I spent the entire day cleaning this nasty POS:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojlegmirbz.html
off my dad's computer. There were SO MANY times that I thought I had NAILED the sucker to it's source but it KEPT FARKING POPPING BACK UP! Safe-mode? Fucking useless nowadays. It's simply ridiculous how smart these trojans have become. It hooks into all of the most common file types in the registry and hides multiple copies of itself all over the windows and program files folder. Even though you might have found one source, smss.exe under win_dir, and figure out how to kill the process to delete it, it still has like 10 copies all over the place; all of them ready to respawn all it's other neighbours when you run an HTML file, use the 'find' function of Windows, starting a screen saver, or even opening a shortcut! Ridiculously clever how it hooks into the registry and modifies all the run commands of Windows. Ridiculously annoying to remove. I would've never been able to do it without that Sophos entry. Special mention to all the great freeware by Sysinternals.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Friday, May 26, 2006
Work woes
Right arrow, right arrow, right arrow... Shift-pg down, shift-pg down, shift-pg down, shift-up arrow, shift-up arrow... Ctrl-c. Alt-tab. Alt-e, s, v, enter. Alt-tab.
Repeat. For oh... say 4 hours. This project is totally killing all of my enthusiasm for work. Actually I wonder if I had any left after the first week; well, it comes and goes depending on what I am working on I guess. It's not that I don't like the work, it's just the type of work they got me doing. Argh what a shitty day. I got home all moody and killed time by going through blogs, forums, and a little bit of TV. When my mom got home I acted pretty cold toward her, by either not answering her questions or giving her short, crude replies. I didn't really mean to do it; it was a sub-conscious thing. I realized that I was being an ass when she starting comparing me to my dad so I excused myself and told her about my crappy day. Of course, she said that's what work is like and blah blah blah I should expect this cuz of all the $$$ I'm making, blah blah blah. *Sigh... she meant well, but she didn't help. Boooo... why isn't Joyce online when I need to sulk?
An aside:
You know I'm pretty sick of getting a slap-in-the-face-greater-than-thou-tease in response to a simple question. I mean, WTF mate? Is it really necessary? Maybe that's why I like to keep my mouth shut!
I need to spend some money to cheer myself up.
Repeat. For oh... say 4 hours. This project is totally killing all of my enthusiasm for work. Actually I wonder if I had any left after the first week; well, it comes and goes depending on what I am working on I guess. It's not that I don't like the work, it's just the type of work they got me doing. Argh what a shitty day. I got home all moody and killed time by going through blogs, forums, and a little bit of TV. When my mom got home I acted pretty cold toward her, by either not answering her questions or giving her short, crude replies. I didn't really mean to do it; it was a sub-conscious thing. I realized that I was being an ass when she starting comparing me to my dad so I excused myself and told her about my crappy day. Of course, she said that's what work is like and blah blah blah I should expect this cuz of all the $$$ I'm making, blah blah blah. *Sigh... she meant well, but she didn't help. Boooo... why isn't Joyce online when I need to sulk?
An aside:
You know I'm pretty sick of getting a slap-in-the-face-greater-than-thou-tease in response to a simple question. I mean, WTF mate? Is it really necessary? Maybe that's why I like to keep my mouth shut!
I need to spend some money to cheer myself up.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Post FM Thoughts
I have to say it was a little harder than I expected. I can't believe I had to guess on q24, that stupid time-rated rate question. Grr, not sure why I wasn't getting an answer for that question at all. Nevertheless, I'm pretty certain I have the 18 or so that I need to pass this crazy thing. Hehe Parker was funny today; he spoke a lot of bureaucratic rhetoric before the exam, such as, "You may now break the paper seal on the exam booklet by sliding your pencil across the booklet." I was going to sneak answers out using my calculator but I got scared. This damn proctor kept standing beside me for the last minute or so and it totally freaked me out and I started punching random things into my calculator haha. It was nice to talk to Joyce again (so soon!) and some of the ACMA gang as well.
Afterward I bought a donair--my first time buying food at SFU. I have to say everyone is so right about these donairs. OMG they are soooo good; a tad expensive though as it sits at $5.34 with tax. Then off to go back to work, stopping in Brentwood to deposit by scholarship cheque so I'll have enough liquid cash to send an EMT to pay my brother back.
AHHHHHHH!!!! I now have so many things ongoing at work that it's starting to scare me! Well I least I whooped Kyle today in Magic: 3 for 3 ;). WHOOPED HIM!
Woah I almost forgot. I saw Helen at Braid today. OMG she changed so much after going to UT! I didn't recognize her at all! She's much prettier now (not that she wasn't before); it must be because she is now an arts student :). I also saw Michelle and Anto. And I finally have confirmation that they are, indeed, a couple. Damn I'm slow.
Afterward I bought a donair--my first time buying food at SFU. I have to say everyone is so right about these donairs. OMG they are soooo good; a tad expensive though as it sits at $5.34 with tax. Then off to go back to work, stopping in Brentwood to deposit by scholarship cheque so I'll have enough liquid cash to send an EMT to pay my brother back.
AHHHHHHH!!!! I now have so many things ongoing at work that it's starting to scare me! Well I least I whooped Kyle today in Magic: 3 for 3 ;). WHOOPED HIM!
Woah I almost forgot. I saw Helen at Braid today. OMG she changed so much after going to UT! I didn't recognize her at all! She's much prettier now (not that she wasn't before); it must be because she is now an arts student :). I also saw Michelle and Anto. And I finally have confirmation that they are, indeed, a couple. Damn I'm slow.
Monday, May 15, 2006
Medieval: Total War
After spending probably ~20 hours over the last weekend playing Total War, I think I should at least blog about it so it wouldn't seem like I completely wasted my weekend.
With my joystick broken, I decided that I should install another game to replace Freespace 2; I picked Medieval: Total War. So I installed it and decided to conquer Europe as the English. It went pretty well at first, took the British Isle and Ireland, wiped out the French, and then expanded across the North Sea to take Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. The Holy Roman Empire was my ally so I was able to keep my eastern front lightly defended. As I was trying to be a goody two-shoe Catholic, I decided to charge down into Spain instead of taking out the Roman Empire. This is where I wasted ~10 hours, trying over and over to beat the fucking Almohad, or the much cooler sounding Arabic equivalent: Al-Muwahhidun. Actually, Spain was basically gone by then, wiped out by the Almohads. I was completely surprised to see ~4-5 stacks of troops along with the Almohad king and princes, which are all 4/5 star generals. My crappy English king was only a 2 star! On my first try, we fought to a stand off, with me desperately trying to hold on to Aquitane and Toulouse. The Almohad just ended up crossing the Mediterranean and took Provence and at that point I decided to give up. My German ally was building crusades into Spain at that time as well; needless to say they failed miserably and he just ended up pissing me off by stealing my troops as his crusade passed through my provinces.
On my second try I decided to tech before going into Spain; the Almohads didn't let me. With too much focus into teching and not enough into troop building, the Almohads charged in and I quickly lost continental Europe. I said fuck it and loaded.
During my second try I noticed how the Muslim infantry was able to plow right through my spearmen so I decided to go full infantry; I teched to Swordsmith and then pumped out feudal men-at-arms like crazy. I charged into Arragon with ~1400 men and faced the Almohad king's army of ~1300. And I RAPED him! It was a classic pincer attack, not to mention I had a nice map. I lured them uphill to face my infantry head on and then bought in my knights to flank them. The result: 1200 men killed compared to my 350 and I even captured and killed their king! The rest was basically mop up at that point and I just let auto-calc play for me. At around 6:00pm Sunday night, I killed the last Almohad heir in battle and destroyed their empire.
Oh yeah can't you tell I'm addicted by now?
With my joystick broken, I decided that I should install another game to replace Freespace 2; I picked Medieval: Total War. So I installed it and decided to conquer Europe as the English. It went pretty well at first, took the British Isle and Ireland, wiped out the French, and then expanded across the North Sea to take Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. The Holy Roman Empire was my ally so I was able to keep my eastern front lightly defended. As I was trying to be a goody two-shoe Catholic, I decided to charge down into Spain instead of taking out the Roman Empire. This is where I wasted ~10 hours, trying over and over to beat the fucking Almohad, or the much cooler sounding Arabic equivalent: Al-Muwahhidun. Actually, Spain was basically gone by then, wiped out by the Almohads. I was completely surprised to see ~4-5 stacks of troops along with the Almohad king and princes, which are all 4/5 star generals. My crappy English king was only a 2 star! On my first try, we fought to a stand off, with me desperately trying to hold on to Aquitane and Toulouse. The Almohad just ended up crossing the Mediterranean and took Provence and at that point I decided to give up. My German ally was building crusades into Spain at that time as well; needless to say they failed miserably and he just ended up pissing me off by stealing my troops as his crusade passed through my provinces.
On my second try I decided to tech before going into Spain; the Almohads didn't let me. With too much focus into teching and not enough into troop building, the Almohads charged in and I quickly lost continental Europe. I said fuck it and loaded.
During my second try I noticed how the Muslim infantry was able to plow right through my spearmen so I decided to go full infantry; I teched to Swordsmith and then pumped out feudal men-at-arms like crazy. I charged into Arragon with ~1400 men and faced the Almohad king's army of ~1300. And I RAPED him! It was a classic pincer attack, not to mention I had a nice map. I lured them uphill to face my infantry head on and then bought in my knights to flank them. The result: 1200 men killed compared to my 350 and I even captured and killed their king! The rest was basically mop up at that point and I just let auto-calc play for me. At around 6:00pm Sunday night, I killed the last Almohad heir in battle and destroyed their empire.
Oh yeah can't you tell I'm addicted by now?
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
A dream
This morning I woke up to a funny dream--it pretty much summed up what I was doing the night before. I was chatting with Joyce on MSN and apparently she is having some sort financial difficulty (ok that part is false). And the numbers were exactly the same as one of the bond questions on the May 2005 FM!
LOL Perfect May 2005 FM
Hehehe... I just did the May 2005 FM in 69 minutes. And got friggin perfect!!! What a joke; no wonder all the forums say that particular FM is an anomaly. Hopefully this is good sign for tomorrow's work day :).
Note to self: never run while wearing dress shoes, else the ball of your feet will hurt like a bitch for the rest of the day. Ugh...
Note to self: never run while wearing dress shoes, else the ball of your feet will hurt like a bitch for the rest of the day. Ugh...
Monday, May 01, 2006
First day of work
Aiya... I barely had two hours of sleep last night because I took a giant 3-4 hour nap during the night. I don't think I fell asleep until ~4am and I had to wake up at like 6am. Feeling all groggy, I managed to get myself ready and caught the 159 without problems. I think I'm going to dread the daily morning commute. The 159 takes like 20 minutes to get through the Mary Hill Bypass because of the insane amount of traffic; I can probably walk through it faster than the bus.
Once I got to PBC I got my ID and had a chat with Rene about what I will be doing. Apparently my task of the day was to read a HUGE binder of stuff. So that's what I did for an hour while waiting for my computer and phone to arrive. Guess what? The lady was setting up MY computer in the cubicle NEXT to me! And she was setting up the wrong computer as well! After that mess got sorted out I got introduced to Kyle and I had to do some data entry for him--fun eh? It was especially fun because he forgot to say that I was only supposed to enter the 2006 data :). Afterward I had the opportunity to learn how to use vlookup in Excel. I had to pull data from an Access database and match them up with the appropriate entries in an Excel spreadsheet. Armed with only Google and Microsoft Help, I think I did quite well, as in almost figuring out the whole thing by myself. Rene offered to give me a ride when he leaves but I felt like going so I left--probably should have waited and did some Actex, I would've got home at the same time.
Once I got to PBC I got my ID and had a chat with Rene about what I will be doing. Apparently my task of the day was to read a HUGE binder of stuff. So that's what I did for an hour while waiting for my computer and phone to arrive. Guess what? The lady was setting up MY computer in the cubicle NEXT to me! And she was setting up the wrong computer as well! After that mess got sorted out I got introduced to Kyle and I had to do some data entry for him--fun eh? It was especially fun because he forgot to say that I was only supposed to enter the 2006 data :). Afterward I had the opportunity to learn how to use vlookup in Excel. I had to pull data from an Access database and match them up with the appropriate entries in an Excel spreadsheet. Armed with only Google and Microsoft Help, I think I did quite well, as in almost figuring out the whole thing by myself. Rene offered to give me a ride when he leaves but I felt like going so I left--probably should have waited and did some Actex, I would've got home at the same time.
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