Screw history (class)

So, in the train right now... Full of kids, students.
The one closest to me is reading some notes. He probably has an exam today. Apparently it's history.
ARGHBRBRBRBRLLL HIIIISTORYYYYY ZOMG!!!1!eleven
Not only was it the class I hated most, but I came to the conclusion (and still believe) that learning history is totally stupid and should be optional, like a 3rd language is, for those that are actually interested in that crap.
I mean: OK, there are a few basics everyone needs to know, like: don't screw with the jews if you don't want them to get their revenge causing a world economical crisis (j/k)
But c'mon, who the fuck cares that king X started to siege king Y's castle on Z specific day. What the fuck is that knowledge good for? Jesus Fucking Christ, use those damn hours to teach more math, more grammar, other languages or more gym.
In a few years the world will be filled with fat retards who can only write assisted by a word corrector, only do math with a calculator (and won't even know the difference between + and -) but yeah: they'll know why where and when that fucking king sieged that other one 700y ago. Or what would be the modern version: they'll know why where and when Angelina broke up with Brat.
WHO THE FUCK CARES!

Red Dead Bear Anger

I think I've never been so close on throwing my x360 controller into my TV. Red Dead Redemption. Qute good game. But full of glitches which will be fixed by the time the game is a "classic" and got a platinum version already.

So, I've been working on my 100% (which I got as of now) and I was on the Master Hunter - Rank 6 I think (or 7?)

Goal: kill a Grizzly with your knife and skin it. Sounds easy. done it in multiplay already where you got like docens of bears all in same spot....

WELL IT WASN'T THAT EASY.
first I spend like 20 minutes riding around tall trees and surroundings to find a damn bear. when I finally find one I was not even paying attention anymore and he killed my horse and me shortly after.

OK, let's go find that bastard... 20 minutes more seeking a damn bear. seems like the one that killed me went to celebrate, coz same spot and he wasn't there. I found another one...
I hit him... and he starts to run away? WTF? Pussy bear dammit. I spend 10 minutes straight (not even lying) running behind the fucking bastard. Impossible to hit with the knife from behind. Then suddenly he gets into a camp full of boars and I though "hopefully they'll slow him down"... to my suprise the fucking boars didn't attack the bear. Well, ok. they'll probably run off. Nope, not running either... THEY FUCKING STARTED TO ATTACK ME!!! what the fucking hell? Jungle Book Conspiracy or what!!! And dead I am...

15m. later... found another bear... same fucking story again! He runs and runs and runs and runs until finally some boar comes to his rescue WTF! total of another 30m. wasted.

I pause the game, go read some forums and FAQs and guides and what not... nothing really useful. One guy sais you can shoot him into the legs to slow him down and if the final blow is with the knife, it would still be valid. Ok, let's try that.

I'm getting more lucky finding bears. This time only took me fucking 10 minutes. The Benny Hill show begins once more. I hit him into the leg: bullshit slower. He doesn't slow down. Not a pixel. I shoot him again, into the other leg: he fucking DIES!!!!

next 45minutes is a mixture of seeking, benny hill, dying from one damn shot into legs, boars attacking me, me falling down mountains. I wasted like 50 medicines so far, I got attacked by 20 boars, I killed 5 Grizzlies trying to shoot them into the foot and I let a couple of strangers DIE because I didn't go to help them.

In the end... I just got LUCKY. I found a bear (5 minutes), I chased the bear (5 minutes) and I managed to get to his side and hit him a few times till he finally died.

I look at the clock... 2 hours and more had passed... and I was a pixel away from having to buy a new 37" TV.

worst A.I. ever!

mass effect 2... the disapointment

ALERT: might include spoilers.
so... I've been playing Mass Effect 2 (and I'll continue playing to get more stuff done) and man am I disappointed...
after playing ME1 for around 100H. (different chars and dialog options, etc) what is that I get in ME2?
1) 1,5H. lose ship and die. rebirth and get new ship
2) 15H. gather team. do missions for your members so they're happy
3) 1,5H. enter omega-4 relay and kill the bad guys

WHAT THE FUCK? that's it? WHERE IS THE STORY? Man, in ME1 you had to chase Saren around the galaxy. Find out clues in Feros, Noveria, etc.
In ME2 after you gather your team, it's GAME OVER. What the fucking hell?

Exploration does not exist whatsoever, mineral mining is dull as hell (hello!!! year 2300 or whatever and have to probe planets MANUALLY?) and history is inexistant and the final boss sucks monkeyballs.

Last but not least... ending sequence shows a shitload of Reapers coming setting a real shitty base for ME3 in my opinion. So far killing ONE Reaper was really hard... in ME3 we'll have to kill hundrets of them just like that?

I really hope they do better in ME3 coz ME2 was a real huge disappointement. A good game (secondary stories are told nicely, etc) but shit compared to the first ME (and TBH I didn't bother THAT much about elevators. gave me a chance to drink, eat or go and have a poo)

I guess all those fanboys that are around now didn't play ME1 or played it so long ago they don't remember well... otherwise I don't really see how they can like the crap and nonexistant story in ME2.

another virus story... trojan horse injector.el (solved ofc!)

Typical scenario... customer with virus. no big deal you'd say... WRONG!
this trojan injects himself into windows system files. i think it was a newer version than .el, as it does inject into svchost.exe

so... found what virus it was and off we go, to the webs and support lines of our offical antivirus... AVG and symantec CE...

what a fucking big FAILURE of assistance, geez.
both where saying to update to latest database (omg, really?) and reboot into safemode to make a scan.
yeah well HELLO! do you realize that safemode also uses fucking svchost.exe?

when talking to those noobies i come to think they never ever have seen a CALCULATOR in their life, much less a COMPUTER. fucktards.

so... once again, on my own here. asking papi google... FAIL AGAIN. found some webpages with same problem. most of those forums went like this:
1) user: yeah hello, i have a problem
2) tech support (after 4 days): yeah erm... get hijack this and post a log
3) tech support (after 7 more days): yeah ok, as there has not been any response, we close the post as SOLVED.
and the website top banner sais: our statistic is of 99% solved problems.
YEAH NO SHIT ASSHOLE

found a forum with people really helpful... but geez, some stupid shit going on. they spend 7 pages of forum making the user (who doesn't even know what copy&paste is) download programs, sending logs, trying to delete stuff... to realize after the seventh page that THE USER HAS STILL SYSTEM RESTORE ON AND THE VIRUS IS IN IT.
rule nr. 1 of cleaning a virus from a windows machine: TURN OFF SYSTEM RESTORE (and be ready to repair windows if needed)

anyways... i failed at repairing the problem "in-situ" coz it turns out some of my tools where outdated plus the customers internet connection sucked (i mean.. .DL a 30mb virus database 15min. WTF!!!!)

so... after updating my shit, what did i try?
- ubuntu 9.10 live-cd + avg 8.5 = FAIL. freaking shit avg doesn't even install properly on a live-cd ubuntu. google again failed me too. maybe it is possible, but i wasted too much time on your ass.
- ubuntu 9.10 live-cd + bitdefender: found a nice tutorial that seemed to work... but after updating database and starting a scan... suddenly all icons and programs in ubuntu just disapeared... time wasted once more.
- UBCD windows live-cd + avira: problem here is that the UBCD fucking ramdisk is DYNAMIC SIZE, meaning that with this crappy computer and his 512mb ram, only 133mb ram where assigned to the ramdisk. and guess where avira gets installed and tries to download updates and all that shizzle? YES: the ramdisk! updates kept failing because there was not enough space, even tho i setup avira to use another drive as temp

WHAT WAS THE SOLUTION?
same as last step mentioned above. but instead of trying to auto update, i downloaded the specific file from the avira website. then i manually updated avira, did a full scan and some shit got deleted. then i restored the svchost.exe from the windows instalation cd (doing a full repair would not have been a bad idea either) and booted up.
did a malwarebytes pass cleaning some other stuff, then ccleaner as we are at it and finally uninstalled AVG (licence got corrupt somehow) and installed it again.

so, here it is. the first working solution EVAR on the internetz for this fucking virus. this solution will probably work for 99% of the people without having to send fucking logs to fucking forums. you just need to download some shit and burn it to cd on another computer.

if you want the links or names of exact every tool i used, just leave a comment. as only TWO persons read this blog anyways, i can't be arsed to post them now ;)

god and earthquakes

5 words: LEAVE HIM OUT OF IT.
ok, so... in first place, i am not really a believer and if i had to believe in something it would be the "human faith" (meaning we believe in ourselves) rather than "believe in god".
that being off the table, after the recent earthquake in haiti, some asshat stupid media thought "oh yeah, lets go create some drama and ask some religious guys about what they think of it"
yeah... bright idea. and of course they got what they wanted.
now newspaper forums are full of people saying "omg the church doesn't care for haiti", "omg what the religious guy said was horrible" and bla bla bla..

YEAH WHAT THE FUCKING HELL DID YOU EXPECT ASKING A CATHOLIC PRIEST OR BISHOP OR WHATEVER THE FUCK THE GUY IS???
did you expect him to say something like "oh yeah hum, haiti is the source of all worlds evil and they all needed to die" or something like "yeah eh god has a plan for all those poor souls and they will all come back as angels to protect us from alien invasions in 2012"

geez. or better said. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

leave religion out of the fucking natural disasters, dammit. those people in haiti have it bad enough as it is and you only fucking care to go to a bishop and create more drama about the whole mess.
like one of the people there said to a reporter: "we don't need cameras and photos, we need WATER and FOOD and MEDICINE"

and as we are at it, someone wrote today to the newspaper something along the lines "hey i don't really like U.S.A. and so on, but their army is doing a hell of a job in haiti now and i want to thank them."
and i second that. whethere we like or not the country from where the help is coming from, THANK YOU.
and this is coming from a guy who is not gonna donate a single cent to haiti. why? because i have my own problems and my 5$ won't make a shit of a difference when there's people out there smoking cigars that are more expensive than my monthly income. there's other people with more money who should fucking donate their cash. not "average joe".