Pokémon Ranger: Base Missions Completed

Today I completed the Pokémon Ranger (german language) base missions (that is, the main story including capturing the three legendary Pokémon). My stats so far are:

• Play Time: 16:00 hours (exactly)
• Step Count: 25,043
• Speech Count: 310
• Checked Targets: 307
• Capture Trials: 573
• Captured Pokémon: 695
• Aborted Capture Trials: 4 (I got lazy in the end.. err)
• Longest Capture Line: 1,177 meters
• Circle Count: 10,361
• Used Poké Strengths: 121
• Minun Poké Strengths: 71
• Destroyed FangKoms: 1 (that damn last child`s Pokémon)
• Game Saves: 178
• Experience Ponts: 30,079
• Sea Challenge, Highscore: 1,700
• Sea Challenge, Highest capture count: 9
• Grassland Challenge, Highscore: 2,000
• Grassland Challenge, Highest capture count: 6
• Capture Arena, Highscore: 0
• Capture Arena, Highest capture count: (challenge not taken)

All in all a very nice game and an interesting game experience with extensive touchpad use. Recommendation for all Pokémon fans 🙂

LaTeX Memory Size Problem

Today I encountered a strange LaTeX problem:

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=1000000].

Using Fink on Mac Os X, you can find the texmf.cnf file in the /sw/share/texmf/web2c directory and change its memory size entry. To let LaTeX dump the new setting into its system, you’ll also need to call fmtutil --all. After that, the new memory size property is active.

First Mac Darkscreen

It just happened! Yeah! After using Mac for quite some time now, on my new MacBook Pro (with an Intel processor) I experienced the first darkscreen! Reason was an unresolved kernel trap (CPU 1, type 14=page fault). For all those of you who’ve also never seen a Mac darkscreen before, here’s a photo i made- bad camera focus, I know :-/

Reinvented the Wheel

Last.fm Journal Entry
On January 6th, 2007, I’ve installed my new MBP and took the chance to set up a new purely iTunes-based music library. Not only the decision, to use iTunes for central music management, was new but I also changed the primary artist name formatting into the more common format »<first name> <second name>, <optional previx>« instead of the previous formatting »<second name>, <first name>[/<optional previx>]«, although I still think the old format is more convenient and logic.
Since I did encode all my music in Ogg Vorbis, which I still think is the best audio format available, and for iTunes and iPod sync I converted those Ogg files to Mpeg3, I now decided to primarily use AAC encoded audio. As a result I’m currently having a nice time ripping my CD collection again 🙂

Why Animexx Suxx

It`s a long time ago I regularily visited Animexx. It has been somewhat annoying to me, so I started my own community project and so forth. I just returned today to have a look (and to prevent my account being disabled), and the website is not only annoying, but became a large collection of flashing and inlay-popping advertisement banners (see attached screenshot). Great, isn`t it? Oh, and I forgot to mention. It also opened advertised sites in the background. Really good job, Animexx. I know for myself how hard it is to manage projects and collect money for them, so bills can get paid. But putting three annoying ads on the website and opening a fourth in the background really is the wrong way. Flash and animated ads are the worst the web ever produced. Everyone who at least thinks a little bit about there users would prevent using those type of ads (if neccessary at all). The textual ads Google uses are much less annoying.

Desktop 2006/December

Well I know, there haven`t been much updates to this site nor blog the last weeks… I`m kinda busy right now – studies, two jobs, countless projects – but there`ll be more soon… at least I hope so 🙂 I just thought it might be a nice idea to post an actual desktop screenie (complete list and history available on the »:Mika« page). And.. well yes. I`m still living! ^^

Weisheit des Tages

»Die Phantasie ist das Höchstmaß an Perfektion, das der Mensch erreichen kann.«

Michael Maier, 2006-11-01 11.36 CET

What Jeff Killed

Well.. that`s kinda strange site… ignore the link if you are uncomfortable with anything under the skin… 🙂 (mauz~)

http://whatjeffkilled.com/

Gateway Page Update

Last but not least: The Macintosh software blog is linked from the gateway site. Enjoy!

Corrected Server Issues

Due to my changes of my domain structure some scripts failed to work; I just corrected them and updated some websites. If you encounter any errors, problems or strange behaviour, please contact me 🙂 Thanks!

Programming is Like Sex

Wenn, enjoy 🙂

http://push.cx/2006/programming-is-like-sex

Domain Structure (obsolete)

About three weeks ago I reorganized my domain and subdomain structure. The main difference on the user side is, that subdomains were moved to subdirectories. This means, every subdomain e.g. https://blog.koushirou.de/ has become obsolete and the content moved to a subdirectory of the domain, e.g. https://koushirou.de/blog/ (this has since been reverted).

Please update your favourites and links (if there are any xD); the subdomains still work, but won`t last forever 😉

Mac Blog

On June 4th I started a new project: A Macintosh software blog with descriptions, links and news on my recommended Macintosh software. I`ve found myself many times searching for the »best« software, preferred freeware, for my needs. Since I share these needs with a lot of people, setting up a blog as a software recommendation website is quite an easy task (although it requires much time, sure) and so I did. Check out

http://koushirou.de/mac/.

Feedback and recommendation submissions are appreciated.