音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

The fan arrived much faster than I expected, and I performed the fan transplant 10 days ago. As the second time, it all went well. I could tell that I relied much less on photos of where each part originally locates, also I did find the (possible) location for one of the extra screws I left over last time.
But it meanwhile went more brutally -- I know I become less careful after knowing how things are arranged -- that the biggest accident was dropping the hard-drive onto the floor, from a between-table-top-and-chair height. It was dropped along with the metal rack for holding it to the machine, so hopefully it's not physically damaged due to the shock.
Though to replace the new fan was a bit hard because the working area for inserting the cables back was rather small, otherwise the overall time was obviously reduced when I put the shell back -- and then I noticed there's a loose cable sticking out of the machine so I had to open all screws again to figure it out. At least the loosen cable was not at an inner part so just opening the shell was enough.

Next, turning on the machine to have a test. (At the very first time of disassembly I was even worrying if it would explode due to miss/incorrectly connected cables.) But seemed it didn't read the hard-drive, which was soon found to be that I didn't properly connect the HD at all (only 2 screws to reach the HD, easy check).
While another problem was the keyboard turned to not work at all (not so important as a small portion of the keyboard had been already died for quite a while and my USB-keyboard works fine), a week later I opened it again and found it was me who failed to firmly insert the cable to the slot.
Once the HD connection was confirmed, there was no more issues to boot to the OS, although it turned a little slow -- could be due to the potential HD damage. As the disk usage before the old fan died was always high, it didn't catch more attention until I found it plays audio files with a lag almost every a few seconds, plus the system keeps saying I need to reboot for a disk check, but no actions seemed to be actually done after multiple reboots.

More strangely, it's drive D instead of C being the problematic one.
Yesterday I tried two chkdsk commands, one was in the morning and I left it running but saw it got stuck at ~6% 8 hours later. Another in the evening I retried and noticed it was repairing same files as I saw in the morning run, and quickly got stuck at the same progress, 6%. (Both run I typed chkdsk d: /r hoping it can do the repair. Didn't really know every option, simply saw using "/r" on a webpage's example.)
Then This morning I eventually grabbed the repair disk and chkdsk-ed from its advanced repair command window, without "/r" followed by "/scan" as suggested by the system.

Even it looks solved, the audio-playing problem remains. (Tried three players, all the same. While it plays 1080p video smoothly.)
Fine, I do have my old phone as a backup music player. ~_~

When my 9-year-old VAIO's fan begin to spin like mad, I got a hunch that it's getting over -- while my hunch immediately became true as the fan soon sounded like a mini-chainsaw.
With several testings in following days, it takes over 10 minutes to start up, slow response to every command, the disk usage is always 100%, plus that when the fan enters chainsaw mode, everything except the mouse cursor freezes.
So it was safe to conclude the fan was undone.

I'm not surprised, nor in a panic -- most files on that machine are also on the cloud. Actual loss I can recall would only include the DMC5 OST that I downloaded but haven't unzipped yet, and a few anime episodes (that I nearly dropped), as well as some RSS feeds (should have it exported long time ago).

However, it's also not what I expected.

-- There's no Surface book 3 yet! (ﾟдﾟ)！
Which means I need to accept using my current Surface 3 (works well but 4 GB RAM is apparently not enough for my daily abuse), or try to fix/replace the near-death fan.

On Sunday, I thus experienced my first time laptop dissection.
Of course before that I had no real experience in dealing with computer hardware.

Though it was fun (glad I do have screwdrivers in different sizes) and I made to an okay end.

No wonder (literally) everything needs a clean-up, that I almost dump the entire fan plus the whole motherboard into ethanol (what I actually ended up with was consuming half bottle of compressed air).

The fan indeed had physical problem more than a clean-up. Even by spining it by hand it was clear something was wrong around the axle.
Knowing it's better to have it replaced, I wanted to see what would happen with the deep-clean -- result was as expected, that nothing seemed to change.

Good enough that Amazon does have fans that are likely to be the same (or fairly close). Once it arrives it would answer whether I can keep abusing this VAIO or downgrade it to another external hard drive.

(While one thing I don't understand is why I had 3 extra screws left after I reassembled it...)

↓ My current setup. Never thought you can arrange two displays vertically. _(:3」∠)_

↓ Earlier recent things: replacements of my torn-off messenger bag.


why ideology? watch this..
Fabric dyeing and paintings are also fun! |ω・｀)

Since the entire last years days were much less motivated in the aspect of writing. That I never really enjoyed writing (actually hated it especially when I "have to"), and, although it depends, I do have a good memory in things that are special to me, it really doesn't matter whether or not I write it down (and reveal more flaws in my writing skill/grammar. So guess it's fare.
I still write if I'm motivated enough. Having a written record of something, regardless if it will be read or not again, serves as a good archive to back up the brain when it goes temporarily blank.

Since the Sunday about 2 weeks ago, I suddenly noticed Kojiro (cat) began to have his tail hanging down. It did ring in my head. Back to the end of January, I found he occasionally cries out when I pat his rear. Even earlier, I've seen him rub his butt on the floor (looks very funny) but it was so infrequent that I didn't link it to something unusual at all.
Then I did some quick online search, and seemed this could be a sign for a hidden problem, ranging from minor to life-threating.
I had no idea how it could be triggered. He's indoor, no real fight with other cats. The only accidents I've even seen that happened to him was when he rolling on the top of fridge, he fell off (and I did laugh). Yet, he otherwise appeared totally normal. He eats, plays, runs and even jumps without any noticeable problem. However, on the following Monday, I found him trying to hide in the corner more than usual (though it could also be my imagination), and when I'm sure he's happy when I get home, he rolls but still keeps his tail down. I do know this paragraph looks fuzzy in terms of the tense but I don't bother to have them fixed perfectly...

Fine, I'll take you to the vet (I wished I'm the vet), and I booked an appointment in a week after. Not in a rush, as my hunch was this won't be that serious, based on how he behaves.
But then, right before the day to meet the vet, I saw him licking on his penis! This indeed scared me, as everything I found online doesn't indicate it's a normal behaviour.
Eventually, on the vet day. Although I believe he's more scared by taking him out than his potential problem. The vet didn't observe any physical problem on his body, so we decided to have a urine test. At least this is a good sign, no significant problem. I was told to wait for one day until the test result comes out.
Next day, the email from the vet said clearly, the urine test turned to be completely normal. As for his strange behaviour of the hanging down tail, I was told to keep watching him and spot more unusual signs.

What a relief.
However, the unexpected things happened the next day.
His tail raises as nothing ever happened.

Good of course, but...
You little bastard, you shall pay me back the vet fee for nothing!! #°Д°/

Now, the next event.

Totally personal though, Handel > Holst >> Billy Joel (who that is? ^^;)
And I'm now regretting that I should have brought my voice recorder to make a sound note. But I will for sure if it happens again!

Also, after the concert, someone told me that he was following me bowing, and he said I'm actually good. Even I'm not experienced at all, this is for sure something I'm really happy to hear!

Great 10 weeks and I appreciate and love this community. Looking forward the 6 week program in April♪

A week of coding, googling and letting my cats interrupting and sleeping onto my keyboard, it's all done now, at least based on my localhost testing. Not improving too much since last year's attempt, I still don't like how I have to quote all key names in a php array. Second, there's no difference between the so-called string, array and hash elements in php (and the foreach loop syntax), which always cause confusion. Third, it's so annoying among isset(), empty(), is_null() and boolean, even with the official chart of comparison. Especially that variables aren't defined first before values being assigned, it's always so much typing to make sure something is there, or not there.
But perl indeed brought me lots of trouble regarding to UTF8. So much that eventually convinced me to remaster all codes using php.
Which I call as a "remaster".

Nonetheless, Perl is much better (confidence).
Therefore a few scripts stays in perl. Even though there's a chance they can be remastered in php, it may actually take another week away from me.
But somehow I being to miss uncle Gael and vicar Laurence now... |ω・｀)ﾉ ﾔｧ

Just tried to make some cookies using kinako and mochiko (which I bought years ago and appear to be expired as the labels read), and they turn out in a horrible shape (the taste is okay though).
The good thing is I've finally get rid of these old stocks, and I swear I won't buy weird things anymore. (# ﾟдﾟ)

前の記事を見て、もう半年じゃないですか！！
お久し振りですね、ちゃんと生きています‥(´∀｀；)
そして今より宣言します、本気にマジで
ニチジョウに戻します

ちょうどもいい時期で、前の連休に、「ニチジョウ」に戻る前に、まず自分の一番大事なデバイスから始めようと思いました…

It all began with this (top):

Although since quite a while ago I've noticed my drive C kept showing me red, sometimes it returned to blue for whatever reason I couldn't tell. But more recently, I never saw the red went away.
That annoys me a lot. It's drive C, I don't know what would happen if it runs out of space (I have a piece of memory back to the Vista [or XP] era seeing only a few MB's left due to my mis configuration for file exporting).

Time to have the whole drive repartitioned.

I believe I had the same idea before due to the same issue, but I didn't actually perform the partition at all because I didn't want to reinstall the OS, knowing there's no way to enlarge the system volume size without affecting the OS.
While still doubting about that can be done, I googled to look for an update.
I indeed got some possibilities, but none of them worked, just as expected.

The main reason could be my drive, for some reason, had 4 partitions in a weird order: system reserved, drive C, OEM reserved, drive D. To only shrink drive D won't create spare space continuous to drive C, and doesn't do anything with enlarging it either.
Yet I had totally no idea where the OEM reserved partition came from. As a few years when I upgraded to Windows 8, I should had already wiped out the entire drive, including all OEM-related stuff. It could come up again with Windows 10, but I barely track my drive status.
Nonetheless, I'm not amused by my right prediction, as the repartition + installation were doomed.
Okay, at least it's just tedious but not difficult.

I think I never reinstalled Win10 from scratch. The first thing I worried was the license. Because initially bought a product key (when it was on sale) for Win8, which only worked if you were upgrading from Win7 (no clean install option available). Later, I applied for the free upgrade from Win8.1 to Win10 immediately after knowing the announcement of release. During the period of using Win8/8.1, I only had one time of re-installation (simply because I wanted to do a partition??). I remembered I had to find out my disk to install Win7 first... xD;;

So as directed by the official instruction, I went to download the media creation tool, and double-clicked and waited it to get ready...

But I'm going to reinstall the OS due to low drive C capacity, why the hell you ask me for at least 8 GB on drive C in order to create the bootable USB?! u_u

Then I attempted to use my Surface 3, and soon realised it only had Win10 Home, not Pro. OTL

I ended up with deleting some softwares and disabled hibernation that I never used at all, and my drive C finally had enough space--roughly 8.3 GB--available, so close!

After deleting all existing partitions, including those reserved by the system/OEM, the installation itself went so smooth. When it brought me to the new desktop, I was even surprised that everything worked fine, without a single action from me regarding to drivers installation, which used to bring some headache.

I know the word that I first learned never betrays me! ( ･´ｰ･｀)ﾄﾞﾔ

As shown earlier (middle), the size of a clean installed Win10 is roughly 20G.
Next task was to install programs. Again, not hard, just tedious.

During this, I encountered a bug (?) that doesn't allow me to change the default program at all. But it was solved by uninstalling the only update (KB4456655) I installed after the fresh OS installation. As I'm writing this, I've done my settings and updated back to KB4456655, and nothing wrong happened yet (nor did I any file association).

As long as it works.

The only sad thing was I lost my RSS feed collection, which was linked to Opera add-on and is not synced with Opera account.

I left localhost related configurations at the very end, as I'm no server-expert, and I don't want to browse their manuals at all.
Lucky enough, my old memos for Apache and Php still work, with only minor changes according to newer releases of these programs.

Additional Apache memos:

• load module rewrite
• for <Directory> Option is simplified to "Options +ExecCGI"
• DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
• change location for writing error logs
• DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
• ignore windows shebang for apache: add anywhere in "httpd.conf": ScriptInterpreterSource Registry-Strict
  • also add perl path in regedit [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT] for [.pl .cgi]
  • HCR\.pl\Shell\ExecCGI\Command\(Default) => D:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe
• enable php: LoadModule php7_module D:/kiyoland/server/php/php7apache2_4.dll << phpX, version number needs to fit
• php.ini: enable PDO's sqli

I wished that was the end of my server configuration, but things not always go that easy.
Some perl/cgi files didn't work, while some did. The reason was simple, the script does load other modules located in its own working directory, and it was fixed by adding a line of use lib $ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT}.'/cgi-bin/';. While all PHP files run okay..

Last, I finally got the motivation to change default icons for all plain text based file formats, especially those I've linked to notepad++.
Back to the XP period, changing icons was easy, but since a point (Vista? Win8? 10? that I can't tell), it never worked as simple as before. Meanwhile, I'm also okay with most default icons, same for the green lizard cutie. However, it's visually annoying to locate a PM file out of a cluster of CGI+PL+PHP+TXT files, worse if some file names begin with the same letter.

After digging a little bit online, I learned that the registry method that Microsoft provided doesn't work if the file is associated, while some simple 3rd party helpers didn't seem to be useful at all.
Superuser was much more helpful (that answer should be voted as the top!). I've learned how to tweak into such auto_file_opening_anchors, although I almost broke the part for xml during tests.

After a couple of tests, I was confident to batch change the icons...

At last, I just want to mention K439b, which is used as a piece of BGM in 2BRO.'s videos. Before knowing the title, I had a hunch that the style is like Mozart, yet never thought it was indeed Mozart! (*´∀｀*)

これからは、お絵描きの時間だ！！ネムイ…

いい加減に「ふつう」に戻ろうと思いつつ、ようやく今日を境に言ったん立て直そうと決めたんだゾイ！
このままじゃもう何がやっているのか分からなくなっちゃうから。
でも、私は割と記憶力がいいから、別に一々書かなくても「たいせつなこと」は忘れることはない。
→つまり、わざと書いておくことは、とある意味でそんなに大したことない？
↑いやそれは違う‥

とにかく、短い書き置きなんですけど、これからいつもの私に戻ります／
そして、脳内のイメージをそろそろ具現かしたくて、モチーフはね、とある前に描いたヤツと今やっているヤツを合体したリメイク ((o(´∀｀)o))ﾜｸﾜｸ

最後に、この長い間、全てフロムが悪いのは言わないお約束ｗ
っていうかもうすぐダクソ無印のリマスター、その前にカンストローレンスを始末しないとｗｗ

Maybe it's because I went to sleep too late, I've been dreaming some weird combinations, in which two days ago, I even mixed Leon's appearance in Bio6 into Bio4's item box screen, while saying, this Leon (in 6) looks maturer and more handsome (true).
The truth behind was, my order of "Vendetta" premium edition had been shipped over a month ago, but it still hadn't arrived.
Until the next day when I had that dream. xD;
I don't believe foresight dreams, but sometimes it does occur!

The outer plastic package is so great!

I wasn't really picky about the edition, but the Japanese version is the only one that has Japanese voice cast (which I NEVER want to miss!), and the premium version isn't too much more expansive than the normal edition, so...
It does pair good with Degeneration/Damnation premium edition though~

However, haven't got time to watch it, I was deep in the world of Rorona's atelier.. ~_~

↑ Status after fighting Demon Lord (I couldn't make my way to his area last time). Without any HP recovery items (plus none of them in my party had a skill to heal either). I didn't expect I could win at the very beginning though, but I won, what a miracle! xD
――トトリちゃんかわいいよトトリちゃん！！

Afterwards, I started bio5 this afternoon, at the veteran difficulty. It all went fine until El Gigante. Later on, I saw almost all people commented the hardest fight has to be Ndesu in pro-difficulty.
What the hell is "Ndesu"? When I searched, I realised it's exactly Bio5's El Gigante...
I'm just having no interest in remember monsters' names.. u_u

Pappatia~! I mean "最終上映 再現像 - LAST SHOW redevelop". Initially inspired by KOKIA's song under the same name.