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Log: #0023 - [2003-09-28]

Movies again

I've seen some more movies these days.

For example ''the Time Machine''. This movie is, seen from a logical, physical or simply social point of view ridiculous.
First of, the whole story doesn't work. Sure it's according to an older movie but that doesn't give one the right to do everything.

Second - lower than average script according some 'how to write a popcorn-movie in one day'-book :
The first five minutes are used to point out the cliched characters - the of course forgetable but good looking professor, the house mistress with an absurd name that even would get Ash Ketchum get envious, the helpful friend for some social contact and of course the beautiful girlfriend.

The next five minutes get used to plot out the obvious. Due to some idiotic and 'tragic' shortcircuit-reaction, she gets killed. Now he spends a month or so to build a time machine to prevent it happen. Yeah, if anyone could alter time. It's just creating a new parallel universe. Time is not a string, its a field of possibilities. Well, he travels back, tries to prevent her death just to get her run over by a horsewagon. How tragic again.

So. He just tries it once. Sure. That is also so logical. Working on something noone could acchieve up to then and he just tries once. Of course he's a genius and sees a whole chain of reactions right away. We all come to the point, that you can't change past (which is nonsense). As if this one coincidence would proof a physical law (or is it more a cineastic one?).

What does he do? He travels forward to research. Congrats, that's the first and last intelligent idea he has in the whole movie.
Now the filmmakers wasted lots of time into fashion-research (a scene that was also in the trailer for that movie - only proving that it is literally waste of time to see). They should have rewritten the next scene instead.

Professor heads into the next museum. Sure enough noone cares about a strange antique looking machine in a backstreet, his old clothing or his old way to speak. And also sure enough museums are free to visit. We also get a glimpse on the tragic accident that will happen soon - the whole attention gets focused on some cryptic commercial which is the first thing he sees in the future. Can't be more obvious.

Now the worst scene of the movie starts: the museum is guided by some holographic person. Of course its databank-core is located in the same room as the scene plays. Just for the viewers to recognize later on. Now, someone wasted several weeks of programming it a sickening arrogance. Also it's fascinatingly playing with the screens like wanting to say - hey I might be a virtual guide here but at least I can do something that you punny humans can't - jumping from one screen to another! Like yay! Even using all screens at once. Without any information the professor leaves. This is also the only realistic fact in the whole movie: if you search the internet for a specific answer, you will find anything related but never what you want to find.

Well. He travels further forward. Here now the tragic had begun - the moon got blasted to pieces (remember the commercial no 5 minutes ago). Of course the construcion workers where so stupid to not do some research before they tried to blast caves into the moon. Well, the professor can free himself from being arrested, gets knocked out and travels some hundreds of thousand years into the future. By accident.

Parts of the moon fell down on earth (like, something like that would ever happen due to the fact the rotation would make any part of the moon fly off. As well, you'd need a ridicoulusly ammount of detonating material to crack it to pieces) and triggered most of its population to die out, as well as another ice age.

Well. He wakes up after we could see an animation on how the rocky mountains got formed. Another waste of time actually. Soon later he gets arrested by some hippies who of course speak a language that you can easily write using english pronounciation. Now follows one of the most ridiculous scenes of the whole movie: of course they all learned english when they where younger. What else should they learn - a language that is dead for several hundredthousand years.
So... children speak it quite fluently (this introduces that idiotic brat) and of course there is a teacher who happens to be a female as well. No, not an ugly one, of course. The reason why they speak english is as followed: Only thing besides hunting and collecting berries would be looking for antique writings in buildings. Surely enough they could decifer the language and how it is getting spelled.

Next, comes the hunt-scene - like a direct rip-off from ''Planet of the Apes''. To make unnecessary long things short - the professor finds our personal friend - the hologram. It lost it's arrogance but developed an even more annoying, whining pity for itself. If it hates it's own life and ability to remember everything that much, why doesn't it just overload it's core with calculating prime-numbers ad infinum...
Only reason for this scene would actually be to explain, why the english language these people are speaking did not alter a wee bit over all that time. They seem to learn it from that frustrated suicidal virtual person.

Our hero infiltrates the underground lair filled with warrior ants... err... Morloks. Sure enough he doesn't get spotted. So far for specialized casts. He advances onto the slaughtering room followed by scarying close-up and zooms. If anyone finds this shocking then this person should never think about where the meat for their Hamburgers comes from. Childish.

Well. Soon enough, he gets spotted and flees into the boss office. There, his beloved teacher-girl is trapped in a cage. She remains mute for now. Maybe she's tranquilized or something. Who cares. The Borg-Queen... err... the literally head and brain of the whole Morlok-bunch turns around sitting in his boss-chair and starts to explain things to the professor. This one is too terrified to realize what life is about and starts a fight. The boss, able to telephatize, strangely is not strong enough to fill the hero's mind with numbing thoughts, no no, ''just'' looking in his memories while keeping the complete warrior cast from running amok. Brilliant logism, indeed.

Well, in the original movie, the professor kills one of the morloks, climbs into his time machine and accidently advances in time, seeing a wonderfully animated stop-motion scene from the corpse rotting to dust in no time. awesome for that time, but not shocking enough for our young, bored and used-to-gore viewership. So they now fight (since the boss, actually genetically focused on brains, is still able to wrestle with the professor of course) while the time machine is spinning. Of course a stupid and way too often used 'I gonna ram your head into the ventilator'-scene, and again of course the machine produces that much wind, that the boss gets blown away while strangling the hero. He's screaming while aging, dieing and falling apart, only leaving his lower arms.
Now, where's the error in that? Exactly. In the viewers time, he's getting older within seconds, but in his time he must hang there for several hours up to days, screaming all the time until he dehidrates and dies. Especially the 'falling apart'-part is ridiculous in this circumstances, since noone is rotting as fast as that. Not even molemen. Not to mention of the blood circulating in both, the aging part and the arms.

To prevent things happening, the hero blocks the machine while it's running, thus creats a paradoxon and flees with the teacher.
And this plot twist is really strange. I don't get the how and why because it's pure nonsense. So the machine works as some kind of neutron bomb now? What did he use to assemble it in 1900? Plutonium? So a blast exceeds from it, killing any Morlok in sight by aging it to death. So far so bad, because time is covering the whole universe. Now what hinders the blast to go on and on like a wave on the ocean? Why does it stop there in the old cineastic distance from the building to be blown up?

None of this gets explained in the movie. Our hero stays there, teaching the children poetry, having a replacement for his intentional girlfriend at his side. Indeed, what a hero...

The moral of that story? In the end, he kills one race for another, as if the poor sheep would be worth more than the specialized Morloks. Simply pointing out the american way of intercultural ignorance. The more appealing people shall survive. Great job.

All in all, seeing this movie was a great waste of time. Clearly recognizable that it was written by some childish newcomer - its ridiculous tragic moments seem like coming from the mind of some kindergartener. Well, writing this could be seen as waste of time as well, but I had to get stuff like this out of my mind. Now it's written down and I feel better.

Whew, lot's of place spend for one lousy movie. I really hate remakes of classics, exactly like with 'Planet of the Apes' - why do they alter the plotline? Is truth too cruel? Is it not popcorny enough? *sighs*

And now to something completely different:

Ocean's Eleven.
First of, I don't really like George Clooney. Maybe because everyone else likes him. I also don't like that other guy, his name slipped my mind, but he starred in 'the talented Mr. Ripley'. But this movie was simply great with a wonderful plot-twist. Almost as much fun to watch as the classic 'Sneakers' with Ben Kingsley and that other... very good actors whose names also got lost in the black hole I call brain...

Then, a friend got another friend to bring Ghibli's ''Kiki's Delivery Service'' (Majo no Takkyuubin) from her recent trip to Japan. It's such a masterpiece. I even understood half of the conversation *laughs*, and that ending song is stuck in my mind *sighs*.
Everytime someone gets back from 'the Isle' I get to see a wonderful Ghibli-movie. Last year it was ''Tonari no Totoro'' (My neighbor Totoro) and next year it will be ''Sen to Chihiro'' (Spirited Away), I hope.

I've also seen both Ringu 1 and Ringu 2 lately. Wow.
First off, I suggest to never watch the american Ring-Version - its just another remake raping the original version. Well, at least it had one good influence: someone released the japanese versions on DVD here in germany recently.

Both movies are kinda strange. When I watched them, they were kinda slowpaced and calm. The second even drifts off into fantasy. But then, when I rethought them later on, they develope such a weirdness, it's scary. Only letdown would be that there is quite some background info required about what exactly japanese find scary.
So my recommendation for them come with an asterisk and a sidenote. *laughs*

Rena

Log: #0022 - [2003-09-22]

News Broadcast

Whats new? Well, I thought about the layout of the cover-page and made a new Link-section up. Then of course, new pictures. Furthermore, once again, work at the Chara Files - the best C-mode-stage times are now underlined (for me to keep track of course).

Soon there will also be a little extra-page, but I'm still working at it (or to describe it a bit more honest - I need to gather enough time and interest to work at it for a few hours...). Don't expect too much, though *laughs*

I get asked to do snapshots quite often these days. Sure I make a snap of other people's chara but I will have to find a moment worth to be saved. I hope everyone understands this that I do not make one immediately. It's really not the case that I would dislike you or your chara or anything.

Well, back to the game itself.
I grew a bit tired of leveling Hannya in Episode 1. She's a nice chara and all but then again... Oran finds nothing worth enough to make runs for it... left alone... Episode 2 drops... maybe... hm... well - by now she's strong enough to do support for any ultimate game and this will do for the near future - I'll try to get her an Lady's Umbrella or Parasol soon. Up to then I guess a Marina's Bag will do (like yay - seems like I'll open the second Easter Egg).

Way more offline-time I invested into Mew these days. She did more Mines-runs on VHard but I slowly get bored by it. No more God/Arm either... boo... only VHard junk that comes without any percentages and what she could find on Ult from boxes - this time with percentages...hm... but so far Mew seems not strong enough for Ult. At least it is not really lucrative yet.
Maybe I should start spending some time in Ep.2 VHard. Then again... the only two rares I still want from Ep.1 VHard are some more God/Arm and maybe a rare from the ruins...

Then again. It's indeed true that Oran is a good ID for Episode 2. So Hannya cleared everything up to Olga Flow. It is indeed way more easy for a Force to kill Olga than to attempt Falz. Well, lets see. Downing Vol Opt would come first *laughs*

What else? Hm, finishing Rena's run for Bu-EI rank and getting Shinobu a nice S-Rank Shot. Thank you, Kim, Tin, Waka and Raziel.
And with rati earning Bu-Ei as well, I now collected my 12th and for the near future last S-Rank Weapon. From now on, it will be only bettering a time here and there and having some fun helping others.

Rena

Log: #0021 - [2003-09-18]

Good times

Looking for a team to retry rati's C9, I stumbled over an open C6-team. Hm, why not helping, I thought. Shortly after, I changed my chara to sato, since a Force is what is needed. It went really well and in the end I could shape up my C6-time from 45 min to exactly 30 min.

Kim joined as I helped again with C7. This time, the time was half a minute better, but we found that our team was really good. C8 was a breeze and I especially liked our C9-run. In the end sato scored a ZALURE SLICER which will soon get a zalure special *laughs*.

In the end I have some few new Guildcards now, whom I am very proud of having : some more PSOW- and even MIA-Team-members on my list.

After this, we did a re-run of C2, since my time was really bad there (54''05). after some TA (Time Attack for those wondering) preparations (creating graves in the first room) and one retry we could almost halve my old time - 27''58 is just wow! Thank you once again, everyone.

Next to do would be getting C1 halved, then sato would have the best total i ever did. *laughs*

The next day we tackled that goal. Well. Not quite halfed but I got (exactly) 5 minutes better - at least she's now a good amount of time under five hours in total (4'54''19). Next would be to shape up her C7 and C8 I guess.

After that we worked at a better C7 time for Kim - I used Nocturne. We tried around 4 times, recreating, and restarting again. After the second try, I could better the time from around 48 minutes to 37''35. With the last try this time even shrinked to 31''07. Despite the second area, we had a great map.

After a C4-clear run for Rena (thanks again), I joined Auracom and he helped me to get a White Ring for Lorelei. This new quest is indeed very confusing. But I guess once one gets used to it, and with the right weaponry it will get routine soon...

The end of this online session was a nice chat with Raziel, who now got a keyboard. And not just anyone - no, he got the Ascii. Way to go, Raz - and congrats. In the end, this enlenghtened my online time record to more than 13 hours... am I sick? *laughs*

Rena

Log: #0020 - [2003-09-15]

'About movies - part 2' ?

I updated the first 'about movies' post about a little rant about Rollerball, and I wrote some more about 'le Pacte des Loupes'.

Up to now, I've also seen 'Godzilla vs. King Ghidora'. Heh, the story is very... fantastic (to prevent the word unlogical), of course the Gaijin are the bad ones and Shinjuku seemed a little bit sterile... But overall, I never laughed that much seeing a Godzilla-movie. Great fun.

After that, I recently got the chance to record 'Godzilla vs. Destroya' without any commercial breaks. Sadly missed the chance to record both 'Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla' and 'Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla' - at least I could see the later one almost completely. And in some days I'll get the chance again to get it recorded.
I now realized that I also missed to record three Mothra-movies before this, aww...

Back to 'Destroya' - awesome movie. I really love the miniatures here - they built the Tokyo Bay Area with the Comiketbuilding and lots of other landmarks here and it looks way better than in above mentioned 'Ghidora'. The story is way serious here as well, since from the beginning on it's clearly set that Godzilla will die. The big question is just, how he dies... *sniff*

'Spacegodzilla' has a very nicely done City as well, even though it gets destroyed quite quickly before the final battle even starts. Other than 'Ghidora', this movie has not as many wanted and unwanted laughable scenes in it, but instead it is very symphatic. Especially Miki-san (or ''Öhrchen'' how I like to call her) and her fight to save Godzilla from being killed.

Well, back to the game...
Two hunts went successful recently - first off, Kuro found a Love Rappy (first time I've seen one - despite covered in an easteregg) and with that an Electro Frame (even 2 slot already). After all the work (well, only 25 single-player online-Temple-runs in total over three days to be honest) and then that Frame seems to have a defective visualisation and it's weaker than the Luminious Field in both physical and elemental defense. *sigh*

I compared it with the one Shinobu had on Dreamcast - there the special covers the whole body, very stylish. But now its just sparkling around Kuro's belly. Hm. I guess something went wrong while porting it over and they forgot to fix that.
Like... when you try to see Marquee-text on Netscape Navigator.

As well, Finally after... 30 Levels spent with hunting them, Hannya found her first Star Amplifier from her seventh Pal Rappy. Really something... Now I have to see what a Twinkle Star brings. Never liked them back on Dreamcast...

And yes, they're junk. Well, if one owns a Summit Moon, they're junk, since they boost the same techs, the Twinkle Star is just weaker (20% instead of 30%) and is no good attack-weapon - a Summit Moon on the other hand can be used to melee as well. *sigh* maybe I should give it to a beginners Force or the salvation army...

Again, I tried to solve C9 with rati, since all others were busy in their own Challenge-games. So I joined an english speaking FOmarl. A few minutes later a RAmar and a HUcaseal joined (it seemed that both were japanese), so we could get started.
First everything went fine. The FOmarl was a bit confused with giving MAG and doing boxes, so the RAmar did this for her. Also not a bad idea since RAmar is actually useless until he finds a decent gun. He did. We all did find very good weapons. So we advanced through the stages filled with tons of Belra right from the beginning and the RAmar died once i think. So far so good.
Now the boss. RAmar tells us, that he has only 136 HP. Fine I think. I kept only 1 Scape Doll for myself, just in case. We entered the final area, it goes well up to the last form. Then, one of Falz' Heaven Punishment attack - RAmar dies, FOmarl does not. As usual. Second attack, same result - except for the fact that screen goes black and we get teleported back.

Guess what. The force had 5 scapedolls with her, the RAmar had just one.

I really wonder what he imagined the final battle to be... I really, really wonder what the FOmarl thought about that as well... probably nothing at all. She seemed pretty unexperienced with what to do, anyway. Hoarding Dolls as a FOmarl with a RAmar present...
He should have disconnected, I would have done so... *sigh*

Hm... to do some stress relief, we (Kris and I, later Raziel and Waka joined as well) had a low level run through the hard Forest, Caves and Mines, which brought RenaMechSuit up from Level 21 to 28. Nice nice.

After Kris and Waka left for bed, Raziel and I decided to go and try to see Red Ring Rico. Well, Ruins with just the two of us (Raziel Kai and Lorelei) were quite tough. Despite the fact that Lorelei is around 30 Levels higher, she died around 3 times and Raziel not once *laughs*... punny humans indeed.
The actual Falz-fight was really something as well...
Lorelei took a Raygun with hit, Raziel equipped the needed Dark Flow (dupe of course, but well...).

First time went quite well up to form two, which killed me. I slipped and went to the hospital by accident. Well, try No.2.
Second try was unlikely tougher. Form one (three dragon heads) spit thousands of Darvants and we got killed right after we revived each other... Finally we survived it. Form two was also not a piece of cake at all, I set myself back to support only, and eventually we succeded once again.

Well, final form. Easier as we thought. Lorelei neglected the Raygun (it was of no use at all... well, offline tactics don't always work online as well) and stuck to Resta and Foie, burned 10 Difluid, 6 Trifluid and a Doll and finally Falz gave in. *whew*

So we ran back and Rico was indeed sitting there, on her own tomb (no sight of any red box by the way *laughs*). I tried to snap. Nothing. I tried to snap after disconnecting, nothing again. Well. We'll try again soon, using a PC-capture card.

Rena

Log: #0019 - [2003-09-12]

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challenge works

Yesterday, Challenge-marathon again.
First off, the rumor about ep.2 challenge mode seemed to be not true after all. Kim mobilized all technical possibilities to check that all alone. *still laughing about the sight of the two twin-HUcaseals greeting and answering together most of the time*

Well...
So we busied ourselfes a bit.
I got my trusty C-mode-HUcast rati, we remade C4, then solved C5 and C6 (Garanz-hunting was fun).
After downing Vol Opt the cast changed - Magstar II left for bed and Haruka joined. We then tried C7 with two FOnewearls (who actually looked the same as well...) and succeeded.

C8 was fun as well, Zoey changed to her HUcaseal KOS-MOS and we found lots of very good weapons.

Then we took a break before we tried C9. Good weapons so far, but we wasted a few dolls on the way. This is not that much of a problem, since there was only one critical Chara in the team (so we thought) - the FOnewearl. Well. We quite easily advanced forward to Falz' Lair thanks to several very good weapons and a few helpful Materials...
As usual the fight itself was quite routine. The only problem was that Falz used his Rabarta-Arm three times in a row and Kim's Hucaseal stood in the middle of it each time. So we died, while the Fonewearl carried five dolls. *laughs*

Even with this little letdown, it was fun and we were a good team - let's try again soon.

Rena

Log: #0018 - [2003-09-10]

About movies (Updated)

Today, something completely off topic. Lately I've seen tons of movies.

For example 'Zoolander', which is a great, hilarious movie. The funniest movie since 'Me, Myself and Irene' (which I see as a real classic and Jim Carrey's best movie so far), way better than 'all about Mary' which was a very good movie as well.

Then I had the chance to see 'Monkeybone'. I kinda like Brandon Fraser but this movie is more strange than funny. Maybe that's just me but reanimated corpses are not that funny. Frasier did way better movies, and I'm not talking about 'the Mummy' (I actually mean the one where he has the 7-wishes-deal with the devil, I don't know the original title right now...).

Then I've seen '13 Ghosts'. It's a nice movie. First I had to laugh since the father was the one that played deck-sergenant Chen in 'Galaxy Quest'. '13 Ghosts' is a kinda cute movie that acts to be cruel. The story is not that deep and seems to copy 'the Cube' as well as several other Movies. The ghosts are interesting but very cliched. All in all interesting movie although i got the feeling like it was written by some Teenager - I especially like the scene where the lawyer gets cut in half... ewww...

What else, oh yeah, 'the Fast and the Furious' with Vin Diesel, the un-actor. Awful thing... no need to lose any more words...

When we are at awful movies I should also mention 'Rollerball'. Jean Reno is by far the best actor in there and I especially like that one sceene before the end, where the hero wanted to trick him and he plays along but got the bluff from the beginning. Idiotic, amercian movie, like if a sole person could win against a syndicate.

Then the french Matrix: 'der Pakt der Wölfe' ('le Pacte des Loupes'). Strange like all french movies are, some sort of Frankenstein, just with animals, and an Indian and lots of french names that usually confuse me ^_^; No, it's not a bad movie, not at all, just, well... not my style. Also I have the feeling that most scenes are unnecessary as well as the movie overall is very thin (so it's more like Matrix 2 than Matrix 1 *laughs*).

Being a big fan of Godzilla-movies, I stumbled over the DVDs. They sell them for only 3 Euro here and this is an offer no real fan can decline (actually it's quite insulting to sell these movies for such a low price, but well..). I took a book about Godzilla with me (which i got for cheap as well) and searched all the available DVDs until I knew which strange german title equals which original movie.
I bought 'Godzilla 1984', 'Godzilla vs. Mothra' from 1985 as well as the original, 'Godzilla vs. Biolante' and 'Godzilla vs. King Ghidora' (1986). Sadly 'Godzilla vs. Destroya' (which is my favorite), 'Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla' and the very original and first 'Godzilla' weren't available. Hm... I still have to look around some more, I guess.

So far I found time to watch the Biolante one. I was always amazed by miniatures and that is why I like Gojira-movies that much. All the details, all the work, and then it gets destroyed, heh. Then, I also like the story of some of them. Yeah, call me nerd but things make sense and you can feel that someone put lots of work into them (at least the newer ones, not the trashy ones from the seventies)

I think... what made me go after the movies like crazy was a mixture of several things...I had seen that really cool Video from the Beasty Boys again (Intergalactic Planetary something...) where they have a big robot fighting with a squidmonster, and run around Tokyo... Then, I got the Godzilla Melee game for Gamecube quite cheap (19 instead of 60 Euro), so I bought it. Finally one TV-channel here shows all the Godzilla Movies in some kind of weekly pattern and each weekend they show another. Not all movies got translated but they screen the most ones... Why not recording, you may ask but that is me, not owning a DVD-player but quite som DVDs allready... I don't really like having to wait until I can see what I want to see...

Well. Let's get back to the actual game that's called PSO...
My record of playing online in a row (without counting in chara-changing and disconnects) is now quite exactly 12 hours. Sick you might think and I must agree, but then again, I already spent more time on one single day offline, so there's no real difference, especially since I don't have to watch how much I pay now.

I get better and better in Challenge-mode. I even don't have to look at the maps for the first 4 stages anymore. Then, I even get the point with stage 2, where you just run trough that wall, instead of fighting. And playing HUcast may be hard in the beginning due to very low ATA, but later it's fun. Same goes for FOmarl, but that's no news to me actually.

Then, I decided against recreating Rena once again. She'll stay as she is right now. For some time I played with the thought to remake her like she was on Dreamcast (see here to compare: Rena, Renako). Thank you Kim, for helping me to decide. Well, soon I'll bring her through C-Mode and then she'll eventually get leveled and tweaked. She'll have a mat-diet that is like an advanced version of Lorelei's diet. We'll see.

Some last words:
Update of the charafiles, some new pictures, my mail adress added on the first page (due to some feedback) and I'll have to decide if I get myself yet another memcard for expendable c-mode charas. I'll need one anyway for Ep.3 so why not right now... Just to fool around.

Rena

Log: #0017 - [2003-09-04]

The difference...

...between dial-up and broadband while playing is actually not very big. Stages and Quests load a bit quicker. Then, the longest part from getting online is the loading of data from disk, it seems.

The actual difference is the payment. I now don't have to worry when and for how long I am online. Only things limitating this would be my need for sleep and when the PC needs to be online (no router here, will maybe get updated sooner or later). That's quite a relief. When I feel like it; I'll hop online for a while, may it be in the morning, in the evening or at night as I was used and limited to up to now.

Other than that...
Chiyo solved C-Mode thanks to Hanna and Kim. Sorry though that you disconnected Tizoc. I decided for a sword again, since I really think this is the most useful S-Rank weapon and either Kuro or Rena could need one of them (until I find Red Swords with hit percentages *laughs*).
And for the case that you wonder, what mompuchi means... you should watch Azumanga Daioh sometime.

Rena

Log: #0016 - [2003-09-01]

Nothing works like it should... (Updated)

Hardware-issues everywhere I point my eyes at these days... first the PC which I use to surf at PSOW and through the internet in total stopped working two weeks ago. Now the replacement fan for the GPU arrived (from Ireland to be precise, no wonder now about how long it took...) but the system still requires a re-install due to a crashed virtual driver or something... well, actually not my issue (but someone will have to invest 3-6 hours to get everything back to normal ^_^;).

Then, for a long long time I own a BBA, although I use the modem-adapter to get online with PSO. So (having my last telephone-bill in mind) I decided it was about time to get myself a DSL-modem and use the connection that was now unused for two weeks.

First off, DSL-modems are incredibly expensive these days. I got lucky and got one for 80 euro (thats 40 euro less than the official one from Telekom costs and is actually the same wires in different looking plastic). Well, since I'd use an 1&1 account to get online it may be because of this. Honestly. PCI-DSL-modems are really a pain. Worst decision ever to buy a packet with a modem like this... It's a good idea for one single PC, but it's not very flexible.
I don't know why I can't connect although I put in all data that is needed. Maybe it's because the Account doesn't allow other modems... however it doesn't need any special software on the PC. Maybe it's because LAN-cable between the BBA and the modem is (with 15 meters) too long... Who knows. Back to dial-up for now.

Update:
Heh, dated everything one day into the future (I'll have that fixed with the next possible update - this one to be precise) ^-^;

Other than that...
One thing that I learned from my Databank-lectures was that the worst thing is outdated information. The reason why I could not connect was... tadaah: the password wasn't correct anymore. Now that I changed it, everything worked like it should. I'm more than happy now.

And... the PCs problem - Windows security error: VKD-device - should be a thing of the past soon as well.
Lets hope the best and I for myself will stop to blame everything on the machines, I promise.

Lets end this Log's Update with another quote from my informatics-lectures: "most of the time, the error is sitting infront of the system".

Rena

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