Shakariki

I've always a huge fan of cycling movies, but Shakariki has it too much.

It's a good movie overall: a lot of bicycles, spirit, and of course--cute female supporting character. But to some extend, some scene over-exaggerates the cycling aspects: making the characters look like some super athlete like Contador or Schlecks.

See:
The main protagonist was forcing himself to run the way after his teammate (captain) suffered from puncture. Running on climb with cleat-equipped pedal is just reckless: it's just easy to lose the grip and balance. Moreover, the steep climb was just 'too-much', if you tilt your display correctly according to how trees grow--you'll find the gradient was much easier.

D'oh!

Fira: Her First Pictures

Yesterday I went to Coban Rondo with my not-so-new 2011 Helios 100. The ride takes about one hour and half--who really cares--it was recreational, no? (at least no one overtaked me during the whole ride)

She arrived at August 18th, then I started riding with her by late of September. I hadn't taken any pictures of her--not just until yesterday :)



Anyway, by the (long) descent in Payung I had puncture in rear wheel. I'm just grateful that I didn't crash from it.
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Sorry for the bad pictures, I took the photos with (cheap) cellphone's camera.

Yosuga no Sora (complete save game)

I've been a huge fan of visual novels myself--it's also the reason why I never convert my whole boxes to Linux. So here's one of my favorite: Yosuga no Sora.



The story revolves around siblings which develop certain degree of (possible-then-to-be-so-called-incest) love. And yeah, it's harem. :D

I've completed the game (though I can't read Japanese without looking at those character tables), so here's the completed save game (it gives you full access to full CG library anyway). Place the file in C:\Documents and Settings\~username-here\Application Data\Sphere\Yosuga\save (in WindowsXP, I don't know where to place in another Windows version).

I won't encourage you to download the game *illegally*, but I'd like to say you can fetch it from here.

Broken RDs

I broke a friend of mine's rear derailer--it's Acera--quite some time ago, and recently 2300 of my own.

The story is simple, they have different 'break point' so I just assemble them at different hinges. So:
+ =

But, uhmm... the inside hinge (the one closer to the frame) is tilted too much, and likely renders the derailer unusable.

New (Clipless) Pedal

It's been a long time since last time I posted, and I've missed a lot of things. Recently I've been playing with new stuff: bike, AVR projects, computer stuffs and such.

For now, just an update on my pedal system. I recently bought VP-R80 road clipless pedal (which I have to borrow some money from my mom). It's Shimano compatible with no special features, at least now I have road clipless pedal, no?


I still use the old shoes (I don't remember the last time I washed it, hehe). Again, installing the cleat was a mess, but at least (again) it works fine.


And eh, the bike is also new--but I haven't taken any picture of it.

Aya Hirano: God Knows

私ついていくよ
どんな辛い世界の闇の中でさえ
きっとあなたは輝いて
超える未来の果て
弱さ故に魂こわされぬように
my way　重なるよ
いまふたりに　God bless

I will follow you.
No matter how agonizing the world is,
You will shine even in its darkest corners.
Cross over the end of the future,
My weakness will not shatter my spirit.
my way is overlapping with yours.
God will always bless the two of us...

Aya Hirano: God Knows
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I stumped across this song while watching 'The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya', in an episode while the school was holding some festival, Haruhi and Yuki (as backup member to a band named ENOZ) performed two songs: 'God Knows' and 'Lost my music'.

Anyway, you can fetch the lyrics from lyrics.wikia.

Multidimensional Array on C++

I thought multidimensional array works just fine in C++ just like in the old days with C, not just until I read this in which this is written by Subtwo: ...but then you would need to typecast it to the correct size in order to index it correctly. C++ does not support dynamic multiple dimension arrays.

I have some snippets from what I've been messing with: (in Qt)
unsigned char **data::getPictureArray(){
return(pictureArray);
}

which pictureArray has been declared in:
unsigned char pictureArray[200][200];

And it gives me nice error:
error: cannot convert ‘unsigned char (*)[200]’ to ‘unsigned char**’ in return

Good grief, now I've to flatten the array since I'm rather lazy to wrap in another class or vector class. :D

Ayuro[0]

After I lost Cathy several months ago (which reminds me: Armstrong lost his TT-bike around 2009), I've decided to revamp Cherry into yet-another life.

The concept is 'personal-flat bed-pursuit-suicide as ever'. It employs some uncommon designs which you can notice yourself: headtube, downtube, steep seattube's with dual triangle junction in the middle, etc. It's kinda reckless I suppose--but it's what it takes to make a suicide bike, no? :)







The name is 'Ayuro[0]'; spelled close between 'aura' and 'aero', the '[0]' obviously points to the first element in the array.
at least it's much illegible rather than *Ayuro and *(Ayuro+sizeof(Ayruro)) for the second model, and so on :).

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Thanks to Lila for her HTC Desire--the pictures are much better

Tide of Screws

It's kinda screwing you up when you learn two (or more) programming languages at time. Well, it depends on your ability, focus, time, needs, and so-whatever it's called passion, eh?

Some evidence here and here.

I-myself is learning Qt (self-leisure) and Java (college assignments), while itching to learn Python at the same time, duh! See, only two post last month (who really cares--no real visitor anyway)


wait, do screws have anything to do with learning programming languages?

FlashPlayer on 64-bit Slackware-based distros

As everyone knows, installing Flash Player on 64-bit Linux distribuion isn't just dead easy as the browser-based installer mostly won't work, with Slackware-based ones: more pain.

Although it could be DAMN simple:
1. Get Square, 64-bit release for libflashplayer
1.5. Extract the archive, you'll get libflashplayer.so
2. Copy libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
3. Make a copy also in ~/.mozilla/plugins, a symbolic link will do


Hope it works!

Salix 64-bit

I've recently had Zenwalk replaced on my laptop, I'm now employing Salix OS 64-bit. The reason behind the migration, despite the bleeding new version of Zenwalk 7.0, I'm longing for 64-bit operating system and want to keep the Slackware flavor in it, there comes Salix.

I simply mix up packages from Salix64 (13.1.2)'s installation with ones from Slackware64 13.1. Having Salix as the base is nice, it's slimmer than standard Zenwalk or Slackware (by default).

Eh, gotta compile the kernel--the preinstalled kernel is quite old: 2.6.33.4. It's the same version I had with Zenwalk for over almost a year. :)

Canon MP250 on LinuxMint 10 (Julia)

Yeah, if you think printing in Linux (and scanning) sucks, it isn't true in my case--at least to some extent. I managed to install Canon MP250 (multi-function printer/scanner) in Linux Mint-equipped box in just few minutes.

First download the available driver here (Canon Australia, I can't find it in the Indonesian one). IJprinterdriver is the printing driver, ScanGear is bundled driver and application for the scanner.

I pick the deb packages as I don't really need to care about compiling the source myself. deb -i approach won't work. I have to extract the those two archives, and run the install.sh within the extracted archive.

And it works just fine! :)
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I still have to figure out how to enable Windows client installing Windows-version driver via shared printer over samba, headache this time.

March

It's nearing to the end of month, and I just have posted a single post in this blog. Screw it! (and it's barely valuable)

I've just fixed few things:
- the links for Virtual Orchestra Studio
- adding "Favorites" widget--it's just like Internet in early 90s, no? (although it's merely several entries)
- realizing this's been going nowhere, I have to be more serious about this.

Yeah, end of March!
(and I realize my English is getting worse)

せかいにさよなら(sekai ni sayounara)

From a visual novel, cometh a revelation--gakt! It's Yume Miru Kusuri.

The song is sung by Marica, FunczionSOUNDS do the music.
Marica: Sekai ni Sayounara
FunczionSOUNDS: Sekai ni Sayounara (instrumental)

Fetch the lyrics from here.

Zenwalk 7.0, I'm ready for upgrade!

Zenwalk 7.0 RC1 is ready!

Hex Editor

This afternoon, I was looking forward editing save file from an old visual novel game (The Maids' Story). At that very moment I realized there's no hex editor installed on my Zenbox, gwah!

After some brief search, my choice come upon jeex, it employs merely GTK+, so great addition to Geany. :))

If you won't mind to have some GNOME libraries, ghex is surely a better choice.

XDG user directory

I recently deleted all the visible folders on my home directory subconsciously, and files start appearing on my desktop which I like it clean (so I can enjoy my wallpaper rather being obstructed with icons).

The file need to be configured is ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, if it's missing you can make one with invoking xdg-user-dirs-update. Yep, simple!
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Thanks to superchango@bbs.arclinux for saving me from reading the XDG docs.

[Bomb.tv] Channel B

Despite this edition of photobooks is rather obsolete already (it's publised from 2005 to 2008), I just like them! Casual-daily clothing is literally better than those piece of crap bikinis (at least, to me).

Lately, I've been hating bikini photoshoots for certain reasons I don't really understand myself--it just feels so wrong.

Anyway, see some google hit on "channel b" bomb.tv

Tata Young: I Believe

This song is quite old (2004) actually, but Tata Young's always been on of my favorites.

Tata Young: I Believe, the lyrics is here.

I believe, I believe in love
and like the stars above,
they shine, let it shine over me
Set me free, I believe in you
and that our love is true
Oh, I believe, I believe

Gravure, FAIL!

I simply hate when beauty is fake. See, I hate lense-less glasses (so where's the glass?!) and breast-padded breast. Even gravure should emphasize on natural beauty!


You notice the lense-less glasses? Hot, yes? Neutral glasses will do better I suppose.


IMHO, making A-cup to B-cup won't help you to look sexier. Just show what you've got--that's the best!
IMHO, the best is having D-cup by nature :D

By the way, the model is Emi Ito, those pictures are taken from Intelligent Sexy [Sabra.net]

Counting to 364

I've (just) started playing this game after watching fourth episode of Dragon Zakura.

The rules is pretty simple, sum the card you draw from the deck until it hits 364.
See, 1(ace) +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +10 +11(J))+12(Q) + 13(K) = 91
91 * 4 = 364. Thus it yields 364 if you sum all the cards' value.
The one who counts to 364 first wins, and you may restrart your count from the first card anytime.

It' more fun to play along with friend, and likely to miss the count :D
By the way, my personal record (just today) is 2 mins 49 secs.