I wish I could finally find a normal internet provider. I’m having terrible luck… Back when I lived in the dorm, the line would randomly disconnect, sometimes even for days.
Then once I called them about this matter and it turned out that in some cases the reason was excess traffic. So they’d disconnect me without notice or warning on the basis that I used too much bandwidth on a service advertised as unmetered and which doesn’t even offer a way to check how much data I actually transferred.
I just applied for a summer internship at one of my credit card providers (Mitsui-Sumitomo) and guess what, they sent me my username and the password i set in a plaintext email.
The only single time i can accept that they email me my password after registration is when the initial pass is random generated and i’m required to change it at the first login. But sending me the password i set myself and been using for the past month? What the hell?
So yesterday I watched the first episode of Legend of Korra, this year’s new season of Avatar. Then in two days I watched the rest of it as well.
This is what I call a good series. It’s american, terribly so, full of cliches, even more so, but it still made me watch “just one more episode” of it until it was all over. Looking forward to the next season next year.
I had this discussion with a fellow translator about what is and is not translatable. He said that a certain Yousei Teikoku song (Shoseijo no uta) falls in the latter category. I disagree(d).
For quite a while Chromium has been randomly crashing when i tried playing YouTube videos. To be more exact, those tabs with YT videos open crash (not just the plugin, nor the whole browser). Sometimes it doesn’t crash, sometimes it does.
I managed to narrow it down to that it mostly happens if i have more than one YT tabs open. True, sometimes it crashes with only one open as well, but a reload usually solves that. Also it often crashes tabs when i try to play embedded videos.
After the Ubuntu distro update to Pangolin of course more stuff broke at first than were fixed, Aegisub being one of them. I had 2.1.9 before, but since the svn trunk is already the 3.0, i rather grabbed that than the older version (r6737). Installing, I was (of course) again faced by the annoying wxWidgets errors during configure.
For 2.1.9 I just worked around it somehow, but this time something snapped and i just got wxGTK 2.9.3. If only it was that simple… I had lots of problems with both wxGTK and Aegisub, but after a day or so I managed to get it working with help from an Aegisub dev.
For wxGTK: ./configure -with-opengl -enable-debug -enable-debug_gdb -enable-debug_cntxt -enable-stc, then after the install also run ldconfig. Then for Aegisub: ./configure -enable-debug.
I had to use the debug options, because we were debugging it, but i think it should work without them.
The other day I was translating late night and I had to use my headphones to catch a few lines. However the output from the jack of my speakers was so crappy that I rather decided to rather fetch my HDMI cable and connect my screen using that, then use the screen’s audio output. Why didn’t I use HDMI until now, even though it’s supposed to be superior?
That’s quite simple. I tried connecting it once, then this quite big black frame showed up. I couldn’t fix it instantly so I just gave up and rather connected using the analog cable. This time I didn’t give up so easily and googled. It took me a while to figure out what this black frame thing was called at all, and then how to solve it.
You know not blogging for months would be funny if I didn’t have anything to write about. But I do. I just simply can’t find the time to sit down and write blogposts about movies I watched, places I went, stuff I did…
It takes too much determination and I could use that determination for more creative purposes. And when I’m done with those, I’m back to the point where my brain is so numb i’d rather not write anything with the purpose of publishing it. Tough luck. Maybe when school starts this will change. Or get worse.
No, i’m not an encoder. And it’s apparent. Not to mention i’m using linux, so it’s not even as simple as grabbing a random Free MPEG-2 To H264 (30 days trial) (not malware) (confirmed download) and hope it works.
Problem is that when i record Phi Brain, sometimes there’s this weird show before it, and i end up recording a few minutes of that as well because of the safety margin. However, that show is aired in 4:3 instead of 16:9 and i think even the audio encoding might be different, not to mention the switch messes up all the headers possible, so no players are willing to open it (the only one that could open it was actually WMP and honestly, i’d prefer not having to reboot to Windows or using a virtual machine).
Okay, I think that was a record. A whole of 5 posts in a month? I’ve never been so lazy before. Or cared so little, actually. There’s not much going on in my life anyway, except for translating lots of anime, going to the gym and running every day, and playing my guitar and bass.
Actually i learned a song, the opening song for Thermae Romae by Chatmonchy on guitar, but i need to practice it some more before i would dare to record a video and upload it. I’ve been also practicing RHCP songs (Dani California, Factory of Faith, Emit Remmus, Snow), because I really want to get on stage with it next semester.
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