Well about the motherboard failing, that wasn't it. After that post, the two hard drives linked to 1 molex plug to the power supply failed. So, in a flash of inspiration I disconnected both drives from the power supply and bingo, nothing appeared to be failing. So tonight I swapped my old but trusty Antec Truepower 480 and replaced the shitty generic 500w that this computer came with and bingo, my drives all appeared.
Next computer that I get will have a trustworthy PSU, that's for sure. Can't have enough as backup. Unlike the company that I work for, the IT department goes through PSUs like toilet paper. Once he bought 2, 1 to replace and 1 for backup, well, turns out he needed to use both when they arrived because the other PSUs were failing. Granted a PSU of good quality > $80, he bought the generic PSUs which were < $40. But the failure rate is much greater...
Yesterday I went to help a colleague move bricks. I don't know why I was so kind. The colleague is new to the company, and she and her family (and bf) lives in a newly bought place, and they are getting a retaining wall built in the back of their house. There's a tennis court and a swimming pool as well. They had 13 pallets of bricks, each brick is around 20 kg, and they've moved a bit before we helped yesterday. Well, we moved 4 pallets yesterday, leaving 7-8 pallets behind, and I have sore back. I'll probably try not to stand and sit too much tomorrow... Standing all day or sitting all day... probably standing all day is better. Getting old :P
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Random pics from my phone
This week I was stuck in traffic for 1 extra hour. For about 1km. So it's around 16 meters per minute. That's 4 car lengths in a minute. It was like a car park. And there were helicopters flying too.
And I had two passengers in the car too. Needless to say it wasn't fun.
However, I did rock past the point of accident. It wasn't a pretty sight.
This was at lunch some time ago.
A Kookaburra vs Magpie. Over a scrap of food.
The Magpie flew away cos he's a bit of an opportunist.
Colleagues trying to feed the Kookaburra.
And I had two passengers in the car too. Needless to say it wasn't fun.However, I did rock past the point of accident. It wasn't a pretty sight.
This was at lunch some time ago.
A Kookaburra vs Magpie. Over a scrap of food.
The Magpie flew away cos he's a bit of an opportunist.
Colleagues trying to feed the Kookaburra.
Camera on the phone is a bit blurry. Oh well.
A word of warning
My bloody motherboard is failing. Since I'm the type of running a computer 24/7 it's a good indication of whether or not a motherboard is good. Or maybe I'm just unlucky.
The problem first happened a month or two ago. One (then two) of my hard drives started to stop working. I thought, great, all that stuff died. But then I moved ONE of the sata ports to another one, and they worked. Amazing. So the sata port on the motherboard was to blame.
The same thing happened again today. It's another drive this time. The newest drive in this computer. I didn't think the MTBF for hdd was less than 1 year, so I was really pissed off. So I opened up the case, and swapped a sata cable. Well, I swapped it back into the one I had swapped it out of first time (in the previous paragraph). The hard drive started the 'ticking' sound... meaning that sata port is truly stuffed. So I powered down, and swapped that cable into another 1 out of the other 3. And lo and behold, it works. So out of the 8 sata ports I have, 4 are still fine after a year, 2 have died, and 2 I haven't tried (because they were purple in color, and I think have a different speed setting?). Damn.
I don't wanna upgrade my computer till the i7 is mainstream and cheap.... Oh well.
Apart from that, nothing else to report. The world is going to crap, and well... my world isn't getting any better :P.
The problem first happened a month or two ago. One (then two) of my hard drives started to stop working. I thought, great, all that stuff died. But then I moved ONE of the sata ports to another one, and they worked. Amazing. So the sata port on the motherboard was to blame.
The same thing happened again today. It's another drive this time. The newest drive in this computer. I didn't think the MTBF for hdd was less than 1 year, so I was really pissed off. So I opened up the case, and swapped a sata cable. Well, I swapped it back into the one I had swapped it out of first time (in the previous paragraph). The hard drive started the 'ticking' sound... meaning that sata port is truly stuffed. So I powered down, and swapped that cable into another 1 out of the other 3. And lo and behold, it works. So out of the 8 sata ports I have, 4 are still fine after a year, 2 have died, and 2 I haven't tried (because they were purple in color, and I think have a different speed setting?). Damn.
I don't wanna upgrade my computer till the i7 is mainstream and cheap.... Oh well.
Apart from that, nothing else to report. The world is going to crap, and well... my world isn't getting any better :P.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Things I watch
It's the new season of TV... So I've been watching quite a few things.
US:
Eleventh Hour
Fringe
Life on Mars
Knight Rider
Sanctuary
The Ex List
The Mentalist
The Office
The Simpsons
UK:
Merlin
Japan:
Soul Eater <-- My favourite.
Yozakura Quartet
To Aru Majutsu no Index
Kannagi
Nodame Cantabile Paris Chapter
Kyou no Go no Ni
Skip Beat
Yawakaa Sangokushi Tsukisase!! Ryofuko-chan
Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka
Toradora
Hyakko
Detroit Metal City
Clannad ~After Story~
As you can see, I'm quite busy when I get back home, with all the stuff that's available to watch >:D
US:
Eleventh Hour
Fringe
Life on Mars
Knight Rider
Sanctuary
The Ex List
The Mentalist
The Office
The Simpsons
UK:
Merlin
Japan:
Soul Eater <-- My favourite.
Yozakura Quartet
To Aru Majutsu no Index
Kannagi
Nodame Cantabile Paris Chapter
Kyou no Go no Ni
Skip Beat
Yawakaa Sangokushi Tsukisase!! Ryofuko-chan
Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka
Toradora
Hyakko
Detroit Metal City
Clannad ~After Story~
As you can see, I'm quite busy when I get back home, with all the stuff that's available to watch >:D
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Update
I think I got a cold... *sigh*.
I've trained a guy to be my replacement, he's doing things slowly.
I'm also being trained by the person who's leaving. Technically their last day is tomorrow, but apparently they were told to come in as well. *shrugs* that job isn't that hard... dunno what will happen.
I've trained a guy to be my replacement, he's doing things slowly.
I'm also being trained by the person who's leaving. Technically their last day is tomorrow, but apparently they were told to come in as well. *shrugs* that job isn't that hard... dunno what will happen.
Monday, August 11, 2008
My niece's name
English: Grace Kaylin Chiou
Chinese: 邱郁淳
And my bro can't type chinese so he drew it on his blog... it looks very very bad. :P
Hmmm....
Chinese: 邱郁淳
And my bro can't type chinese so he drew it on his blog... it looks very very bad. :P
Hmmm....
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Consumerism
It's nearly Tax time. Well, it IS tax time. Since 1st July. I'm supposed to get a raise, but that hasn't happened for 3 weeks. So it was pretty terrible. Anyways, I decided to upgrade my mobile.
The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic was what I chose. It's a nice thin phone, the other phone I would have chosen was 6500 Classic, but it was bit too expensive. Samsung's U100 is also a good choice, but that was also expensive.
So I got it and it's great. I event took a few photos to compare it against my Samsung T10.
It's not as slim as the mp3 player, but it's still a heck of a phone. Runs on Symbian S40 5th Edition Feature Pack 1, and comes with 1GB built in. Has a pretty good battery life, but it's winter so the battery life isn't optimal. The Samsung T10 has 8gb of memory and I'm running it at full capacity... :P And it's got 32 hours of continous life, so when I get to and from work everyday it's about 10 hours - easily lasts the week.
Why am I showing you a phone which isn't the iPhone 3G? Cos I don't wanna lug around a huge heavy phone, that's why. I work all day, and I have something at home which isn't tiny. Sure some people may call iPhone 3G the "Jesus" phone, but it's around $800 here for 8GB. My 8GB T10 was $160, and my mobile phone was $250, and my new addition (since yesterday) was a cheap price as well. Definately less than $800.
The below is my new addition.
Yeah yeah it's only a monitor.
The below was my previous setup. 22" on the Left, 19" on the right. A wallpaper of a movie I haven't seen yet.
Replace the 19" with a 24" and what do I get? Monitor envy (from my bro).
It sure beats the iPhone 3G in terms of quality and value :D
My bro says it's a waste that it's not my main screen. 1680 x 1050 vs 1920 x 1200. I don't think it's a waste. I still can operate on the right side of my desk if I want to, but the monitor's buttons are on the different side. FP222W has the power button on the LEFT of the monitor, and FP241W has the buttons on the RIGHT of the monitor. If I changed my layout, the both buttons will be in the MIDDLE. Which will be a pain of the ass to turn on and off every time.
Ahh I love my toys :P
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Charity work
So two days ago I was upstairs at work because our computer network can't print, and the IT guy happened to be away. So my reputation preceeds me as the guy who can fix IT problems when the IT guy isn't around. So I go up with my colleague, and we get into the IT room and try to figure out what computer needs to be fixed so things can be printed... well I got into the IT room (which was locked) by jiggling a key I have in my posession... needless to say I couldn't fix the problem, but we managed to call the IT guy, he was having an x-ray so we managed to contact him after. Well he managed to fix it didn't he... just by remotely connecting it. But meanwhile I was out in the area with my colleague asking if he can print or not, and he could... and then the boss comes out.
She says that I should go, along with my colleague, to the company's charity fundraising sale this saturday.
My colleague was so intently concentrating on his printing that he didn't hear her comment, and I gave him a nudge and he was like 'what?'. She repeated the sentence and joked that he pretended not to hear it so he wouldn't have to go, but he wasn't going to go anyways.
Well I asked my mum should I go, and she said yes, so I decided to go.
So another colleague also was going, and so I picked him up from the train station and we went to the designated place. We found a parking space about 5 minutes walk from the place... there's just too much construction work going on there. The weather was fine and sunny, then it got black and dark, then started raining a little bit, and by the time we finished it was back to light skies with no rain...
9am we assembled at the point, picked up the goods, and set up the stands... There was about 5 people from the company, and we set up the stand in about 40 minutes. The 5 people became about 10, with the other charity group joining forces. I think we got the first sale at about 10:30 or something, and then things started picking up. The weather got cold pretty quickly, I was in short sleeves t-shirt then I had to put on my jacket, it was that cold. Everybody else was already wearing long sleeves. Well, we moved the stand to the middle of the street mall because it had a cover from the rain. Then I had a veggie lunch from the charity group we joined forces with - it was quite nice. Well, originally we had 50+20+20+20 bags, by the end we had about 50 bags left. So it was a good fundraising event. Nearly $2000 raised... so it was a good day for all involved. Well, if they have another fundraising effort I would certainly go for it, it was a lot of fun :)
She says that I should go, along with my colleague, to the company's charity fundraising sale this saturday.
My colleague was so intently concentrating on his printing that he didn't hear her comment, and I gave him a nudge and he was like 'what?'. She repeated the sentence and joked that he pretended not to hear it so he wouldn't have to go, but he wasn't going to go anyways.
Well I asked my mum should I go, and she said yes, so I decided to go.
So another colleague also was going, and so I picked him up from the train station and we went to the designated place. We found a parking space about 5 minutes walk from the place... there's just too much construction work going on there. The weather was fine and sunny, then it got black and dark, then started raining a little bit, and by the time we finished it was back to light skies with no rain...
9am we assembled at the point, picked up the goods, and set up the stands... There was about 5 people from the company, and we set up the stand in about 40 minutes. The 5 people became about 10, with the other charity group joining forces. I think we got the first sale at about 10:30 or something, and then things started picking up. The weather got cold pretty quickly, I was in short sleeves t-shirt then I had to put on my jacket, it was that cold. Everybody else was already wearing long sleeves. Well, we moved the stand to the middle of the street mall because it had a cover from the rain. Then I had a veggie lunch from the charity group we joined forces with - it was quite nice. Well, originally we had 50+20+20+20 bags, by the end we had about 50 bags left. So it was a good fundraising event. Nearly $2000 raised... so it was a good day for all involved. Well, if they have another fundraising effort I would certainly go for it, it was a lot of fun :)
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Another era?
Well, hopefully the guy comes tomorrow, so I can go into IPQC on Thursday...
Been waiting for him to come back to work Monday, he was sick...
Been waiting for him today, he was still sick.
He better be here tomorrow.
On other news, my friend from brissie came back from a 3.5 week long holiday with his gf... and well his big news was that he's now engaged. Good on him! It's only been like 3-4 years since they've been going out together... :P
My other bro's planning to go to Japan to work for a bit... so it might just be me left in aus, with my parents... fun fun...
I've been listening to some new songs... and two of them are quite good (imho)...
Seamo - Honey Honey feat. Ayuse Kozue.
It's a love song, and well, Seamo is quite funny (with the hammer...) I saw this song because of xxxHOLiC: Kei's ED song.
High and Mighty Color - Hot Limit.
It's a high energy song, and the girl's pretty cute :P It's a cover of TM Revolution's song...
The guy better come tomoorow... :P
Been waiting for him to come back to work Monday, he was sick...
Been waiting for him today, he was still sick.
He better be here tomorrow.
On other news, my friend from brissie came back from a 3.5 week long holiday with his gf... and well his big news was that he's now engaged. Good on him! It's only been like 3-4 years since they've been going out together... :P
My other bro's planning to go to Japan to work for a bit... so it might just be me left in aus, with my parents... fun fun...
I've been listening to some new songs... and two of them are quite good (imho)...
Seamo - Honey Honey feat. Ayuse Kozue.
It's a love song, and well, Seamo is quite funny (with the hammer...) I saw this song because of xxxHOLiC: Kei's ED song.
High and Mighty Color - Hot Limit.
It's a high energy song, and the girl's pretty cute :P It's a cover of TM Revolution's song...
The guy better come tomoorow... :P
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Nice Friday
It's been a while since I went to see a movie at the cinemas. But this one I definately had to go see on the big screen - Iron Man. It's a great movie, and since I knew the story from the comic book that we had when we were little, it made it much more enjoyable. Overall a good movie, and I found Gwyneth Paltrow to be very cute in this movie.
Why did I choose to go see the movie on friday night? Because I was shafted by my friend, who said he'll be free friday night but had to do something, so cancelled. Lucky I was already at macquarie centre with time to kill, since I told my dad I wasn't coming home for dinner. My mum went to brissie for the week just that morning too. So I went to all the big department stores to check if they got Wii Fit. None of the big stores had it. Target, Big W, Kmart... So I went to JB Hifi. Not only had they have a copy available for me, but it was at a cheaper price! $119 - bargain (when Target had it at $124, and Big W at $139. Kmart apparently had it at $119 also, but dunno about stock availibility) RRP is $149, so it's a nice savings. I put it in my car, had a Chicken Katsu Don at Asukaze (I think that's the name). For $9.90 it's a pretty filling meal. Anyways, watched the movie, then went home. Then played the Wii Fit for about 1 hour (with my bro). It's a very good game system, Nintendo really has done it's homework.
I put my MSN comment as "I got WiiFit... yay :P" and I got several guys calling me gay, and asking if I was going to get fit now. Well, I did buy it to play with, it's got several fun games in there, but exercising more than 30mins a day will really burn your muscles. And I don't think I'll turn gay anytime soon...
Today I got the car's engine oil changed, it took about 1.5 hours and cost $80. The price of oil is increasing sharply, and soon I won't be afford the petrol anymore :P And my car insurance is coming up also... *sigh* money is short nowadays...
Will keep on playing the Wii Fit everyday (if I can help it). It's good exercise really, just that we don't have a big enough living room to play in...
Why did I choose to go see the movie on friday night? Because I was shafted by my friend, who said he'll be free friday night but had to do something, so cancelled. Lucky I was already at macquarie centre with time to kill, since I told my dad I wasn't coming home for dinner. My mum went to brissie for the week just that morning too. So I went to all the big department stores to check if they got Wii Fit. None of the big stores had it. Target, Big W, Kmart... So I went to JB Hifi. Not only had they have a copy available for me, but it was at a cheaper price! $119 - bargain (when Target had it at $124, and Big W at $139. Kmart apparently had it at $119 also, but dunno about stock availibility) RRP is $149, so it's a nice savings. I put it in my car, had a Chicken Katsu Don at Asukaze (I think that's the name). For $9.90 it's a pretty filling meal. Anyways, watched the movie, then went home. Then played the Wii Fit for about 1 hour (with my bro). It's a very good game system, Nintendo really has done it's homework.
I put my MSN comment as "I got WiiFit... yay :P" and I got several guys calling me gay, and asking if I was going to get fit now. Well, I did buy it to play with, it's got several fun games in there, but exercising more than 30mins a day will really burn your muscles. And I don't think I'll turn gay anytime soon...
Today I got the car's engine oil changed, it took about 1.5 hours and cost $80. The price of oil is increasing sharply, and soon I won't be afford the petrol anymore :P And my car insurance is coming up also... *sigh* money is short nowadays...
Will keep on playing the Wii Fit everyday (if I can help it). It's good exercise really, just that we don't have a big enough living room to play in...
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Newness
Well my bro was back on Sat morning (yesterday). They came over for dinner, so again I was the lonely guy at the table (everybody else had a partner...) Now it's just a waiting game for him, but he should be flying to the states in mid-May. My mum'll be going to Brissie in early May for a week. My bro will also go to bris sometime later this year (twice actually)... so everybody's going somewhere except me. Ah....
I've bought a MP3/CD headunit for my car, and installed it on friday/saturday. It's great, gave it a test drive, and it's working well. Glad to have spent the $200 on it :P I should start investing in something other than that, but hey, I don't have that special someone yet :P
Other than that... nothing really else to report. I'm training a guy to be the new warehouse supervisor, he's getting there, I still got about a month of training left for him, but that's because the warehouse guy is currently on holidays so I will fill in for him. That's pretty... ah I'm still a yo-yo afterall...
I've bought a MP3/CD headunit for my car, and installed it on friday/saturday. It's great, gave it a test drive, and it's working well. Glad to have spent the $200 on it :P I should start investing in something other than that, but hey, I don't have that special someone yet :P
Other than that... nothing really else to report. I'm training a guy to be the new warehouse supervisor, he's getting there, I still got about a month of training left for him, but that's because the warehouse guy is currently on holidays so I will fill in for him. That's pretty... ah I'm still a yo-yo afterall...
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Surprised
My bro's leaving for the US tomorrow at 1pm. Now, he didn't even know that on Thursday. They called him on Friday morning (just as he was waking up). So he's borrowing my laptop and digicam (cos his laptop doesn't have wireless, and his DSLR is too bulky...). So I charged both of them up and installed some software for the laptop. The battery (fully charged) is 3:46 mins but installing something from the USB drive drove it down to 9 minutes in about 5 minutes of usage... that's quite scary. No wonder USB drives like CD/DVDs usually have a external power adapter... But yeah, he's going to be in the states for about a week. Then head over again in mid-late May. So now I might have some place to go if I decide to tour US for a holiday. But he'll be in Minnesota. So hmm...
There's nothing else to report really, work's work, and well, I'm a yoyo. Pull here, pull there, I'll be training somebody on Monday, but I will also be receiving 20 pallets of stock on monday too. Sounds like fun huh. The warehouse is chock-a-block full, and it's going to be a task to train people and maintain the warehouse. When will I take my holiday? :P
There's nothing else to report really, work's work, and well, I'm a yoyo. Pull here, pull there, I'll be training somebody on Monday, but I will also be receiving 20 pallets of stock on monday too. Sounds like fun huh. The warehouse is chock-a-block full, and it's going to be a task to train people and maintain the warehouse. When will I take my holiday? :P
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Middle of Feb
So I thought I'll blog this evening, nothing new really, just updated my photo and job... (long time no update).
My computer has been pissing me off lately... it's been rebooting, slowing down, and today, it decided not to boot. Turns out there was corruption in the files when it reboots randomly, and lucky I was able to recover it. I think it's nearly time to retired this machine, it's been about 3 years now... (bought in 2005). But I really don't want to spend the money, so I'm still trying to maintain it. Meanwhile my friend has bought not 1, but 2 Asus eeePCs... of course it's cheaper where she is, here it's about $500 AUD...
My friend has asked me to build a computer for him, I bought all the components except the CPU, the E8400 is out of stock, nobody has it in stock apart from people who's trying to sell it for $300 or so. For that price you can almost get a Quad Core Q6600. But that's not what my friend needs. So we'll wait for it...
Anyways, I've been in this new position at my workplace for about 3 weeks now, it's quite interesting... it's more difficult in terms of checking everything when it's just me and 7 areas. It was supposed to be 2 IPQC checking the 7 areas(8 if you count the warehouse) but it's the company just screwing us around, so only one person downstairs. Which sucks.
Movies, I actually won a movie ticket to see Jumper just this week. Watched it on Tuesday. It's a good movie actually, quite interesting but I think they will either make a sequal, or start a series of it. Either way it'll be a good show I hope.
Valentines day just passed, seems like not many people that surrounds me have had anything good in that department... Why... what's going on with the world... where's the love? :P
Oh well, I still have no news about a person I'm talking to... They are going to japan next week... meh...
My computer has been pissing me off lately... it's been rebooting, slowing down, and today, it decided not to boot. Turns out there was corruption in the files when it reboots randomly, and lucky I was able to recover it. I think it's nearly time to retired this machine, it's been about 3 years now... (bought in 2005). But I really don't want to spend the money, so I'm still trying to maintain it. Meanwhile my friend has bought not 1, but 2 Asus eeePCs... of course it's cheaper where she is, here it's about $500 AUD...
My friend has asked me to build a computer for him, I bought all the components except the CPU, the E8400 is out of stock, nobody has it in stock apart from people who's trying to sell it for $300 or so. For that price you can almost get a Quad Core Q6600. But that's not what my friend needs. So we'll wait for it...
Anyways, I've been in this new position at my workplace for about 3 weeks now, it's quite interesting... it's more difficult in terms of checking everything when it's just me and 7 areas. It was supposed to be 2 IPQC checking the 7 areas(8 if you count the warehouse) but it's the company just screwing us around, so only one person downstairs. Which sucks.
Movies, I actually won a movie ticket to see Jumper just this week. Watched it on Tuesday. It's a good movie actually, quite interesting but I think they will either make a sequal, or start a series of it. Either way it'll be a good show I hope.
Valentines day just passed, seems like not many people that surrounds me have had anything good in that department... Why... what's going on with the world... where's the love? :P
Oh well, I still have no news about a person I'm talking to... They are going to japan next week... meh...
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