I got bored of it didn't I?

Yup, after a paltry month or two I ended up not writing for a very very very long time. It seems like the curiosity didn't last very very long and I think I got bored of it. There is so much that needed to be understood and lets face it, I do not like feeling like a noob all the time. But who am I but just a mortal. One whose appetites and quirks are more unapologetically queer to many. More prone to fault than ever. Very much like a flyaway dustcloud. So easily distracted by the winds whispers, "Come hither, come thither."

(Sorry, I've been reading Shakespeare.)

But it's not as if I've completely shied away from machines. I use my laptop everyday. But merely for entertainment. Not for education and development. Not for the sake of the love of all things technologic. However the most fascinating thing I've done so far last semester was to create a program with a GUI to count the turnaround time and figure out the efficiency of various scheduling methods. I did it in visual basic which was the fastest API to learn. It took me one night. Unfortunately we didn't really have time to figure out how to truly make the core of the code which was the scheduling algorithms. We finished it in two nights.

I should learn NOT to procrastinate.

Another thing that was fairly interesting to do was to make a radio receiver for FM and AM. But then again we bought the bloody kit with all the parts and instructions from a company in the US. We were just too lazy (and not to mention pretty ignorant). If we had to do it by scratch... we'd not know where to start! It was fun to melt lead again. It was just like the Life Skills Electronics class in high school... with a bigger and more complex circuitry. But it was still cheating. We didn't know how to make it "make it" after all. We always didn't know what was wrong with it. (And the capacitor EXPLODED!)

Thats just it for now.

Out~

After A While

I LOST MY PASSWORD!! And I reformatted my Virtual Box hard drive because really I HONESTLY do not remember what it was. Then Hyperair tells me that if there's a will there's a way... But it'd probably be lost for the non hackers so I just threw it all away. 

So I reinstalled again. Thanks to what I wrote down I could pretty much follow the same steps as I did last time. I installed so much crap after I last wrote that but since I didn't write anymore I really didn't remember. But I did get the essentials... (rpmfusion, presto, yumex) It was however an ASS when it came to installing guest additions. Thank goodness for online help!!

So now I'm finally coming to the point of this whole exercise... Getting Fedora Electronics Lab. Now I have to wait for 361 Megabytes to download. Whatever lah.

More waiting...

Various random things

Freenode has blocked mibbit. Freenode is the server for many open source community channels. Mibbit, a client, has been blocked. Freenode say sit's due to the trolling and spamming of mibbit users. Apparently if it's harder for people to use irc the tougher ones would find out. Like youtube and 4chan, the easier it is to anonymously go online and post up shit, the more people would abuse abuse abuse. So now I use the freenode website. And it makes me ask again... And your point is?

Trending topic on twitter--> Parker's Tutorials. Turns out to be some obnoxious little boy who wants to make it big. I am seeing his vid. He is annoying me.

I love emails. I'm keeping connected to my family quite well.

Procrastinated.... Shit...

Out.

Virtuals Machines are Fascinating

Yes, I like it a lot. I hope to become a vm-master like wariola one way. XD Why? Why? Because its so COOL. And besides I have problems regarding my internet connection. I only have the CSL broadband wireless thumbdrive and not Huawei so the laptop wouldn't recognize the broadband connection because it couldn't read the drives. DX

So with Windows 7 as the host I could easy make sure that I have the internet connection and at the same time use Fedora 11 (like I've wanted to since I knew about it) and finally learn to use it properly. So I used VirtualBox (no preferences here... just using what is familiar). Feds uses a lot of internet support and so I don't think I could do without it.  I get the connection through the shared network so no problems there. I know that running on virtual machine still have a few limitations but I don't really have a choice now do I?

So I've set it up, allocating around 60 gig for hardware (since I plan to use it heavily) and 1 gig of RAM since I've upgraded to 3 gigs of RAM I could afford to be generous. I didn't have too many problems setting up. (Just had to get rid of the old account...) But after that I really got irritated by the fact that the screen was to small to be of any proper use.

So I went to the fedora-my irc channel and asked for help. And there sniffit and Kagesenshi helped me out. Turns out that all I had to do was add the VirtualBox Guest Utilities and install it. But getting it to install properly was like hell. And as I said to sniffit, I did it with my own blood, sweat and tears. But I looove the open source community people. They've helped so much. They're so nice. *sigh* sniffit even offered to help using teamviewer. I sort of want to do this myself though. I can't be a computer engineer for nothing. But even so.. it took me most of the day to figure how to add the thing. And hyperair did it in 2 hours... wtf... Kage was a bomb anyway... all I really needed was the documentation from fedora. But I didn't know that.. *sigh* Thank you awesome people. You guys entertained me well too.

So after THAT first hurdle was done it was time I looked at the programs that I could use. The very idea that every sort of program is available and just within the tips of my fingers was certainly new. I didn't have to go out and buy a crack  copy or anything (plus the DVD drive isn't mounted). All I had to do was search and install. Because everything was FREE. Thus is the power of open source. And I'm loving it! I've still have yet to finish the list Kagesenshi gave me... And there's still the repositories to look at.

I learned a bit more about repositories from hyperair. Apparently for Ubuntu there's a few kinds of repositories: main (default installation), universe (community maintained programs), restricted (similar to main but with licensing issues) and multiverse (which is similar to universe but with licensing issues). For debian there's main (free software), contrib (software that is free but depends on non-free software) and non-free (which means that it's not free or not FOSS but it may be distributed). After some searching I find out that fedora seems to be less complicated. It has only Fedora (which is the main repository for the core programs and the extra programs), RPMfusion (for non-free stuff) and Livna (for libdvdcss). I have yet to check this out though.

So far I've got xchat working. I fiddle it around for a while... and I downloaded my first comic from irc!! Dangeki Daisy ch9. XD Its so useful that I can access several servers at once. *grins* Now I want netbeans... but it's been tricky and I haven't figured it out... Hopefully today more people would be free to help me. (omg.. I feel bad for using them so much) For now I'm installing a few updates that I randomly pick from the list of 101 updates. It was gila besar!! So I decided to pick and choose. I don't need Telegu support.... Or bluetooth support....

I have been following a few guides and added presto and yumex. Presto is suppose to make sure that I need to download as little as possible. And yumex is just a better interface for add/remove programs compared to the default interface (which makes me gnash my teeth because of the weird labelling and the lack of trasparency. I don't know how many more hours I'd need to wait for a 1.7meg file.). Although I feel like I'm adding stuff quite carelessly. There had been a few warning errors that I just don't get.

Irregardless I somehow got my pidgin working so thats cool. Now I can talk to Lala easier. *grins*

hmm... my mozilla seems to be dysfunctional after opening 10 tabs...

Thats all for updates now!

Laters!

The Coolest thing Ever!!

Right now I'm downloading using Downthemall. A firefox extension. And now it is downloading a hitherto unknown speeds of light. That is still an awesome miracle. XD

Yes, I'm just trying to get to Fed 11. After this I swear I'll use OSOS. It's just a bit... mah fan... And i'm enjoying chrome in Win 7. Only now I realize Win 7 is retarded in some ways some times. And I'm afraid of the Microsoft Office. I never really lived w/o it before... Haha.

This is why OS OS rocks...

I just found out that my SD card reader doesn't work in Win7... shit...

I WANT FED11!! DX

sadness

Searching for l337-ness...

Something that was thrown in during irc-talk:

Wiki article of definition of L337-ne55

Then it got me intrigued. It's so SPECIFIC. So I found a few l337 guides such as How to Become L337 Linux Guide and l337speak: The Guide. And to make your l337 vocabulary powerful there's the One L337 Word a Day webpage. There is just so much more to find out about becoming a L337 and you could find it all in l337 600613. It's funny. I learnt l337speak years ago through MegaTokyo, one of the coolest webcomics ever. But it's so sad how everything changed. There's no Largo and Tsubaki as well... *sigh* I miss them.

MSCOSCONF09

Today is a slow day for me on the net. It's sadly slow. No action whatsoever. Got me to thinking about being connected to the world and yet not connecting to anyone at all... (NOTE: must check on this idea.)

 

This is going to be autobiographical. Divert if not interested.

 

Day 1:

Was actually half an hour early... Figured i should register and stuff... But my oh my was I mistaken. I did't register online so I spent most of my time just lining up to register. And how ironic that the first person I end up meeting is... high school kid from debates. Apparently he just got into Comp. Sc. in MMU. Ironic. Yeah. I won't say much about that.

 

I made myself be brave and talked to a guy in front of me. Some final year Comp. Sc. person. I talked to him throughout the Conf. But the thing is I never even got his NAME. And now I doubt I will. He wasn't really OS community type. (As I soon see after that)

 

I was feeling really confused on the first day. There were FIVE streams on that day itself. I could only be at ONE place at a time. So I went to the Fedora room the whole day. It wasn't bad. Most of the stuff I learnt is absorbed on the first day. About KVM and helping OS and Live-usb.

 

I was quite eager for the next day.

 

And the food was always interesting. Everyday. (nuff said)

 

Day 2:

I managed to talk to more people. Like with Mr Harish Pillay and Mr Eric Yeoh. I wish I talked to Mr. Gen Kanai too. And maybe Mr tony baxter and Mr. Chris Dibona. Too scary... n.... what would I say neway? I did manage to talk to Mr Ben Balbo. He introduced me to BarCamp. I didn't join the Penang one but for future ones... who can say? XD

 

Day 3:

I really don't remember much. Things were becoming very techie and repetitive. Spaced out a lot.

 

Later, I tried to virtualize on Vista with Mr Erics help. That so didn't work. But we had dinner. And I learnt a lot of things that night. Mostly on the chinese and indian views on certain issues. It was very deep and enlightening.

 

Day 4:

Woke up like I had a hangover. Transfered most of my stuff on my hard disk drive and tried to figure out how to burn an image cd to FINALLY install fedora. I came early and did the burning thing and tried to virtalize. Had a bimbo moment and didn't figure out to connect to the net. ( I didn't SWITCH ON the WIRELESS!)

 

i didn't pay attention most of the day. I was too busy trying to virtualize with Wariola's help. But the internet connection sucks so bad that I had to wait forever for finally getting anything to happen. But I did this all in the VIP room. So cool.

 

But I did pay attention for all the lightning talks. They were cool. XD

 

After all that. I was alone and wasn't sure if I should go for the dinner. So I tossed a coin. And so I went. I was revved up by all the retro glasses!! It was so like the one Verbal had!!  I couldn't help myself and started gushing to a random bunch of ubuntu guys. And they ended up being my dinner partners. Cool eh.

 

But after dinner, dancing was just awkward. I left.

 

Talk by Mr Baxter from Google:

This was so improptu. Was thinking of not going. Talk was informative but yet again a lot of it is above my level. Should NOT have worn linux t-shirt on that day.

 

And this is how it started...

 

(I'm getting sleepy...)

 

 

How it started...

It started with essentially.. Computer Engineering.

I was checking my umisisweb account endlessly for some days. And while waiting for the cursed pages to load I couldn't help but see the notifications and stuff. At that point of time I was bored and willing to join anything. I already joined EYLN09 (an AIESEC entrepenuarship camp) and I didn't know where to travel to without friends. So joining the quirkiest stuff is the next best thing.

I had to choose though... It was either Deaf People Conference (on sign language and how to help and stuff) or MSC Open Source Conference. And for the slimmest of reasons (aka Computer Engineering) I decided to go for mscosconf.

I'm glad I did I guess...

So my only research was on all things... memetic... yup... But I haven't finished reading the database yet though... Not like it matters but I want to... hehe...

And so I went to the conference... And boy I was surprised... TO BE CONTINUED!

This is one of the cool things I can do!! Power!!!

I'm posting from my email account... just because I can.

Start!

I don't need to identify myself. As one entity in the masses of many, one ceases to be important. Thus is lost in the creases. And since I don't think I want to be famous... I won't toot my own horn. I do that somewhere else. Like on facebook (like someone recently pointed out) or twitter (? maybe).

Is there a point to this blog??

yes there is!

I have written various blogs over the time to address my various interests. But now every time... My blog entries somehow digress into becoming somewhat... Emotional... Personal... Out of topic.

But I'm starting a new slate. (Yet again...) I am going to write about my technological exploits!! Yaarh!

Thus... Technologicality is Lovable is the motto for the day.

Thats all...