Well, hell.
First thing first - sorry for not updating. Had a heckload of work to get through first, most notably finishing my thesis (Wheee!), getting through fieldwork and being addicted to Uta no Prince-Sama.
/Head meets desk/. I didn't update in what it seems to be a forever right now /sweatdrops/, even if I do write. But thesis work was a monstrous project - 2 years of work, and 130 pages and don't even start me on editing the darn thing. After I finished the paper monster of epic proportions, I was so wrung out I couldn't churn out one decent sentence, and story was a no-no. I did send an application for a job and I hope to get it, because it was right up my venue, but we'll see. Fields was more or less conserving the veggies, cleaning the fields of the weeds - gawd, you wouldn't believe just how much weed-clutter can gather in one measly garden, but it's true nonetheless - and generally made myself useful here and there.
Uta no Prince-Sama is an anime that grabbed my attention because it was harem-based /yup, shameless/, it had interesting twist and there was music. Although I do admit I likes some elements from manga better than from anime - in fact, the leading lady, Nanami Haruka doesn't seem to progress much through the series, while the boys solve their little troubles via her help. Sure, she does have some of her moments, but still, it could've been better. However, it was worth watching anime, because I got a plethora of new songs to listen to, and the cast's antics were hilarious. Kurusu Syo - the short (don't call him that, or else /reminded of a certain Fullmetal shrimp/) blonde was especially funny, what with his... diminutive - -ahem - stature and his quick temper, not to mention how easily he was baited by Shinomiya Natsuki (the green-eyed bipolar roommate), be that in the past or present. While we are at Natsuki, I gotta admit I love his alter-ego, Satsuki, if only because of the song Orion de SHOUT OUT, because it reflects me just as well. Bipolar people for the win! /evil grin/. Jinguuji Ren (blond-haired, blue-eyed sex - ahem, I mean saxophonist) also has a good song : Sekai no Hate Believe Heart, but Satsuki just grabbed me with his intensity. Ichinose Tokiya, alias HAYATO, called unfeeling perfiectionist, interested me with the Nanairo no COMPASS , and because he's a tsundere to the end of the universe and back /snarks, amused/, His other song, BELIEVE☆MY VOICE, is also wonderful, because it's so sensual. I would have expected that from playboy Ren, but Tokiya was a total surprise. Ittoki Otoya, redheaded puppy of the group was cute, and his beginning song, was also a great one - hard to believe that he could come up with the lyrics for BRAND NEW MELODY just on the fly, but if he was infatuated, I can... somehow. And I like him for ruffling Tokiya's feathers - them being roommates is just a bonus. Hijirikawa Masato, the singing samurai, also enchanted me with his song Knocking on the mind, even if he is so old-fashioned it hurts Otoya's brain and he has some kind of a phobia with embracing a female. In a bid to help him to get prepared for audition, Tokiya had played a woman - kimono and all - and that still didn't help - but gotta admit Tokiya was a superb player in that one, even if I do find his HAYATO alter ego annoying. And then, Cecil Aijima. His song to Haruka was simply enchanting - I liked the melody of Eternity Love, even if it was a bit cheesy at the times. But I love cheesiness, so, this is a plus /sheepish grin/. As for writing, I am seriously contemplating to write a harem story again and this colourful cast of characters could prove a challenge, because they are so different from each other they literally make a rainbow when matched together /snarks/, but while we are at that, I seriously can't see them in homoerotic relationships. They give off too strong vibe of a friendship, and while I admire fanfiction writers that dared to tread in those waters with those characters, I personally can't see myself attempting something like that. Which is strange, because with Bleach, it's everything goes, but here, when the boys are like that.... kind of awkward and likable, with well-developed backgrounds, I sort of don't want to deviate from the main storyline.
As for CI - was frustrated because even if it's a month already, no sound yet. Some buzzing, squeakin' bats in ear, but nothing else. Today I also had a fitting, and the doc said I just have to be patient. I wanted to say screw patience, because i waited long enough, but even I know there are some things that can't be hurried up no matter how you wish them to be. Until then, I will be entertained by new songs and making new stories - gota get some of my old projects kickstarted up again, before the cog wheels in my brain rust too much to get them going.
And while we are at it, there is an excerpt from one of my pet projects, a crossover between KoF and Harry Potter. Yup, went to the dark side. /nods self-importantly/ Happy reading!
Monday, July 22, 2013
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
CPU Troubles With Firefox Resolved!
I had a very exciting day, or better, night.
Last night, I wanted to watch anime, Uta no Prince-sama! via internet, but I was appalled to find out that percentage of CPU of my laptop jumped up to shameless 100%, meaning my lappy froze, and no ands, ifs and buts made him budge either forward, backward or sideways.
When I had searched for the fix on the internet - I have Firefox as my primary browser - I tried watching on my secondary one, but no dice /sour face/, I found out that most of the users complained about Firefox hoarding the CPU, along with the Adobe plugin - can't remember the name right now but- not important - and it made my ire go through the roof at the thought of me not having the access to colorful little anime - what can I say, I can be ADD - inclined /sheepish/.
So, because I was grumpy enough, I thought about trying to get access through the Safe Mode of the OS. For all who are interested, I have Win7 OS, secured with with ZA as protection. I initialized Safe Mode and holy hell, it worked!
What is Safe Mode? In layman's terms, it's your OS, only whittled down to the bare essentials, and no fancy-schmancy programs you've probably loaded on later. You still can use the said fancy-schmancy programs, the only difference is, they will be intialized only when you click their icon. For experts, Safe Mode is also a playground - or some kind of a virtual sandbox where they can tweak and test the programs to their little hearts' content without damaging the OS (... Much. I think...).
Now, for some finds and warnings. As I said, the programs only initialize if you click the icon. So, when you want to go on the net, it's like with sex.... Safety First. I am not kidding. I engaged my ZA, and CPU was shockingly low, so I was one pretty happy camper. Your beloved browser will be intact, so don't worry about that. I had my add-ons - AdBlock duo and Ghostery - engaged, still no problemos. Was a marginally happier camper than before. And then, I tested the site Animeseason - was the first one with the anime, so I didn't exactly bother with any other. And lo, and behold, the thing worked smoothly as a silk! I was one ecstatic camper right then and there. Bonus points, no big amps up in CPU, however, I didn't engage any other programs, so I don't exactly know how would computer or laptop behave if any other programs would be active. As for CPU, it was as low as 2 % up to 40%..... I think, but there was no jet-lagging in the pictures or freezing frames. I went through some six or seven episodes, just to be sure - they work like Youtube, so you can stop, forward, backward as much your lil' heart wants - I only had to stop because my lappy was overheating - have HP G62, which is naturally a little prone to overheating, and it didn't help I tortured it through the day via different data /sheepish/ (That means almost 16 hours of torture, give or take some, even if I did help it with cooler pad and some cooling bags wrapped in textile. Crude, but it does take some heat off...doesn't help my room is one of the hotspot int he house in the summer, what with the position /sweatdrops/
Now, onto the warnings. If you perchance don't have the original copy of Microsoft Office, then, for all that's holy, DON'T open it! I mean it. When I tried to use my Word program, the first thing the berk had done, was to ask for the activation of the program, even if my version was already activated! /fumes silently/. So, if you despise entering the activation codes of dubious origin, you can either use Office Toolkit to get it fixed back, or - and it's simpler - Leave It Alone until you finish with watching the videos in question and go back to Normal Mode. I also noticed that I didn't have sound, and I don't know why was that yet, because Normal Mode, I have sound /confused/, but I will look it up and try to resolve it. I didn't exactly work through any other programs - well, Word pad was a notable exception, because I needed it and it worked as it should have, no problems noted. As for other programs, you will have to find out for yourselves.
Well, that's it. I did fool around with tweaking Firefox (before founding the described solution, even changing some of its core programming), but looking back, it wasn't necessary; however, I did have the Firefox for a year already and I had accumulated some useless tidbits on - mostly favorite sites and so on, so I uninstalled it, and then installed the new version. A word - if you do want to reinstall Firefox, and want your favorite websites and bookmarks intact, make a copy, which you can then transfer to new version of Firefox.
Whew. Our forefathers did have it right - the best solutions are simple. So instead of having a hissy fit over Firefox or Adobe add-on having their merry way with CPU in Normal Mode, try and switch to Safe Mode - CPU is lowered significantly, which means less chance of freezing laptop or computer.
So... what else could I say? Happy hunting!
Eirenei
Edit - 10. 7 2013; The site for animes is Animeseason. Animefreak just bulldozes through 7sweatdrops/ no brakes, seriously.
Last night, I wanted to watch anime, Uta no Prince-sama! via internet, but I was appalled to find out that percentage of CPU of my laptop jumped up to shameless 100%, meaning my lappy froze, and no ands, ifs and buts made him budge either forward, backward or sideways.
When I had searched for the fix on the internet - I have Firefox as my primary browser - I tried watching on my secondary one, but no dice /sour face/, I found out that most of the users complained about Firefox hoarding the CPU, along with the Adobe plugin - can't remember the name right now but- not important - and it made my ire go through the roof at the thought of me not having the access to colorful little anime - what can I say, I can be ADD - inclined /sheepish/.
So, because I was grumpy enough, I thought about trying to get access through the Safe Mode of the OS. For all who are interested, I have Win7 OS, secured with with ZA as protection. I initialized Safe Mode and holy hell, it worked!
What is Safe Mode? In layman's terms, it's your OS, only whittled down to the bare essentials, and no fancy-schmancy programs you've probably loaded on later. You still can use the said fancy-schmancy programs, the only difference is, they will be intialized only when you click their icon. For experts, Safe Mode is also a playground - or some kind of a virtual sandbox where they can tweak and test the programs to their little hearts' content without damaging the OS (... Much. I think...).
Now, for some finds and warnings. As I said, the programs only initialize if you click the icon. So, when you want to go on the net, it's like with sex.... Safety First. I am not kidding. I engaged my ZA, and CPU was shockingly low, so I was one pretty happy camper. Your beloved browser will be intact, so don't worry about that. I had my add-ons - AdBlock duo and Ghostery - engaged, still no problemos. Was a marginally happier camper than before. And then, I tested the site Animeseason - was the first one with the anime, so I didn't exactly bother with any other. And lo, and behold, the thing worked smoothly as a silk! I was one ecstatic camper right then and there. Bonus points, no big amps up in CPU, however, I didn't engage any other programs, so I don't exactly know how would computer or laptop behave if any other programs would be active. As for CPU, it was as low as 2 % up to 40%..... I think, but there was no jet-lagging in the pictures or freezing frames. I went through some six or seven episodes, just to be sure - they work like Youtube, so you can stop, forward, backward as much your lil' heart wants - I only had to stop because my lappy was overheating - have HP G62, which is naturally a little prone to overheating, and it didn't help I tortured it through the day via different data /sheepish/ (That means almost 16 hours of torture, give or take some, even if I did help it with cooler pad and some cooling bags wrapped in textile. Crude, but it does take some heat off...doesn't help my room is one of the hotspot int he house in the summer, what with the position /sweatdrops/
Now, onto the warnings. If you perchance don't have the original copy of Microsoft Office, then, for all that's holy, DON'T open it! I mean it. When I tried to use my Word program, the first thing the berk had done, was to ask for the activation of the program, even if my version was already activated! /fumes silently/. So, if you despise entering the activation codes of dubious origin, you can either use Office Toolkit to get it fixed back, or - and it's simpler - Leave It Alone until you finish with watching the videos in question and go back to Normal Mode. I also noticed that I didn't have sound, and I don't know why was that yet, because Normal Mode, I have sound /confused/, but I will look it up and try to resolve it. I didn't exactly work through any other programs - well, Word pad was a notable exception, because I needed it and it worked as it should have, no problems noted. As for other programs, you will have to find out for yourselves.
Well, that's it. I did fool around with tweaking Firefox (before founding the described solution, even changing some of its core programming), but looking back, it wasn't necessary; however, I did have the Firefox for a year already and I had accumulated some useless tidbits on - mostly favorite sites and so on, so I uninstalled it, and then installed the new version. A word - if you do want to reinstall Firefox, and want your favorite websites and bookmarks intact, make a copy, which you can then transfer to new version of Firefox.
Whew. Our forefathers did have it right - the best solutions are simple. So instead of having a hissy fit over Firefox or Adobe add-on having their merry way with CPU in Normal Mode, try and switch to Safe Mode - CPU is lowered significantly, which means less chance of freezing laptop or computer.
So... what else could I say? Happy hunting!
Eirenei
Edit - 10. 7 2013; The site for animes is Animeseason. Animefreak just bulldozes through 7sweatdrops/ no brakes, seriously.
Monday, July 8, 2013
Office troubles and hot days
As it is, the weather remains wacky as usual - hot like nobody's business, then cold and now it's hot again - my skull is complaining, because waiting for a drive for almost an hour in the harshest heat can do that to aperson, even if I had on summer clothes.
What now? Yesterday, my Office program rebelled when I switched on Safe mode because my laptop was freezing in normal one. Drat it, HP, you could do better lappies, or at least get the existing ones the breathing air - they are sometimes all to susceptible to overheating - mea culpa too, because I am working on my laptop for 14 to 16 hours per day, and well, hell, my poor lappy is taxed to its limits. Doesn't help my room is exposed to the sun at the hottest hour, and even if i do have a laptop cooler, the thing is only moderately useful, because HP got the cooling/heating banks done so awkwardly the fans can't exactly splash a drift of air into the laptop's vents. Back to the issue - yup, the lappy had unfrozen - the CPU was ridiculously high (100%), and then, in Safe mode, it lowered to somewhat acceptable 26 -28%, and that is running bare essentials. Anyway, I wanted to check some stuff in Word - my most beloved and used program, however, Microsoft Office said that the activation was wrong. I just stared. Bullshit in it's purest form, I say. The thing is ridiculously pricey, and it then had a gall to squeak out it won't work when in safe mode? Those are the days you sincerely want to strangle the aforementioned program or better, its' creators. Solved the thing with Microsoft Toolkit, but I learned one very important lesson - if you really have to work in Safe Mode, for all that's holy, don't touch Office programs - the thing is worse than primadonna in her snit. If you really have to work it, do it in Word pad. Also, the sites still offer that SweetIM nightmare, so beware - if you load 7-zip and you get offered in the process of downloading it, to install SweetIM with cute gesture of Accept or Deny, then for all that's holy, don't. If you really want 7-zip, go to it's original page, it's freeware, but if you do chose to install quickly-peasy from dubious sources, be prepared on the masochistic fight of epic proportions to get the SweetIM stuff off your computer or laptop, whichever you use. in one of the previous posts, I told about my epic fight with the SweetIM, so if you are really the fool or masochist to do the deed, there is your salvation. (Up here, link)
Sometimes a person could only wonder whether Microsoft Office is worth of the trouble it sometimes causes, whether inadvertently or not. /defeated sigh/. But as it is, this is solved and lesson learned.
Thesis will be kick-started and hopefully finished by Friday as I got some people roped in to check my work over - I didn't get my mentor, as he had gone to holidays, but I did get a co-mentor and she was kind enough to rehash the main points with me and get me some advice on how to advance. Seriously, all that writing of the thesis was making me shitfaced at times, because it just did. Even if I do some very serious research for my stories, the thesis is a yarn ball all on it's own, and no matter how many papers you have written int he time of study, you are really not prepared for the amount of work the thesis does include on it's own. /Sweatdrops/ Yes, I am bitchin'- but I have a right to bitch, as any of my co-martyrs know. It will be shorter than intended, but that doesn't really mean anything /snarks/. Now I have to chomp on my deal older brother to get through this and possibly help me with editing it in the shape it has to be in. Yeesh.
Training with cochlear implant is underway - still lil' bats squeakin' and sometimes it's hard to keep a hold on temper, because now there are more sounds crashing through the sound processor - still not sounds per se, but more like electric impulses, which can be goddamn annoying at times and it makes me tired as hell, but for the sake of advancing...
And I noticed something else, too. Fashion sucks. Really, it does. All the shops I've looked through today have clothes for Barbies or underfed girls. /growls/. Are we really so far as to promote anorexia and bulimia as a beauty ideal for the young girls? Stick-thin, almost no breasts, their faces painted with all the colors available - okay, I am overloading this point a bit - and with bling around their necks and in their ears? The clothes I checked over was very rarely quality - it was more than not quantity and in sometimes micro-sizes. I know I do have some work with myself regarding my form and whatnot, but the shops catering more to the thin sticks than women with curves is a discrimination of the highest order. What do we even teach the modern generation of girls? How to squeal, how to say 'like' cutely, how to flirt, what kind of boys are cool - preferably ones with big bank account or bad-ass sex hunger monsters - that they need make up to be 'perfect', that having this and that would heighten up their sex appeal - most notably bikinis, extra-short skirts, weirdly done shirts and that torn-up clothes are sign of being 'hip' and cool. i know I described the extremes, but the fact is, people, and women especially, in the first and second world, are regardless if they know it or not, victims of the consumer industry. It makes me remember the song from Daft Punk, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, and not in a good sense. It's an advancement for the sake of advancing - partying harder, having better job, faster cars, being stronger in political influence or otherwise. This had been present s since ever, but it made me think - we live in time of being on a precipice between war and peace. Young people are trying to get a stable job in the iffy economy, while the old ones are trying to get by, often working past their retirement age - not because it makes them happy, but for the sole survival in their old days, thus making it impossible for the young people getting a job and payment. In short, the employment market had double, triple and even quadruple standards, depending from which side you look at the situation. Even if you graduate from college, nowadays it's not guaranteed that you would get the job just because you've graduated. And sometimes even if you do have work experience, you are kindly informed that you are not a good fit, even if you are more than enough qualified for the job you are applying to.
This makes me twitchy. Something will have to give in the situation, especially in Europe. Germany is now a sole holder of the power in the Europe, and other countries have to negotiate with it, most notably Greece, and with Croatia entering the Eurozone, it's bound to be interesting and at the times explosive. I don't know what the politicians are doing, but even in my country, there are murmurs of dissatisfaction. People are beginning to move, and it's only a question of time when they will say enough is enough, and take the reins in their own hands. Fishing in muddy waters, proverbially speaking, is never a good business, and people have had enough of mud distorting their sight.
Signing off,
Eirenei
What now? Yesterday, my Office program rebelled when I switched on Safe mode because my laptop was freezing in normal one. Drat it, HP, you could do better lappies, or at least get the existing ones the breathing air - they are sometimes all to susceptible to overheating - mea culpa too, because I am working on my laptop for 14 to 16 hours per day, and well, hell, my poor lappy is taxed to its limits. Doesn't help my room is exposed to the sun at the hottest hour, and even if i do have a laptop cooler, the thing is only moderately useful, because HP got the cooling/heating banks done so awkwardly the fans can't exactly splash a drift of air into the laptop's vents. Back to the issue - yup, the lappy had unfrozen - the CPU was ridiculously high (100%), and then, in Safe mode, it lowered to somewhat acceptable 26 -28%, and that is running bare essentials. Anyway, I wanted to check some stuff in Word - my most beloved and used program, however, Microsoft Office said that the activation was wrong. I just stared. Bullshit in it's purest form, I say. The thing is ridiculously pricey, and it then had a gall to squeak out it won't work when in safe mode? Those are the days you sincerely want to strangle the aforementioned program or better, its' creators. Solved the thing with Microsoft Toolkit, but I learned one very important lesson - if you really have to work in Safe Mode, for all that's holy, don't touch Office programs - the thing is worse than primadonna in her snit. If you really have to work it, do it in Word pad. Also, the sites still offer that SweetIM nightmare, so beware - if you load 7-zip and you get offered in the process of downloading it, to install SweetIM with cute gesture of Accept or Deny, then for all that's holy, don't. If you really want 7-zip, go to it's original page, it's freeware, but if you do chose to install quickly-peasy from dubious sources, be prepared on the masochistic fight of epic proportions to get the SweetIM stuff off your computer or laptop, whichever you use. in one of the previous posts, I told about my epic fight with the SweetIM, so if you are really the fool or masochist to do the deed, there is your salvation. (Up here, link)
Sometimes a person could only wonder whether Microsoft Office is worth of the trouble it sometimes causes, whether inadvertently or not. /defeated sigh/. But as it is, this is solved and lesson learned.
Thesis will be kick-started and hopefully finished by Friday as I got some people roped in to check my work over - I didn't get my mentor, as he had gone to holidays, but I did get a co-mentor and she was kind enough to rehash the main points with me and get me some advice on how to advance. Seriously, all that writing of the thesis was making me shitfaced at times, because it just did. Even if I do some very serious research for my stories, the thesis is a yarn ball all on it's own, and no matter how many papers you have written int he time of study, you are really not prepared for the amount of work the thesis does include on it's own. /Sweatdrops/ Yes, I am bitchin'- but I have a right to bitch, as any of my co-martyrs know. It will be shorter than intended, but that doesn't really mean anything /snarks/. Now I have to chomp on my deal older brother to get through this and possibly help me with editing it in the shape it has to be in. Yeesh.
Training with cochlear implant is underway - still lil' bats squeakin' and sometimes it's hard to keep a hold on temper, because now there are more sounds crashing through the sound processor - still not sounds per se, but more like electric impulses, which can be goddamn annoying at times and it makes me tired as hell, but for the sake of advancing...
And I noticed something else, too. Fashion sucks. Really, it does. All the shops I've looked through today have clothes for Barbies or underfed girls. /growls/. Are we really so far as to promote anorexia and bulimia as a beauty ideal for the young girls? Stick-thin, almost no breasts, their faces painted with all the colors available - okay, I am overloading this point a bit - and with bling around their necks and in their ears? The clothes I checked over was very rarely quality - it was more than not quantity and in sometimes micro-sizes. I know I do have some work with myself regarding my form and whatnot, but the shops catering more to the thin sticks than women with curves is a discrimination of the highest order. What do we even teach the modern generation of girls? How to squeal, how to say 'like' cutely, how to flirt, what kind of boys are cool - preferably ones with big bank account or bad-ass sex hunger monsters - that they need make up to be 'perfect', that having this and that would heighten up their sex appeal - most notably bikinis, extra-short skirts, weirdly done shirts and that torn-up clothes are sign of being 'hip' and cool. i know I described the extremes, but the fact is, people, and women especially, in the first and second world, are regardless if they know it or not, victims of the consumer industry. It makes me remember the song from Daft Punk, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, and not in a good sense. It's an advancement for the sake of advancing - partying harder, having better job, faster cars, being stronger in political influence or otherwise. This had been present s since ever, but it made me think - we live in time of being on a precipice between war and peace. Young people are trying to get a stable job in the iffy economy, while the old ones are trying to get by, often working past their retirement age - not because it makes them happy, but for the sole survival in their old days, thus making it impossible for the young people getting a job and payment. In short, the employment market had double, triple and even quadruple standards, depending from which side you look at the situation. Even if you graduate from college, nowadays it's not guaranteed that you would get the job just because you've graduated. And sometimes even if you do have work experience, you are kindly informed that you are not a good fit, even if you are more than enough qualified for the job you are applying to.
This makes me twitchy. Something will have to give in the situation, especially in Europe. Germany is now a sole holder of the power in the Europe, and other countries have to negotiate with it, most notably Greece, and with Croatia entering the Eurozone, it's bound to be interesting and at the times explosive. I don't know what the politicians are doing, but even in my country, there are murmurs of dissatisfaction. People are beginning to move, and it's only a question of time when they will say enough is enough, and take the reins in their own hands. Fishing in muddy waters, proverbially speaking, is never a good business, and people have had enough of mud distorting their sight.
Signing off,
Eirenei
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