Archive for December, 2009
30
Dec
It’s always great to visit EK, but on a holiday season, you might spend hours waiting in-line for each ride as there are lots of people during holiday. It’s alright anyway, kids had fun.
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- Just entered EK
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- Park is closed
Out passed 1 a.m. from EK, heavy meals in a fast food along SLEX by 2 a.m. and home by 4 a.m.
25
Dec
Salamuch (sala-much)
Salamat in Filipino is the way of saying “thank you”, and I mixed it up with “thank you so much”, so it goes …
For those who greet thru IM, wall posts, SMS and email, family and friends, thank you! And those who personally did, thanks again! For my baby, I love you so much, and so grateful spending it with you this year and the pasts, thank you so much!
Uh-oh, another year in the 30′s! Merry Christmas everyone!
Christmas is, of course, the time to be home – in heart as well as body
~ Garry Moore
17
Dec
I’ve been looking on how to start a torrent session on another machine lately (on *nix flavor), and I thought there’s probably a command-line for it, and I was right. Since I can SSH thru in my Ubuntu machine at home, this sounds like a fit option.
The need arises when I’m in the office, working of course, and a movie title suddenly pops in my head and I get eager watching it. So I’d search for torrent for that movie with good remarks, at least watchable quality. Download it then SCP that to my machine at home and start session torrent on CLI. Takes at least a minute of my time to fire it up, but most importantly, it’s finished downloading when I get home. And watch on dinner I guess.
So, if you’re using Ubuntu, transmission is commonly installed there. But we need the transmission-cli package installed, which includes transmission-daemon and transmission-remote for starting CLI torrent session. First fire up the daemon, then use remote to add torrent file, like this one below
marvin@localhost:~/Desktop$ transmission-daemon marvin@localhost:~/Desktop$ transmission-remote -a Avatar-2009-TELESYNC-XviD-ORC.torrent
If it says The program 'transmission-daemon' is currently not installed, just type the suggested install command. It should be like this
marvin@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install transmission-cli
Now, if you want to find out download stats just add the -l or --list like the one below, will list all torrents and status.
marvin@localhost:~/Desktop$ transmission-remote -l
Use transmission-remote --help for other options. You can set upload and download limits too.
Here are useful links:
17
Dec
And so I did.
If you received one of these scam messages, just call your network provider. I found out they already warned the user, now his line is for disconnection.
06
Dec
Stuff you might want to know.
- Entrance fee: PhP60.00
- Dino world: PhP100.00
- Snow world: PhP100.00
- Ride-all-you-can with Snow world and Dino world: PhP365.00
In case you’re up to real ride adventure, get the ride-all-you-can PhP250.00, add PhP115.00 to get unlimited entries to Dino and Snow world. Will surely save you a lot of money.
02
Dec
At last, host is back! Stats tells me how long it’s been unavailable. Zero traffic at all. So this one maybe an entire day, as I have been sending support ticket to hosting since last night.
01
Dec
It’s a JVC TH-G31 Home Theater system. We bought it last Saturday but unfortunately wasn’t able to take it home, and it was delivered yesterday, on a holiday. And that ate up my time, waiting in the morning and setting up in the afternoon. I wasn’t too excited right?! 
Well it’s lacking of iPod docking support but that really can go. It has HDMI out with 1080 up-scaling conversion which is perfect for LCD TV. It also had radio, USB port and two mic ports. I tried playing AC3 encoded *.avi files in a USB thumb drive but surround option is disabled, I don’t know why. It would have been really cool for it to decode Dolby Digital audio embeded in the file, or I maybe missing something. I was originally aiming for a 5.1 speaker set at around 14K and then we found this item in a brochure at 14,990.00 plus 1,500.00 discount if you pay cash/straight payment. So its a good deal!
If in case I cannot extract surround sound audio off from a USB video file with AC3/DTS encoded in it, there’s the AUX Optical Audio-In at the back, which I am not familiar with. Something new is always fun, either way, I can go back to collecting high quality DVD movies again.
