Tech Adventures

  • downtime

    ah, something tripped the power at the apartment while i was out, and i forgot to tell the folks to turn the server back on after they reset the circuit braker. this happened when i went out with fish for dinner. we were planning a budget dinner, not more than rm20 per person, but…

  • liquid fire

    the title of this post sure sounds cool, but it really is related to a stomach ache. 😛 must’ve been the food last night. we bought back nasi goreng padprik ayam and prawn tom yam to merv’s place last night. was there playing mahjong up till 12.30am. or could’ve been lunch, where i had…

  • transformers movie trailer!

    IRL! Hooray for CG! http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/transformers.html

  • softcam development

    Before I mentioned that I’ll be trying to build an Astro set-top box replacement via a HTPC. Due to limited availability and functionality of the necessary hardware, it’s going to cost a bomb. But sympathizers of people who can’t afford most things like myself have developed a method to allow softCAMs (i.e. software-based Conditional…

  • i love the internet!

    I found this awesome classic RPG, Castle of the Winds, while looking through a box of 5.25″ floppies I was about to throw out. It wasn’t hard to find a reference off the net! 😀 Other things I picked out were Commander Keen, Maniac Mansion, Last Half of Darkness, Solar Winds, Cadaver, and Zone…

  • not quite back to normal

    Sure had a wonderful time trying to get my PC in its new casing up and running. So much so that I didn’t even do 1 hour of Final Fantasy XII over the weekend. And no BF2142 either. An additional annoyance that I discovered was that the Viper’s front panel audio inputs were lacking…

  • 1 year with the dell 2405fpw

    It’s been close to a year since I purchased my 24″ Windescreen LCD from Dell. It’s been very nice overall, except for a few quirks: While backlight bleeding is consistent, it’s bright enough that watching movies with ambient lights turned off that it washes out the color. Emits a high pitched squeal (kinda like…

  • firefox 2 released!

    Mozilla has just released Firefox 2! Get it now! Whee~

  • run a program after s3 resume

    http://www.rpi.edu/~desimn/suspendtrigger/index.html in my case, to run TW865 to reset my DRAM latency timer to 01 to clear video artifacts due to FSB overclocking on a 865 chipset.

  • wordpress magic quotes interferes with embedded G2

    http://www.galleryembedded.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4676