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*PLEASE TAKE NOTE: I have the tendency to change my whole style of writing in entries. Expect flavors of: Suburban Outfitted White Boy Grammar, Asiatic Fresh of the Boat (F.O.B.) linguistics, and/or the Traditional Americano-Negro Literata. Or I might write really bad and fucked up ing-ga-lish. But all in all, it's still me.

Random Notes & News
• [02/12/02]: I found out today that I perceived false messages and it turns out that she didn't like me. Freakin' odd because I'm always ending up feeling girls who AREN'T feeling me, and not feeling the girls who ARE feeling me... haha.. totally wack. I took it pretty well though because the stressing was really over not knowing what the hell was happening and not really about her actually liking me. Me and my weird intuitions :P. It's a little sad, but I've gained more relief from it. Boy is this going to a memory ;). And in other news!... Vince apologized like a week ago for being "ignant". That was very cool of him to do so and I of course accepted. Like I said, I knew he was really a good person who needed to break out of a shell. Jumping onto another critical topic... I just had a talk with the mother. It was concerning my possible major and school change. They aren't biting into it as well as I thought they were. I'll be archiving more on that later.
• [02/10/02]: I'm always trying to predict things... like, trying to fight against the inevitable. Well fuck it =). I'm going to go with the flow, go with the flow, and go with the flow. Sit back, relax, and go with the flow... =). No worrying.. be happy. This is exactly why I'm never surprised with anything, and its surprises that keep you up. I want to live the life of surprises... good ones that is. Hey, off topic.. this Ozzy Osborne song is pretty good... "Dreamer". Odd coming from him, but good. SURPRISE ME, LIFE! =D
• [02/08/02]: Hmm.. I've been feel super shitay people. And yes, it is a girl. I talked to GWU Sue and she gave some words to think about. She pretty much told me don't even bother with "mixed messages" and that some girls are just about the chase. Being that it's been almost, if not, two years already since my last real relationship, I wouldn't really know. This is wack =). Valentine's is only a few days away... *sigh*. YES, some dudes do indeed care if they have a Valentine, especially when almost all your friends are being lubby dubby with their girls and crap :P.
• [02/06/02]: Major changes.. literally. I'm contemplating whether or not I want to do political science, anthro, and/or government related affairs. This would mean me moving probably to George Washington U... I got time to think about it. I missed substitution.net's drum'n'bass get together on Feb.2nd (damn..), which was also DJing 2step. I'll catch it another time. Oh yeah.. going to GWU may also mean a ressurection of my graffiti past time, maybe just be back in the scene... maybe participate again.. I dunno. Still thinkin...
• [02/04/02]: Yo.. I got problems or something.. haha. I'm not going to elaborate on what exactly I'm talking about, but lets just say it gets to the best of all of us. (Remember to self... chill out!)
• [01/30/02]: Its 8am and I thought I'd put up a little sumpin-sumpin. Yesterday was a hella good day! I had lunch yesterday with this cute girl, Theresa. Me and Annie did some hardcore exercising -- jogging, lifting, push up, crunches, and sit ups... no pain, no gain.. you know? And what felt really good was that the kids I am teaching at the elementary school think I rock.. and I think the same of them ;). So yes, break out the classic ICE CUBE track.. cause today (err.. yesterday) was a good day.
• [01/24/02]: One of my first posts is about the same person, Vince. The kid is funny and respectable at times, but I decided that overall, he is an asshole. He shows a sociable side (with being funny), but he is truely "anti-social". He has no respect for others when it comes to him making mistakes or when there are disagreements. Rather, he laughs it off. I remember learning in Psych. how this is a major defense mechanism... and admittingly, I did it a lot, too. But overtime, I have learned to calm my nerves and actually *listen*. I've learned that other people are my equals and nothing less. Hopefully, he learns to change. If not, it sucks for him, being that he also never had a girlfriend, nor will he anytime soon if this continues. I sat around and thought about it and he's not worth the stressing. Inside, I know he can be a great guy, but I would prefer not to put up with ignorance. If you're reading this Vince, good luck and I hope you gain some confidence. And in other news, me and Chheng have been polishing up SNK Street Smarts and getting it ready to be built as a MAME cabinet!! We will be charging people for emulations, haha.. =).
• [01/22/02]: Hey! XFree86 4.2.0 came out! That's dope as hell. BUT, OpenBSD is mad bitching about missing libraries, when OF COURSE, they are there in extended /usr/lib/ directories... so I'm symlinking shit left and right. XFree86 works fine with the default xinitrc, but fails to get other desktops running such as AfterStep and KDE because of the library failures. They should really edit pkg_add as well when it comes to the force flag, so that it allows writing even if the same package does exist. Oddly, kdelibs wasn't installing all files, so I wiped out /var/lib/pkg/kdelib*. Made a few duplicate copies of what was already installed, but it installed what I needed. SO NOW, dcop is bitching. I hate technology :P. Anyway, I'm alright and stable like a fresh kernel... haha.. corny joke. But for real, I'm doing great and constantly improving on a "self evaluation" sense. Peace out.
• [01/17/02]: I don't my writing will ever be accepted because what I want to say is so hard to write. Even as I am writing this, I am struggling. Yes, I am struggling over these sentences. I was 'da bomb' at writing in middle school, winning young authors and such. But I feel like I am deteriorating sometimes, and I don't know why. Am I autistic? What the fuck. This is weird. Isn't it? Everything I write now, the highest grade I'll recieve is a B. I drift in my writing (you probably already notice) and my thoughts are just bunched together. I really believe my thoughts are way fucking better than most people, its just that people don't understand it in writing. And now I get even more frustrated, which makes my writing worse. BLAH BLAH BLAH. God, I got a headache.
• [01/10/02]: HEH... I forgot that I wrote this for one of my former employers, okayplayer.com. It's a simple and incomplete linux administration FAQ for the company during vacations, or whenever I left.
• [01/10/02]: MIC CHECK ONE TWO ONE TWO.
• [01/08/02]: I missed my ISYS class, so I'm sitting in one of the computer labs and being a nerd; I'm doing minor administration, reading Slashdot, and reading Scientific American. It actually feels good to be in a more 'serene and quiet' place, just totally chilling. I wrote a response article to some particular disclosure ethics, but Dhillion for Hackinthebox wants to release it when the e-zine comes out in January. So keep waiting kids.
• [01/01/02]: Wow. New Year's sucks. A group of my friends went bowling, another didn't call me back, and the group I did end up going up with just happen have some bad luck. We watched the last 5 minutes of the fireworks at Penn's Landing. We drove back to our hometown. Then we drown back downtown, in hopes of getting into this place, Billy Wong's. We didn't. So we are on the road again and Mike suggests that we get a hotel room. The girls have to be home by 3am and its 2am right now. So I get dropped off at home, and now I am here, watching a Jay Leno rerun. Anyway, hope y'all had a better time.
• [12/29/01]: Today has been one of the worst days of my life. I argued with my dad, who argued with my mom, who argued with my uncle. For the most part, it was about money (like it usually is). My uncle broke a policy which effected the week's profits. It wasn't that bad, but I have a drama mama. She worries about everything, especially me, my sister, and the business. My dad yelled at me out of no where cause I was taking long with some math I was doing concerning finances, but sort of apologized later, telling me it was misdirected anger that overtook him. I was pretty pissed off, but like always, I forgive them. Anyway, there is still a little bit of hooting and hollering, but its sort of calmed down. My parents went to my grandmom's house to pick up my sister, hopefully there will be a decrease in the tension. Anyway, I'm out. Going to look at porno while I wait for Annie & Chheng to pick me up, so a group of us will see Ocean's Eleven.
• [12/27/01]: I know alot of you ghetto hoes have been ironing my picture on dollar store t-shirts, and been anticipating for other Presto accessories -- so I decided to release the official Presto AIM Icon. Now you can tell your sleazy online boyfriends/girlfriends that you are a big fan of me. They will then become fans of me as well and harass me like the online celebrity that I am. Enjoy -- I'll be releasing mouse pads, alcohol free beer, and thongs soon, so stay tuned.
• [12/27/01]: I was referred to some uPNP exploit code by a buddy of mine on IRC and he told me not to spread it. At first, I assumed it was some privatized code only found in one of those #!* channels, but the had it already on his site. So being the generous person that I am, I threw it into the TPGN.NET exploit archive. Another note though -- I think its broken, either in code or shell code. So it'll take some work before its actually fully functional.
• [12/26/01]: Itchy pimple blew up during Christmas night. It was one of those natural and clean blow ups, so I'm cool. Santa hooked me up. Anyway, things are pretty good. But I'm hella cold right now in the basement. I also need to cut my nails. Christmas briefing: Did a Polyanna, my laptop was my Christmas present (from the rents), so I'm happy. Slept for most of the time, ate homemade chinese/cambodian dishes, and I think I took a shit once. Christmas night, me and my friends went to Delaware Ave. in hopes of skating, but it was too crowded. Instead, we did Chinatown and had Chinese/Indian/Malay food at Penang.
• [12/24/01]: Merry Holidays. I got this really itchy pimple thats probably going to swell in a few days if I keep touching it like I do now. It's really annoying; had to mention it somewhere. Oh yeah, we got the "grand opening" of the Vulnerability and Exploits Archive acouple days ago. It made news on Security.NL. OK.. again, have a Very Merry Holiday if you got a holiday to celebrate. If not, pick up a can of Manwich, spoil yourself. Now back to humping some OpenBSD kernel reconfigs and chopping at cistron radiusd.
• [12/21/01]: Learn how to mack, geek style.
• [12/20/01]: When I was in finance class in high school, Mr. Hunt told us how he would buy a car by bargaining like crazy.. and he'd leave just to get them to give in more. And the thing is, he never owned or managed a business. We got this guy at my parents' jewelry shop who cracked and chipped his diamonds; and wanted them to be replaced free. Now, in this case, it was his fault.. therefore he pays. We will only do free work if it was a faulty product or fault work... but we have no control over the strength of a diamond and the conditions he puts it under. Anyway... my dad tells him that "he'll take care of it". So what my dad does is flip them over so the cracks don't show. My dad NEVER said he would replace them (If you are a person who was *reasonable* with us and are a repeat customer, WE WILL NOT HESISTATE TO ASSIST YOU WITH A SMILE). He left and that was it. A few months later he e-mails us and starts bitching again. For one thing, he haggled so much... we were selling the ring to him at a wholesale price. So my father doing any work for free should be seen as a gratuity. OK. My whole point is that people who don't own a business and do sales and don't try to understand the work we go through ARE THE BIGGEST FUCKHEADS IN THE WORLD. IF WE WANTED TO SELL AT WHOLESALE PRICES WE WOULD HAVE BECAME WHOLESALERS. WE NEED TO EAT ALSO YOU ASSHOLES. Another thing to note as well. My parents are the most honest people in the world. No joke. And I hate seeing them being taken advantaged of when they are just trying to live a good and honest life. OK.. I'm tired and I just needed to get this off my chest.. even though it is probably all disorganized to y'all. The moral of the story is to think twice the next time you go to a small mom-n-pop shop. DON'T BE FUCKHEADS TO THEM. Another note (heh), all our competitors are man-sluts who cheat on their wives constantly, do heroine and crack, have children who do heroine and crack, and the minute you walk out the store they are cursing your name and calling you bitch. I am not kidding people. If not for the fear of being prosecuted or being beaten up by some wiseguys, I would record them and put them up here as mp3s. OK. Good night.
• [12/18/01]: My report has also been ported to spanish apparently at VSAntivirus. I don't see how it is a virus though... Oh.. and this article has hit front page at some other latin virus/security site here.
• [12/18/01]: The ridiculous Windows XP vulnerability I released is out on bugtraq, made news at hackinthebox (smiles) and front page at xatrix.org
• [12/16/01]: My two articles were publicly released today for HITB Issue 24. Read them here.
• [12/12/01]: LOOK AT ME!@# I'M A STATISTIC! (Again, as well as we all are...hmm.. why the fuck am I excited then?)
• [12/09/01]: Movies are cool. Embedding is cool, too. I told IMDB about the embedded script jawn. It was fine while it lasted.
• [12/09/01]: This article on Teochew, my native chinese dialect, really got me thinking. Even though the article focuses on the lost of dialects in Singapore, the situation is much similar here in the states. I really want to try harder to get my language back together, as I have slowly noticed... I am losing it. It's scary watching the current Irish and Italian population around me, none of them know Gaelic or Italian... natively at least. And I see that maybe happening one day to the newer immigrant population.
• [12/05/01]: Update on "rat thing behind my printer" shit. I don't there is anything there... probably just my fucked up eye sight. DAMN YOU COMPUTERS.
• [12/05/01]: Oh yeah, before any of you geeks say anything, YES I DID TRY USING fbdev. Too bad OpenBSD doesn't have the freaking submodule, fbdevhw!@# One of you damn programmers better port that shit soon! (You do it.. I have poor programming literacy :0)
• [12/05/01]: I finished my ethnography on graffiti for Anthropology. Cool. And now, not so cool news... but it arises hope. Turns out there is no way for me to get XFree86 working properly at this point for my laptop. I checked the current XFree86 changelog though and CyberAladdin support will be issued for the next release. Thank God, this better come about soon. Off topic (cause it is happening at this very moment), I think I see something hiding behind my printer on the floor. But it's acting shady as shit.. a bit too shady for a rat and too big for anything else. Hmm..
• [12/03/01]: Update on Comcast... it still works. You can for some news on that yourself (too much business blurbs). Update on the TPGN Exploits archive ...maybe it will be around 500+ (and maybe not) of php/html/sql code. I thought about remodeling it to be a real catalog system because pasting directory entries over and over and manually categorizing gets tiresome. But don't fret, user performance will still be definitely considered still.
• [12/03/01]: While typing the last log, I started to think about how hot Kristin Kreuk is (Lana Lang from Smallville). And I've concluded -- she's pretty hot.
• [12/03/01]: By the way, these logs aren't databased.. or meant to look pretty. If you read em, great. If not, who cares?
• [12/03/01]: School is making me sick (literally). I keep feeling bad that I do stress out because I feel like I got nothing to stress about. And when I'm not as productive as I want to be (like now), boy do I feel 'shittay' (not misspelled). I have a lot of projects and ideas spinning round and round, but have yet to take off... not to mention school again.
• [12/03/01]: Hmm.. maybe you shouldn't bow down before my feet just yet.. ah what the hell, go ahead. Anyway, the XFree86 folks said that they would be releasing a version beyond 4.1.0 right around this time. Hopefully, they really are. My Toshiba has some "fusion" graphics card called the -- a breed designated for performance and *budget*, and the thing, I assume, isn't supported. Again, if any of you could help a brother out... e-mail me.
• [12/01/01]: As of 3:00pm today, my laptop now has OPENBSD 2.9. Feel free to bow before my feet. =D (boot> boot wd0a:/bsd). Wow, about 18 hours of work finally paid off.
• [12/01/01]: You probably heard about . It really sucks because I am a customer, but Comcast claims that they will handle the situation well... BUT HOW WELL? Cable was actually my last resort after countless bankruptcies and acquisitions with various DSL companies I dealt with in the past... R.I.P. Northpoint. 30 bucks for PURE SDSL. *sniff* And if I get DSL now, the cheapest solution is 55 bucks a month for ADSL. You would think since I'm on the border of Philly I would have a CLEC really near me.
• [12/01/01]: Oh yeah, I got a new Toshiba S204 laptop. And yes, it rocks. Only problem I have been having is with the OpenBSD 2.9 installation (dual booting with the default XP installation). It has installed fine, I assume, but I have tried every freakin' boot manager (for the exceptions of lilo, ntloader, and grub) to get it up and up. Contact if you can help. I almost killed this god damn rocking machine with about dozens of reboots over night.
• [12/01/01]: Quick updates. First off, I failed my Math class... I really have no excuses for that except of my natural hate for that class. I am now a "content administrator" for Hack In The Box news portal. And I have started a "under 100 lines of code" exploit search site here. I started it pretty much because I think PacketStorm is wack as shit (search engine wise), and then came the death of hack.co.za. I found them to have the most efficient archiving systems and most updated, but things got weak. Currently, it is really under 100 lines of code, but I guess once I add proper indexing... it'll lose that status. Nevertheless, I hope to get it to be under 200-300 lines. The wonders of php...
• [11/20/01]: Drexel has opened my eyes further of the type of arrogance you must face in the computer industry. We had a professor come in a few weeks ago who spoke about computer business. "When it comes down to it, you're just an arrogant prick who thinks everyone is an idiot just because they don't know what the fuck is TCP NO DELAY... and that will get you no where when it comes to business." He didn't actually say that, but it was something of that nature. He also emphasized that you work for non-techie consumers because they have no idea what to do. They are customers; you are there to service them. I mean, there was a time where I was like that, and that was the time where I really tried hard to be "H4X0R 3L8". And this leads to the world of hacking/phreaking... where the nature is just like that. I mean if you are some sort of guru, you have the right to be arrogant amongst the community, but if you got a customer, it's not like he or she is going to give you business anymore. One more note on this topic.. I hate kids who try to give me business advice on a product or subject they've never taken on. Shut da fuck up please oh please.
• [11/20/01]: Phecalz. What the hell happened to you?
• [11/20/01]: I might change majors. Something not computer-ish. I was thinking of a flavor of Anthropology.
• [11/20/01]: Wow. EVERYBODY drinks in college. Some of the kids who I thought would never drink are going buckwild. It's weird. Dorks and social perverts are actually mingling at parties. The kids who used to be made fun of all the time no longer face the harassment that they once did in High School. Hmm. I'm sort of happy for them, but I think they're are trying too hard to be cool. Not like I was ever a big drinker (charles != tolerance), but it's sort of sad seeing all these kids with great track records mess things up. I respected them because they didn't get influenced by peer pressure... as I was and as my friends were.

Misc. School Work (Mixed)
• Math:Analysis MATH101 - [PAGE01][PAGE02] Coverage of Matrices (Regular & Gauss Jordan), Elimination Method, & Logarithms

Links
• Computer Underground Digest. Seems neat, tell me if it's any good.
• All Look Same. Chinese. Japanese. Look at these.
• Drexel University. I got accepted to Rochester Institute of Tech. I should have gone there.

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