Category Archives: PC
Moved Server
Helloo~ another rare post from me! Recently shifted my websites from my old dedicated server to this VPS server – a move which I’ve been too lazy to do for like 2 years. The dedicated server was rather overkill for the website I’m running (originally had other plans, but didn’t follow them through) so have [...]
Too Much Bandwidth (or maybe, just quota)
So, time for another pointless update on myself (well, I may as well post, otherwise this place would be entirely dead). I’ve posted a number of times before about my internet connection and that, and how you’ve probably figured that I’ll never shut up about it until something like the NBN comes (if it ever [...]
PMPs – Why do People Ignore Compression?
One thing I notice is that many portable devices, companies sell higher capacity versions for exorbitant premiums, when flash memory really isn’t that expensive. Seems to be less of an issue for players which do include an (mini/micro)SDHC expansion slot, as you can effectively increase capacity with a cheap add-on card. But despite this, it [...]
Why would anyone buy an iMac?
People who know me probably know that I’m a lot more anti-Apple than I am anti-Microsoft, but that’s besides the point here. Was browsing some ads that got sent to my house today and I saw an ad for an iMac (as Apple tightly controls prices, I would expect them to be similar across stores) [...]
New USB Stick
I’ve had a number of USB sticks in the past, and from historical situations, they tend to last around 2 years for me. My current (well, actually, previous, now) USB is a Transcend 8GB, and I’ve already been using it for over 2.5 years, so I’ve been wondering if this thing is going to die. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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