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Horrible Excel save times on USB
I don’t have the fastest USB drive, in fact, it’s probably crapish, primarily the horrible latencies it has. But when saving a ~450KB .xls file takes 2 minutes, using Excel 2007, something can’t be right. Copying the file to a local harddrive and saving there only takes one second. Copying the file back, another second [...]
Switched internet plans
Stuck in a churn request to switch internet plans a few days ago. I’m moving from TPG’s 30+30GB (on/off peak) 512kbps plan to Exetel’s 15+”120″GB (on/off peak) 1.5Mbps plan (it’s more like 100GB off peak, since it’s like impossible to get 120GB through a 1.5Mbps line in 6 hours per day for 31 days). Both [...]
The joys of enterprise class systems
Enterprise class systems. I prefer to call them unnecessarily ridiculously complicated, bloated, and just generally overly restrictive applications. Well, I have to deal with Oracle for one of my courses. It’s a wonderful database, I mean, the basic free edition only requires 2GB of disk space to install, and only consumes around 880MB of RAM [...]
Doom 3
As I have been playing some Doom recently, I decided to give the nowhere-near-as-popular Doom 3 a go. When I started playing it, it reminded me somewhat of Prey and Half Life (though I probably haven’t played that many FPSes anyway), with the ability to interact with computer screens and such. However, this only seems [...]
My revenge on a Cyberdemon [Doom]
Been playing a fair bit of Doom recently to kill random time (as I didn’t quite feel like doing anything else). To be more specific, the Doomsday engine, playing Doom 2 Plutonia Experiments. Discovered something interesting with the Cyberdemon at the end of level 6? Download Video (~12.2MB) – cbf making a stream BTW, he’s [...]
So much love for triple channel DDR?
It seems that everyone getting an Intel 1366 platform (i7 9xx CPUs) has to, and absolutely must, get triple channel DDR3 RAM. People suggesting builds always get it, and people who decide to only go with dual channel seem to get bonked. Admittedly, RAM isn’t too expensive (despite prices going up recently) especially compared with [...]
Small upgrade to my internet plan
Saw that TPG upgraded their $40/month 512Kbps plan to 60GB quota per month (30GB off-peak, 30GB on-peak) from the old 10+15GB/month, so I contacted my ISP (Soul) to upgrade the plan in-line with the TPG plan. Sent it through and all that, so just need to wait for the upgrade. Unfortunately, this doesn’t fix the [...]
Love for E8400 CPUs and Intel vPro?
Last year, our Uni upgraded all PCs in the IT labs to ones with a Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU and 4GB RAM. A friend studying at the ANU said that his Uni upgraded all their PCs to E8400/4GB configurations, and noted the serious overkill with the CPU. This year, my Uni upgraded some PCs [...]
DDoS for n00bs
Okay, I admit I get a little annoyed when people talk like they know things (technically wise, in the field of IT), and that this is just another one of them. Seems like so many little script kiddies are throwing the word “DDoS” around, usually using it as a means to threaten webmasters or whatnot. [...]
Why is it so difficult to get complex ListView/TreeView controls?
I’ve seen many applications which make use of Windows ListView or TreeView controls which have far more functionality than those offered by the standard Windows API. Perhaps one of the most notable (or just one I have in my mind right now), is a hierarchical ListView, or perhaps, a multi-column TreeView (eg a combination of [...]
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