Now I find that rather stupid. What is the point of actually asking for help on the forum? All users get in response is the usual ‘Please give Hijackthis log’, etc. from the moderators. Then when someone who knows the solutions posts, that post will be deleted and the user warned.

I only found the site as I had a nasty peice of software which was redirecting DNS requests. This made it impossible to update any tools (mostly security stuff is blocked e.g. Malwarebytes, Superantispyware, microsoft downloads,) or visit the websites of major security software developers. After some random google fun I came across a post on the EMSI software forums. The poster had the same problem. Sadly the post just contained numerous moderator requests for logs and those logs being posted. No working solutions were posted and the moderators/staff members seem stumped.

What a shame I had fixed the issue myself, and knew how to fix it. So I thought: ‘Hey, I’ll quickly register and tell the guy how to fix his problem.’ After my quick good deed I went back to failing some more at Ikea diy and falling over on my rollerblades.

I get up this morning and check to see if the guy had fixed his issue. My post was deleted and I got the usual moderators Private Message (being a moderator elsewhere I know too well what these are like.) I couldn’t believe they thought I was asking for help (I was posting a SOLUTION,) however, after paying more attention I noticed my post was deleted because I didn’t have the authority to post ANYTHING on the topic. I had to ask for permission to do so…

Now maybe I should have read the forum rules, but when you are a forum moderator elsewhere and had visited multitudinous forums over the years you feel your already know them. (Don’t swear, don’t advertise, don’t post links, etc.) I am shocked at the draconian set of rules enforced by EMSI software. Surely with that ruleset barely any problems will get resolved thus the users migrate to other malware forums and go on to use other tools?

I’ve given the poster my post by private message, so by the time this post gets indexed by google he should have read it and fixed his issue.

I won’t be visiting them again.

Thus, I’ve had very little free time for here…

I don’t have much to do until I start my job in December and once that starts I’ll be wasting around 2 and a half hours commuting everyday. For some reason, when I have nothing to do I don’t post here… not sure what that’s about!

Have a happy new year!

Not 100% on which offer I’ll take. One is programming, which is what I want to do; however, it doesn’t pay that much (for a programming job) and would require me to relocate (and pay rent!) I was told on the phone that I had a very well on the interview and had exceptional assessment marks and that they really wanted me; so perhaps there is potential for a quick ascent within the company. To be fair, after a year with them I could be applying and getting jobs that pay £5-10k more; and they probably know this too!

The other is local so I can continue to sponge a free room for a while and get rich. The downside being it’s not an IT job, so I don’t get the magic of ‘experience’.

I am still at my current borefest for a few more days, so I can continue to post somewhat frequently. I then will have some days off, which probably means I won’t post here… I am still working on my ArrayList implementation, so I can get that finished soon (or not!) At the moment it is just a dynamic array, but I feel like using index list; which should give it some more speed… Or I could even make it use a tree architecture…

I’ve again looked at the blog stats after posting some technical pieces and found they do bring the visitors along. So I’ll be mixing ‘normal’ posts like these alongside some techy stuff.

Maybe I should get some sleep

I had another interview on Thursday, which didn’t go as well as my preparation wasn’t as thorough. I made myself a 2 page ‘interview cheat sheet’ based on the most popular interview questions. I felt this really helped and will probably come in handy another day. I’ll be really happy to get out of the POS boring job I currently have. I can’t believe how crummy it is working in a call centre! It does help with the ‘give an example where you used your customer service/communication skills’ style of question though!

Got to drop off my dad at the airport at 6/7 am on Monday, not really happy about that. I don’t know my schedule until tomorrow, so for all I know I might be expected at 8am!!!

Exclusion collision detection is done by checking where certain parts of the two items are in correspondence to each other. Basically if the highest point of item A is lower than the lowest part of item B, it is not possible for the items to collide.

In addition, you can order your method based on which direction you are expecting collisions to usually occur from. This will then be more efficient than even the box detection method offered by the Sprite class.

public boolean collisionBetween(Sprite a, Sprite b)

{

if (a.getY() > (b.getY() + b.getHeight()))
{
//Not collided b is above a

return false;
}
else
{
if ((a.getY() + a.getHeight()) < b.getY())
{
//Not collided b is below a

return false;
}
else
{
if (a.getX() > (b.getY() + b.getWidth()))
{
//Not collided b is to the left of a

return false;
}
else
{
if ((a.getX() + a.getWidth()) < b.getX())
{
//Not collided b is to the right of a

return false;
}
}
}
}

//There is a collision

return true;

}
There might be a parenthesis error in here, as I did this in notepad at work. So I couldn’t check the syntax! From the formatting — which Wordpress kindly destroyed — it looks fine though.

Anywho, 2 interviews coming up!

On the other hand, it seems once I get a job everyone else wants me. So the psychologists did get it right, I kind of feel like the toy no-one wants until someone picks it up. I just took part in an assessment day (aka aptitude testing) this week, have an interview with someone else next Thursday, and turned down a crummy christmas job in retail.

I’ve done aptitude tests before and I felt really good about this one. Like most of these tests you had to answer a load of questions in a short amont of time. I worked out that in the first test you had 15 seconds a question! I was happy to actually complete all of the questions, I didn’t feel that it was actually that hard… despite someone commenting that it was practically impossible! The second one had more questions in the same amount of time, but required reading! I got about 75% of the way through; after scanning the others sheets at the end, it looked like they only managed 50-60% of the way. Whilst it ended with one of those yes/no/unknown comprehension tests, which wasn’t that bad.

I really feel that I passed these tests. Especially when there were a few jobs going and less than a dozen of us taking part. I was actually shocked at how much help some of those taking part needed with the example questions for each section…

So unless something strange occurs, that should be two interviews next week