final fantasy xi –
On the day after Christmas I went to do Dynamis-Beaucedine with United. I had to be the main assist for this run, and surprisingly everything went well. Not only that, the run had really loads_ _of drops (including a 100 currency piece), as the relevant thread says. Most importantly, I finally obtained the Valor Breeches. I had never seen them drop in Beaucedine Glacier, and luckily I was the only one lotting (I managed to lot of the ridicolously low amount of 172). All that’s left now is the super-rare Valor Surcoat, and having a Xarcabard run on 2nd of January I will put all my bets on that one.
Of course, there is now the obligatory screenshot:
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general · linux –
UPDATE: Some stupid bugs had crept in the code, so I updated the archives. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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final fantasy xi –
I noticed recently that Square Enix has announced a new event in FFXI, namely Salvage. Apparently this looks like an Assault with other modifications (such as special conditions forced on the players) thrown in.
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general –
I recently completed Final Fantasy XII. Overall it lasted over a month of play (1 hour per day, approximately), so at least I can say that I spent my money decently. The game is very **reminiscent of FFXI, in some areas even identical. It is also quite big, with many sub-quests and monsters to hunt. Not to mention that it is very impressive from a technical point of view. However, the main plot is **awful.
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general · science –
In the past two days I’ve been tackling an annotation problem. I’m trying to provide annotations for genes found in regions that are significantly altered, DNA copy-number wise (thanks to the STAC method). The idea would be to annotate those regions (that span one megabase) using UCSC Table Browser.
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general · linux –
Two days ago I decided to install Linux on the new computer I had obtained, so I just got a Kubuntu 6.10 alternate CD and went through the steps. THe network card was not detected, but by reading around I found it was just a matter of the r1000 module not being present in the installation kernel. The problems arose when GRUB was installed.
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linux –
I’m really saddened by the fanatic tone that a part of FOSS community is using to criticize the Novell-Microsoft deal. It should be noted that personally I don’t like the deal at all, since Microsoft has a good history of stomping on its partners when they’re no loner needed. But still, the reactions from the community are too strong, sometimes leading to (involuntary) disinformation.
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