Archive for July, 2007

How often does your workplace fuck up and end up giving you money you didn’t earn?

Well, I received a payslip in my mail yesterday for $160, $15 of which went to Super and had another 20 or so taken off due to tax. Though I’m not too sure if this was a fuck up…since…I heard somebody talk about how we should be paid half of the scheduled work if it was cancelled. Well I had two days cancelled so I guess if the policy was true then I truly earned the 8 hours of work…but it’s not like I’m going to ring them up and ask about it…free money is always good…

I’m being super Asian at the moment…with my 1337 h4x computing skills…maybe you UNSW people can take a note or two…

I have a print quota of 450…but currently I’ve printed 81 pages of notes of which only 2 pages counted. How you ask? Linux! Instead of paying for my notes I simply print them for free! Ahahaha, think I’ll do this for my SOFT1902 workbook as well…I guess the only textbook I have to buy is the stats book which I don’t exactly want to pay full price for Ahaha. Cheapness.

So anyway, I now own 3 ipod nanos. One 1gb 1st Gen Nano, one 2gb 2nd gen nano and one 4gb 2nd gen nano. I’m using the 4gb…my dad is using the 2gb and I might give the 1gb to Diana’s bro if he wants it…that or I’ll just sell it on EBAAAAY.

Anywho, I have websites to design, work to do, programs to compile and applications to download. Catch y’all next time.

One more thing…comment on my damn video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is one of those days when I just feel that everything is going well in my life yet at the same time everything is rather confusing and messed up. I seem to live two lives…my uni life where the only problems I face involve my studies and then there’s my non-uni life where I have to deal with other non-study related issues.

I’ve said this before, I don’t blog as often due to the fact that a) I can’t think of anything funny/entertaining to blog about THAT much and b) I don’t feel like blogging about things which I’ve already discussed through another medium. Before, this was my medium, there weren’t anybody to share my thoughts so why not just post it here for nobody to read? Turned out people read it, even people who I preferred not to have read it…it’s still true to this day.

I remember one "controversial" blog that caused the hate of some NSBHS/StGGHS people. That is all in the past and I no longer associate myself with them any more. On the rare occasion that they are in fact reading this…I haven’t really got much to say…or perhaps I’ve said to much already…

A lot went on over the past two nights. Everybody is oblivious and I don’t talk about it.

The first thing anybody said to me during the first day of uni was "You look really tired" in which my reply was "I slept at 2am" which was a half-truth.

I’ve found my comfort zone at Usyd. It’s either Carslaw, Wentworth or S.I.T. No longer on the constant lookout for familiar faces. But I’m still hating the trudge to the Psych side of UNI…the unknown side…

It’s another one of those days where I say Goodnight to people but end up writing a blog…if I said goodnight to you and you are reading this…then I guess you should know me well enough that whenever I say "Goodnight" I don’t mean "Goodnight". It generally means "I’m going off MSN to do some other stuff". But in all honesty, I was planning on sleeping. In fact my eyes are getting sore. I spent 12 hours at UNI…8am to 8pm. It was fun to some extent, just tiring. I made some jokes which I’m going to prevent myself from doing. Think I’ll just keep to crude jokes rather than the (what I dub) get-a-hug jokes. God I just made that up just then with no relevance to anything…

Who really knows me? I’d say that some people know me better than I know myself…in some sense or another. But what if those people think they know but they don’t…what if I think that they don’t know but in fact they do…basing it on the assumption that I don’t know myself…

Oh it’s so confuzzling!

I was wondering what song can describe my mood…I can’t think of a song that would fit my mood.

On a side note…if you ever hear "How Come" being played in the background, it probably won’t be a good idea to aggravate me…

I tried getting PCSX2 to work on Ubuntu…failed. I tried the binary, then the source, then the binary, then the source and finally the binary. At least now I can actually run it BUT I can’t load the bios so I can’t really play any games I got it working on Windows but I don’t know how to get the analogue sticks to work "properly" currently it involves using the mouse but it’s extremely dodgy.

Apart from that I’m pretty happy with it. Hopefully bitmetv can unban uT 1.7.x so I can finally use wine to run uT. To be honest, commandline bt is fine and all that but until they improve the features there’s not much I can do with it…especially when downloading a 50gig torrent…

So currently problems involve:

• Shitty HP printer drivers
• PCSX2 Bios
• Bittorrent
• Word Processing (LaTeX?)

Hmmm…all of then contain workarounds, but I don’t particularly hopping from one OS to another…

So anywho, last day of holidays. Completed around 40% of all the things on my todo list *sigh* I really suck at keeping my own promises. Well looks like it’s another semester of FUN.

Yes I’m writing this blog in Firefox…and I’m hating every keystroke, it just looks and feel…WRONG.

Anywho, it’s rare that I blog more than once a day but I guess I just feel like it.

Don’t you just hate it when things go wrong? The thing with Linux is that I have no idea what to do when something goes wrong, I don’t know what is wrong or how I can fix it. I guess the fact that most of the software aren’t OFFICIAL or at least "stable" may be the reason I shouldn’t mess with some things but meh, I like to experiment. Seriously, if I have to format my linux again to get this buggered thing working, I will.

Basically, Windows "UI" is…rather "primitive" compared to the ones offered by the Linux community…HOWEVER, Aero finally has "caught up" in a sense that it supports some features of Linux that was supported two years ago…The only up side is that you can use Aero with no side-effects whatsoever. Linux have MANY, MANY different UI customisations that you can use. I only know around 5 atm…but I’m sure there are heaps more. First is the default UI supplied by the OS. Now this is useable, but it’s not really "cool" and is pretty plain and boring. Why would you want to make your OS cool and shnazzy you ask? Well, for one, it looks FO SHIZZLE. Second, with the right customisations you can improve productivity. I guess that’s what I look for in everything, how to do something in a shorter, more efficient manner with minimal effort.

Currently I’ve tried basic Compiz which also comes with Ubuntu and also Beryl. I just realised today that Beryl is no longer being developed however, support still continues. In other words, if there’s a bug they’ll fix it but apart from that it’s pretty much dead. So as I was googling around I found this thing called Compiz fusion which is a fusion of both Compiz and Beryl. Awesome! But it’s pretty buggy. (At least they say so). So yeah…I installed it to realise I only have 1 workstation instead of the 4 I originally had…so that makes me a sad panda

So yes, I’m now seeking help…and I can either…go back to Beryl…or I can reformat my Linux in hoping that it fixed everything Ahaha. This is such a pain. But at least I’m learning Who woulda thought computing could be so much fun!!! Ahahaha. I guess this reminds me of like Year 4. I’m getting more and more attached to my ubuntu.