The last couple of weeks I have been too busy to download or look at anything else, the TV shows were luckily setup in a script so they automatically download and pretty much get those right away. I have a huge stockpile of Anime to last me about two years at least so I haven’t downloaded since before mid August, so I have a lot to catch up on, probably gonna take a long time for that but at least I thought to start with movies, I went back about one month and one week, with all the downloads the list added up to about 283 GB worth of movies in HD (720p 0or 1080p), the list is below of movies and some foreign movies that I enjoy.
Movies:
- 500 Days of Summer
- 9
- Aeon Flux
- An American Affair
- Antichrist
- B Girl
- Ballast
- Battlestar Galactica The Plan
- Bruno
- Casino
- College
- Command Performance
- Contact
- Damage
- District 9
- Doghouse
- Dugs Special Mission
- Food Inc
- Funny People
- G.I.Joe Rise Of The Cobra
- Harry Potter and The Half Blooded Prince
- Heat
- I Love You Beth Cooper
- Imagine That
- Julie and Julia
- Katt Williams Its Pimpin Pimpin
- Looking For Eric
- Love N Dancing
- Pixars Partly Cloudy
- Pontypool
- Spread
- Stan Helsing
- Star Trek
- Surviving Sid
- Terminator Salvation
- The Answer Man
- The Crew
- The Machinest
- The Number 23
- The Taking Of Pelham 123
- The Ugly Truth
- Up
- Whatever Works
- Wrong Turn 3 Left For Dead
Foreign Movies:
- Banlieue 13 Ultimatum
- City of Life & Death
- Crows Zero
- Goemon
- K-20 Legend Of The Mask
- Kung Fu Cybord Metallic Attraction
- On His Majestys Secret Service
- OSS 117 Lost In Rio
- Overheard
- Written By
When I was reading through ChilloutKuwait’s blog she recommended this blog as something fresh, so I thought to check it out and before even reading what it was all about I was caught up with the photographs. At first I was just looking at the photographs normally, then I noticed the little teddy bear in most of the photo’s and started reading the information, then going backwards to other posts. A project on a daily basis with Teddy as the main character doing volunteer work, connecting with people, some interesting photos, some controversial, some very nice shots all together. A really nice original twist to the photograph idea, with some really interesting projects during this whole time worth keeping an eye on, amazing story & photographs.
Link: ChillOutKuwait
Link: YearOfTeddy
When Gmail first came out we only had 100MB or 500MB with our emails, and sometimes you had to pay exuberant amounts for the upgrades. Google has spoiled us with their Gmail Services, I remember when it was launched years ago when they said you would never have to delete anything ever again, they were the first with 1 GB and just kept going up exponentially for a while and then they got to about 7 GB and still more then everyone else with the easiest email system to handle and most intuitive. Now they have really gone over the top and providing paid storage for huge amount of storage for a very low amount. Storage availability from Gmail has become so large that people have written lots of tools & scripts to make use it for online storage or back up, and now because of these numbers more scripts & tools will be developed. I wouldn’t mind paying $100 per year for 400 GB of storage, that’s a lot that can be stored or shared online.
Storage Upgrades:
- 20 GB ($5.00 USD per year)
- 80 GB ($20.00 USD per year)
- 200 GB ($50.00 USD per year)
- 400 GB ($100.00 USD per year)
- 1 TB ($256.00 USD per year)
- 2 TB ($512.00 USD per year)
- 4 TB ($1,024.00 USD per year)
- 8 TB ($2,048.00 USD per year)
- 16 TB ($4,096.00 USD per year)
Link: Lifehacker
This is probably the most intense network trouble shooting I have done in my life. I have spares for most situations, back up plans, and tools ready to go but what happened to me confused the hell out of me.
Problems:
- Network Went Down, No Internet (Kems Connection)
- Internal Network was inaccessible as well
Possible Issues:
- External Issue with Internet – Internet Down
- Modem could be malfunction – Internal Network Issues
Solutions:
- Kems to Solve Issue
- Replace Modem
- Replace Switch
What Happened:
I changed both the modem first and I was still facing issues, I redid the external wiring from MOC into the house and installed the best connectors and cleanest route and still faced the same issue. Then I installed the modem, configured it which got complete and it was connecting but packets were bouncing. Basically I was also going nuts not being able to access my tv shows, movies and anime, it was cutting off so it wasn’t watchable. Since the internal network was still facing problems I installed a new switch to see if that was the issue, even though it was working fine for over two years.
So replacing the modem didn’t help, replacing the switch didn’t help, rewiring the external telephone line didn’t help. So the next step was cable testing but I didn’t have the equipment, so KEMS sent their engineer to test everything out but any work was sent by an external company recommend by Kems and they did the work. We went through and tested over 23 different Cat-6 Cables on three different floors to find that issue was that with the two networks the computer face an issue with a conflict of an internal router addresses so I redid that. We tested every cable and arranged every one of them once we test each one, one by one and cleared it, one cable was causing an issue and the switch was facing an issue whenever we connected it, I’m not sure how it went bad. After 5 hours of testing and going through everything and slowly getting everything up, the machines all worked at last.
Conclusion:
- KEMS support is the best in Kuwait
- Make sure to check router main address whenever configuring the modem, conflicts from the modem can cause major problems.
- Label cables for easy trouble shooting. I have a spaghetti for a network even though in my head it was all completely logical.
I’m the type of person who has always been somewhat paranoid about information that is stored on line, thats why I have avoided most social networking sites over the years, they have morphed into these blobs of machines which eat up anything you throw at it but thats another story. Maybe I have seen Enemy of the State with Gene Hackmen and Will Smith, but I’m still a little paranoid. But with all that there is one site that all people trust to a degree, its just under the radar but you give it all your info without thinking twice and that is Google. I use lots of their applications, such as Gmail, Google Docs, Google Wave, GChat, Google Checkout, Google Latitude, Picasa, GoogleReader, and some of my other emails are hosted on Google. Google pretty much knows what I am doing most of the day, what I’m accessing, what I’m reading, and when I’m doing anything online.
I always thought about it, but never really put it all together until Google went ahead and made their dashboard that connects most of their products together. Its a very useful tool so that you can control all your settings from one location, but it made me realize how much I am using Google and how much they have stored on me, they even know where I am at any point in time because I have Google Latitude on my Blackberry. Google has made all their products free, great to use, very useful, very integrated and more. I am even trying to find ways to connect other Google services to my mobile to make even more use of them, and I am fan of the Android software. Luckily they are making these amazing products but if at any one point in time Google decides to turn hostile and take over the world, then we have pretty much lost the battle in the first place.
Link: Gizmodo
350 is about bring down our carbon output to that amount since its getting hotter and hotter, then there was the walk in Kuwait a few weeks back. Now there is this advertisement with models trying to depict whats the best way to convince your politicians to help with climate control. Interesting Ad, but I wouldn’t play it at work.
There was a lot of problems with the pre-release of BBM 5 months ago, contacts were being deleted and the chat program was crashing. This time around its Blackberry that had the official release of BBM 5 with all the new features. After using it for over a week and a majority of my usual contacts have switched over the change is interesting.
Pros:
- You can see details of the other person’s contact
- Enlarging the contact’s photo
- Associating BBM contacts with your phone book, the picture from BBM gets associated with your Phone book
- Groups are a great edition you can share pictures, lists, dates and conversations between the group and its very organizing unlike inviting people to conversations such as before. Also you can have the group symbol on your Blackberry Homepage so you won’t have to go into the BBM to see it.
- Barcode scanning makes it easier and unique to add people to your list, you always notice people looking for their BBM PIN no matter how many times you explain it to them.
- Backing up contacts remotely and locally.
Cons:
- The one major con that I think BBM 5 has is when your trying to send images. It’s not as easy as before and you have to transfer a picture, it doesn’t compress it and sends a simple small picture as it did before. Takes time to transfer the image so the half the time it fails.
Overall I think Blackberry did an amazing job with BBM 5, the only problem is with sending images but still its a huge step forward. Maybe they will be able to adjust it at a later point, but the benefit of the groups and shareing details are enourmous.
I have been away for a couple of weeks so the download list has been piling up, and that pile up amounted to 349 GB worth of movies. The TV shows I have managed to keep up with, but the anime is a whole other story. So downloading all these movies was going to take some time, so I had to sort through all the movies that I have missed since the beginning of September until the end of it, so that added up to 349 GB worth of movies, and those are the ones I chose, I skipped a few that I’m not really into and the ones I already have. What I downloaded was a combination of animnated movies, action, comedy, horror, martial arts, and a few old school movies.
- Bionicle The Legend Reborn 2009 720p
- Deep Impact 1998 720p
- Drag Me To Hell 2009 720p
- Easy Rider 1969 720p
- Escape from L.A.1996 720p
- Friday 1995 720p
- Grace 2009 720p
- Ice Age Dawn Of The Dinosaurs 720p
- Iron Monkey 1993 Unmask The Legend 720p
- Kung Fu Dunk 2008 1080p
- Management 720p
- Monsters Vs Aliens 2009 720p
- Night At The Museum Battle Of The Smithsonian 720p
- Observe And Report 720p
- Once Upon a Time in China 1991 720p
- Role Models 2008 1080p
- Shaolin Soccer 2001 720p
- Superman Batman Public Enemies 2009 720p
- Terra 2007 720p
- The Legend Of Drunken Master 1994 1080p
- The Proposal 720p
- Transformers Revenge of the Fallen 720p
- Year One 720p
I’m the type of person that really hates the smell of cigarette smoke, I detest it, I’m the guy that enforces non-smoking at work and at home and if friends are over. Sheesha is just a whole other category, and the producers of the tobacco out of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Saudi, and Kuwait are not regulated for any healthy regulations at all such as cigarette manufacturing companies, not that those are better either. Sheesha is a whole different matter all together, the smell of a sheesha makes my stomach turn, the stench at those cafe’s makes me dizzy.
There is very little research about the effects of sheesha on one’s lungs but now BBC has published some interesting information about Sheesha being more damaging to people then heavy smokers of cigarettes. High levels of carbon monoxide can lead to brain damage and unconsciousness, and that results from cigarettes and sheesha but with sheesha its a lot higher concentration from one session. People have this misconception that its safer since its being filter through the water but that isn’t really the case. Strangely these days there are more and more women smoking sheesha then before, for Lebanese, Egyptian, and Syrian women its more a norm but lately in the Gulf you see more women smoking then before which is surprising. This is even happening in Western Cities such as London, New York, Los Angles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Miami, all these new Sheesha/Hookah bars popping up all over the place even with the smoking bans in place, permits can be acquired. It isn’t nice seeing a girl smoke a sheesha, and for me seeing a girl smoke a cigarette is a huge turn off, there breath would stink afterward, and a lot of guys have the same opinion, pretty much anyone who smokes and has that smoker’s breath is disgusting, and covering it up with perfume just isn’t really working.
(Couldn’t help the picture though)
Link: BBC News
My friend just sent me an email with an attachment, to say I was jealous was an understatement. This is his Comcast connection in his apartment in Chicago and his parent’s home in San Jose. I couldn’t believe the numbers I’m seeing, downloads of at least 50 Mbs and uploads of 8 Mbs those numbers are ridiculous. We are hitting 8 MB the past year and maybe doubling it soon and we are very happy, and he has a casual 50 MBs connection and there are services offering 100 Mbs connection at the cost of our 4 Mb connections in Kuwait. You can never have too much speed or space… I always want more.