“SOMEONE STOLE MY CHOCOLATE!!!” some lady inside the walking door wearing white lab coat yelled with bottle end thick glasses and metallic mask sitting on multi-wheeled chair yelled. “It wasn’t me I swear” a kid wearing a propeller hat answered. “CHICKEN STAAAARE!!!” the girl quickly said while staring at the kid like a chicken. The kid cried and yelled “OK ITS MEEE! I’M SORRY DON’T HIT ME”. He broke her heart so she handed the kid some coins to bring her chocolate.

“Oh you must be the guy who LOLs alot with Kinns. My name is Seita The Leikha”. Brain frozen there for a moment, that name rings a bell. I’ll just keep that bell ringing till someone gets annoyed and turn it off. And her “The” word sounds more like “Za”. When we shook hands Worrup KICKED ME and the Leikha lady pulled me inside that walking door. “He’s our only hope for now. Prepare him to defeat the chainsaw Bagar!” said Worrup as closing the door.

“Bagar? whats that?” I instantly said, “and whats with the yellow coat?” I resumed. “I don’t know I just made you wear it because I have no use of it” Worrup replied from behind the door as he resumed laughing. “Don’t pay attention to him, its useful” said Seita. “Really?” I replied. Seita quickly answered “no I’m just making fun of you”. What a disappointment.

She handed me a green box with clear envelop. “Whats that?” I asked. She answered “Irish Grass. Its what you’re going to use to defeat the Chainsaw Bagar. You only have to chew it and spit it at her, if you can of course”.

Now things are getting more weirder, Who’s the Chainsaw Bagar? and What does it have to do with everything in here? Whats that Irish Grass? Where am I? Where did that kid go? What kinda chocolate was it? Whats the percentage of the chocolate’s purism in the chocolate he’s bringing? What brand? What took him so long? and the most important question is, WHY THE HELL AM I STILL WEARING THIS YELLOW COAT?

Pictures related:

Chocolate:

Green Box:

Clear Envelop:

Irish Grass:

The Chainsaw Bagar:

Seita The Leikha (Seita Za Leikha):

While I was using Miro (I discussed it few posts ago) I saw that Harvard Extension School’s Computer Science E-1 and it interested me. So I downloaded its podcasts and started watching’em.

As I’m watching the second lecture something pulled attention and made me think of what’s the instructor is telling his students. Which is “a discussion about WindowsXP and MacOS”

The conclusion of what the instructor said is the following (the way I concluded it):

1- Mac is MORE Secured and Stable than windows BECAUSE its less famous and available than windows, therefor the more it becomes available and famous the more vulnerabilities and exploits will float to the surface. When you think about it, if you want to target a huge number of victims you wouldn’t strike MacOS because its less famous and available than WindowXP. That doesn’t mean that both systems aren’t vulnerable or Mac OS is better than WindowsXP FUNDAMENTALLY.

2- Mac OS isn’t as simple as it seems as Instructor David J. Malan pointed. He used Mac and ditched’em in 1997 re-used’em again sometime in the near past and complained about the complexity and poor layout that Mac has. And personally, I used Mac OS for like few hours to fix some Wireless connection issue and had hard time dealing with it because the OS is new to me and I wanted to access its console (shell, cmd, command whatever you call it) but couldn’t. And because of its “Airport” access-point I had hard time configuring it out because I had to click on some shortcut placed in the system instead of actually connecting to the access point and configuring it. I’m not telling its a bad method, maybe its easier for some people but its not for me.

3- Mac OS has the ability to run WindowsXP because of the Virtual Machine that runs WindowsXP. Using Virtual Machines reduces the performance because you’re not depending on the hardware itself. Though you can use it if you’re like “I’m getting Mac OS since it runs WindowsXP” just go for tha. Personally, I agree with the instructor’s opinion about not being a permanent solution. If you want both of’em just buy both of’em separately.

Then I browsed Engadget as I daily do, and found out that interesting report which goes like:

“Microsoft: Vista has fewer first-year vulnerabilities than any modern OS” with a graph showing the vulnerabilities count for few OSes.

Quite interesting. Actually I got shocked. So I gave it a shot and actually read the article and almost everything (I’m lazy I know). And it made sense.

Piece of view of my own:

I don’t think its too bad to have an OS with vulnerabilities as long as few of’em remains unfixed (which means most of’em are fixed, if not all). Which shows that Ubuntu TLS (6.06) got good score since it covered MOST of its vulnerabilities.

I know the Ubuntu thingy doesn’t apply here. So comparing WindowsXP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.4, you can see that Windows Vista got less vulnerabilities and even less amount of non-fixed vulnerabilities than all of’em.

Related Links:

Microsoft: Vista has fewer first-year vulnerabilities than any modern OS

Computer Science E-1: Understanding Computers and the Internet (See,Hear or Read the Transcript of Lecture 2)

I’d like to get as much complains and corrections as possible since my knowledge of Mac OS is nothing.

I have this weird habit of checking hackaday which discuss a hardware hack each day or something.

So while I’m at it I saw this “”add everything to your eeePC” and due my interest in eeePC I followed the link and WOW!. It’s SO HACKABLE!!!!

You can fit almost everything you need in a laptop in that little piece of a laptop.

Check it out http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/index.php/Eee_PC_Internal_Upgrades

Hopefully I can manage to fit things in there if I got the laptop and materials. Hope you like it!

So while I was surfing the internet “NOT SMURFING MORONS!” I dropped by http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ I found this program “Miro” which described:

“Miro is an internet TV platform that makes watching internet video channels as easy as watching TV and makes broadcasting a channel open to everyone.”

So I thought of giving it a shot and try it out. And it’s AMAZING!!! Seriously, AMAZING!!!

You can browse it’s channels which is around 3000 categorized channels. From educational to political passing by funny, religious and technology categories.

The good thing is that you can download the episodes which has expiration date “maybe 5 days or so” and you can keep’em forever! They’re FREE and alot of’em are HDed!

Personally I’ve been watching Understanding Adobe Photoshop, BSoD, Japanese Class, Systm and Meet the GIMP. I’ll be watching more than these in the near future and I’ll keep every single episode I download “I don’t delete what I’ve downloaded, it’s a waste of bandwidth =P”

Why don’t you give it a shot? I’m sure you’d enjoy it =D

“SCREW YOU! EVIL COMPANY” I yelled as I let my hands go free from that bar because I couldn’t take it anymore falling on the swimming pool since its safe to do so.

when i got out of the swimming pool one of the remaining doctors said “your mind is twisted, the evil company doesn’t exist”. “But I…” i got interrupted by the doctor “no use talking in here… wear this and follow me” he said. he gave me a yellow coat.

the doctor took me to an old library which is filled with dust and dirt. and in the middle there was a statue which is shaped like a miss-shaped cube with a small hole in the middle. he took out a wooden stick and stuck it inside and kept moving it up and down. while he’s at it some weird noises started to be hear.

I got freaked out and looked at him, he was smiling like telling me to calm down its nothing. so I tried. couldn’t help but notice the shadows and the loud noises. the shadows are getting closer and closer and my heartbeats are getting harder and faster. and it was a kitten running to hunt a mouse. it WAS nothing.

as soon as he finished moving that stick a wooden door with 2 legs came running to us and with its two arms, his right arm extended to open itself (the door) and when it did I saw some weird lab inside.

“doors aren’t supposed to come to us, doors are supposed to be just doors” i said. the doctor replied “thats what the EVIL COMPANY wants you to believe. Sorry couldn’t introduce myself earlier, I’m agent Worrup from the Good Institution. welcome to our no-ground operation HQ. you are our only hope to defeat the evil company… yet”

Related Pictures:

Yellow Coat (www.getaklu.com):

Old Library (http://upload.wikimedia.org):

Wooden Stick (www.ovm.co.uk):

The Door:

Life can be very difficult for many children , specially those who are in Foster Care. Being a volunteer has not only given me love, courage and patience , but also has given me the time to think and appreciate how meaningful our lives are.

On my first working day as i was walking through the hall way looking for some assistance , a bunch of cute little girls started jumping, they wanted candies. all I had was 2 pieces of candies. so I threw them in the air and saw them fighting to death.

Only 2 kids survived… then, bunch of kids appeared wanting candies. I have no more left. I had to run. so I ran and ran and they’re still keeping up with me. then i got cornered.

I looked back and saw the hungry kids. remembered resident evil zombies. i had no place to run. when i took a better look, i saw the doctors and assister at the back, injecting the poor kids with special sugar injections that’d turn them to sugar’n'candies craving zombies.

I knew it all along! so i took few steps forward, looked at the corner, ran to it and jumped on the window to break it hoping that something fluffy would wait for me from below to land on it. and i found a swimming pool filled with crocodiles and the Michelin fat guy waiting for me to fall. he’s made of rubber.

so i fell on him and bounced to the next building and there’s NO WINDOW TO BREAK!. just few microseconds before the impact i saw a metal bar and hung up to it… waited for 2 minutes while watching the kids falling off the window to the swimming pool. the crocodiles died from all the sweetness they ate from the kids. only 3 kids remained. they ate each others then 1 survived. he was next to an ant farm. the ants attacked him because he was so sweet and ate every bit of him. no sugar carving zombie kid remained. only the evil assister which flew riding the evil company’s helicopter.

“NOW A NEW WAR HAS BEGUN” the evil company’s head shouted. tried to look at his face but it was too dark. though the sound and the shape of the face looked familiar. I wonder who that person is…

Pictures thats related to the story

Michelin Guy:

Sugar Craving Kids Zombies (www.newstarget.com):

I just installed my forums. I know it won’t be active that much but I’ll keep it.

give it a visit every now’n'then

http://q8geeks.org/forum  

I know this isn’t a special picture or something. But to me it’s a very important step in my photography skills (though they’re not that great).

I read somewhere about panorama and you can take pictures of one scene and stitch’em together to get a 1 big picture… so I tried it and turned out like this:

http://q8geeks.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=404

Hope you like it

Hello, World!

This is my very first post in my blog and I don’t know if it’ll be a successful one or not but I’ll try my best to fill it with junks and all.

Please visit my pictures gallery and my tutorial. And leave me comments and suggestions if you have any