A new Half-blood Prince International Teaser Trailer was released today at Trailer Addict. Below is a youtube version courtesy of ZFStudios.
“But I am the chosen one!” LOL!
Let me lay the cards on the table to avoid any pretense – I’m not really into the whole twilight saga. I started reading the book for 3 reasons:
One, Harry Potter books are always being compared to Twilight. The two series share quite a big portion of the fandom. Some even tag Twilight as the “new Harry Potter.”
Two, the Harry Potter movie. When Half-blood Prince moved to a new playdate, Twilight grabbed the spot. So yup, i am planning to watch this movie to fill the void, might as well read the story.
Three, the Authors. It’s intriguing enough to compare those two female authors, but my curiosity peaked upon learning that Stephanie Meyer’s a BYU grad (i.e. same faith).
I’ve read the first 3 books, Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. I did enjoy it. I did like the story to some point. But something’s lacking, and I was trying hard to find that “magic.” I finished the three books out of responsibility and that obsession, not that I’m totally engrossed to it. So before my interest meter drops down several notches, reading Breaking Dawn will be put on hold indefinitely.
Incredulous as it may seem, I may just be getting older. Young adult fiction novels do not have that much appeal anymore as when I was a 15-year old girl who first read Sorcerer’s Stone.
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UPDATE: Oh well, ooh well! I decided to read on anyway — after 4 or 5 days. To my surprise, I’m actually enjoying Breaking Dawn, much of it owing to Jacob’s crack of jokes and the way he pisses of “Blondie” (Rosalie). Haha. I like things more when it’s from Jacob’s perspective than Bella’s. Might i say this is perhaps the best among four books. Hmm.. but i’m not finished yet, so we’ll see. 
Note-taking time.. Again, some stuff i don’t usually use or encounter, so i better log them.. for future use.
Linux
Mac OS X 10.4 Xserve
snmpwalk -v1 -c <your-community-string> 127.0.0.1To allow snmp in iptables:
# SNMP
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -p udp -s 0/0 –sport 1024:65535 -d $INTIP –dport 161:162 -m state –state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p udp -s $INTIP –sport 161:162 -d 0/0 –dport 1024:65535 -m state –state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
I’ve been using NFS ever since but not exactly the one to set up the server. When the ff. problem occurred, I never imagined I have very little idea as to where to start troubleshooting: Could not chdir to home directory /home/User: No such file or directory.
Well i know the directory’s shared via NFS from another server, so i had to start from there. So here’s a short list of things to check or do (Redhat/Fedora/CentOS based):
On the server:
portmap: /etc/init.d/portmap restart
nfs: /etc/init.d/nfs restart
Check if it runs at startup.
chkconfig --list | grep nfs
chkconfig nfs on
/export 10.1.2.0/24(rw,sync,root_squash,no_wdelay,no_subtree_check,secure)
ALL: 10.36.13.0/24
I felt compelled to join Blog Action Day this year. One is because I haven’t last year. The other more significant reason is because it tackles of poverty – an illness that we Filipinos live by and witness first hand everyday.
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I live in a poverty-stricken country. Metro Manila alone is a cradle to two communities, with the gap between them increasing by the minute. You can witness a contrast of high-rising condo units and shabby huts, of splendid mansions and shanties built under bridges.
As a kid, I remember a time when the Philippines is host to an international event [either the APEC Summit in 1996, or Michael Jackson's concert, if I'm not mistaken]. Since our community is the main route of the guests, all types of refurbishments, repaintings and reconstruction were made. There was this bridge almost near the airport that they had to cover with walls on both sides to hide the shanties along the creek.
When i turned to college, I used to travel the length of South Super Highway going to the University, the unsightly shacks along the side of the highway greeting me everyday. Speedy cars may not (or rather refuse to) notice them i guess. A few years later, the side of these houses fronting the road were painted pink, blue, yellow as part of the government’s project Metro Facelift. This strikes me as a rude way to address the problem – how can they resort to disguise to hide the truth? This year i noticed most of the shacks were demolished. All that’s left are tattered remnants of the shacks.
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