Yeah it's that time of year that I should wrap up my 2010, so here it goes.
The first half of 2010 has been a total drama for me. Tumbling into Adelaide hoping for a quieter life but obviously got quite the opposite. I moved as much as I did three years in Melbourne three months into Adelaide. I had a short relationship which was a total disaster giving me all sorts of troubles which lasted all the way to August. But I was lucky to have met quite a few people that helped me survive the situation and I would love to thank them dearly. Thank you Heather, Christina, Tim, Ben and Matt. I think I grew up a lot from what had happened during that as well, especially getting to know that man doesn't change and I should give up any expectation to change them at all.
The lab crew I was doing my honours project with was absolutely amazing and although I have finished the project I would always remember you guys.
And then in late April I finally settled down in my current place and things are starting to change for the better. I got to know a few loyal friends and started a sweet relationship via one of them. Although of course there are still a few dramas but now I have nothing to complain about this year.
I am gonna be greedy and start hoping for a better 2011, I know it would be hard for 2011 to be overly good because my current relationship is destined to end this year and I would also be struggling to find a job and start my new life not as a student in Australia. I do not know what's out there but hopefully I'm not afraid of it.
Happy New Year!
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Display
I have noticed that whenever the weather gets hot my computer screen would keep flashing. I don't really know why but that is certainly not something that I'd appreciate. I have made up many causes for that but it seems none of them are correct. When it first happened last year I did not link it to the hot weather, instead I blamed the power source thinking that it might be not enough power, but it does that again when I moved which eliminated that assumption. Then I couldn't live with it anymore because it's just annoying to see the screen go black for a second or two every twenty seconds. I checked all the possible settings I get access to and found that the Catalyst control centre offers an 'alternative DVI mode' switch which seemed to work, but not every time though. Then I thought the problem might lay with the fact that the cable's not properly transferring data as it should as it was a cheap ass HDMI cable that I had, then I spent quite a bit of money and bought a proper DVI-HDMI cable instead of using the converter supplied with the graphic card (there was only two DVI sockets and an S-Video/S-PDIF outlet on the Radeon HD4850, and I used a 22" Samsung TV which only has HDMI or VGA to connect to computers), nope none of them helped.
And here I am now thinking the problem is gone, simply by switching back to good old VGA (still requires a converter) instead of HDMI connection, and the problem seems to be gone. Only thing is that after being so spoiled by the HDMI I could surely notice inferior graphics that VGA offered which I wasn't aware before. But well, having a slightly worse graphics is still way better than that annoying flashing screen.
And here I am now thinking the problem is gone, simply by switching back to good old VGA (still requires a converter) instead of HDMI connection, and the problem seems to be gone. Only thing is that after being so spoiled by the HDMI I could surely notice inferior graphics that VGA offered which I wasn't aware before. But well, having a slightly worse graphics is still way better than that annoying flashing screen.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Internet Security
I have never been that cautious about my internet security, until around midday yesterday.
My housemate called and told me I'd been sending advertisement emails to him with my Gmail account which I obviously hadn't. I checked my inbox immediately and found a few 'refused to deliver' notifications and in the sent mail was a lot of spams I did not authorize sending. I acted fast and changed my Gmail password immediately but harm's already done so I had to also post an update on facebook apologizing to whoever that might be affected for something that is not really my fault.
While running on a full system virus scan I checked the Gmail access history. There was one log in from Henan province, China which I do not recognize. That's it. My Gmail password was compromised and started embarrassing me and all whomever I have contacted during the years. I feel deeply sorry for what happened but turned out my computer was not infected with virus or Trojan to the best knowledge of AntiVir. I do not know how my account info could be leaked to some random people in China, but this had raised deep concerns. My Gmail account is like the most important account to me on the internet for my youtube, google services, blogger, facebook login etc, plus bills and receipts from mobile provider, online shops... I do not know whether the intruders have accessed those but I'd be deeply worried if they did.
At least for now the account seems safe and no further spams were seen sending out of it, I do need to be way more careful from now on to protect my password and stuff, and probably create more weird and hard to remember passwords for myself :S
The attack also brought some surprise. It seems that even if I deleted some of the contacts and their messages completely those people were still able to receive those spams, of course they are not very welcomed in my life and they obviously knew it. I started receiving hate mails which I did not know whether they directing at me or the spam, but whichever I chose to ignore. They are out of my life and they had better stay that way. I am happy with what I turned out to be at the moment, without them.
My housemate called and told me I'd been sending advertisement emails to him with my Gmail account which I obviously hadn't. I checked my inbox immediately and found a few 'refused to deliver' notifications and in the sent mail was a lot of spams I did not authorize sending. I acted fast and changed my Gmail password immediately but harm's already done so I had to also post an update on facebook apologizing to whoever that might be affected for something that is not really my fault.
While running on a full system virus scan I checked the Gmail access history. There was one log in from Henan province, China which I do not recognize. That's it. My Gmail password was compromised and started embarrassing me and all whomever I have contacted during the years. I feel deeply sorry for what happened but turned out my computer was not infected with virus or Trojan to the best knowledge of AntiVir. I do not know how my account info could be leaked to some random people in China, but this had raised deep concerns. My Gmail account is like the most important account to me on the internet for my youtube, google services, blogger, facebook login etc, plus bills and receipts from mobile provider, online shops... I do not know whether the intruders have accessed those but I'd be deeply worried if they did.
At least for now the account seems safe and no further spams were seen sending out of it, I do need to be way more careful from now on to protect my password and stuff, and probably create more weird and hard to remember passwords for myself :S
The attack also brought some surprise. It seems that even if I deleted some of the contacts and their messages completely those people were still able to receive those spams, of course they are not very welcomed in my life and they obviously knew it. I started receiving hate mails which I did not know whether they directing at me or the spam, but whichever I chose to ignore. They are out of my life and they had better stay that way. I am happy with what I turned out to be at the moment, without them.
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