Category Archives: My Rants

I got rid of my old and very very slow GeForce 8500GT (with a 64 bit memory bus, which basically meant it was a rebadged 8400GS) and got an equally old, cheap but not so slow Radeon HD3850 (only 256MB of ram, but that’s what I could find on my nearly non existing budget).

Which means I can play games again. Sure, it is still and old and outdated graphic card, but it’s night and day performance wise.

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So, just finished watching “A Tale of Two Sisters”, nearly fell asleep in the middle of it.

The film can be summed up to: Step mother (Eun-joo) and sister (Soo-mi) are complete cunts, thanks to that the other sister  (Soo-yeon) dies in a freak accident involving a closet and her mother (who was dead inside the closet), cunt sister goes crazy. Everything else are the intricate fantasies of a crazy cunt (Soo-mi) trying to run away from guilt and responsibility. The End.

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A quick review of last month:

The stupid computer (the pentium 3 machine) still works, when it feels like it.

Haven’t worked in any project, well…a little bit on the Survival Horror game (Colina Silenciosa) mostly writing, doubt a one man army can finish the game.

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So, almost a year ago after finding out how light a simple command line linux running rtorrent was (here), I said I should put my old PII with 64MB of RAM working as a torrent box.

Today, it lives!!

Except the PII motherboard was not in working condition.

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Love when this kind of situations occur, simply by chance.

After a ~7 hour downtime on both of my VPSes (seems like both nodes were down), I was just ready to start filling a support ticket, when I thought: “Well, let me check using downforeveryoneorjustme” and as I did, my second VPS was reported as up, “Wait, what?” there I go, pointing my browser to **.**.**.222 and…a directory listing page for lighttpd, which meant it was up. “Hey, what about my main VPS?” and a couple of seconds later **.**.**.158 was up and running.

The paranoid side of me is asking how they can know if I’m filling the support ticket or not…

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I’ve been watching the “The Twilight Zone” (the first one, 1959-1964). While I vaguely remember watching some TZ episodes, some 11 years ago, I can’t remember if it was the original one or the one from the 1980s, I just remember I didn’t quite like it.

Now, after watching 52 episodes I must say that my rating of it depends greatly on the episode. For example the last episode I watched “A penny for your thoughts” was, in my opinion, fun to watch, the part where he listens to the blond female thoughts or at least tries to…priceless ; the part about L.J. Smithers, an old man working at the same desk for 20 years and his fantasies of one day robbing the bank (his place of work) and running away to Bermuda, which I dare to say is the kind of fantasy every person on this world has had. Really liked this episode.

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Today I was in a “tinker with stuff” mood.

So I started by trying to fix my gamepad, I succeeded, then I spent some time playing Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 and thinking “Next, Silent Hill 2”, which has been on hold ever since I broke the gamepad, then “Hmm, this button isn’t answering very well to presses”, proceeded to open the gamepad and tinker a bit more, then back to PES, then some other little detail…well, long story short, I tinkered so much with the gamepad that I completely fucked it beyond repair. “Yay!” for me, no gamepad any more.

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