Today, first time after recovering from almost 4 weeks illnes, i was at school. All classmates were like “WTF?!” but i dunno why ;P …
I had to finaly go back to normal life. So i had to go back to school. My doc said that i should stay at home for few more days but, meh, i just wanted to go somewhere, get out from my room and now i don’t care is that school or anywhere else, just away from my room 
I feel much better now and i’m slowly geting health again 
Yep, the Release Candidate 1 of SP3 is ready and can be downloaded via Microsoft Connect. I’m installing it right now.
Those who don’t have Connect can download it via Microsoft Update. You just need to save this file as *.bat and open it:
[removed on request - if you need it go to connect.microsoft.com]
or ask me at: fifi5000[a---t]gmail[dooot]com
And now just check for updates in Microsoft Update 
Oh, i recommend you uninstalling previous beta of SP3 first.
UPDATE:
Just installed
Leopard bugs got you down? Apple just pushed out its first update for the new OS, 10.5.1. It looks like it cures a whole laundry list of niggles with Leopard, including that nasty “potential data loss” issue with partitions in Finder. We heard about most of these fixes last week when the first build was seeded to developers, but there’s a rundown of what actually made it after the break. Highlights include a fix to Time Machine drive limitations, a bunch of improvements to Finder’s Shared Sidebar, and good old fashioned spanking of Mail.app’s issues. Let us know if Apple didn’t fix what ails you and we’ll be sure to have our people talk to Steve’s people.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
AirPort
Back to My Mac
Disk utilities
iCal
Mail
Networking
Printing
Security, Firewall
System and Finder
Time Machine
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/leopard-10-5-1-is-now-available/
So good ol’ Apple still cares about customers
Six days ago i wrote about my Rapidshare premium account. I have to tell you that when file is like 40 – 60 parts it’s sooo boring to download it – everytime copying link, pastling it in new tab address in browser, clicking premium, loging on and chosing the server (i’m lazzy – that explains all 
).
And i’ve found something perfect for me – small (200 kb) application called RapGet. It is easy to use downloader from file hosting services like Rapidshare, MegaUpload, SendSpace, etc. In fact, it supports about 70 services (full list on the official website). This tool is realy useful and very easy to use. It takes just few minutes to set up config that will be ideal for you. It supports things like proxy, premium accounts and even adds links to downloader after just copying them. After finishing downloading one file it can automaticly start downloading another. And it has supprot for 48 languages. Another good thing is great interface. Everything works just perfectly! RapGet is a must-have for anyone who download much from free-but-not-so-free file hosting services!
Official Website (english version): http://rapget.com/en/
Yes, after years of cheating the Rapidshare service, today i have decided to buy my own premium account. It is not so expensive, i payed 6.99 EUR for 1 month. It was realy worth of it. You know, i just love warez ;P … i downloaded 2 movies and 3 games already (i bought it today morning). Of course, if you have dynamic IP you can renew it… but i dont have one. I have static and shared IP… shared with thousands of customers using same ISP i am using. What does it mean? It basicly means that if there are even only 2000 customers (it’s a small, local ISP) and even if only 10% of them is using rapidshare, lets say one time per day it gives us 0.1 * 2000 = 200 customers per day. So 200 downloads per day. And how many people can download from one ip per day? Hmmm… Let’s say one file downloads 30 minutes (100 MB in polish reality) and than you have to wait about 60 minutes (sometimes even longer) so 1.5h per file. 24 / 1.5 = 16 files downloaded daily…
What else could i try? the renew IP command will take no effect as it is static IP. Well… i can search for proxy server, right. Those extremly slow ways to mask your IP address are quite popular toady. So no chance if i will google for “free proxy servers list” – most of them will be already used by RS leechers already or not working or slow as hell.
So i think it was totaly worth of it. I have the luck i’ve got PayPal account and a credit card and i had few euros inside. Oh, btw, if you want to make some money over internet for free i recommend you that site. It’s not a phishing site or something like that. And you maybe dont earn a lot of money, but hey, it works
So today morning when i launched my computer i have decided to add shadows to my game i’m currently working on. Now i would like to share this simple script i wrote to add shadows:
In script section add script scr_shadows:
draw_sprite_ext(sprite_index,image_index,x+shadow_x,y+shadow_y,shadow_xsize,shadow_ysize,direction,c_black,shadow_alpha);
Now we need to add this to draw event of object we want to add shadow:
shadow_x=a;
shadow_y=b;
shadow_xsize=c;
shadow_ysize=d;
shadow_alpha=e;
script_execute(scr_shadows);
draw_sprite_ext(sprite_index,image_index,x,y,image_xscale,image_yscale,direction,image_blend,1)
where:
I hope this was useful
PS: about my game i will write soon!
I have always thought that blogs are for those pinky girls and wannabe-elite. What is cool about bloging? Thats sooo lame! Why should i want to have blog? Posting my personal stuff? For what? Posting tech stuff? For what? - you would hear this if you asked me about my opinion on bloging week ago…
But my life has changed… People arround me have changed their statement about me… I have changed… Earlier my life was bit empty. I had no opinions because nobody cared what’s my opinion on something. But now i think, even if nobody cares, i should care. I should have opinions – basicly keep them to myself – and if ever asked, i should know what to say. So it’s good to have a blog – here i can share my thoughts with you and with myself. No, it’s not only a personal blog. It’s also a tech blog. Or – it’s mainly a tech blog and also – sometimes – a personal blog. This blog is not escape from my life. It is more like to keep my life up.
Well, i had one blog before – it was tech blog only – all about Longhorn, and it was in polish. But i gave up and i had no reason to keep it up. There were better sites about Longhorn. This blog is other – it’s unique, it’s a connection between my personal life and my tech passion.
To sum up, i realy need this blog. I will try to keep it updated as much as i can. I hope you will like it. I hope i will like it…
Thanks for reading this very important for me (and boring?) entry
