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Today I played the final in the Mtp Target Swedish tournament. I lost the match Sad

I made some mistakes that I shouldn't have done. Otherwise I might have won. The final score was 22370 - 21600. It was not only the mistakes in the end that made it, I also made a few mistakes during the whole match but overall I think I played good. My opponent ([Q-dance]-Melon) was very skilful in the "extra ball levels", levels that I used to be good at. And I haven't played the new space levels that much. Only a few times, but because I haven't donated I can't play them at the "normal" servers yet. That was a disadvantage.

I really wanted to win this first Swedish tournament. In the international tournament the Frenchmen are competing so it's much harder to go far, and almost impossible to win the whole tournament. Well I guess I will get the chance again some time.. Wink

a visit to Barcelona · a visit to Barcelona in My life with 0 comments on Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:28 pm

I have been to Spain the last week. We where in Barcelona all of the time except for one day when we visited Tossa de Mar. It was the first time I have travelled with an airplane. It wasn't very different from a train except for the pressure on the ears. Confused

We walked a lot and the legs got tired but we saw many things worth to see so I guess it was worth it. I have studied some Spanish before but it was much easier to use English when talking to people. Now I'm back home and it feel good to be home again. Very Happy

Frihost

A thought that hit me another day I will now write little about. (Bad English? probably Razz

rest is better... )
I remember when I was new here I found it a lot harder to find something to post about. I can see when I look at my older posts that my English has improved a lot too. Also in the beginning it's harder to know where to find the interesting topics. There is many forums and if you look at the new posts link you will find a lot of topics but it's hard to get a good overview. Some periods when I not have been so active on the forums and come back it can feel hard to find something to post (Maybe because I feel uncomfortable if my points goes under 40 and I want to post a lot to get there :p).

Today I know quite well where I should look to find topics that I'm interested in. If I'm at home I often take a look at the Frihost forums to see if there is something interesting to read or reply to. The thought that hit me was that persons that are here a lot will have no problems to have high points. They also have a bigger chance to find the topics before the users that are not here very often. But when the user that is not here very often comes here he might need more points but all interesting topics does already have been answered and it's harder to find something that is not already said and is useful. So the more frequently users steal the easy posts from those who needs them. Of course I don't mean this is unfair but more a fact.

It's not hard to see that many of the posts here are made only get some points even if they are not necessarily spam posts. The points also have a effect that people take the step and post which can be a positive thing. If they don't have an "easy" post to make they might take the step and do a "not so useful post" which can be a negative thing.

After all I think the system here at Frihost works good and I don't think it's a very big problem. The points are quite easy to earn so the users that have a hard time post enough is not that many. I don't want people to stop post if they want to only to make other posters a favor. I don't think anyone will do that but you never know. Happy posting! Very Happy

Stop copy threads from other forums!

I have notice that there is quite common that users post a topic they have found at other forums. I don't know if the rules says anything about it and it doesn't matter as long as it is a topic that we should discuss. I'm often look in the programming and other computer related categories and it's fun to help and show my skills Razz

. BUT it's not fun when I find out that the post already exist on another forum and the author of the thread doesn't need any help he only wanted his points so he can continue hosting here. Evil or Very Mad

Evil people!

I don't want to make the effort to explaine something if noone needs it. I'm active here that much so I don't need those points.

I have reported things like this before and I have seen threads disappear but I don't know if it was becouse he was spamming threads or becouse of me.

To find out if a thread already exist you can simply copy some part of the text(not to long) and put quotes around it and enter it to google. It's very easy. I know that people might post in many forums to get help fast but often the other thread is to old for this to be true.

I think we need some examples of threads like this so here is some of them:

Atapi or Sata can be found at http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/243911-14-sata-atapi
as you see I have tried to give him a clue and others too but I don't know if they don't read my post or if they don't follow the link or maybe they don't care. OR maybe they need points! But they helping him!

Basic Socket Programming Error in Linux.. Pls help can be found at http://www.programmingforums.org/thread13936.html
This is not very old but the author has already got his answer before it was posted here so this is a true fake post! There was no replays on his Frihost thread but I think it was becouse it was complicated problem.

approximation of pi can be found at Google cache
It the same author as with the Basic Socket... thread. This time it looks like it possible that the thread can have been written in a good way becouse it doesn't say very much if he has got the answer he wants in that thread but I think it's a only-for-points-post becouse he has done this before. (22 minutes)

I don't find any more at the moment exept one more from umeshtangnu that wrote two of those above.

The problem exist and I think it's good to think about. Think

StarCraft against my brother

Yesterday I played starcraft with my brother. We have never played it against each other before so we had to try that. It was very much different happenings. First I killed his main camp. After some time he killed mine main camp and attacked me that much so both thought I was going to die. We played Big Game Hunters so there was a lot of minerals and I was quite rich so I put up a new camp where I builded a lot of battle crusers and in the end I actually managed to kill him so I won. Smile

This was very fun. I have mostly played starcraft in single player before. If you want an extended version of this you can check my other blog http://olsson-peter.blogspot.com/2007/09/starcraft-against-my-brother.html