I talked to xiangming some time ago and he said, he can only renew his passwoerd in China, which means he would need to go to China and then wait there for a month or so, untill all the bureaucratic stuff is done. The thing is he doesn't have either financial resources nor time to do that this summer.
So i guess it will have to be without xiangming. ( unless we win the lottery and go to the US.)

p.s. It's funny. I came to the word bureaucratic and i know i couldn't spell it properly ( now i might put some effort in remembering the spelling ). Anyways, i wrote the word and i the word wasn't underlined. I said to myslef: "it's not possible i have spelled this word properly, how come it's not underlined ?" And the i realised i was using IE7, so i quickly changed the browser, so it's all good now :)

Enlight me!

Hey, i passed Biochem !
Who is bloody cool now ?
Considering the fact i am done with that, i lost all my motivation to study. To give you an example i have another exam tommorow,. Do i care ? I think not :)

Although i found a site with 20 productive ways to use your free time, i can do lots of unproductive stuff all by myself ;)
I am messing with my PC instead.
I installed this dekstop environment called enlightment. It's really cool. It's got lots of eye candy ( i really like the rain effect and the dock, and the ability to see all active windows just by cliking middle mouse button. I adore all the transitions, the theming and the animated icons.. I just love it ) and it's pretty fast compared to gnome or KDE.
It's also in the middle a heavy development stage and hence bound to be unstable from time to time. In 2 days of heavy experimenting i had only something like 5 crashes. (almost feels like XP ;) )- a crash means you press F1, wait for 2 seconds and continue as if nothing has happened. The thing is the desktop environment crashes, not the programs, so you never lose any information.
I remember IE used to crash at least 1 to 2 times a day when using it back at XP.
Also i have tried installing the newest and greatest directly from CVS and compiling & hence get all the best and the least stable.
It's all good, i am loving it and it's very pretty.,

One thing i noticed is that Bittorent refuses to accept incoming connections although i have forwarded the IP on the router.Evil. Luckily i don't do much downloading these days ( or weeks or months ). It's sad but that's the way it is.
I know these guys who constantly download and burn movies on DVDs and now they have sth. like 400 DVDs give or take some.. They haven't seen even 10 percent of that mass.
What's the point of that ?

P.s. listening to lots of 30 seconds to Mars and Hinder these days.
P.p.s I realised i posted something in less than a week's time. This proves i have too much time ;)

Working or not ?

Well, i have gotten a bit lazier than usual. I am anticipating the result from my biochem test for 3 days now, there are still none. Hate that. I hope i will manage to get something decent, regardless of my non-studious nature.

I have been in Amsterdam last week at some sort of a meeting about a research project i am participate in. It was very nice, i thought it would be more dull and boring or stresfull, however it turned out to be informative ( i got to learn some new stuff ), not too informative ( i could grasp the vast majority of the stuff they talked about) and relaxed. I had the time to explore a little bit of Amsterdam in the evenings ( i was there for 3 days ) with some other young people from all over Europe.
The organizers even took us to a Chinese restaurant, and they managed to run out of Heineken ( and all other Dutch beer as well ) so, i tried Chinese beer. So that was yet another international experience. Marvelous :)
I realized the Dutch and Norwegian are quite similar in the way neither of them care much about the weather. They just ignore everything, but the really heavy rain. If they wouldn't do that they would need to sew their umbrella onto their heads or something. It was raining allmost all the time i was there + there was more rain forecasted. And just when i managed to get home the low pressure zone ( read rain ) has just managed to reach Slovenia ( after something like 2 months with almost no rain . Isn't that lovely ?

The year is coming to an end, and so the exams are coming into the play. I feel reasonably confident but really need something to motivate myself. The subjects in general seem far less interesting than the ones in previous years. I guess i will managed to pull something good out of it. I always have, at least partially.

Attempt to make some proper plans for the summer. The problems is not many people around here are travelers. They just go to the seaside for a week and that's it. I would like that and also add a week or two going backpacking somewhere unknown, keep on moving and do not know what will happen during the day - i want something spontaneous and unpredictable.
Where to go, it's the ultimate question - oh and also - who should i go with ?I think 2-4 people is the best number of people to travel. Yet i can't really find anyone.

I lost my sunglasses two weeks ago. If you happen to see them somewhere do let me know ;)

Comps

Well, i have been mostely chilling in the previous months.
Besides chilling at home behind my PC trying out different new stuff with Ubuntu linux, customizing it and swearing when it doesn't work.
I have editied this configuration file /etc/X11/xorg.conf about 15 times at least.
The basic idea was i wanted to use ATI drivers for my graphics card. There are open source drivers available. These drivers need to be reverse engineered, since ATI refuses to give out any specifications for their graphics card. Luckily my graphics card is > 3 years old so the good people writing the drivers have managed to implement 3D support as well. They work rather well. However the drivers made by ati are about 30 - 100 % faster. So i spent lots of time trying to get them running, in the end i came to a conclusion ATI doesn't support my graphics card, so i need to installed some older drivers, which don't support the newest kernel. So basically i am screwed. I guess i will have to survive with less FPS.

On the other hand i must say wine has improved A LOT in the past couple of months, especially regarding direct3D.

Also, i have started with this new distributed computing projects. It's called QMC ( or quantum monte carlo at home ). basically it's some theoretical chemistry calculations. The team page is here. This reminds me of the times, when i was running a similar thing back at RCN. 14 2.4 Ghz P4. Not that was some computing power back then. I even managed to get within top 1000. Those where the times :)