Marowak's Lawn: August 2011

Dragon Nest

Dragon Nest is an action role-playing game that incorporates elements of classic RPGssuch as Zelda, Grandia and even the Final Fantasy, a Japanese manga style graphicsattractive, and MMORPGs alike. It has a quickly-play style with a dynamic fighting combos and great visual impact. With third-person view, in combat you can switch to first person perspective.
It can be played with keyboard and mouse or with Jostick.

As you saw the game is a hack & slash with air to Ragnarok Online (no variabilityobviously)

The game works with a system of "combos" so to speak, but not as the CABAL or othergames where you have to follow the sequence as default and press the same string of buttons forever.
The game is very fast and the number of movements that can be done, and magic skills, allow us to attack non-stop and in the sequence we pretend.

This type of non-stop combos is what, for me, diferences this game from all the others, because you can keep enemies or characters (PVP) bouncing off the floor unable to defend themselves.
Obviously that PVP is not as easy to keep the combo infinitely.

Each server has a number of channels, such as the world map, the Coliseum (PVP) with ladder system / equipment and other maps that have not yet come to explore.

The Game 1997

Original Title: The Game

Duration: 128 minutes

Genre: Thriller
Director: David Fincher (The Social Network, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Fight Club, among others).

Cast: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn, Deborah Kara Unger.

Personally I think a thriller is good when it keeps you in suspense all the time and you don't know what's coming up next. That's why i belive this movie is brilliant: It has all the necessary ingredients for a good movie including unexpected twists in the story. It will keep your ass on the chair from the minute 1 until the end.

Synopsis:

Everything begins when a lonely and embittered millionaire named Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) receives as a birthday gift from his younger brother (Sean Penn) an invitation to a sort of an exclusive club where it is promised that will change your life. Giving up to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS (Consumer Recreation Services). Rapidly after that he discovers that he has been enrolled in a game - "a profound life experience" that begins quietly but soon erupts in a rush of devastating events.

The slow motion sequence at the end is also well done and this has got to be one of the best endings of all time.

Trailer:

Cornell Notes

This wednesday i'll start going to college so i thought that i should improve my study methods (i'm really desorganized and lazy =( ). Surfing the internet i came across with the Cornell note taking system, and i found that it could be helpful so i decided to share the knowledge of this system to everyone that never heard of it.

A little wiki intro:
The Cornell method provides a systematic format for condensing and organizing notes. It was devised in the 1950s by Walter Pauk, an education professor at Cornell University. Pauk advocated its use in his best-selling 'How to Study in College'.

Divide and Conquer!

Note Taking Area: Record the lecture as fully and as meaningfully as possible here using brief and concise telegraphic sentences. Try to abbreviate common-long words to save time.
Cue Column: You should write here after the reading. Here goes all the main ideas, questions that actually makes you think (try to predict the exam items), important relationships between pieces of information and reminders. The main idea of this column is to write down info that help connect ideas listed in the notes section. When you're studying, you will look at these cues to help you recall the salient facts in your notes, so keep that in mind when you create your cues.
Summaries: Write a summary of the main ideas using your own words.

Examples:

http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/cornellintro.pdf

Cornell Method PDF Generator: http://www.eleven21.com/notetaker/

Very useful tool to create your own 'custom' Cornell Page.

PDF Template: http://www.freewebs.com/lanzbom/cornellnotes.pdf

Creating an Ad-hoc network - Windows 7

I'm really sory for not posting daily, last week was a hell for me. I was really busy and i didn't had time for anything.
Today i'm making a mini guide to create an Ad-hoc network to share internet from one pc to another without the need of nothing more than a wireless adapter.

Asuming that you have already installed the drivers the first step is crating a new network on the pc that has internet.

Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center

Click on:

'Set up a new connection or network'.

A new windows will pop-up. Choose:

'Set up a wireless ad hoc (computer-to-computer) network.'

Here you should choose one of the 3 options. I'm going to chose an open network (there's no need for any security since this is only an example and i'm not going to use this network. You should asign WEP/WPA2).

So we created the network, but it' is not displayed in Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center.

Why? Well since this is a computer-to-computer network you'll need that someone else (other computer) connects to the network. Lets do it.

Go to the computer that does NOT have internet access.

Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center > Connect to a Network.

I named the network Guide-Blog.

Windows XP GUI

This is how it looks like in W7

Ok we've created the network and both pcs are connected to it. What's next?

On the pc that already has internet.
Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center