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Monday, December 31, 2007

Take Ownership for Vista

I had posted the takeown.exe utility some time ago where you can change the ownership to the current user in Vista quickly. however, recently, I had found a easier way. Just install the following registry. You will then end up with a Take Ownership option in your right click context menu. This is much quicker and much easier to use.

Download :
http://rapidshare.com/files/80231813/TakeOwnership.zip.html

If somehow you wanted to remove this, just double click on the remove registry file and its gone.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Summary of my China Trip

It was cold. Very in Dalian (-4C) and quite in Shanghai (8C). What I had heard from other people about spitting, dirty toilets I did not see thankfully. Maybe its because these city are a lot better or simplify this is not the season. I do see gambling though.. at first, there were like 3 person playing cards (at the airport) and I went to grab a can of coffee. When I was back, there were like 8 playing and some 10 odd watching. The police are around though. Maybe its legal, I don't know. I would love to take a photo, but I did not to avoid getting myself in trouble. Well, that's in Dalian anyway.

Talking about the airport, I arrived late on Sat and ended up paying rmB45 to get to my hotel. On my return trip, I took public bus. why? Because I simply needed to experience how good/bad it is. Whats the point of being there and not doing it. The result is about 50 mins (as compared to 20 minutes) ride and only RMB1. Well, thats the way to go if you doing budget.

I had travelled to a University of sort in Dalian at the seaside. That one of the best view to get of the seaside I guess at this time. I did not have the time to travel to the other seaside parks, so this will have to do. The wind is pretty big and the sea is wide open. And its blue in case you wonder how it looks. True blue. Not many sea has this color around here. There was a small park there outside of the university and I see people bringing their dogs there. Unleashed. Ya, probably there is no need cos the dogs are pretty well trained and I think people has the right expectation here.







I travelled along the bus routes and visit some parks. The only thing I can say is that the traffic is horrible in Dalian. The traffic light is there, but nobody ever obeys it. Not the vehicles, not the pedestrians. Nobody does. You basically see no cars and make a dash for it. Thats the only thing I hated. I think if you expected any vehicles to slow down or stop for you, you will very likely end up in the morgue. BTW, Dalian has one of the highest moto vehicles fatality in the whole world.





Well, thats about all I can say about Dalian since I am really there for a gew days, but really only about 12 hours of time on my own...

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

X'mas at 30000 Feet

It was a quite minute, nobody stood up and shouted "Woo-Hoo" like Homer Simpsons. The quiet minute at 12am passed without much notice. This was my X'mas at 2007. No present, no greetings. I expected it as much because the only thing I missed was sleep and my gf wrapped up like a christmas present. I miss Bobi in his Santa Claus Uniform too.

The flight from Shanghai back was filled with unnecessary people (to me) from some tour group whom keep talking about things they knew (and expected everyone else to know or are interested). I kept quiet. sleepy. But deep down, I did not wanted myself to be associated with these group of people. The air stewardess asked me something... I just nodded or shake my head, pretending I did not understand the language. I had pretty good service of course, she must had thought I am a Japanese or Korean. :) That must be something pretty bad I did. There was this other Japanese old man, whom I can't help but speak a few sentences to him in Japanese to ask where he is from, going etc... Well, luckily he is more interested in his books then me or the air stewardess. :P Or I could not had continued the conversation.

Its sad. Not because of the job. I get paid pretty well and its something simply and straight forward. Just the helplessness of being so high yet lonely. There is a chinese saying that the higher you go, the more lonely you get. I guess its true literally.

Anyway, at that moment, I suddenly remembered a song by 迪克牛仔 called 三万英尺. It must had described my feeling pretty well there... Here is the MTV for those whom has not heard of it.

迪克牛仔_三万英尺

CWCheat 0.2.0

Yes, its a major release and the changes are listed below in the long list. Due ot many improvement, this requires you to have 3.71m33-3 or 4 if you are using the 3.71 firmware. I hope you had already upgraded. If not the links are in my blog, just search PSP tag. The language translation for previous version 0.1.x is no longer valid, so if you had a custom one, you should contact the authro to get yours upgraded and included into 0.2.x.

Upgrade Installation for PSP Slim :
For Slim version, just remove the cwcheatpops.prx and cwcheat.prx in your seplugins directory. The reason is that the filename has changed. You should copy the one in 3.71\lite\ into your seplugins directory.

Ok, next you will need to edit the pops.txt, game150.txt and game.txt if you have other modules loaded as well. You need to paste in these 3 lines :

pops.txt
ms0:/seplugins/cwcheatpopslite.prx

game.txt
ms0:/seplugins/cwcheatlite.prx

game150.txt
ms0:/seplugins/cwcheatlite.prx

Or if you don't have anything else, you can use the file I had customed and replaced it all in the /seplugins directory..

I had prepared a slim installation, without manual and everything. Just the files and the latest DB as of Xmas 2007 for slim on 3.71m33-3 or 4. Just extract it to root will do. /seplugins directory has been done for you. You will only need to custom the installation to include the 2 lines above and not overwrite pops.txt if you have other modules installed.

Anyway, here are the changes in this release :

0.2.0 RELEASE
=====================

- [ALL] now it’s possible to change clock > 222/166 on 3.71+ firmwares. thanks to Dark_AleX.
- [ALL] now 3.71+ builds requires 3.71m33-3 or never because of required patches available only from that version
- [ALL] changed drive checking method: now it should be almost immediate in the initialization (no more waiting) and even in a more safe way
- [ALL] The new drive checking method made possible removing various checks introduced before because they became useless reducing so the PRX size
- [IRSHELL] Now (in IR Shell builds) the drive (or emulated one) is checked every time you open the menu so when you start the game in iR Shell
(or other loaders which works in a similar way) the next time the menu is opened the game db is automatically loaded accordingly.
- [ALL] fixed an optimization glitch which blocked the USB function from being disabled
- [ALL] some code about USB was removed from builds with USB disabled
- [ALL] fixed a little glitch which made the CPU frequency option go from 333 to 266 without going trough 300, optimized also a bit the code managing it
- [ALL] now when you add a new cheat in the cheat selection menu a number is put after the “NEW CHEAT” name, like if you searched for it
- [ALL] Fixed some texts to be more proper and have a better case
- [ALL] now never texts are translatable using the classic cwcheat.lng in the CWCheat folder.
- [ALL] Added Norwegian translation thanks to blackrave
- [ALL] Updated Italian translation.

N.B. Older language files are now incompatible, if you have done one before which isn’t in the package please tell me so I can add your language
file to the database for quick generation in case of change of positions of things in the file. Users should grab the new for language file
from the package and replace the one they were using before.

PSP Slim Upgrade to 0.2.0 with latest DB :
http://rapidshare.com/files/79057855/cwcheatlite-0.2.0-upgrade.zip

CWCheat 0.2.0 Official package :
http://rapidshare.com/files/79050173/cwcheat_0_2_0.RAR

CWCheat Official Website :
http://cwcheat.consoleworld.org/index.php

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Gearing up for the SubZero

Yes, another major thing about my trip to Dalian is that its subzero temp. Often as low as -5C. I simply would said thats its nothing I have not encountered. I remember it was hell of a -25C in the Canberra when I as there on the cold days in many years. But of course, that night I was dead a sleep in a few layers of blanket indoor.

This trip will be simple. I would be covered most of the time and as such I am not planning much for the sightseeing unless I can adapt to the weather and the coastal breezes. However, there are 2 (or more) trips I must make to get to the work place which is like 20 mins walk probably across a few roads. The weather however will not be on my side.

So, I had to get a couple of wool clothes, gloves (boy, I love those ski gloves, but I have absolutely no use for them) and scraf. I also recall you can probably get heatbags, but I did not see any of those here...

Well, from what I heard, the weather will not be the least of my problem. the traffic is a bloody riot my friend say. Dalian has one of the highest moto vechicles fatality rate in the world. Thats the strong statement. Anyway, I will have to pack mobile and light. I do hope my cranky laptop will survive the subzero temperature as well.

Going to Dalian Soon

Yes, its finally going to happen. After I had to passed my previous trips to Shanghai and Shenzhen, I am finally going to land on China and the first city is here. Well, technically, not really, I will be in Pudong for like 5 hours to wait for my transit... Thats probably a good time for me to think about my stuff and write my long awaiting money report.

But this is not goingto be a leisure trip the way I see it. I will need to be in on a Sunday for work and I will spend my X'mas on the redeye flight back. Thats not really sad consider I am not much of a X'mas guy.

Anyway, this trip will be significant not in term of where I am, but rather its my first oversea assignment and I will see to it that this wont be the last. Will try to blog when I get there.

Sunday, December 16, 2007

PSP iRShell V3.81.1

Ok, this is a special package which you can only find here. Its clean off of all other unnecessary files and only left with the files for PSP Slim V3.71M33. I had prepared everything you need here. V3.81.1 included the support for multi disc PSX which is implemented in 3.71M33-4 firmware which you will find details in previous post.

Because I had "patched" the V3.81 to V3.81.1 inside here, so there is no need to download 1 full install and 1 update. This is the full 1 step to V3.81.1 install. I had also ripped out the PDF for those who think they can handle without the doc. However, I had uploaded them as a different file in case you want them anyway.

Instructions:
1. To install, extract all the content of the main zip to your PSP MS main directory. Yes, all the directories are build properly.
2. Start your XMB (which is the lbue screen menu by sony) and run the iRShell application.
3. Click on the first icon which is the Directory View.
4. Click .. to go up to the main directory if you are not there already. Find /IRShell//PATCH/3.71.
5. Click X on the file btcnfpatch.prx and run it. This will patch your 3.71 firmware to autorun IRShell.
6. We are not done. Many people did not know this and have problem running ISO/CSO. Now go to the icon that says iR Shell Configurator. Its the middle one in the last row. Run it.
7. Find UMD Mode. This is the 3 line from the top. Change this to M33 NoUMD Mode. If not, you will always get the no disc inserted error when you run a ISO/CSO.
7. Thats all you need to do. I may want to show you some skins and stuff, but thats in another post later. Other stuffs, RTFM.

Here are the files.
Main files :
http://rapidshare.com/files/76986310/irshell-3.81.1-slim.zip
Documentation :
http://rapidshare.com/files/76987769/irshell-3.81-doc.zip

PSP Wifi Scanner - Road Dog V1e

This is not the first one, but from the screenshot it looks ok. However, don't expect it to work like aircrack.

I had uploaded this anyway, even though it did not work for the PSP Slim. This application was obviously written for the 1.50 kernel.
http://rapidshare.com/files/76971180/Road_Dog_V1e.zip

PSP 3.71M33-4 Pop Loader Fix

DA has just release a quick emergency patch soon after the released of the 3.71M33-4 firmware. I had not posted it in a hurray because not everyone will need it. This will only affect which version of firmware you choose to load which PSX game. So not everyone is affected by this update.

Anyway, as usual, here is my link to the very small update. Just copy it into the seplugins directory.
http://rapidshare.com/files/76963550/popsloader_bugfix.zip

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Windows Vista SP1 RC

Yes, with Office 2007 beinglaunched, here comes Vista SP1. However, this is still RC as like Windows Server 2008. So the final is expected to have some changes perhaps.

Download using Windows Update at :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9de6260e-4275-482d-9524-de850c4dd91c&DisplayLang=en

Or get the whole Standalone CD for all languages at :
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/3/c/b3cf192f-7f49-4da7-a740-07818dc8c7aa/Windows6.0-KB936330-wave0-X86.exe

PSP 3.71M33-4

It was only a few days again I upgraded to 3.71M33-3 and then D_A has done it again! Now 3.71M33-4 is out. The main difference lies in the poploader only.





Here is the what's changed :





- Bugfix: Multidisc psx games bought in the psn store would not work due to the format being differentand M33 treating them as decrypted games.
- Added support for decrypted multidisc psx games created with popstation_md (supplied with this release).
Included in the package is a new version of popsloader.



Changelog in popsloader:
- Bugfix: Games without compression had sound issues when using 3.72 pops. Fixed.- Added support for multidisc psx games created with popstation_md. Note: multi disc games willonly work in 3.71 and 3.72 pops. Previous pops will exit to the xmb with generic error 0×80000004when attempting to run multidisc games.

Here is the firmware:
http://rapidshare.com/files/76213404/m33update4.zip

Same as M33-3, just copy over and patch. This update requires 3.71M33 at least.

So, its up to you. But I do know that Sony has released 3.80 with support for Internet Radio as shown below :

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Office 2007 SP1

Yes, its out officially now. However, it will probably not be delivered by automatic update for like 3-6 months. So why wait?

Downlooad this direct from Microsoft :
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/8/1/08186057-e110-49fb-b455-17899cf082d8/office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe

Sunday, December 09, 2007

Dr Cure-It Antivirus and AntiSpyware

Yes, here is another no install, no setup software good on the go. You should download the latest when you run it, however, to save the time to fill up the forms etc for the first time, you can just grab this exe and run, then download the latest. Its about 8MB.

This is a tools I used often in environment where a 2nd opinion is good. I am sure all PC have some sort of AV and AS now, but you can never be too sure.

Here is the info:
http://www.freedrweb.com/cureit/

And here is my link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/75402102/cureit.exe

F-Secure Backlight

Sometimes, there is just this need to run a quick scan for rootkit. And you obviously did not want to install a xxxx 2008 security suite which is about 200MB... This is one small utility which you can keep in your thumbrive or portable HDD to run quick scan. No install, no setup. Just run.

F-Secure Backlight is a rootkit detection plus REMOVAL tool. Why I highlighted removal is that there are some tools out there which scans for free, but you need to buy the suite to remove...

Anyway, read more about F-Seure Backlight cos I do not want to do sale preach here.
http://www.f-secure.co.uk/blacklight/blacklight.html

Download directly :
http://rapidshare.com/files/75397222/fsbl.exe

PSP Slim 3.71M33-3 from 3.60M33

I finally updated my PSP from 3.60m33 to 3.71m33-3... Its basically a 2 step process.

First you will need to update to 3.71m33-1...
Download that from my previous post and then extract all to the /PSP/Game directory.
Run it from the menu and follow on screen instruction.
It will run the official Sony Firmware upgrade.
YOU MUST PRESS X or O when told to reboot!!! OR else your PSP is bricked.
Now you should have 3.71M33-1.

OK, we all know there must be a 3.71m33-2, but since we are going to 3.71M33-3, we can skip that. Just download 3.71M33-3 and then extract to /PSP/Game directory again. Do delete the old firmware upgrade before doing this.
Run it from the menu.
There is no Sony Firmware upgrade this time. Just a quick black screen with about 6-8 files copied.
There you have it. Now you are in 3.71M33-3.

You can load in the PopLoader from the 3.71M33-3 archive as well and you should cold boot up hold R. Go to SEPlugin and enable what you need. For me, I will have USBCharge and CWCheat on as well. Ya, you might as well upgrade CWCheat to 0.1.9i as well. If you put in PopLoader, enable it as well.

3.71M33
http://rapidshare.com/files/58760669/PSP371.RAR

3.71M33-3
http://rapidshare.com/files/75395756/371m333.zip

CWCheat V0.1.9I
http://rapidshare.com/files/75396282/CWCHEAT_0_1_9_REVI.RAR

Friday, December 07, 2007

Gundam oo...

Its been a while since Gundam Seed Destiny and Stargazer... Finally, another new gundam series has started based on our time instead of UC...

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

HP Smartmedia Server

This is based on the Windows Home Server product from Microsoft. I was so looking forward to one of these when I suddenly realised the catch... Its only 500GB or 1TB at most. Thats ok, cheap to add, but I cannot imagine already paying $1k plus and you only get these.

Ok, thats not the things that turns me off la.. Its AMD. Yes, I sweared I will stay away from AMD due to the heat and high power wastage. I guess this finally crossed the line.

Maybe Dell will release one based on their SC server class which is quite cheap now.

Flashget 0wnz you!

I had recently decided to advise people against using the so call "most popular downloader" Flashget. The reason behind has multiple security risks. I will list my findings here:

1. Flashget connects to all sort of servers in Eastern Europe, China and Russia even while its idling. Just do a netstat and you will see... To support this, just view the Flashget.exe binary and you will see a whole bunch of url and ip address inside... Whats the use of that? Really looks suspicious.
2. Flashget shareURL seems to store all the URL of things you downloaded. This mayb even be "special" download which is for you only, but once share, you know what I mean. Its a privacy issue and by default ShareURL is turned on. Although it claims that protected URL is not shared, I am not convinced how they tell which is protected.
3. Flashget transmit several online logons as plain text. This is true even for Rapidshare. By doing so, even if Flashget does not get you (I heard stories that they collect logins and passwords and people detected it was send to somewhere in china), others will because it passes through so many routes in plain. This is totally unacceptable.
4. Although Flashget claims to be totally free now, it has a bad history of installing a highly dangerous spyware in the past even when it claims its just shareware / free for personal uses then. This has really shaken the trustworthiness of the authors.

I would present the evidences and captures if necessay to support my above claims. But if you believe me, stop now. Remove Flashget and use Orbit Downloader or some others. So far, Orbit has been tested clean and works quite well. It does not have P2P for BT and emule, but it can capture video streaming like youtube etc... OK, I don't want to convert you to Orbit, you are free to choose, but you should not put Flashget as one of your choices.

Back from reservist

Its been 2 f*cking long week there and although I get to book out often, its dear to my pockets. :) I don't know if its getting tougher or not, but I am beginning to feel it. There was one scene I was so shag that I was staring blank while the young guys was carrying the heavy stuff and shouting. That moment, I thought I shutdown. Maybe thats aging... I can't do crazy stuff like I used to in my younger days I guess... Even speeding... I love the wind in my face and my scarf flying when the assault boats roars through the mirror sea at night... In my younger days, I would ram the throttle until it break man... I can no longer do that... Its not fear, but the responsibility that stop me. There are a lot of people at stake. I just cant do things without thinking like I used to...

The experience this time was slightly better. And despite my medical condition, I still tried my best, although not everyone agrees. Its too bad they had screwed up with the manpower resources and I seriously do not think I will get anymore popular standing one side while everyone works. (Believe me, there are quite some of them like this already...). I just hope the next ICT I will at least be posted to do something which I can do without endangering anyone.

Wel, its over. I did not get to enjoy it much because it was pretty short out in the field. But I do know that sometimes, people just have to push harder and talk some senses and things can done. This is the lesson learned this time and we did not have to suffer because of some stupid decision and unnecessary kiasu-ness.

What I love most in Kopitam

There are lots of food in Kopitam and I think its very hard to say which I love best. But I finally decided. Its the Blackcurrent Ice Kachang! Its so sour and fruity... There is this sizzing pops on it which really kinda remind me of my younger days eating junks like this. There is also a lollipop on the Ice Kacang.

Well, its sure beats the normal one with weird tasting syrups on it. But even this I have to cut down now... haha...

My Melody vs Kuromi

Recently in the past 2 years you will notice Sanrio has released a black color rabbit that looks alike to My Melody. Who actually is she?

Kuromi is featured in a cartoon (anime) called Onegai My Melody and is My Melody's arch nemesis. She is the head of a biker gang. However, My Melody still feel warm for her and does not hate her, although the reverse is not true. She rides on a animal tapir (purple in color) called Baku which is similar to My Melody's.

So, don't be surprised by Kuromi and thought its a imitation. Yeap, imitation are not that good. Kuromi has character and is quite cool.

I will answer another long debated question here. Is My Melody Red or Pink? Or one of them is fake?

The answer is My Melody was Red in 1976 featured as Little Red Riding Hood. Then in 1977, she is in pink. But later on in the 200x, her red color image was revived and now we have both My Melody. Both are original.

How about the flower and the bow? Yes, all of them are original as well. At different stage, My Melody was using different accessories in her merchandise.

Ok, I will stop here. I refused to discuss about Hello Kitty. :P

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