I read all the game faqs for the Bahamut Lagoon SNES game on some third party sites, and realized not a single one had solved the conondrum of how to win the fishing minigame that occurs during Chapter 11 of the game.

At this point during bahamut lagoon, you’ll encounter Bikkebakke over to the northeastern side of the town, who says you can go fishing.  If you attempt it, you’ll see an octopus, it tends to crop up in the right and move from there to the left, down, left , down, and up towards you.

Basically, if it’s on the right, mash your right direction on your pad or keyboard right real fast several times (3-10 maybe), then when it’s down, mash down real fast, then when it’s left mash left.  The trick is when it comes up, you still have to mash down until the game prompts you to press A to reel the octopus in.  If it goes say right, and you keep pressing down or left, you’ll lose your hook, so just remember to switch up dirs promptly everytime it moves.

Your prize for winning? A bastard sword and an Aurora.  you can sell these by the merchant hidden in the tree over towards sendak, but you’ll also find that upon catching the fish that Bikkebakke is over beside him, and you can buy mushrooms and quickly (and cheaply) max out your poison and dex stats on everyone, with the bastard sword providing enough PR to buy about 50-100 mushrooms.

Feel free to use this info in any faqs/faq site but linkbacks are probably appreciated.

The trick now, for all you SEO and site optimizers is how to uncover the secrets to a higher ranking with caffeine.

First, the biggest notable rumor is that caffeine is faster, but did you know excessive caffeine leads to diahrrhea?  It’s true.  It’s also a stimulant, which is stimulating when we beging uncovering the algorithm behind google and their sandboxed caffeine offering.

My site is not optimized for seo, it’s not perfect for google, and ergo, it’s just not likely that this post will land a high page ranking for the search terms <b>Google Caffeine SEO & Site Optimization Techniques”, however, i have a feeling that there’s a certain style of composition that the new search enginge experience is going to be riding atop of.

Not necessarily APA journalism, but in my mind I’m thinking up a good optimized number score on the fleischman scale, indicative of sentance strength, length, punctuation, and other junk.

Coffee break!  Going to recharge my caffeine laden random tangent to reality.

Anyways, so you wanna know the secrets?

First you gotta run outside, find a fire hydrant
Then, scream google caffeine sucks as soon as you see a cop car with a light bar passing by
Drop your drawers and run around in circles frantically while waving your hands, clicking your heels, and urinating exactly in the following sequence:  up up down down left right left right b a

and Voila! Hit your start button and you’ll now be the #1 search result for every google caffeine site optimization search.

PS, I plan on filling in a better post after I have a bit to dig and prod at it, although I’m hoping this snippet lands itself in the top 30,000,000 search results, so hopefully somewhere a cat will jump on a keyboard and someone will have to read this drivel filled post.  Thx for reading!

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black widow spider, posterior view

…Can be really tough.  In some instances it might even be impossible.  However, I was sitting around today and thinking all MacGuyver mode, and remember when a notorious Geeksqwad “specialist” had hijacked a friends computer a few years back, setting a password on a router, never getting the internet actually set up  (despite 3 or 4 multi-hundred field calls) and then, to top it off, leaving the company without a trace of being so kind as to actually make a note as to what password he changed the unit to.

Soo…How do I go about fixing it, I get around to thinking.

Well, the particular router in question was a Mimo Netgear Rangemax, I believe more specifically it might have been a WPN824 and despite trying simple things like unplugging it and clicking reset buttons, the password remained firmly flashed.

So, I whipped out my handy screwdriver set (As I recall they use torx / star bits) and pulled the sucker apart.

Wow, how easy, I believe there were 2-3 blocks of jumpers (little metal yellowish pins)

So, I took and powered the unit back up and jumpered across a few jumpers with a pocket knife with power on (highly regarded as a NO-NO even when legacy components were very common), essentially reprogramming the router at a very non optimal moment (while connected and powered on) to think it was a different model of router (shared components within a series are very common) — the added condition of having live power overrode the actual hardware checks, allowing me to essentially reflash the router and reprogram the password.  I was even more surprised to cycle the power and have the unit recover itself successfully while restoring every setting back to the default.

Voila, the admin password once removing power and recycling back on (to regain the proper router model type) was now the default, listed on the sticker on the backside of the case.

Caveats & Expanded DISCLAIMER:  This may or may not work with all and/or ANY router on earth.  This is not to be construed as definitive solution or advice, and may (ie: IT WILL) violate your product warranty and may even have questionable legality in some instances.  You also may find yourself exposing yourself to dangerous levels of electricity, who knows, maybe even something as bad as a radioactive spider who happens to live in your router.  AS SUCH this information as such is provided “AS-IS” for an educational curiosity sake and is NOT to be attempted by anyone at anytime anywhere for any reason.  Instead, go out and buy a new router.

Here we’ll look at some slightly more common causes of death in the form of a chart.  You’re statistically least likely to die from a fireworks discharge, with odds of 1:340,733.  You’re stastically much more likely to die from a bicycling accident with odds of 1:4919 ….but the real kicker is the root causes of unplanned death.

Heart disease causes death in 1:6 people, while cancer gets 1:7 people.  Together, these two causes account for 31% of all deaths.

The Death Chart

To fix this, from fedora console, I did the following:

1. su (change to super user)
2. password (password for su)
3. yum install python-devel
4. Then I updated my python installation later, as python3 is already out, and there’s probably bugs in 2.5.

What do we learn from this:

IT guys with college degrees often know less than 13 year olds in 2nd world countries, failing to protect sites against simple stuff like javascript and sql injection attacks.

If anyone working at a human resources ever reads this: consider hiring the seemingly least qualified person to run your IT department as you might end up with a much cheaper and much more competent employee, or at least one who might have a desire to work instead of playing World of Warcraft and setting up their slingbox all day.

This CD caught the interest of Cardenes who took it back with him to spain and performed SEM imaging and analyzed the tubal pathways, observing that in fact the damage was caused by a fungus that eats and thrives upon aluminum.

Using an electron microscope, Cardenes and colleagues at the Madrid-based Superior Council for Scientific Research later observed that fungi had burrowed into the supposedly indistructible CD from the outer edge.

It had then devoured the thin aluminium reflecting layer and some of the data-storing polycarbonate resin.

Cardenes said: “If you look at the CD from the shiny side, in the places where the fungus has been you can see all the way through to the painted surface on the other side.” adding that,  “It completely destroys the aluminium. It leaves nothing behind.”

Biologists at the council concluded that the fungus belonged to a common genus called Geotrichum but had never seen this particular species before.

Biologists, and the CD inventor Phillips have added that, fortunately for the rest of the world, this particular species of Geotrichum has a very narrow specificity of humidity and thermal range, and only survives in the sultry weather conditions that prevail in and in close geographic proximity to Belize.

Primary Source Credit - Journal Naturwissenschaften (2001), 88:351-354

This is by no means new-news, however was interesting enough when I came across a blurb to look into, edit, and rewrite for re-release.

So, I looked around for a good hosts.txt file, and actually found one hosted on mvps.org

What’s a hosts.txt file for?

Hrm.  Idiotifying this is gonna be a toughy. So try to read this slowly and assume you haven’t taken any protective steps.

• Let’s pretend you have a website, such as google.com.  You type in google.com and all the sudden your browser goes there.
• Now let’s pretend you have a site imgonnascrewyourpc.com and you DONT wanna go there.  Well, if you click on a link that obscurely routes your browser to that “host”, your DNS is gonna resolve that name to an ip and go ahead and shove your computer on over there and voila- your computer probably is going to get hijacked.
• Now, what does this have to do with hosts?  Read on!

Hosts are sort of an advance guard.

Think of your hosts list as a little guy on a horse riding before the army with a banner. Your pc processes a hosts file before it bothers calling up the dns.  Ergo, if you want to defeat the ambush-links, you can simply instruct your little calvary man to look out for the evil hosts out there and go somewhere else instead.

How do I teach my knight in shining armor to work?

You simply instruct your hosts.txt to reroute and retreat from an offensive “host” by using a loopback.  A loopback basically tells your internet connection instead of going from point a to point b, to sit tight and don’t walk into the trap.

Loopback?  Stop using that fangled computer language!!!!

Don’t sweat it.  basically if you have a big list of bad sites, and you make all those bad sites never pop up before you ever think about clicking on anything, you’re less likely to fall prey to a haxploitation of your browser and pc.  Your hosts.txt file can defend you if you level it up, and that’s why I have linked to the hosts.txt file at mvps.org.

I’ve read over it, and installing it will protect your pc against over 16,000 bad nasty mean evil ambush hosts (sites) and various popup servers.

It might take a bit of effort to digest the instructions from that link, so feel free to comment back if it’s not clear.