I've been pretty busy with school, this is finals week for me and a few projects are due at the end of the week. However, I have been pretty lazy with getting school work done, and I am slightly behind. On the other hand though, I have finished scripting a simple replay hosting script for Warcraft 2. You can start browsing the replays here.
There are a few things I would like to be able to do with this script, but it won't be anytime soon. First off, if it is a dk2 (warvid) video, it would be cool if users can stream the video right off of the website as opposed to downloading and loading warvid. However, this will take a lot of work for video formatting and conversions. The other problem would be bandwidth. I have enough bandwidth for a few videos here and there, but if a lot of people are viewing, the server may not have enough.
I have been very busy indeed! Other than school and all the other things I am currently trying to do, I have a broken electrical line that I need to be fixing. I finally got my chance this weekend since all the snow has melted, and it was rather sunny. This is just to continue my previous posts about my range/oven problem here, here, here and here. First off, the disclaimer! I am not responsible for any of your actions resulting from reading this web page. What you do is your responsibility. Leave this to professionals, or really cheap people only! You have been warned.
This project took me two whole days! At first, I thought it was going to take around 3 - 5 hours, boy was I wrong. Running those wires in the conduit took especially long since I have to be underneath my mobile home crawling and sniffing on spider poo. I did not take all the pictures, but these are the items that I found useful for this project:
Wires
3/4" conduit (couplings, elbows?, glue and the works)
Wire cutter
Exacto knife
Hacksaw
Electrical tape
Screw driver
Brain
Old clothes that you're not afraid of getting ruined
As I have mentioned last time about the wiring in this mobile home, it's all completely aluminum. This is not a good thing for me, but since I already own the place I will have to live with it. The recent phenomena of my range/oven not working is due to some corosion in the aluminum wiring to the house. I have decided to abandon the existing wiring and run one below the mobile home. I came to this decision because of a variety of reason, but of course, the biggest reason is that it is the simplest way.
If you have not read or hear about it all over the news, North Korea has launched a few missles today. The South Koreans are trying to shake it off and say that it's just normal military drill for the North, but I don't think that's the case. I believe that the South Korean are keeping a close eye on those crazy communists up there. Some sources say that because America is concentrating too much on its elections that the ongoing nuclear talks will not achieve much in the near future.
So, I tried what I did in my earlier post. Please, do not do this at home and if you do, I will not take any responsibilities if anything goes wrong. Anyway, I opened up the receptacle for my range then I went to my electrical panel to turn on the breaker. With my girlfriend's hair dryer in one hand and its plug in the other, I carefully touched the ends to the hot wire on the right and ground/neutral. With the right hot wire, I was able to turn on the hair dryer and get it to work.
I read this story at TheStar today and I must say, talk about oppression by the Chinese government. If you haven't read, or don't want to read the story, in short, the Chinese government sentenced Yang Chunlin to 5-years in jail for his petition letter, "We want human rights, not the Olympics." I am feeling quite uneasy about this, I wouldn't want the Olympics to be in China if this is the case. I mean, I would want the people of my country to be well off first before I worry about international business.
I have spent so much time on this stupid thing and it is still not working. Last week, I spent a few days trying to diagnose what the problem is, and I still don't have a clue what is going on. Although, I think I have narrowed it down to it being the electrical of the mobile home that I am living in. I tried to get some help at doityourself.com, and still no luck yet.
It has been a while since I've cooked at my mobile home with my oven/range. I went home to western Washington for Christmas break, and after coming back to my temporary home here in Moscow, my oven/range has been broken. At first, I thought the problem was in the range itself. I did all sorts of tests, continuity, power, test on the power switch…everything! I cannot find anything wrong with it, but I thought that there must be some severe rust somewhere. The oven was old anyway, so I decided to get a new one…well, a new old one is more like it.
Xubuntu is the first operating I chose to test out since my troubles with Vista. Now that I've used it for a bit, I don't think I would like it much. Regardless of what I do, I need to have windows, and why is that? I love to play RTS games. My all time favorite game is of course, Warcraft 2. I play it on the Russian server, and about once or twice a week. I stopped playing it for a while, but I recently played it and I got hooked again.