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Playing sins of the solar empire

February 14th, 2010 The author

Alright alright, I spent the entire morning trying to figure out how to properly instal this game. I had downloaded the whole 1.13 GB file last night, so today morning, upon installing, I got a rude awakening from the system saying that I needed to enter the Activation key!

And if you notice, there is no activation key in the folder of the 1.13 GB file. Therefore you would need to download the patch. Now, if you’re a nut like me and you don’t know exactly which patch to download, just follow my steps below:

1. Download Sins of the Solar Empire Trinity (It covers the full game, the Diplomacy Upgrade and the Entrenchment upgrade - hence Trinity )

You can download it off from here:

http://torrentz.com/dadf68e89ea0551bf95d35a049707ddc7800d62c

(There is another file you need to download, refer to step 4).

2. Once the download has finished, go ahead and mount the game (the file is an ISO file, so you need to either mount of burn) . Just search for some ISO mount software on google. There are plenty free ones out there.

3. Once you’ve mounted the game, then just run the ISO file. The installation process should start. Just install it to your hard drive.

4. Once the installation process is completed, then you need to download another file. This file is the patch which allows you to bypass the stupid activation key.

http://torrentz.com/7e7678e66f94576cfaedf51f2f0980ec72d0b0f1

5. Once you’ve gotten both the files, just extract the 2nd file and proceed with the installation. Make sure you install the patch file into the same directory…otherwise it won’t work! The file contains two folders, one for the game itself the other for the Entrenchment update. I’ve only tried for the one with the game only. I didn’t try the other one yet cuz I am halfway through a session and installing the upgrade will wipe out my existing save game files, but I’m sure it will work as well.

Anyway this is all…it’s an amazing game, if you’re into those sci-fi shows

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Who’s your shining star?

August 5th, 2009 The author

I gotta admit, I wrote my last piece of entry in a very melancholic mood. Yes I was a little down. But what is really ironic is that the very next night, as I was watching Jack on Star Movies, I stumbled upon a very meaningful song towards the end of the movie. Almost instantly upon hearing it I knew it was a Bryan Adams song, and it’s called Star. Very meaningul lyrics, and for some reason it gives you something that most of us sometimes lack and are in dire need - hope.

I’ll post my thoughts on this song some other time.

For now…

Enjoy the song, lyrics below :

What cha wanna be - when you grow up
What cha gonna do - when your time is up
What cha gonna say - when things go wrong
What cha wanna do - when youre on your own

Theres a road - long and winding
The lights are blindin - but it gets there
Dont give up - dont look back
Theres a silver linin - its out there somewhere
Everybody wants an answer - everybody needs a friend
We all need a shinin star on which we can depend
N so tonight were gonna wish upon a star
We never wished upon before - (to find what youre
Looking for)
Therell be times - in your life
Ya when you be dancin n shit - but you aint gettin it
But dont get disillusioned - no, dont expect too much
Cuz if what you have is all you can get - just keep on
Tryin - it just aint happened yet
Everybody wants ta be winner - everybody has a dream
We all need a shinin star when things aint what they seem
So tonight were gonna wish upon a star
We never wished upon before - (gotta get where youre
Headed for)

Everybody wants some kindness - everybody needs a break
We all need a shinin star when things get hard to take
So tonight were gonna wish upon a star
We never wished upon before

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Connectivity Freedom

April 5th, 2009 The author

It took me a long time to do this, but I finally felt enough was enough. It was next to impossible for me to work or do literally anything without connection to the internet. For someone who spends nearly half of his day working on a laptop, staying connected is no more considered a ‘luxury’ good for me. I feel the amount of money which I am forced to fork out at a coffeeshop for a cuppa just to use the internet is not justified. Besides I need to find such a coffeeshop JUST to connect. Also, while travelling or staying at locations where access to internet is extremely limited…damn you sure wish you had internet access!

As I mentioned before, because of my dependence on my laptop, I decided that it is high time I have wireless broadband. So without wasting much time today, I decided to sign up with Celcom. Believe you me, I had thought long and hard whether I should go for either Maxis or Celcom. Since I was already a Maxis phone subscriber and my phone had 3G connectivity, I felt going for maxis would be a waste. Without trying to sound biased, I personally found their 3G service to be rather poor. Even in prominent spots in PJ, the 3G connection seemed feeble.

And so I felt convinced that probably Celcom would be a better bet. After all they did ‘boldly’ claim that they are the number 1 wireless broadband service in the country, so I guess I can’t go wrong with them.

So far I am quite pleased with their service. Though it’s been only a day, I find that I’m able to surf significantly faster as compared to my streamyx connection. However I plan to conduct a real vis-a-vis network connectivity test to really see if there’s a significant difference between the two. I need a quick test below and this was the result, definitely more tests need to be done to validate the statistics.