Frustration - 1st Year's Poem

I did this when I was a first year... looks neat.. :)

Frustration

It’s a lovely fate to be here,
Where it’s a place to develop my career,
DOC is sure full of geeks,
But that’s nothing compare to what we seek.

Inside the minds of all computer,
Lay a core that helps us dear,
Be it double or triple or quadruple,
Nothing compared to my Acer Aspire,
Although it’s cheap, people just blink an eye,
But it’s enough to make the lab comps to cry.

I drink Java, I do Java,
With my Acer, when I’m in war,
Against the time, against the CATE,
So, I could go sleep without any headache.

Oh horrible, exams are in the labs,
It’s LEXIS mode,
And the labs look like a pub,
But fear, in minutes my eyes will pop out,
Wondering why the red lines are coming up,
On the screen, beating my hearts out,
I close my eyes, for fear being caught,
By friends and foes who seemed to laugh out loud.

enable open ssl in xampp

well, the topic is misleading really.

it's supposed to be ' enabling open ssl in php'

how to do it?

1) go find php.ini
2) search for 'openssl'
3) uncomment the word which has it (i.e. ;extension=php_openssl.dll --> delete the ';')
4) save

that's it.

IF it doesn't work, you don't have the proper files that enable SSL. They are libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll . Put it in the same folder as php.ini OR put it into Windows/system32 folder. Although the former is better because the program will refer to that folder first then comes the latter. You can check more online anyway. I've given you enough guides/clues. Heh~

Wallahualam. :)

xampp localhost problem

Life goes on.

Now, I have lots of coursework and projects going on. I can't be miserable forever right?

Anyway, bumped into this really annoying problem. I'm such a old-school guy so pretty much everything in my computer system is outdated or whatever. Lost track of all of them. (oh this laptop wasnt stolen because I brought it with me during the tragic day...).

Anyway, here's the solution:

Add this Win32DisableAcceptEx in the httpd.conf if somehow your XAMPP doesn't work (i.e. localhost not loading).

Only do this iff:
1) You figure skype is not the problem
2) You check your IIS is disabled
3) You know the right apache is occupying port 80
4) Your host file has the right entry: 127.0.0.1 localhost

Wallahualam. :)

Stronger. Thanks!

Thanks for everyone's helpful support!

Life goes on. Problems shall go away. We move on.

But, we'll get stronger.

Now, I just need to cope up with some other things. I feel like I can take anything now.

And! I need to recreate the memories that I have lost. Not going to be the same, but nonetheless!

Moving on from the past

I certainly am stronger now. What doesn't kill you, make you stronger. That's the way it is.

A lot of things had happened.

My house got burgled. I lost a lot of valuable stuff. But the most valuable thing is my pictures in the external hard disks. All... gone. That hurts so much, having your memory being taken away, forever.

My flatmate couldn't live with me. And I have been paying 2 people's rent for 4-5 months now. That hurts financially.

I had to spend a lot of time, advertising my flat to someone else. There goes my time dealing with people who want to view the flat, calling, emailing etc. I have to deal a lot with disappointments, hope, negotiation, explanation and God knows how many more. That hurts academically.

Now I have found someone to take over the flat (Alhamdulillah, first and foremost) but faced another new problem. They don't have UK Bank accounts. I offer my card to pay for the deposit but Natwest just won't allow me to take my money out for the transaction. Natwest, basically won't allow me to take what's mine. That hurts, after all of the time spent just to arrive at this moment, it goes back to square one.

I pretty much sure I am going to get hurt again. Probably there and now and that and this. It taught me a lot of things really. I am learning to sort things out on my own. I am learning to sort someone else's mess. I am learning to be patient and to be frustrated and don't breakdown. I'm starting to think when everyone else can have so much fun whilst I'm facing this trouble and problem, life can't be so much simpler.

There is one advice from my friend about my life and the problems that seems to revolve around it. 

When you get pushed so far and so much, you will know what's your limit.

What is my limit? What is your limit? How far do you think you can be pushed until you totally break down?

If you get pushed this far, you can literally face anything that comes into your way.

I've lost parts of my life to someone who I don't even know. Now, I'm just moving on. 

If I were to lose something again?

Caught myself wondering about SVN

Subversion is a version control system to maintain current and historical versions of files.

Its goal is to succeed CVS (Concurrent Versions System), which is widely used for now.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16142/what-do-branch-tag-and-trunk-really-mean

What is a branch?

What is a trunk?

What is a tag?

Failure means there are room for improvement

The title is self-explanatory I guess.

I don't really want to write my failure here, because to some people, failure can be something else. It is subjective.

But the general point is, it's not the end of the world. It's not too late.

I guess that's what I want to say for now. A reminder to myself, to do well this year. Hopefully, I hope. Let's work hard everyone. Do not slacking off.

Time is up.

"You move on"

That's what my senior said.

I just have to ask this, how is it like to feel losing someone who is close to you?

And my senior said, "It's a cycle. You move on. You make new friends. Then you will lose them. Then the cycle continues."

Is it true? Then it must be such a painful process. But, the most painful one, if that friend didn't even tell you about it. About you losing them.

And all is left, is three words echoed from my senior's chat box: "You move on.".

Evil, Scary, Funny, Election

I think I have become more evil.

Simply because I laugh more. And I laugh for all the reasons out there. Appropriate, inappropriate, name it you got it.

This is scary. Sometimes, the borderline of you being rude or not is fogged. And it seems that laughter can easily mask it, under the name, "I'm just joking. Don't take it seriously. Aren't you playful as I am?"

You can never ever be serious. But that's a bad thing. The good thing is, you can easily get new friends. Good first impression. A funny guy who can laugh at anything. Usually come on as a weird, awkward guy, but after a couple of first meetings, they would be like good friends, if not best. Trust me, it's field-tested. i.e. It works.

Scary huh?

Anyway, I have to ask you this: Have you ever played 'Bull-Shit' game? Basically, it's a game of Bluff, with a deck of cards. You try to bluff your way by putting down cards faced down on the table. Your objective is to get rid all the cards on your hand. If you bluff alright, you win. If someone tries to unbluff you and they got it wrong, i.e. you're telling the truth, they get to add the faced down cards into their hands, hence making them more difficult to get to the objective. It's funny when you call it a bluff and then got it wrong. It's all about confidence and body language. And eye contacts.

Be warned that do not ever bluff outside the game. Dangerous for the relationship I tell you that.

Anyway, it's fun. And we played until 1am in Edgware Road. It was kind of cold, but laughter after all was the best heater around. Remind me on the good days.

Gordon Brown was saved, have you heard? He just got back the support from his party, which was a good start. David Cameron, his rival for the approaching election, from Tories would definitely posed a great threat to GB due to all the scandals rising in the current government. And you know why I said all of these? Because, I've got to vote. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am by right, by law, legally, an eligible voter for United Kingdom. (Because, I am a Malaysian, haha). SO, who will I choose? Labour or Conservative? Or, at its extreme, BNP? Or green party or whatever it is whose objective is to tackle global warming. Can't remember the name.

Any ideas guys? Shoot it off.

Man, I need someone to excite me.