Best way to move files to PSP ...

... is to use cable. Don't yank the MSPRo card in and out a lot since it may ruin it, like how I ruin the damn microSD to MSPro adapter.

POS Card reader ruin my microSD to MemoryStick PRo adapter

Somehow one of my shitty SD card reader managed to run my microSD to MemoryStick Pro adapter.  Now I have to fall back to using my 4Gb MemoryStick Pro for PSP gaming.  Thanks the fking a lot!

Amazon Cloud Player does NOT working on Andriod

Thanks to some stupid checking on the Locale simply based on input (my input does NOT have US english since I brought the HTC phone at Hong Kong), I cannot use the Amazon Cloud Player.  POS.

Damn Router

The darn router downstair keeps dying.  Really don't know why.  But one thing for sure: it really piss me off.  I have to go downstair and reboot the router several time in the last one hour.  I think it's time for me to consider buying yet another router.

Still think of getting Nintendo DSi XL, and still haven't yet

I was playing a Mario puzzle game on Nintendo DSi XL at Best Buy earlier today. And the fact that I still care about this device after so many months of on and off trying to buy it but reluctant to proves that this device still has certain appeal to me.

The problem of getting it now is that:
- 3DS is coming, and I expect a price drop on older devices.
- in the era of touch screen, a lot games still require using stylus in order to work effectively.
- the screen technology seem so dated compare with other devices like PSP, iPod Touch and so on
- I already have a classic NDS at home, and it is still not dead yet.
- Don't want to pay a lot of money to buy yet another gaming device. I already have hard time finding time tom play even the demo games on PS3.

So, there.

Another suck thing about HTC Desire Andriod

Found another thing that I did not like about my HTC Desire Andriod phone: It only sees my Asus RT-16 802.11N router if the SSID is broadcast.  If I hide the SSID, Desire won't see it.  Stupid.

The power of Class 10

I tested the Patriot 8Gb Class 10 SD card.  Copying totally 6.36Gb worth of various data takes 12 minutes.   I deleted the files, and do copy again, and this time, it takes 13 minutes.  My conclusion: Class 10 is not really that magical.

Use home machine as remote file sever? Not ready yet

The moment I realized that I could use ZumoCast to serve manga file to my iPad and then open that manga in ComicsZeal, I immediate dreamed of a scenario in which I left most of my manga files at home on the server, and when I need to read something, I just downloaded them on demand to my iPad. 

After some test today, that dream was shattered because of one critical reason: the current downstream of my home broadband connection is terrible.  Based on my test, I can only get at most 40K/s when streaming something from home. 

So using Zumcost to transfer video is pretty much not possible.  For small amount of file transfer, like a 11Mb manga will take like 20 minutes.  But at least not impossible.

On the other hand, if I am willing to lower the quality to 3G, like 112kbit/s, then using Orb to watch my video stuff storing at home still seem feasible.  In fact I pushed to 168Kbit/s (the upper max for the "3G" setting in Orb iPad Client) and the result seems ok.  Anything higher, though, seems like a disaster.

Figure out how to connect a router at the back of another router, but ...

I was very excited on Sunday that I figured out how to connect my 802.11n router at the back of the existing router (which belongs to my roommate).  So I went ahead spend the whole day restructure the server and the network, including reinstall the OS on the server machine (but still using the same name).

Everything went pretty well EXCEPT that the MacOSX has problem acccessing the shared files in the file server, yet have NO PROBLEM remote desktop to that machine.  That will really push me towards using the Windows 7 side as the main day to day environment.

Another option is moving the Z file server to the router based file server.  That will require a few days of observation and make sure everything work as expected, so ... we'll see.

Yep, HD Dock station failing

So after observed few 2 more days sure enough that harddisk dock station has USB disconnection problem.  My 2 problems are :

• whether that dock has problem on the eSATA side
• whether the ANOTHER dock has the same problem

So again need to observe a few more days.

No 2 USB HDTV Tuner on one machine

I was pretty disappointed to found out that connecting 2 WinTV USB based TV Tuner to a computer does enable Window Media Center to record video using those 2 tuners.  Instead, the old one got ignored and the new one took over when I plugged in an identical second tuner to my closet server.  Interestingly, after reboot, but tuner showed up on the device manager fine.  It's just that Windows Media Center did not use both of them, which is pretty lame.  Guess I will have to use the second one on another machine then.

Odd USB problem

I brought 2 identical eSATA harddisk dock station.  One of them were connected to my Lenovo S12 Netbook.  Since 3 days ago, I kept experiencing this USB dock kept disconnect and connect again, causing the Recorded TV video I paused (played from a harddisk on that dock) failed to continue.  That was extremely annoying.  So last night I finally had enough, and swapped this one with the one using in my closet server computer. 

The problem was NOT happening on this another one.  So I though, hack, see, so the previous one has problem, and must return it as soon as possible.

The odd thing, though, was that after I swapped back, I still DID NOT experience the constant disconnect and reconnect problem.

So now I really don't know whether the dock has problem, or the simple reconnection solved the problem.  will see.

Connecting router to router ... failed at least for the first round

Sigh, I brought a new Asus router and trying to add it to my home network.  It didn't work well.  Problem popped up so frequent that I have to roll back to the original setting.  Maybe if I hve more time later I will investigate the issue in deeper.

Class 4 SD card experiement failed ... but how about Class 10 ...

My experiment with bringing just the Class 4 SD card home instead of bring the whole M6400 work machine home was failed completely.  The performance was slow and sluggish.  The SD card will disappear once in a while, and copying files from the card back to the machine is terribly slow.  And then there's a lot of file corrupting and I got prompted to "fix disc" a lot of times.  I have roll back to using the machine itself.

At first I thought maybe using a Class 10 SD card will ease the problem, but on the second thought, I think the whole SD card thing to replace HD just doesn't work at all, just forget about it.

Shuting down VMWare caused temporary SDCard access problem?

Just experienced something odd here: after I shutdown the VMWare VM, I suddenly found my SDCard access of my Dell Precision M6400 halted.  I knew it because I was listening to a podcast directly from the SDCard.  It didn't seem to create any permanent damage, but it does make me aware that I can't use the SDCard as a cheap version SSD.