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Just finished Jedi Academy. I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as I did Jedi Outcast Although I never did finish playing that one through.

This game was … sorta dull, and didn’t take really any time at all. I started playing it monday morning, went to school, came back, then played it yesterday and today.. 3 days or so, about the lengh of max payne 1, and VERY EASY. Except some of the puzzles were quite annoying ’cause voice tips were only played once “Go that way, and you’ll find a doorway”… which way is that way? “You take this entrance, i’ll take the other” while your partner was standing infront of 2 entrances…

I did like how the game entually did give you a chance to make a different light saber, but unfortuatly, it was after you got half way though the game, so if you decided you didn’t like that saber, you really had to go all the way through it again (or like myself, made a save file just before the end of the level :D).

The biggest problems came up near-er to the end, when you started to have partners taking “helping” you out with lightsaber battles. They tended to get into your way, and you’d kill them. Or thier absolute horrible path finding abilites would get them stuck behind a wall, or whatever else.

The best part though was the one “mission” that started you off with no lightsaber (is it lightsaber or lightsabre? I think saber) and had to get out of a base using found weapons and force powers, which was so much more enjoyable than walk in, slice slice slice, oh the mission is over?

Overall, i’d have to give it:
3 / 5 stars

Maybe I was a little harsh, but I really didn’t find it THAT enjoyable. I hope Knights of the Old Republic doesn’t disappoint me, I have high hopes for it, unfortuatly, that usually means that it will :( I still am a sucker for just about anything starwars though. I think i’ll try the sith arc this time, even if it is just for one mission or whatever… Actually, maybe later, those final few levels are annoying.

I know I havn’t been posting much recently, and its been a combo of being sick, being depressed, and .. well.. nothing of interest coming up. But i’m going to try and fix that with some interesting posts.

Yea, today was the first day I ever actually looked at the xargs man page.

I was trying to figure out how to use mv with xargs. I learned so much today. Did you know that xargs doesn’t actually pass them all in like a big long string? NOOO, it runs it multple times.
For Example, find ./ | grep jpg might return:

./gavin1.jpg
./gavin2.jpg
./gavin3.jpg

If you run find ./ | grep jpg | xargs -i mv {} pictures/ (which happends to be the proper syntax :D) will run:

mv ./gavin1.jpg pictures/
mv ./gavin2.jpg pictures/
mv ./gavin3.jpg pictures/

Which is both good and bad, good that it works, and doesn’t have absurdly long file lists (which was the problem i was having, find was returning almost 1500 jpegs), bad if the program you are running (mv in this case) takes a huge amount of time to start/do its work when it might be better to pass in the entire file list :)

Thats my info for the day

Muhahahah. Been playing with Outlook 2003 as I now have a legal key from school (no more fighting with open office to read school crap).

Its soo cool to play with the crap, but I don’t get enough emails to really have fun. I’m so tempted to disable the spam filtering software again or sign up for crap, just so i can get emails. And have outlook put up a notification that I have email and stuff.

Its sad no? But people seem to like to IM people instead of emailing. I have to start trying to get in contact with my distant family so I get letters again. Maybe it might even help improve my writing ability.

Modern Flirting (washingtonpost.com)

I’m not entirely sure why, but I really like thie article. I guess its the way I grew up, the way I was lead to belive by tv and such (not that I had any other examples, but still).

But once I got there, I found relationships and people nothing like TV told me it would be. This article so helped to explain so mucha bout life.

I have to admit, I really like reading ‘Just a Gwai Lo’, not only is he an awsome writer, but I get to find out so many interesting things about life and such.

Its defanatly a good article. People should defanatly read it.

mIRC 6.12 has been released!

mIRC v6.12 has been released to address a remote vulnerability found yesterday, capable of crashing your mIRC. The vulnerability affects versions of mIRC from v6.0 onwards, so it is highly recommended that you upgrade to mIRC v6.12. You can do so by downloading the new mIRC from the download page!

It is recommended you update even if you are using pre v6, as there are still many exploits for the v5 series.. infact I remember making some scripts that helped exploit them and crash your client..

I Know alot of people are whining about thier scripts not being updated to the new versions, but, to them I say, BAH. Scripts are nice, but they tend to be very stupid, and annoy alot of people. So I say, either get a better script, or don’t use them at all.

CNN.com – Qapla’! Hospital seeks Klingon speaker – May. 10, 2003

I know its a fairly old article, its been passed around online for a while now. But I just saw it posted again, and It reminded me more and more how much startrek had an inpact on society.

Yea, unfortuatly, I got distracted before finishing this post.. I thought it was cool, and I should share.

Yea, so I can’t exactly find any online proof, But I saw a commercial today…

The United States seems to be getting a new 20 dollar bill. Its now colored… Just like canadian bills, I mean not nearly as much, but it stands out against the other bills now.

First thing that came to mind had to be “THE US HAS GONE CANADIAN”.

Okay, so I’m quite lame.. but I though that was funny.

After reading Richard’s (Just a Gwai Lo) post on Crushes, I started to think even more about my , um, extremly easy abilty to crush on people.. When I meet people for the first time (those exclude those i know online first), I usually get a huge crush on them.. It is about 99% of the time girls, but I have had a slight crush on a guy before.

But it did more or less, remind me how I feel about crushes.. When they do have a boyfriend, while the crush does seem to pass quicker, part of me is torn apart. But even worse than that, is when you belive you have a chance, then quickly notice signs to say something else… Not only that, but the crush tuns into more like an obsession, saying what if I did this, or if I said that instead… Constantly thinking about that person, because you belive it still has a chance to change…

It sucks.. I for one miss my days when I never thought about such things, I think it really changed last year when someone actually for once showed an interest in me. Even if she turned out not to really have much interest. :)

Yea, thats my opinion on crushes. Why do I keep trying to end my rants/posts/etc like that?

As much as I know about time travel, a good old fashion show about it, still peaks my interest. Last year I had a teacher who in dept explained to us the true concept of time, and the theories used to time travel.. How impossible it would be, etc, but did tell us that it is scientificly possible to predict the future, it was highly Unlikely..

Anyways, since I’m still sick at home nursing whats left of this strep throat, I watch alot of tv (my social life, the little I had, seems to be affected by being sick).. Lately I’ve gotten back into 7 Days. I have no idea why I like science fiction so much. I’ve had teachers, documents, whatever, explain to me how things are not possible, but I still enjoy them so much. This from someone who really doesn’t have much belief in magic, which is the same sorta thing from my point of view.

Heck, I’m still a pretty die hard fan of Star Trek, Except maybe enterprise, which can be only considered worth watching if you do not really consider it a Star Trek show. It has so many story holes, juse like Episode 2, and somewhat Episode 1 of StarWars did, except starwars movies just ruined the extended storylines of the books, while Enterprise (notice how the title doesn’t actually say star trek :P)

Anyways, back to 7 Days, I think one of the reasons whay I find it cool, and I guess why I like science fiction in general, is that it has some baises in reality. 7 Days uses time travel technology, it follows most of the rules that quantum mechnics say about time travel, except for the fact that they really wouldn’t have the technology todo so, but everything else seems real. A trip to the past, changes it, so while the future can be predicted, a change in a particle/atom/etc’s path, then it can majorly change the future.

Yea, thats my thing about Time Travel / Sci-Fi.

after reading about MRTG is kasia’s blog, I had to start figuring out how to use it more and more..

I’ve been messing with it..————–
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/reference.html had all the extra information i needed…

External Monitoring Scripts
If you want to monitor something which does not provide data via snmp you can use some external program to do the data gathering.
The external command must return 4 lines of output:

Line 1: current state of the first variable, normally ‘incoming bytes count’
Line 2: current state of the second variable, normally ‘outgoing bytes count’
Line 3: string (in any human readable format), telling the uptime of the target.
Line 4: string, telling the name of the target.

Target[ezwf]: `/usr/local/bin/df2mrtg /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0`

Note the use of the backticks (`), not apostrophes (‘) around the command.