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by benson
24 Jan 2010, 18:05
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: The Norton antivirus software topic
Replies: 9
Views: 2211

Re: The Norton antivirus software topic

now i am using linux, so absolutely no need for any anti-virus programs.. when i was using windows, i didn't get any anti-virus softwares, just because the virus are so obvious to prevent.. i only installed ad-aware at that time because the malwares are easier to be installed in the computer.. the m...
by benson
24 Jan 2010, 18:02
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Best Browser? [Poll reset with new options 2010/01/22]
Replies: 262
Views: 54122

Re: Best Browser? [Poll reset with new options 2010/01/22]

i am using firefox, mainly because of its extensions.
honestly firefox takes up quite a lot of RAM and also is not as fast as chrome to load a page, but the extensions simply rock.

and.. quite good that nobody votes for IE :beer:
by benson
6 Dec 2009, 18:10
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: What have you learned today ?
Replies: 260
Views: 45582

Re: What have you learned today ?

Check your spam folder when you are waiting an e-mail. I sent an e-mail to my English teacher to ask her if my "thesis statement" was correct, for my final oral evaluation. I sent her two different thesis statements, asking which one of them was the most appropriate. Finally, I picked one...
by benson
5 Dec 2009, 06:40
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Programming
Replies: 63
Views: 14843

Re: Programming

1. Do you make some programming ? ( not necessarly VB.net ) - C -> PHP with MySQL (and html, css) -> Java -> ActionScript -> R -> Ruby on Rails -> VB(A) -> a little bit python 2. Which program do you use ? mostly vim 3. What's your greatest programming achievement ? got gold medals in 3 consecutive ...
by benson
19 Oct 2008, 17:42
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: WINDOWS - what version do you have?
Replies: 45
Views: 8485

Re: WINDOWS - what version do you have?

tijsjoris wrote:I have windows ubuntu. :o
i have ubuntu (and xp pro in virtual box) :)
by benson
30 Aug 2008, 18:42
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: School/work starts =0(
Replies: 35
Views: 5889

Re: School/work starts =0(

Mine will start tmr, surely a hard semester for me, and I don´t want to skip any lessons. Studying Insurance, Financial and Actuarial Analysis in University
by benson
29 Aug 2008, 19:47
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Facebook
Replies: 36
Views: 8411

Re: Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=693341046

btw, who are using the new facebook design?
by benson
16 Aug 2008, 18:15
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Post your Desktop here
Replies: 311
Views: 74836

Re: Post your Desktop here

As I remember, I had posted my desktop here maybe 3 or 4 years ago..

now I have switched to ubuntu, and I can still play elma with wine =]

http://bensonby2.no-ip.org:8080/Desktop.png
by benson
16 Aug 2008, 18:11
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: HTML helping
Replies: 159
Views: 27665

Re: HTML helping

Soulved A but not B :P I need to know how to erase X from a textdocument with PHP basically, where X is a specific text. :P Someone knows how to do it? for me, I would read the whole file by file_get_contents and then use str_replace to delete it.. finally write all the content back to the file.. p...
by benson
13 May 2007, 15:34
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: HTML helping
Replies: 159
Views: 27665

I'd like to know the best way to include music (html probably) in web pages, which can be played in different platforms with different players. (besides flash)
and how about if the format of the song is asf (which cannot be changed)?
by benson
13 May 2007, 15:24
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: how big is your
Replies: 133
Views: 37227

I got kinda scared here, I didn't see the poll and just saw the topic name "how big is your" and then 8-ball saying "if you're not lazy, post a screenshot/image" and having a link to an image. me too when i see only the topic luckily i read the poll immediately after entering th...
by benson
13 May 2007, 14:54
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Post your Desktop here
Replies: 311
Views: 74836

I don't get how peolpe can survive with such empty desktops. It's so much easier with like every folder on the desktop, instead of every folder in another folder. Well, I guess it's all about tase. I like to enjoy a clean desktop wallpaper. All the things I need to access is just a click or two awa...
by benson
7 Apr 2007, 18:55
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Few "nice" mini games =)
Replies: 18
Views: 4172

game 1 is different each time what I tried new games and went same route so it's not even fun, luck based shit haha n00b =P.. I can finish it each time.. you just have to figure out teh game really? I found this also. but i can still find some similarities for the possible routes. Yet the number of...
by benson
7 Apr 2007, 06:24
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Few "nice" mini games =)
Replies: 18
Views: 4172

game 1.. i used 2XX steps to cover all A to Y, but failed to get the Z still, now step 500.
by benson
6 Apr 2007, 13:33
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: share with you a famous Hong Kong video clip "Bus Uncle
Replies: 7
Views: 2240

share with you a famous Hong Kong video clip "Bus Uncle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSHziqJWYcM an incident happened already a year ago. Just wanna share with you.. Hong Kong Culture...? "The Bus Uncle" (Chinese: 巴士阿叔) is a Cantonese video clip of an argument between an old man and a young bespecled man aboard a bus in Hong Kong on April 27...
by benson
6 Apr 2007, 12:39
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: The personal questions
Replies: 5463
Views: 823069

tijsjoris wrote: Are you a bit of a cook?
No, sadly. I wish I know, I don't know in the future whether I will have the motivation to learn.

How often do you have dreams, and bad dreams?
by benson
18 Feb 2007, 06:14
Forum: Feedback
Topic: About City (Hong Kong) in Player's Profiles
Replies: 4
Views: 2987

About City (Hong Kong) in Player's Profiles

There are two options under "City" in Identity (Under China)

One is "Hong Kong" and the other is "Hongkong".

I am shocked as I just discovered that there are 4 players from Hong Kong. (good news! yeah!)

They ought to be unified.
by benson
10 Feb 2007, 13:40
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Let's Share Musical Creations!
Replies: 13
Views: 3948

I like to arrange songs and occasionally compose songs too.
I have composed a song for graduation (with no lyrics = =, that's because of inefficiency)
That's not really good indeed..

check it out at http://abmusic.no-ip.org
by benson
23 Feb 2006, 12:37
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Girlfriends .... lost one , got new one, trouble, write here
Replies: 677
Views: 176306

i am in trouble...
a Seconday 1 student loves me so much, but i don't know if i love her or not (as i think i am quite slow to "warm up" in that). i have some good feel with her, but it seems so strange as i do nothing but we seem to be developing our relationship...
by benson
2 Feb 2006, 06:10
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: The personal questions
Replies: 5463
Views: 823069

8-ball wrote:fastest vodka drinker o/

what's your worst habit
always not drinking enough water

what's the most successful acheivement you ever made? (not in elma)
by benson
31 Jan 2006, 18:10
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Post your Desktop here
Replies: 311
Views: 74836

Here's my Desktop: http://bensonby.no-ip.org/files/desktop.jpg -- if the above link doesn't work, i.e. my server is shut down, i.e. i have gone to sleep, use this link: http://benson.host.sk/desktop.jpg (windows in chinese~ as i'm from HK, yet for other programs, i prefer english than chinese, the o...
by benson
24 Aug 2005, 05:13
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: What computer games you're playing?
Replies: 647
Views: 170114

elma in most of time...
sometimes I may play VOS (virtual orchestra studio)
no others... a year ago I had played NBA for some time
by benson
24 Aug 2005, 05:10
Forum: General
Topic: How long did...
Replies: 24
Views: 5007

Mortificator wrote:play for 4 years , havent completed apple hardvest , not because i cant , just aint feeling it
what's your tt neglecting AH?
not feeling it? I finally finished it... with the help of replay and map
by benson
13 Aug 2005, 06:16
Forum: General
Topic: How long did...
Replies: 24
Views: 5007

I have played seriously for... I think... about 6 months
(I have played it for 2 years already...but didn't know moposite nor techniques)

I have just completed all the levels and tt under 60 (on 9th August 2005)
p.s. they were done together because I didn't want to play AH :P
by benson
12 Aug 2005, 11:43
Forum: General
Topic: How do you introduce this game to your friends?
Replies: 19
Views: 6125

The_BoneLESS wrote:
Juski wrote:Play public: Not allowed here neither, but who doesnt do it?
The chinese people are too respectfull... they would never do that :wink:
the society has changed... the children nowadays are really naughty...
but... I am very obedient 8)
by benson
11 Aug 2005, 11:55
Forum: General
Topic: How do you introduce this game to your friends?
Replies: 19
Views: 6125

Thanks for all your opinions. When my friends visit me, I will show others replays and let them try. But it is quite rare that my friends visit me, therefore I can only describe it or give them some snapshots. Will "Movie: Elma - External Ways" be useful? Describe the game in a humorous wa...
by benson
10 Aug 2005, 07:59
Forum: General
Topic: How do you introduce this game to your friends?
Replies: 19
Views: 6125

How do you introduce this game to your friends?

i found it quite difficult to ask others to play... how can we attract them to play? if I say it is very interesting and addictive, people may be annoyed... but if not, they won't know how interesting it is. also, when people ask me what this game is about, I just can't describe the game in a simple...
by benson
9 Aug 2005, 08:40
Forum: Replays and times
Topic: New internal times
Replies: 14968
Views: 2641072

eventually finished AH: 3:00:68 a poor time... though it is the best among my team i need to collect all the apples in two runs, as i don't know how to do brutal volt, I have tried the level about that in the tutorial level pack, but still can't... also spiral: 51:88 -> 49:67 the ending is always ba...
by benson
6 Aug 2005, 15:17
Forum: Replays and times
Topic: New internal times
Replies: 14968
Views: 2641072

internals (1/8) flat track: 17:73 -> 17:46 (improved beginning) over and under: 38:12 -> 37:44 (improved upper part) long haul: 56:54 -> 46:71 (still cannot touch the last apple with the head...) hiflyer: 41:01 -> 39:44 (2/8) tag: 25:51 -> 24:14 tunnel terror: 1:30:93 -> 1:18:15 (finally forced myse...
by benson
6 Aug 2005, 07:41
Forum: General
Topic: what level are you hoyling now?
Replies: 294
Views: 69337

a few days ago, I planned to start playing internals from the first one. The target is the best time in my team... (the time is not good at all...) now I have played the first 16 levels, and 12 of them are the best among my team! p.s. my team has not submitted to moposite... because of the poor time...
by benson
6 Aug 2005, 07:29
Forum: Replays and times
Topic: Difference in Standards of target times of internal and olp
Replies: 8
Views: 2747

SveinR wrote:
milagros wrote:i have almost all pro (i have to check) in internals and much worse in olp..
And I guess the amount of playing time is similar? =)
for me, I played much more internal than olp... I just started playing olp recently
by benson
31 Jul 2005, 15:04
Forum: Replays and times
Topic: Difference in Standards of target times of internal and olp
Replies: 8
Views: 2747

Difference in Standards of target times of internal and olp

(both are from moposite) internal: http://www.moposite.com/misc_text_files/target_elma.txt olp: http://www.moposite.com/misc_text_files/target_olp.txt Let me list my stats on them. internal: I have played 52 levels so far, but... only 31 Beginner 5 Ok On the contrary, olp: I have played 24 levels, I...
by benson
14 Jul 2005, 14:35
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Who plays instruments?
Replies: 343
Views: 56972

i play piano, recorder, harmonica, violin, snare drum and some chinese instruments too snare drum, thats hard.... i played that in primary school's marching band. There are no difficult skills in that... maybe we were all very little I haven't played that for 5 years already, some of my techniques ...
by benson
30 May 2005, 15:43
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Who plays instruments?
Replies: 343
Views: 56972

In Hong Kong, all the students must learn recorder (taught in music lesson, from primary school). It was originally a good thing, but since the techniques that the school teaches are so little (just all very basic things), this makes students think recorder is just a simple instrument. The status of...
by benson
30 May 2005, 15:34
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: What web browser do you use?
Replies: 82
Views: 17365

Before using Firefox, I was using TheWorld Browser.
It is a nice browser. Small in size but is simple to use, have good and easy management in Tab Browsing.

http://www.ioage.com/home.htm
by benson
30 May 2005, 15:28
Forum: General
Topic: national feel in elma
Replies: 36
Views: 6557

bkhenson: me neither. But I guess he wants to know, wether you have beaten all the levels, and if so, you could tell your TT. (Inside elma folder, stats.txt) And it's nice to finally see people from the far east. Be sure to stick around some years! :wink: I haven't play all the levels. Originally b...
by benson
30 May 2005, 13:42
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Who plays instruments?
Replies: 343
Views: 56972

to play hot cross buns: ur thumb must be on the hole on the back the it goes, 1. one on the first hole, then two on the two holes, then three on the first three holes 2. repeat step 1 plz 3. 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 4. step one grats u have learned hot cross buns, for a lesson on mary had a little lamb, plz...
by benson
30 May 2005, 13:31
Forum: General
Topic: national feel in elma
Replies: 36
Views: 6557

I am from Hong Kong... but this game seems to be absolutely unfamous in Hong Kong nor China. I don't know if there are anyone here who are Chinese Now, only my brother, I and one of my classmate play it, we are still working at internals (only started to play level 19-54 in last September), I had a...
by benson
30 May 2005, 12:38
Forum: Replays and times
Topic: New internal times
Replies: 14968
Views: 2641072

Circuitous: 40:39 -> 37:38 The Steppes 39:31 -> 35:97 Uphill Battle 29:24 -> 26:56 Upside Down 1:27:62 -> 1:15:34 Precarious 34:25 -> 32:17 Hangman 42:38 -> 19:60 Due to my hdd crash, original records of hangman (19:1X), precarious (31:74) are lost :cry: :cry: :cry: I am still slower than before
by benson
30 May 2005, 12:29
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: What web browser do you use?
Replies: 82
Views: 17365

tijsjoris wrote:
8-ball wrote:firefox but browsing lauta with opera for some reason.
hmm no one uses konqueror, so no one has linux here?
For linux I used Opera, not konquerer, konquerer sucks.
I use firefox both in Windows and Linux, but I seem to have encountered problem of firefox's cpu usage
by benson
30 May 2005, 12:26
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Music Trackers/Compossers/Editors
Replies: 28
Views: 5729

tijsjoris wrote:Isn't audacity like that too?
Thanks for sharing.
When I read its features, it seems to be even more powerful, and it is absolutely free. I may uninstall Goldwave :roll:
by benson
30 May 2005, 12:23
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Who plays instruments?
Replies: 343
Views: 56972

oh my dear... you don't know what recorder is

let me give you a photo of this instrument (it has a long history, already used in Baroque peiod)

Image
by benson
30 May 2005, 12:07
Forum: General
Topic: How many people were fooled by #43 Hehe?
Replies: 67
Views: 11812

When I first played this level, I was tricked by both arrows=.= for the first one, it said "right". I don't want to follow the instruction and want to know what things are on the left, so I drive to the left... for the latter one, I thought it was correct, so I followed it. But... Is there...
by benson
30 May 2005, 11:52
Forum: General
Topic: How did you find Elma?
Replies: 27
Views: 4959

I first played this game on a shareware CD. At that time, I even didn't know the structure of the game, I just knew to go to the tutorial level, and... the first level WarmUp in multi player (with my brother). As you know, mult-playing cannot get you to the next level, so we don't know the game cons...
by benson
30 May 2005, 11:43
Forum: General
Topic: national feel in elma
Replies: 36
Views: 6557

I am from Hong Kong... but this game seems to be absolutely unfamous in Hong Kong nor China. I don't know if there are anyone here who are Chinese Now, only my brother, I and one of my classmate play it, we are still working at internals (only started to play level 19-54 in last September), I had as...
by benson
30 May 2005, 10:53
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Music Trackers/Compossers/Editors
Replies: 28
Views: 5729

I found Goldwave a great editor, although it's a shareware, it can be used like a freeware with full functionality.
It has lots of functions (like mixing two songs, reducing vocal, adjusting volume, adjusting speed or even playing backwards), and can save audio files to mp3, wma, ogg, wav, etc.
by benson
30 May 2005, 10:50
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: What is the best program to listen mp3's while playing?
Replies: 33
Views: 5141

wmp: not so good in effects, and nearly no plugins... its power is not very great, i don't use it winamp: lots of plugins, a great player, but i don't use it because of its layout (i don't much like it...) iTunes: a well-designed player, with a lot of good functions and easy management, i am current...
by benson
30 May 2005, 10:45
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Who plays instruments?
Replies: 343
Views: 56972

i play piano, recorder, harmonica, violin, snare drum and some chinese instruments too
by benson
30 May 2005, 10:42
Forum: Non-Elma related discussion
Topic: Midi to wav converter
Replies: 5
Views: 1575

you can use winamp for that. in preference, In plugins->output, select "nullsoft disk writer output" (click configue for more options such as output directory) In plugins->input, select "nullsoft midi player", click configue and choose the device "Direct Music/Microsoft Synt...