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02/07/2008 07:16 AM What's with MediaFire's "file verification"?

Wrote up a script to upload files to MediaFire (I have my reasons for it) today, but interestingly, MediaFire has a "file verification" process. Anyone guess what that does (maybe duplicating the files to a backup server?)? It seems to take ages whatever it is. Was using 5 byte test files with the script. Uploaded in 3 secs, but verification took like 20 secs O_o

(also the number of steps make it a pain to write up a script)

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27/06/2008 01:23 PM ZSNES doesn't work well on Windows XP x64 :(

Darn - was trying to play some SNES games I haven't played in ages, but ZSNES seems to have a nice "lag" effect on x64 Windows. Setting the emulation speed to 2x makes the emulator go too fast.
And ZSNES was probably my favourite emulator.

Oh well, * goes to download Snes9x *

-e-
Hmm, Snes9x has some nice features since I last used it.
Doesn't have 32bit colour for fullscreen mode though. Also a weird bug if you set the Shift key as the fastforward key (you can't "un"fastforward)

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20/04/2008 01:16 PM I now actually have a leather computer chair

Well, that's the end of the dodgey wooden chair I've been sitting on for the past ~6 years in front of the computer.

Not the best chair, but works okay if you're playing games or watching a movie :P
Somewhat difficult to type with, if you lean back.

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16/04/2008 12:52 PM Inspirations of my Management Lecturer

Well, after last week, when she was trying to explain a point to us, using examples such as the Sony Wii and the Nintendo Xbox (apparently the Microsoft Playstation wasn't good enough), this week, she used images to explain to us some core values that some firms try to put forward to their employees, such as:
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(found more, but I think that's enough =P)

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07/04/2008 11:49 AM New USB Drive

After the death of my old USB thumbdrive, I've been using my portable HDD these days, to carry stuff around.

But yeah, it's larger, and has moving parts...  so I decided to buy a new USB drive, seeing the prices of them now dirt cheap.

Got myself an 8GB cheap/generic brand (my experience with generic brand USB drives aren't that bad - sure, they're not the fastest, but usually reasonable).
But this one has absolutely horrible write speeds...  It's like USB 1 speeds.  Copying from the drive feels more like USB 2, but seriously, What the fudge?

Urgh, oh well.  It didn't cost that much anyway.

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03/04/2008 12:17 PM Fun with disassembling

I've probably mentioned this before, but I've been dabbling in a bit of disassembling lately.

One thing that was interesting was Oblivion.  When I copied the game off someone else, interestingly enough, the game had no protection whatsoever.
I recently installed a patch however, and now, the game seems to require the DVD to be inserted to play the game (as everyone knows, a darn pain).
Anyways, just to test it out myself, I decided to see if I could fix that myself.  Loading oblivion.exe up in IDA, I quickly found out where the message was being disabled (the check just happens to be in WinMain()), and glancing at the execution graph, it's just a simple jump statement.  Fair enough - all I did was change the jump and voila, game cracked.

I guess Bethesa software never really bothered much with trying to copy protect Oblivion... (glancing at the code, the game only seems to check if it can find OblivionLauncher.exe on one of your CD drives).

Still, I doubt I could handle anything complex (or moderately so) at the moment...

Aside: I can't seem to get IDA to assemble anything, which is a pain.  So I'm having to resort to hexing to modify things, but I can't seem to find a good opcode reference either, unfortunately :S

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27/03/2008 02:11 AM This internet connection is win

Currently at library, downloading at 1.5MB/sec - w00t!

Best connection I've been on.

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16/03/2008 01:34 PM Poly-tics

... is really something I couldn't care about ...

But anyway, had to go out to vote for Brisbane's lord mayor and local councilor yesterday.  It's really great since I knew basically none of the names on the ballot paper...
(By the way, for those who don't know, voting is compulsory in Australia)

So when walking to the polling centre, you see tonnes of posters around the place, advertising the parties' candidates (hmm, is it a crime to take down those things though?).  When you get to the entrance, there's all these people from each party, trying to shove in their "how to vote" pamphlets.  The pamphlets look really similar though - I mean, I would've thought that if they were trying to sway some last minute deciders, they'd try something more spectacular at least (don't they want to stand out?).

Well, for the actual voting, all I did was fill in random numbers in each box - pretty much what I did for the federal election.  Oh and with the fedral election here, held at the end of last year, I recall the senate voting paper - there were two ways to vote for the senate - either pick one, of fill in your preferences for the candidates from 1-65... ya, that's... 65...

Isn't compulsory voting just wonderful?

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