音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

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 Piccolo (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…