnt really worth doing the extra part however its fun to learn things. I still cant get over the malloc problem. Ok I just wanted to try compile the program in Windows to look at the problem and I just realised I dont have a C compiler!!!! And now thinking back on this I realised I know why, because cygwin never seems to be able to download the packages and install properly. Sounds a bit like Steam which is sometimes too fickle to update itself properly. Aaaaahhhh missing the ease of Linux in this sense where all I need is to “apt-get gcc”. As simplicity. Anyway I got NUScast working on Debian last night with the help of this page. I can watch webcast lectures as well, however it cannot fast forward or rewind!!!! ARGH!! Reminds me of TTT webcasts with his specialied application. Step by step migration. Becoming less worried about mounting my main “C:” directory in Linux, just was always worried that something may happen and I lose all the data on my Windows C drive and then I can kiss most of my work goodbye :| :P

Now where was I. Oh yeah talking about OS ass 2 :P Kind of finished it today after 2 and a half days of working (well maybe 1 day working 1.5 days stoning or something like that). What I need now is rest. Good old rest. Rest the body rest the mind rest the soul, and the study. Apparently I have to do all that tonight else I will have hardly any time to study :P Now I shouldnt be blogging now I should go sleep. Man it’s been a loooooooooooooooooooooong 1 and a half weeks.
Good luck people having exams. I look like a panda I’m sure. ‘Mummy’ says so :P Good night ‘mummy’ and ‘maid’ :P Good times, good times. Good ice cream at that too hehehe.

Serenity fans in Singapore click here for a chance to catch it in Singapore. Courtesy of uzyn for the link. I share the exact same sentiment as him, cant believe why it doesnt seem to be shown in the cinemas… Strange. Wish I could go but I got church “Makan Strike” event :D Who wants to come? :D
21st is outdoor games, 22nd is LAN gaming at Parklane and then overnight makan!!! :D We’re having a small get-together on 26th Nov to makan and watch Finding Nemo. Since I havent watched that (sad life huh? :P) its going to be free movie for me yay!!! :P

Ok ok.. SLEEP… SLEEP…

RT done!!! =D=D=D Mr and Mrs PacSmithman presentation and demo done. Now its just the final touches to the report and submission. Operating systems assignment practically done, but yet to be fully tested. Documentation still needs to be done. Time to start studying. 16th,18th,25th Nov are my exams, 21st Nov is my FYP CA2. Going to be 1 heck of a week. I’ll have 1 exam over in a week’s time =|
Perhaps its time to hit the books, but I rather play with the penguin. Slow transition to the penguin world is slowly happening. A few probs will be, there is no longer any NUS Debian mirror. Seems to be broken/slowly taken down or who knows what, so perhaps have to change distro if I plan on reinstalling… aaaaahhhhhh
Anyway I guess I should get my lunch. For the past week I’ve been sleeping at 0200 the earliest just doing the RT project. But thats more or less laid to rest which is what I should do to, rest myself and study. And study. And study. Thank God that the content doesnt seem that bad this semester but still need to read and read and study :P Quite a bit of overlap for Operating systems and real-time content so even better :D

Good luck for your exams people

In 6.5 hours I will be in town to take photos for mission trip :|
Two days ago I slept for only an hour.
Tonight I think I shall get less.
For one project with so many problems
I’m thinking this would be much more useful. And actually its fitting with our project. The module? EE4214. I will need to make a page for future students for them to find out what they need to know about the course and how to start and guidelines which the people in charge do not give, or do not give much….. To anybody doing the course in the future I’ll be glad to help so that you dont have to waste your time doing things that are useless.
As for me now I think I’ll slack around for a while before getting back to work.

Good thing I dont have any official classes this week due to the holidays today and 2 days ago.

RANT: NUS Debian distro is screwed up!!!!! I believe they have taken away some packages because now I CANT install from it anymore. No more xserver-xorg package among other things. The idiots….. For others looking for repositories (at least I believe it is repositories) there’s another NUS one here for Gentoo,Ubuntu,CentOS and White Box

Night people

Opera 9 Preview 1 to be exact. Check out the Opera Beta page to get your copy now. Quite a lot of updates, some significant ones would be the support of XSLT. Surprising seeing how they had a stand that XSLT was considered bad. A bit lazy to find the forum thread about it, I think I was something to do with client side formatting and how that should not be a standard as different clients will intepret it differently. Something like that if my mind is right :P
A page they took out of Firefox’s book, is opera:config. Opera has had before opera:plugins, opera:history and a few others as well I think. Added a feature of locking tabs so you cant close them, possibly useful for some people. Enhanced popup blocker and site-specific settings!! The only problem I have with Opera is that most things are done in ini files and will only take effect on a browser restart. I wish they could integrate it so that it doesnt need a restart. Aaaahahhh its getting late I better get to sleep for a productive day tomorrow. Enjoy your weekend people

Check out .kkrieger – chapter I. Its just amazing how much was crammed into 95KB. Playable FPS game, with audio and pretty good graphics considering 95KB. After playing this game, 95KB has a whole new meaning. Just simply amazing I think.

Now back to work. My mind drifts ALOT these few days, as can be seen through all these postings. And I just remember that Mythbusters was on last night… Aaaaahhh keep forgeting. Off to work!

But after watching episode 10 of DigitalLifeTV I got curious of Ruby on Rails. They mentioned that along with Ajax. I’ve heard about Ajax and had a rough understanding of what it was. I heard of Ruby as well but didnt have any clue what it was. After watching the 15min intro video I was completely blown away. I mean man this is awesome stuff. Practically created a blog engine within 15 minutes. Cool automation of linking the database with the engine and just simply wow.

For more interesting things on my daily Digg session. Found a video on TOOOL on Bumpkeying (or is it key bumping?). What it basically is, is a skeleton key that requires a ‘bump’ to open doors. The ‘bump’ can be from an object like a screwdriver as shown in the video. This leaves practically no traces of forced entry and is scary yet cool at the same time. Watch the video, its interesting especially if you don’t know much about locks and how they work. Get enlightened like I did.
“Knowledge is power. Abuse of Knowledge is weakness.” Thats kind of a quote I just came up with when I told my friend about the video. The first sentence is a norm I guess but somehow I just decided to add the second one. Maybe I’ll get famouse from this quote. Maybe not :P But I can wish can’t I??? :P But honestly I think five words in the sentence makes it too long to catch on. “Knowledge is Power” is short and simple. 3 words with all the meaning.

No fan of Eminem but for some strange reason I was drawn to the iPod ad featuring him. Apparently it was pulled from the website as some places has reported but is still available here.

Ok I should get back to work. Mind has been drifting ALOT today. Hope to finish more HR2002 readings. Slow, painful and arduous task.