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Relocation

August 24th, 2005

Due to prontera being way too crowded, causing portals to never work, we decided to move to ayutaya.

Since we have saved here, all our puri’s memos have been reviewed, and between dodd and myself we have every location that could possibly be needed memo’d. A nice and quiet place it is.

Oh an this is how NOT to bowling bash ^^;

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Preserve

August 23rd, 2005

The skill that brings sanity to rogue’s cloning abilities. Finally hitting job36 means eternal freedom of hunting location, without worrying about my cloned skill being overwritten.

A few screenshots;

Tomorrow will be a quiet day, with no power until 3pm (thanks a lot western power). TT

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bowling bash those dim sums!

August 21st, 2005

Having spent many hours levelling at otters (with a lot of 1hit deaths and pain from lack of flee) I decided to go clone bowling bash level7 just for a bit of fun. I tried argiopes first, and the proved awesome success – 3-hit kills are always welcome.

So rogue has surprise attack, lets make a little comparison between the two (keeping in mind i only have lv7 at the moment)

Bowling Bash 7 – SP19, 1600dmg per hit to argiope, slight difficulty in targetting.
Surprise Attack 5 – SP30, 650dmg per hit to argiope, near impossible to use when mobbed.

I’ll let you decide which is better :P

We also went to eat chinese today in perth (wow that’s rare). Quite tasty!

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data recovery & windwaker

August 20th, 2005

With Jetha’s music collection and Alan’s now well organised anime dvd collection, I was able to recover most of the good anime series that should remain on psrv. Now all that’s left is the japan folder, which means gen has to lan.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 423G 159G 264G 38% /ftp

I must say, cd/dvd storage has really improved. It almost makes me want to get a dvd drive ^^;

I’ve been running some benchmarks on my raid and it doesn’t seem to be performing to its usual standard. It doesn’t seem to be the file system (XFS as usual) but rather the IDE controller being the bottleneck. Not sure if this is just a driver/kernel problem, but it definitely needs to be checked out. Especially when moving psrv to gigabit :O. Throughput seems limited to around 50-70mb/s, but this is the same with a non-raided drive as well. Will look into it further over the weekend.

In other news, my join effort with Alan to complete Zelda Windwaker finally came to a conclusion as we beat gannon… until alan overwrote our complete savegame with the second quest one (basically play through a second time with small differences). So we started to play again, from the beginning. Just climbing the deku tree at the moment! Such an awesome game.