Fai and I ran Nexus last Monday with an awesome group. One-shotted the whole thing easily, except for me dying on Keristrasza because I wasn’t moving around enough. Can’t wait to see the other dungeons in Northrend; next one will most likely be Azjol-Nerub.
Yesterday Fai & I messed around a bit with TVersity streaming to the PS3. We followed a particularly long thread on TVersity’s support forums on the proper installation sequence of ffdshow and other relavant codecs.
Playback of the usual divx videos, like the TV series we usually download, worked well without any problems at all. Only problems we had were selecting audio tracks on VOB files, some clipping when playing a particular packaged AVI (FF7 AC with stereo/5.1 tracks), and stuttering when streaming that particular 5.1 track.
For the stuttering part, the bitrate display on the PS3 went up to about 6-8MB/s (can’t recall if it was bits or bytes). I’m guessing the wireless 11g network is the bottleneck, and my crappy Linksys router isn’t helping either. Tonight, we’ll continue testing using wired Ethernet for confirmation, and I even downloaded a full HD trailer of Watchmen for this purpose. 😀 If there are no hiccups, then it’s confirmed to be a wireless issue, and maybe that’ll push me to pick up an 11n router (or I could go back and grab the 3com router from my mom’s home).
Worst case scenario, short of breaking down the walls to lay cable, is to buy two 11n routers and WDS them together.
PS: Another alternative to TVersity is the PS3 Media Server, which is especially made for the PS3. Might give it a go as well.
🙂
For A: mush, mush, mush, mush.
primary activities after marriage: the obvious :P, gta4, wow. added some wow profile widgets for you to see our progress. 😀
what’s next: honeymoon, travel, give birth… to a new pc! 😀
love you, sayang.
syedferuz says:
i’ve been trying to access kwsp website
syedferuz says:
have you tried it?
syedferuz says:
boleh tak
syedferuz says:
KWSP website sucks
syedferuz says:
i want to complaint
syedferuz says:
but no email address
syedferuz says:
phone number no good cause i’m here
Rudy says:
lemme try
syedferuz says:
you try logging in
syedferuz says:
it’s a nightmare
Rudy says:
cant remember my login
Rudy says:
theres an enquiry page tho
syedferuz says:
well the webpage seldom works
syedferuz says:
down or busy most of the time
syedferuz says:
and sometimes when you login
syedferuz says:
it will throw you out
syedferuz says:
when you try again
syedferuz says:
it says you cannot login multiple sessions
Rudy says:
that sux
syedferuz says:
no wonder broadband takeup rate is slow
syedferuz says:
things like this la
syedferuz says:
email tak pernah dijawab
syedferuz says:
i rely primarily on email to communicate with gov and epf banks etc
syedferuz says:
but sometimes these emails goes unanswered
syedferuz says:
especially when dealing with gov
syedferuz says:
majlis bandaran
syedferuz says:
last time i dealt with SPR during elections
syedferuz says:
emailed all the pengarah spr
syedferuz says:
1-2 answered
syedferuz says:
even that was late
1. The age you’ll be on your next birthday:-
I ish WoW-playing vampyr~!
2. A place you’d like to travel to:-
Nihon-jin ni naritai~!
3. Your favourite place:-
Despite their political failings, I still love the US. ^_^
4. Your favourite food:-
Wagyu, wagme~
5. Your favourite pet:-
Catsh are besht.
6. Your favourite colour combination:-
Purple and white. Ignore the yellow. 🙂
7. Your favourite piece of clothing:-
No, it’s not an S&M fetish. I like how I look wearing tapered suits, and Google returns tapered mainsheets. 😛
8. Your favourite TV show:-
“Yatta!”
9. First name of your significant other:-
Shameless word-for-word plug from Raaha: Oh dear!!! I have to say, I truly believe my significant other is waaaayyy better-looking than this!!!
10. The town in which you live in:-
PJ, home of smog.
11. Your first job:-
Powering our nation’s progress.
At the expense of our brain matter.
12. Your dream job:-
Too late for this now. -_-
13. A bad habit that you have:-
I’m a lazy bum.
14. Your worst fear:-
Needles. Particularly being poked by one.
15. What you would like to do before you die:-
Dive in Sipadan~!
I henceforth tag: no one.
My 3Com 11g AP is on auto CTS Protection Mode. CTS Protection Mode is used to keep 11b connections alive when there are tons of 11g clients connected as well. This also works across different wireless networks, with the mode kicking off if any other AP within the same channel has the mode turned on.
My Linksys WMP54G (Ralink) adaptor connects to the AP as an 11b station. It’s Wifi mode shows only two choices: 11B ONLY and 11B/G Mixed. Since my AP has protection mode on, my connection should be OK.
However, what if there’s another AP in my apartment block that has CTS Protection Mode off? Maybe this AP has tons of 11g clients too. So maybe somehow this makes my own Protection Mode useless, making my 11b connection unstable.
So now I’ve turned off CTS Protection Mode on both the AP and the client (two can play that game!), and connection has been steady so far. If it solves my connection, then yay. Otherwise, sorry neighbors. 😛
If we were to get the items listed in the previous post, all gemmed up with +hit Epic gems, we’ll be pretty much hit capped. Although it’ll still be good to find +hit goodies, and replace armor gems with some non +hit stuff that hopefully matches the socket color.
Icier Barbed Spear
The Champion of Anguish – Zul’Drak
Runeblade of Demonstrable Power
Duchess Mynx – Vendor in Icecrown
Savage Cobalt Slicer
Savage Cobalt Slicer – Blacksmithing
Amanitar Skullbow
Amanitar – Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom (H)
Pierce’s Pistol
Dark Runed Chest – The Culling of Stratholme (H)
Necklace of Arcane Spheres
Xevozz – The Violet Hold (H)
Ring of Scarlet Shadows
Ring of Scarlet Shadows – Jewelcrafting
Mobius Band
Chrono-Lord Epoch – The Culling of Stratholme (H)
Titanium Impact Band
Titanium Impact Band – Jewelcrafting
The Prospector’s Prize
Krystallus – Halls of Stone (H)
Darkmoon Card: Greatness
Darkmoon Nobles Deck – Darkmoon Faire
Will be replacing the WoW ItemStats plugin with the ‘Powered by WowHead’ script. At least it’ll be something constantly updated. 🙂
So, here’s the pre-raid loot we should be gunning for:-
King Dred’s Helm
King Dred – Drak’Tharon Keep (H)
Hauberk of the Arcane Wraith
Anomalus – The Nexus (H)
Dragon Slayer’s Sabatons
Keristrasza – The Nexus (H)
Grips of the Beast God
Gal’darah – Gundrak (H)
Hollowed Mandible Legplates
Hadronox – Azjol-Nerub (H)
Massive Spaulders of the Jormungar
Gortok Palehoof – Utgarde Pinnacle (H)
Belt of Tasseled Lanterns
Zone Drop – Gundrak (H)
Eaglebane Bracers
Eaglebane Bracers – Leatherworking
Will look at trinkets and accessories later. This is all pre-hitcap, so things will change after.
For now, Daryune and I will continue farming AV till we get our Frostwolf Howlers. Hopefully the winning streak continues. Frostwolf Perfection, anyone? 🙂
There was a time when I was going to build myself a nice HTPC to stream all my media downloads to TV, as well as replace the usual Astro box as a PVR.
Well that plan has now gone to hell, with the acquisition of a certain piece of equipment. Let’s just say this piece plays really good looking games and is a uPNP/DLNA device. Let’s also say that it’s really expensive. 😛 For now, let’s call this the ‘media client’.
With this purchase, it looks like a HTPC is no longer necessary. Replacing Astro with a PC-based PVR doesn’t seem worth the effort too, so the idea to use MediaPortal will now be replaced with TVersity, a uPNP/DLNA media server software for Windows. With it, I can just stream stuff over to the media client, with support for on-the-fly transcoding just in case the client is anal about format.
Problem is this still needs me to set up a Windows 24/7 server to host the media. So I might use uShare as an alternative. uShare is another supported media server, but for Linux/BSD machines. That means I can continue using my BSD server for torrent downloads, and stream media directly from it.
Speaking of the BSD server, which I named Mario for some odd reason, it will have its Gnome GUI software removed with needed components migrated over to console. Gnome was becoming a pain in the butt to maintain, and I only needed it to run Azureus, which is also being replaced by TorrentFlux.
But anyway, looking forward to to the new way of things.
