judgement and negativity

do you like to talk a lot? or are you the silent type?

kbai

c’mon, dont hate me
lol

i dont hate you i just dont like negative people, lifes too short =)

why our music limits us

i was just listening to some good violin. i’d recommend this track to anyone, its called “First of May”. dunno who played though. nevertheless, it was a great all violin instrumental, with a little bit of  guitar, some piano, and a bit of drums. but i wanted the violin only :S

so i tweaked my equaalizeer, and set it to cut out the bass (base, whatever you pronounce it as). that mostly eliminated the drums. i amped the mid range, and little bit of low to ensure i kept the G-string alive. some more tuning and it was great. i set the volume to a decent high, and whoa

my every nerve resonated to the violin. i could feel, i was being swept away by the highs and low. it made me not want to do anything, and enjoy the “buzz”

then it struck me; and that’s exactly where the problem was.

Adobe on MAC

Getting a MAC is one thing, getting software for it is another. I was surprised how people around the world would go so far to use pirated software. While I was looking around Adobe CS4 for MAC, I found this guy who disabled his internet just to stop online activations! The era of offline activation has ended because its just too risky with cracks and patches, but even in this era of online activation, people use offline computers!

With this snippet of code at the Terminal, you give TextEdit sudo persmission (“administrative” rights), to edit your hosts file on MAC.

sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts

There, you add the following entries to redirect any outgoing adobe connections to your local IP.

127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sea.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sjc0.adobe.com

Supposedly, adding anywhere between localhost and broadbandhost works!

truth

that’s not it. that’s not it at all.

How to run The Witcher in Windows 7

I looked around everywhere on the internet, looking for a way to run The Witcher on Windows 7; but alas, one website alone could not give me the complete solution. It was only with their power combined, Captain Planet could save the day.

I have a 3.4GHz Pentium D processor, on a D945GNT board and 1.5GB RAM; and for graphics, a XFX 8600GT XXX Edition 256MB card. I play The Witcher just fine on my Windows 7 computer, with occasional crashes after very long hours of gameplay. I traced the problem to “running out of memory” of some kind. There’s a link to a HOTFIX for Vista for this problem, but Microsoft claims they solved the issue on Windows 7. So maybe I run out of some other memory.

But thanks to Witchers creative autosave, every time the game crashed, I didn’t lose much gameplay.

The only reason why Witcher wouldn’t run on Windows 7 is because of TAGES Copy Protection being not compatible with Windows 7. So go to http://www.tagesprotection.com/ and download the latest Tages driver compatible with Windows 7. Install it, and launch witcher. Use the launcher, or the executable inside the system folder, or was it the bin folder. Nevertheless, the launcher is quick and easy.

The 1.5 patch at thewitcher.com should remove the need for the DVD being in the drive, and also remove tages protection. To go for 1.5, you’d need to install 1.4 patch first. It’s pretty huge (990MB+) if I remember right. I installed 1.1a and 1.2 patches, and got the game working. I also installed GamesForWindows from Microsoft, hoping that would solve my earlier problems, but I don’t think that helped.

If you STILL have problems, get the mini image from gamecopyworld.com, and mount using daemon tools lite, or any application of your choice. This game has no cracks yet, and the no-dvd crack at gamecopyworld didn’t work for me.

one of these days

the soft piano on the b/g is soothing. “there are days, when I feel..” – emo. now it’s “Killswitch Engage”. its lame. if only he didn’t pretend he was suffocating.

that’s why i love cowboy bebop. its got a touch of reality, flows fine with plenty of variations – “the real life blues”.

“Happiness is just a word to me, and it might have meant a thing or two if i had known the difference.. Emptiness, a lonely parody, and my life, another smokin’ gun, a sign of my indifference..”

Truth be told, I’m only rather beating about the bush. I don’t feel like going back to researching e-comm. Why am I letting this bother me? This being the events that transpired a while ago. I called the Noor, she was halfway inside the computer. I had nothing to say. Is that it?

But now I have set myself a trap. Led myself into it too! Desperation is not it, more of stupidity. I am indeed low on nicotine. But this piano piece “Eyes on me”, some variation of it anyway, is far too nice! Twas Utada Hikaru’s take on it; marvelous!

i win.

status checks. i told you i’d call, but i will be a little late, and i didn’t want to catch you sleeping. so i sent you a text asking when you’ll be hitting the hay. hitting the hay, i believe, means going to bed. you did not reply.

so you were busy and forgot. plausible.

then i called you, as promised. its been 45 minutes, no hint of you. i’ll text you one last time before i hit the hay.

the plan to keep trying for a couple of times, and then stop. if you are least bothered, fine then. its 85% likely that you will lose either way.

out of credit

my last words were, something along the lines of, just try to have fun and things will sort themselves out. don’t worry too much about it, its not the end of the world. so have fun, and enjoy what you are doing. that will do.

but that doesn’t mean you get to engrossed in “fun” fun, and forget what your true objective is. you need to have fun, and enjoy, not just randomly, but while you are doing what you are doing. if you enjoy what you are doing, and feel the need to get better and better, you’ll get there.

but if you don’t like what you are doing, and doing it just for the sake of it, (because someone asked you to, or you get benefits), you’ll never be as good.

so first you need to feel the need to excel at something you like doing. if you enjoy it, you are more likely to eradicate your “mental block” (eg. im no good, i just can’t, its impossible! etc. etc.) or never feel a mental block in the first place.

be yourself. be original.

resolve

overcome the monster, embrace the light, and laugh at the face of adversaries, only to strike them with bravery, might and whole lot of fun.

while that forms a great resolve, i have something even better. but the limitations of human vocabulary do not allow me to communicate this to you, and if when i try, it will cause discrepancies, and errors in transmission

the last bit kind of reminded me of sth i’m compelled to write. i <3 melancholy of haruhi suzumiya. one of the best animes i’v seen come out this/last year. the story seems very simple, and the airing schedule will confuse a simpleton, but it’s deep and loads of fun. to have given rise to “haruhi-ism”, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, is indeed something, and is definitely worth checking out. Consider another fact, they re-released the older episodes again this year, with 1 or 2 new eps i think, and its still a Big Hit. there has to be something in that anime. <3 nagato

well that’s that. i had food poisoning; wonder what i ate. on the first day, they barged (out); second, they banged; today, they’r still knocking. to the wonderful people who invited me to eat outside, i shall get back to thee as soon as my stomach finishes punishing me.

system failure

at the sight of you, i stop thinking straight. my parallel processing crumbles. i don’t know what i should do next, what i should do now, or what i should be doing. nothing makes sense. i might as well blurt out “sheringapoting” because i’m completely cluless, like a little child dropped in the middle of a stock exchange – so overwhelmed with the volume of useless information, or maybe useful i dont know -

well how am i supposed to know, i just had a system failure!

rerouting all my power to my secondary fail safe measures, im only barely able to escape this ..what do i call it, “phenomenon”? relying on instincts alone, without any thought of consequences, or strategic planning, how do i get out of those situations, i really have no idea. only later after i recover, i hide my face in a hole, coming up with ways in which i can avert the already struck disaster. futile, really.

i’m kind of confused now; running amock like a crazy toon whose head is on fire. i know i’ll recover in the next few minutes. but that’s besides the point.

what really worries and troubles me, is that how, can i possibly stop these recurring system failures at the very sight of you? i wont run away, so i have no choice but to face you head on. if only my instincts work, i’ll train them. next time, it shall be different~