Netopia (the biggest chain of internet cafès in the Philippines) computers have this habit of corrupting files or worse… faking that files have actually been copied into a USB drive.
The computer pretends to copy it into your USB, but it really doesn’t. You can check if right after the copying… it looks fine. But when you take out of their PC and get on back home - you may find nothing inside or that the files have been corrupted. That’s what happened to the data in my Sony USB thumb drive for instance and perhaps you may have had that experience yourself.
Netopia computers should allow the user to SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE but instead it’s one of those many features they’ve prevented ordinary users from doing. HELLOO Netopia??? Are you joes listening?People don’t want their USB thumbdrives to grow bad sectors!!. I know better than to just yank my USB thumb drive out but what friggin’ option do you leave me with?
Perhaps this is a Netopia conspiracy to destroy thumbdrives and make more money out of CD burning. Somebody should explain how to properly put in and take out USB thumb drives from Netopia machines.
Anyway if they don’t do anything about it look up this thread regarding the same exact problem:
http://www.misticriver.net/printthread.php?t=11246
I have yet to try it but try to execute this from Windows Startup RUN: runas /user:administrator “RUNDLL32 SHELL32.DLL,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
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I witnessed the twister reported today. Very rare occurence in Metro Manila to have a twister.
I stopped my work (texturing for a 3D model) just to gawk at all that flying debris. It’s the closest thing I’ll probably get to American natural disasters.
It was throwing litter, leaves, twigs, all the way up to past the 30 storey building I was on. Plus it shook the building somewhat and images of shattered windows filled my head (and only in my head).
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If nothing holds us up, the new team for future installments of CAST (from Nautilus Comics) will be having our photoshoot at around 4:00pm - 5:00pm today.
For publicity really. I don’t understand how a photo of the creatives will help sell the title (even with the CAST characters joining us in the photo)… nevertheless, it should help keep awareness of the brand up.
I understand the style of the art will be quite different from before. Haven’t seen it yet, but I’m expecting it will shock me as much as the readers.
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I found that my mailbox was full after a strange week of not receiving anything at all at my regular email account.
It was not full of incoming mail. Oh no.
But previously SENT email.
So I cleared all that. And the first two emails that came in were viruses. Oh joy.
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If you were able to catch me at the bookfair at my fairly interesting talk about Digital Painting… then you’d have seen the artwork I was doing then.
This is how far it’s been developed.
So far developed that I’m deciding between variations…
With the tree or without? With the ship or not? Provide your comments on which I should pursue and why. Thanks!
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Well our internet PC quit a while back. So I bought a new PC for myself and had my old one put as the new internet PC.
My older brother has taken it upon himself to personalize it with anime beauties and fill it with more of his games.
I’d like to thank Oliver Ng and Jesse Tan of PC Express and my cousin Michael Tan of Access Global for helping me get through all the decisions and hurdles in choosing and buying my new PC.
I should be able to get back to work and make even more kickass artwork now.
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The low pressure zone hovering presently over Metro Manila for the past few days has apparently affected both the living room TV and computer.
They shut down most abruptly, without the slightest warning.
Thought it was just dirt in the PC. But when the problem proved elusive… I decided it was the weather.
I got the idea to use a hairdryer to heat up the PC a bit. Just to get the electrons in shape. And lo and behold… I’m typing this blog entry now.
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Me and my sister shaved Php400+ off our home’s waterbill! We use buckets to collect rainwater. Then we used these to flush the toilet.
Our toilet uses up 2 buckets of water if we flush it normally. It’s an old toilet… I’m sure the new ones flush with less.
What irritates me is when our dad flushes the toilet for no reason. I suspect he is bored and just wants to fill it up with fresh water.
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