As an American, I will always be unpopular

If I was in the UK commonwealth, I would have been cool and popular by now. I would have had over 100 more blogspot, Facebook and Youtube comments. Since I do live in this creepy land called America, I get none. Canada is a hundred times better for online activities. Say if I was a Democrat for the rest of my life, would that change this insanity? Probably not. I realize that everybody's more talented with more comments than me. I realize living this country is the problem. I could blame myself for a lot of things. No friends. No facebook comments. Offline is where I talk to myself (who else is there?)! I gotta change this and move to Canada or Australia for a nice stream of comments! Now, other Americans have friends, because have financial freedom or they have that kind of charisma. They have much more talent. I am forced to say that I am talented when I am really not talented at all. Everybody want me to be talented offline, but I know I would have to be Canadian to be talented. Canadians are more talented. These Americans have to keep me unpopular online to force me to be talented offline with a bad life; therefore, I am still untalented and unhappy here. The Canadian society doesn't have the same GDP as America so I could get away with a lot more popularity online. To sum it up, as long as I live in America, I'll continue to be unpopular! A nice commonwealth country like Canada or Australia is the solution ultimately.

The Easter Island Scenario

Scientists now say due to people going hungry on Easter Island with those strange heads in it will be a preview of what human civilization will be like as little as 100 years.

As the population keeps growing to seven, eight or nine billion, there will be a lot more wars over food," he says.

Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/161qS)

 "As the population keeps growing to seven, eight or nine billion, there will be a lot more wars over food," he say.  Mitigation would slow things down a bit, but there are too many people here already. he says

"As the population keeps growing to seven, eight or nine billion, there will be a lot more wars over food," he say

Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/161qS)

Mitigation would slow things down a bit, but there are too many people here already.

Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/161qS)

"As the population keeps growing to seven, eight or nine billion, there will be a lot more wars over food," he say

Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/161qS)

Mitigation would slow things down a bit, but there are too many people here already.

Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/161qS)

Frank may be right, but some of us still harbor the hope that there will come about an awareness of the situation and, as a result, the revolutionary changes necessary to achieve ecological sustainability,"

Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/161qS)

 Some of us still harbor the hope that there will come about an awareness of the situation and, as a result, the revolutionary changes necessary to achieve ecological sustainability,"

"As the population keeps growing to seven, eight or nine billion, there will be a lot more wars over food," he say

Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/161qS)

"As the population keeps growing to seven, eight or nine billion, there will be a lot more wars over food," he says.

Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/161qS)

As the population keeps growing to seven, eight or nine billion, there will be a lot more wars over food," he says.

Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/161qS)

As the population keeps growing to seven, eight or nine billion, there will be a lot more wars over food," he says.

Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/161qS)

"As the population keeps growing to seven, eight or nine billion, there will be a lot more wars over food," he says.

Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/161qS)

"As the population keeps growing to seven, eight or nine billion, there will be a lot more wars over food," he says.

Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/161qS)

Romney against police states

Vanguard parties are illegal as outlawed by the US constitution. Obamacare mandate is unconstitutional.

I vote for Romney in November and Nov. 2016.

Linux Mint Debian Edition XFCE 201204 impressions

(Sequel to the Debian/Ubuntu-based Gnoppix 2.12 in 2005)
Featured software
 XFCE 4.8
 Thundar File Manager 1.2.3
Firefox 11.0
Libreoffice 3.4.5
Xchat
Thunderbird
Gimp 2.6.8
VLC 2.0
linux kernel 3.2.0-2-486

 I miss that popup screen seen in Linux Mint 11 where I can download Broadcom WiFi firmware under unrecognized firmware on the taskbar. Linux Mint 13 Ubuntu is due out in May 2012. The login username for this LiveDVD is "mint". I tried Debian distros before in 2004, but Debian was secretly under the name Knoppix 3.3 instead. I know now that I have to stay with the regular Linux Mint s for this laptop. My Linux Mint 12 DVD crashes in install mode. I have to wait for Linux Mint 13. Linux Mint Debian Edition XFCE 201204 is an okay operating system, yet Linux Mint 11 is a lot superior with working WiFi drivers and just as stable. Firefox 11 didn't time out during surfing (with RJ-45) in Linux Mint Debian Edition XFCE 201204. Overall: C+

August Wii U impressions II - Ellen drives sales?

Lets start off by saying that E3 2012 was there for the taking if Nintendo wanted it. When I parallel the word history with Nintendo, for me and many others immediately fond memories are invoked in the form of childhood experiences that drew upon new possibilities. Did Nintendo drop a price point? No. Did Nintendo explain their online strategy? No. Did Nintendo reveal a release date? No. Did Nintendo show off really any triple-A products for launch? No. Did Nintendo drop a price point? No. Nintendo has given everyone the opportunity to create something special, and really it comes down to the talented developers and their creativity to define the Wii Us future.
Most of those people dont care about release dates and price points six months in advance. They will start to worry about it when EllenDeGeneres starts giving them away like gangbusters this holiday. That is their market, and that is their direction.

. What is the world coming too?

Dragon Force, Valkyrie Profile, Shining Force CD

I finally bought Dragon Force for Sega Saturn, probably Sega Saturn's 5th highest  rated NTSC game after Panzer DRagoon Saga, Panzer Dragoon, Panzer Dragoon 2 Zwei, and Nights into Dreams.  It's a Strategy RPG.

I also bought my first Sega CD game called Shining Force CD which got a 90% on many Sega Genesis sites like Sega-16.com, Shin-Force.  Shining Force CD is the best Sega CD RPG.  I have Lunar - Silver Star Story for PSP and PS1, and Lunar 2 Eternal Blue for PS1.  I still have to fund Popful Mail for Sega CD. This game was also rated high.

Then I bought Valkyrie Profile for cheap ($75) perhaps the popularity died down.  I already had it for PSP3000, and now PS1. I know there is a 3rd one on Dual Screen, yet I am waiting for a PS3 version to come out.  It's on a lot of PS1 RPG lists. I saw it at a local thrift store for $100 eight years ago.

I own one of the rarest JRPGs for Dual Screen called Radiant Historia. It's a JRPG with a nice game site score of 8.5 out of 10. It has time travel and plays like Chrono Trigger.

JXD S601

 I have more than one GP2X Caanoo for NES, SNES, Genesis, Neo-Geo, GBA, Turbo-Grafx emulation. My favorite is GBA.

JXD makes an inexpensive Android handheld based on 2.6.35 Linux kernel (Aug 1, 2010)  for old 8-bit, 16-bit, N64, PS1, and Saturn emulators. It's got 512 MB of RAM and a 1 GHz RISC CPU. It plays JPEG and all the image formats. It has 802.11.  The $120 model has a better touch screen for touch screen games.

I admit there is no Android 3.0 or Android 4.0 game handheld with newer Linux kernels on Ebay.


Caanoo can do this with  2.6.24 kernel (24 January 2008). Caanoo kernel is as old as openSUSE Linux 10.3.

The PF Firewall in PC-BSD beats Linux

"Summary: OpenBSD is quite possibly the most secure operating system on the planet. Every step of the development process focuses on building a secure, open, and free platform. UNIX® and Linux® administrators take note: Without realizing it, you probably use tools ported from OpenBSD every day. Maybe it's time to give the whole operating system a closer look...In fact, OpenBSD is so secure that it was once banned for use in a DEF CON competition, where crackers go after each other's systems..." -- IBM.com circa 2006

Source

"OpenBSD is often noted for its code auditing and integrated crypto, but the security features go far beyond this. OpenBSD was built from the ground up on the model of being a fabric woven with security in mind, not a patchwork of bug fixes and security updates. This has led to OpenBSD finally being recognized today for what it is: the most secure operating system on earth.

Source


"Whether you buy that theory or not, experts agree that OpenBSD is the most secure server operating system now available. "

Source

"Chris McNab, network security analyst at MIS Corporate Defence thinks that OpenBSD "is the most secure operating system available". He said that the security comes from the fact that "it is based on NetBSD, but open source developers have gone through it and audited it, working proactively. So rather than waiting for a security hole they're already looking for one. This has made OpenBSD the most secure Unix variant out there".


Source



"OpenBSD is a free unix-like operating system. It comes "secure by default" out of the box. It CAN be *the* most secure operating system, but of course that is absolutely dependent on who administers it, and how vigilant they are in protecting it. In the right hands, I consider it to be THE MOST SECURE OPERATING SYSTEM."

Source


"OpenBSD is considered by many to be one of the most secure operating systems in existence. From its inception, OpenBSD has focused on making BSD as secure as possible."

Source


"OpenBSD is universally acknowledged to be the most secure operating system available today, miles ahead of Windows, Linux and other operating systems with its security features, making it the clear choice for any high-security application."

Source

SHMUPS Episode V Metallic Uniframe Super Hybrid Armor

Off Ebay. Metallic Uniframe Super Hybrid Armor may surpass Lightening Force in Gameplay. I think I played the Musha rom dozen times so I'm pretty sure it would.

I also bought some other Genesis games.

- Phantasy Star IV
- Castlevania Bloodlines
- Shining Force II
- Lightening Force

One SNES game

- Final Fantasy II

Sega Genesis games I have to get someday

1. Musha - The most expensive NTSC videogame on either SNES or Genesis on Earth with a price tag of $250 on ebay, because you cannot find this off Amazon. It's a SHMUP made by Compile? It is Panzer Dragoon Saga's equal. You could find rarer, more expensive Neo Geo AES games with $400 price tags.

The screenshot everybody remembers only seen in emulators, because owning Musha was nonexistent.

2. Phantasy Star IV - everybody has Phantasy Star IV except me. It's Genesis's best RPG. It was played by many Genesis owners and it isn't even rare

3.Lightening Force - a nice shoot em up

4. Shining Force 2

5. Shining Force

6. Castlevania Bloodlines

Bought Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy III and Xenoblade Chronicles

I know I bought Final Fantasy III and Chrono Trigger for PS1 in 2001! Then I got Final Fantasy III for DS in 2008, and Chrono Trigger for DS in 2011. I own the SNES carts so it would look great on my Youtube slideshows. I know the European gamers were showing off their rare games and Final Fantasy III, Chrono Trigger, Panzer Dragoon Saga (now owns), Guardian Heroes (now owns). I also bought Ogre Battle for PS1 now. I remember playing the Chrono Trigger rom in 1999. My cousins with a SNES never owned Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy III. In America, Chrono Trigger is the best RPG for SNES, yet in Europe, Final Fantasy III takes Chrono Trigger's throne. I think that Chorno Trigger has 60 hours of gameplay and 12 endings.



Xenoblade Chronicles for Wii might be rare someday with a limited run. This game surpasses Monster Hunter Tri in role playing complexity and also length. It's like a Final Fantasy X.

I heard that Disgaea DS and Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness, both ports of Disgaea Hour of Darkness for PS2 are one of the deepest strategy RPGs for the older handhelds. I bought those two plus Disgaea 2 Dark Hero Days. All somewhat rare PSP games. Disgaea 3 is coming out on April 18th.

Owns Sopranos complete series

Yeah, I liked the Godfather parts 1 and 2 so I got it at a good price at $60. I bought my boxset today off E-bay. It is one of the highest IMDB series, just below 'The Wire' in score and tied with Breaking Bad (AMC channel series). Hopefully I can make friends by watching some of this series.

SNES games I need to get

4. Final Fantasy 2


Getting closer to the Number 1 spot, we have Final Fantasy 2 in at number 4. It was developed by Square (Now Square Enix) and released in 1991. I can't even begin to think of how many hours I spent on this game as a kid. Countless. I loved everything there was about this game.

3. Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals


Lufia was developed by Neverland and published in Japan in 1995, by Taito. Lufia 2 is a straight up RPG, however it has many puzzle elements incorporated in the various dungeons you explore. You acquire a bunch of items like a bow and arrow and bomb to name a few, which can be used to help you overcome certain obstacles in dungeons.

2. Final Fantasy III




The game was released to critical acclaim and is regarded as a true landmark in the Final Fantasy Series.

1. Chrono Trigger



It follows a group of people that are traveling through time in order to prevent the cause of a major catastrophe. I don't know what to say that has not already been said about Chrono Trigger. It surely is a masterpiece, so well done and very unique. From the battle system, to the load of sidequests that reveal a lot about the characters and their pasts, to the badass that was Magus and to that fact that you had multiple endings, all signs point towards a win.

New Playstation 4 tech specs

Playstation 4 is leaked to have AMD's A8-3850 APU and Radeon HD 7670 GPU

800 MHz engine clock
1GB GDDR5 memory
1000 MHz memory clock (4.0 Gbps GDDR5)
64 GB/s memory bandwidth
768 GFLOPS Single Precision compute power
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture

480 Stream Processing Units
24 Texture Units
32 Z/Stencil ROP Units
8 Color ROP Units

128-bit GDDR5 memory interface
PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface OpenGL 4.1 support
Image quality enhancement technology

Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
Adaptive anti-aliasing
Morphological anti-aliasing (MLAA)
16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
128-bit floating point HDR rendering

When PS4 comes out, the 7670 GPU will be one generation obsolete. The AMD R8000 will be out. I won't have to pay $50 or $60 for DirectX9-like quality which is long overdue. Those people that say graphics quality doesn't matter hate capitalism already. They want the 40,000 Youtube hits to be the NES, SNES, Genesis collections and have certain guarantees not unlike the 1968 Ford Mustangs and other classic cars. Generation Y believes that only owning a large quality of 8-bit/16-bit videogames bring success. We'll see whose right.

TV series collections

I started with some TV series including The Simpsons (most popular cartoon in America), Trailer Park Boys (best Canadian show in years), Star Trek The Next Generation (best Star Trek), Star Trek Voyager (Star Trek I grew up with), Battlestar Galatica (placed 1st at Boston.com) and now The Wire (highest rated series on IMDB)

Possible additions to my collection would be The Office, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, and Spartacus: Vengeance.

I asked Best Buy, this woman rep said the stores most popular ones are SmallVille (Superman), The Office, Two and and Half Men.

PC-BSD 9 WiFi in progress

I think PC-BSD didn't make a PBI file for my problem is doesn't know why I use Linux Mint 11! I can install PC-BSD on my laptop and wanted to use it with WiFi so badly.

I found out i needed B43-fwcutter

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/b43-fwcutter/ && make install clean

I don't see bwi-firmware-kmod

cd /usr/ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod/ && make install clean


Boot PC-BSD 9 in GRUB

/etc/grub.d/40_custom:

Boot PC-BSD 9 in GRUB

menuentry "FreeBSD" --class freebsd --class bsd --class os {
insmod ufs2
set root='(hd0,4)'
chainloader +1
}



then

Terminal # update-grub

I beat you sir by Six months!

Meet Barack Obama, the bureaucratic collectivist -

February 2012

Iain's blog: DC Bureaucratic collectivism

September 2011

BlackJack

Blackjack is my third favorite Linux game after Tetris and FloboPuyo. The old version is missing from Linux Mint 11.

www.ubuntubytes.com/debs/gnome-blackjack_2.28.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb