Always on

To be, having computers that are always on is so important to me. With my lifestyle, waiting 5 minutes for a computer to bootup is almost ridiculous.

Shitty headphone selection at Fry's Electronic (Except Shure)

I went to Fry's Electronic today trying to find some Koss headphone, and found out that except Shure earbud, there's no good brand headphone there. No Koss, no Audio Technica. What a joke.

T-Mobile prepaid: Wise choice for me

I switched from a T-Mobile monthly plan to a Pre-paid plan on May 15 2009 after my 2 years contract was expired. It turns out to be a very smart move.

Before I switched, I had to pay US$35 (after tax) per monthly for 300 minutes of speak time. I checked my usage today, and found that I only used 47 minutes in the last 2+ months. That is US$1.34 of spending based on my bill. Really nice.

So no matter how attractive the iPhone feature is, I am not going back to the contract hell again.

DELL Mini 1011 Gray

At first I was pretty impresed by DELL Mini 1011 Gray. I was selling at $349.99 at MicroCenter, and I was pretty enjoy using their keyboard. Here's the problem, though: it only support 1Gb memory. I think it's a tag too little. 2Gb is much better, which makes me lean more towards HP's Netbook.

Continue making my EeePC 900 a default BT box and always on device at home

Yesterday I experienced something bad on my EeePC while I attempted to use it as an always on BT device: the machine shut down itself down because of overheating. That's when I realized that I disconnected the fan for the sake of making it run quietly. So I reconnect the fan again.

That was when I realize how great the eeeutil app was. I used it to turn the fan first to all the way 100% and then later to Auto, and turn the power to full so that there's enough power to drive the external 2.5 inch harddisk. I even connected the wireless mouse and keyboard set to it so that I could later use it as an always on machine, just like what my desktop used to do.

If everything goes well, then my next step will be trying to use WiFi for BTing, so that I can put the device at a corner that does not anony me.

Oh, so it was the damn 80Gb harddisk in a USB enclosure that **ck things up, and QuickSFV

I was very puzzled about the hell all the BT I've done on the EeePC 900 were all **cked up. Well, today I finally understand why: it was the dran 80Gb external USB harddisk that I used with the EeePC 900 that **cked things up.

The reason I know that's true is because everytime I use RapidCRC the SAME folder of rar files, I will GET DIFFERNT RESULTS. However, if I copied those file to my desktop harddisk. I will get consistant result. In fact, the connection was so unreliable that after unhooked the USB connection at one place and rehooked it on another USB portt again, the harddisk seems NOT WORKING ANYMORE. Screw that.

So Now I am using a 2.5 inch external USB harddisk now. Hope this one is better.

Oh on the side note, I like RapidCRC so much better as a SFV tool than the QuickSFV. The older vesrion's history feature gave me inaccurate result. And I can't even install the new 2.36 on my Windows 7 RC1. So forget it. RapidCRC on the other hand gives me consistant result. Good stuff.

Something wrong with my new BT box EeePC 900

With all the heat generated and the tiny tiny keyboard, I finally find myself fed up with my EeePC 900. Instead of leave it at the corner, I thought, why not use it as a dedicated BT box? So I set everything up and start using it to do nothing but BT.

However, things didn't go well. I found out that both of the BT work I used it to do was failed. They both have file corruption problem. So now I am getting pretty puzzled. What could be the problem of the file corruption?

• Machine overheating?
• Bad external 3.5 inch USB harddisk?
• Ethernet connection that comes through the USB instead of the real Ethernet port?
• The file I BTed was actually having problem (doesn't make sense, since no one else seem to have that problem.

This time I unplugged the USB port set thing, and directly connect Ethernet cable to the Ethernet port. I also redo one of the failed BT, and if whether the file itself really have problem. We'll see.