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Battle, round 2
The audio problems came back. ^^;; In the end I unplugged the sound card and the attached cable to the front panel and plugged them back in to make sure the connection isn't the problem. When I first put Humpty Dumpty the hardware cables back together again, I got a slight scare when the PC didn't turn on. I double checked the power connections and ( Read more... ) -
Battle
I was really excited to get home on Monday because I had new hardware to install. ^^ So I came home, quickly cooked, and started installing my new drive. That was the easy part. ^^;; Then my sound card started, well, not working. The audio came out very softly. It has happened in the past when I fiddled with hardware but I never found the root ( Read more... ) -
Backup strategy
It's ironic. Yesterday I spent the night researching other people's backup strategies for the data on their PCs and trying to come up with my own. Then today I find that nakaemi's hard drive failed after struggling for so long. It really drives home the point that a good backup (or insurance), even if tedious and has a cost (e.g. time, money), will keep ( Read more... ) -
Speedy Gonzales
You know your connection has somehow gotten to blazing speeds when you see a "1" followed by "MB/s" on the download window instead of the usual "KB/s". o.o ( Read more... ) -
Towards a non-satellite radio life
I've been listening to Slacker Radio 90% of the time for the past week except when I'm in the car, when I still listen to XM since there's nothing else good. So far so good. Only problem is that the classical selection on SR sucks right now. Today I found the local regional classical channel, King 98.1 FM. I've tried it on FM but didn't like the ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Something came up at work that is still early speculation but one that requires some thought. And no, I do not wish to talk about it just yet until it becomes true.
And also, thinking about some other changes to my routine. Lots of thought these days... -
I wanna (be a?) Slacker
For those who don't know, there used to be two satellite radio companies: Sirius and XM. I had been subscribing to XM ever since I bought my car (it came with trial). I liked the high quality of the audio (esp for classical music) compared to OTA (over-the-air) radio stations, and the ability to listen to an online version of it while at work and ( Read more... ) -
Cheesy experience
I just confirmed that i will really really need to acquire a taste for blue cheese. Costco had some cheese samples today. Needless to say I took advantage of free food and confirmed what I had already suspected from past experience. Good to know. -
RSS Owl
To get my daily dose of blogs, news, and comics, I've been using RSS Bandit for a while. However, the latest version from Nov 08 is buggy and annoys me to no end every once in a while. Not to mention these days it stays in memory even after I supposedly shut it down! >.<
Finally I found another good one called RSS Owl. Bandit, make way for the Owl ( Read more... ) -
Time is not enough
Even though I haven't been playing games (except Kevtris on my phone) in the last few weeks, time just seems to fly away. So many things to do, so little time. This feels like deja vu...
And oh, I missed the Oscars.