The case of exploding Coka Cola

This is probably one of the very rare non-computer related blog entry that you can find in my blog.

In my family, the usual method of “drinking” coka cola is to put it in the fridge, or freezer rather, and let it freeze. Then, later, open the top of the frozen coka cola bottle with can opener, and eat it with a spoon…

It was recently, that the stock of coka cola in my house ran out, so my mom went out to buy another box. The previous box’s brought approximately one year ago, which is during the Chinese New Year.

After this, me and my brother put two bottles of it in the freezer, by around 7pm+, my mom’s in the kitchen cooking, but she heard a pop, she thought something exploded, but somehow she can’t find it… However, later on, around 8pm, when we open the freezer, we witnessed a messy scene in the freezer…

This is what the two bottles of it looks like after the mess in the freezer’s sorted out:

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Big mess huh?

Water is a very special substance, it expands when coolen below 4 degree Celsius, if there are more water in the Coka Cola, then when frozen, the total volumn would increase more, and would then explode, thus I guess the company’s adding more water in their product to reduce the cost of production. Anyway, who knows?

And just one more old news: MzBot’s still working with nProtect GameGuard rev939… So, should I conclude: “Only private hacks/bots lasts.”?
My advice: Keep your hacking utility private…

( x86_64 & nVidia entry coming up soon.. LoL… )

Really busy recently with school work

School starts on 3rd of Jan in Singapore, and with the start of school terms, means lesser times for hacking. So sorry that I didn’t update my blog for sometime.

I am in Temasek Junior College’s integrated programme this year, the orientation’s quite “fun”, but also quite tiring. I would rather prefer to have lessons and lectures ( I LOVE LECTURES, but I don’t get much of them.. LoL ). I also “gobble” up every piece of homework that comes in my path…

Also, recently, I burnt a stick of DDR… There’s one day when I came home from school that my mom told me that she can’t start the comp, it hangs randomly. I have met this kind of situation before, and the RAM is the prime suspect, I boot from knoppix, and choose memtest86+ @ the isolinux screen. ( It doesn’t hang because the base 64k memory is used, the others are not.. ) And it showed that memory from 200MB~300MB is bad ( approximately ). I removed that stick of DDR (it’s 256MB, by the way) and the comp works again…

Lesson learnt: If your comp hangs randomly during startup process, you should run a RAMTest86+, and remove the bad RAM.
The removed stick of ram’s covered with dust from the CPU’s cooling fan, so I strongly suggest the motherboard makers, DO NOT place the RAM near to the CPU.

I might do somemore GameGuard killing during the weekend…. Another post regarding nVidia Linux driver and the x86_64 Linux Kernel coming up soon…