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Nov 04

[Short Movie Review] Arumdabda, Io Non Ho Paura and A Wednesday

Scribbled on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Arumdabda - Not for casual viewers

Arumdabda [Beautiful] (Korean) - Not a popcorn flick with your girlfriend. It’s not even a least bit of entertainment unless you have some deranged sense of humor. It’s a bitter truth and disturbing throughout. Hard to digest movie for people (especially males), obviously the reason for low rating on IMDB. It was really difficult for me to find out who was good and who was bad, took me whole sleepless night to came to a coherent conclusion. Watch it if you are into serious cinema. The characters are mere caricature of the social evils and the script writer Kim Ki Duk has once again proven his skills. Though since the movie is directed by different director, you will hear a lot of dialogs unlike the dialog-less movies directed by Kim Ki Duk.

End credit music takes you into a realm of intriguing music. I was hooked up till the last line of credit rolled.

Io Non Ho Paura

Io Non Ho Paura [I'm Not Scared] (Italian) - Some childhood memories are not meant to be remembered, well thats just one part of the movie. What if you were the same boy and went through an adventure or tragedy. At times it’s downright freaky and other it’s exhilarating. A criminal perspective is too added to the movie. Honestly, it will change the way you look down upon most of the crimes. Not all are done for a sh!tty reason. Watch this one and go back to the awesome childhood of Michele and at times a relatively dark one too, but to a child it doesn’t matter much. For he believed in helping without knowing the cause. Oh and don’t miss the flawless acting by her little sister, it’s amazing.

A Wednesday

A Wednesday (Bollywood) - A cult classic. I would say it’s a ray of hope among all other stereotype movies coming in hordes, remind me of floods in Halo. Surprisingly I was least expecting a movie on terrorism to do that well, but hell it’s just not about terrorism. You will see fine performances and a nice twist at the end. I wouldn’t spoil the movie for you. Except some good amount of action too, albeit realistic one. However background score was a letdown for me.

Coming next week are Taegukgi, Assembly and Mind Game ;p

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Nov 01

Convert Autocad DWG files to DXF in Ubuntu, use QCad to edit them

Scribbled on Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Some weeks back my bro switched over to Ubuntu completely. Yes, there is no dual boot system. Later my dad wanted to edit some of the Autocad files which my bro created for home plan. But then the files were made using Autocad, obviously the format was crypted DWG one. He pestered me for this. Though I was able to find a no bloatware replacement for CAD works but the program QCad was not able to open the cyptic format DWG. It requires open DXF format to edit them.

So the challenge was to convert the DWG format to DXF. Here too I couldn’t find a native application. But fear not the obvious, I had Wine at my disposal
Just downloaded any dwg dxf converter trial edition for windows and installed it in Ubuntu using Wine. Wine acts like a compatibility layer to install windows application in Linux.

Here is the visual walkthrough to the whole process.

1: INSTALL WINE

Type in terminal

sudo apt-get install wine

2: INSTALL Any DWG DXF Converter

Download the setup exe file from the below link

http://anydwg.com/dxf-to-dwg-ex.html

After downloading the exe file, double click on it or right click on it and click on “Open with Wine”. You will be prompted with installation screen.

3: CONVERT DWG to DXF

Open the Any DWG DXF converter by double clicking on desktop icon

desktop icon

Add a File…

My file is under folder “Autocad Files” on Desktop

browse to the dwg file

Now click on Browser… to set the same folder as Output Folder just for convenience

set the output folder to Autocad Files (the same where dwg file is)

yup, the output folder has changed

just a limitation of trial version, but who cares !

Just click no and browse to the folder manually

Look… there it is, the new Drawing22.DXF file

4: USE QCAD TO EDIT/OPEN IT

Install QCad by typing this command in terminal

sudo apt-get install qcad

Open it from the menu

Start editing :p Commands are similar to Autocad and there is a few minutes learning curve (as told by my bro, he has a sound knowledge of Autocad)

A typical QCad window

Browse to the DXF file

OMG its the friggin home plan :p

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Author Name: T
Author Webpage: http://visio159.com
Listening to: This Love - Pantera

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Oct 24

[Solved] S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky - Monitor Out of Frequency Error

Scribbled on Friday, October 24th, 2008

While I double clicked on desktop icon to play the game, it all sounded good except for a blank screen with audio…lol. I admit that I am playing it on onboard X3000 graphics core, but it’s the same on which I completed SoC. So what the frak is wrong with it now. Worry not, it’s a simple file editing technique to make it work.

Step by step solution is:

1. Find the user.ltx file:

Find the user.ltx file, its generally inside Documents and SettingsAll UsersShared DocumentsSTALKER-STCS directory in Windows XP, or the UsersPublicDocumentsSTALKER-STCS directory in Windows Vista inside the drive in which your operating system is installed

or

Alternatively you can find out the location of user.ltx from the fsgame.ltx file inside the game directory (S.T.A.L.K.E.R - Clear Sky). Open fsgame.ltx in text editor and read the first line, the path to the game setting folder is written there. Just navigate to that folder through File Explorer and find the User.ltx file there.

Look here is the user.ltx

2. Edit the User.ltx file:

Now search for “rs_refresh_60hz” string by opening it in notepad or any text editor and then pressing CTRL+F. There the secret lies. Just change the value written after it from “off” to “on“.
Save (CTRL+S) it and close it.

set the value to on

3. Start game and play

So what actually happend was that you have set the refresh limit and thus there is no chance of your monitor going out of frequency, unless it’s from some antique shop :p
Enjoy the game ! It’s awesome despite of bugs, which are fixed to a large extent in latest patch 1.5.05.

Author Name: T
Listening to: Everyone Alive Wants Answers - Colleen
Author Webpage: http://visio159.com
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