Archive for February, 2008


To Mac or not too Mac

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Well, there are a number of new things going on or me at the moment.
My mom and bro have returned from their trip overseas, with many interesting stories and pictures. They had a ball of a time.
However they are feeling the jetlag at the moment. My poor brother is passed out on my bed at the moment fast asleep.

On the job front, I didn’t change jobs, I decided to stay with my current one. They made me a good counter offer to stay, and I accepted it.
To be honest I wasn’t looking forward to moving from the linux world back to the windows world.

At this very moment, I have a Macbook sitting on my desk. It’s not mine though, I’ve borrowed it from work to do some tests.
I used to hate Macs and outright refused to use them. However, I had never actually used one.
I’m finding that the more and more I use a Mac, the more I like it. It’s a very logical way of doing things. It’s strange, I’ve been using PC’s with Windows and Linux for a long time, and sitting in front of a Mac it like starting over in duh mode :p
Things like “How do I open the web browser?”. Now I feel alot more comfortable using one.
I’m even thinking of buying an iMac, as my intense dislike of Vista is driving me nuts.
I am still a gamer, so a Mac will only satisfy my Wow addiction :p

Thats all for now.

A new week and I’m feeling old

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It’s monday afternoon, 15 minutes before lunch time. Can’t wait to get out the office for a bit of a break.

It was my Birthday yesterday, and I turned 25. Does that make me old :p
It’s quite amazing, I have a plaque that was given to me when I turned 21, and now I’m 25. 4 years have flown by.
Not to mention the one year, one month and 21 days since I first arrived in Australia.

What did I get up to on my birthday? Not much. I wasn’t feeling all that well, and my dad was pretty sick.
So I just relaxed and took it easily. I wanted to go down the pub to have a couple or many beers, but I probably would have died.
So sort of flu going around kicking ass.

Well, I’ve resigned from my current job, and are quite excited about my new one. Just got to get through another 3 weeks or notice.
The new job has more perks and pays better, so it should be great. Complete turn around though, going from Linux back to Microsoft.
I better dust off the old AD skills :p

Thats all for now, got to go :p

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Very nice :)

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I’ve discovered a nice tool from Borland, or more correctly codegear.com called Turbo Delphi Explorer.
Looking at it, I believe it’s going to solve all my iconnect problems. It’s free and can be used for commercial purposes.
I’m going to have to modify the original code a bit, but everything should work.

The main difference in Turbo Delphi Explorer is you cannot install custom components. So the Tray Icon unit I use will have to be binned. However Turbo Delphi has it’s own inbuilt component for tray icons, so that problem should be solved. There will most likely be other things that require changing, but it should work out ok.

:)

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Got a bit of an upgrade

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My PC at home was decidedly noisy. Now when I say noisy, imagine skype calls where people on the other end complain about the droning in the background. Thats the damn fans causing that.
I ditched the AMD stock cooler for a Zalman CNPS9700 LED .. see it here: http://www.zalman.co.kr/ENG/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=164

It’s about 2.5 times larger than the stock cooler, however I was really suprised how light it is. For it’s size, it damn good. No problems with boards being bent etc. It also came with some thermal liquid… yes liquid. It’s in a small sort of nail varnish bottle, and you paint it on the cpu and cooler. Works like a charm, and saves alot of mess. Ultimately, this thing cools like a demon. I would highly recommend it.

On top of my new cooler, I bought a AMD X2 6000+ to replace the 4600+ I had, plus two new DDR2-800 1Gb Dimms and a Zalman fan controller.
So I can now throttle all my fans down, and my PC is dead quiet. The Zalman cooler is also very quiet even at full speed. On top of that I’ve got a 12cm thermaltake fan at the back of the case, on top is a 8cm fans to draw air in, and two fans on the front to cool my 5 hard drives (I’ve got a hdd fetish I think :) )

As I’m typing this, my fans are turned down to a minimum, pc is very quiet and it’s running a 34 Degrees C. Cool and Quiet is running the core voltage at 1.38V. All in all, I am very impressed.

I crank the fans up when I play games, but for mail, web etc, this is nice.

Other than that, I need to do some work on my sites, and get the latest iconnect source compiled. Also thinking of writing a new version that runs on perl. Should be fun.

Birthday is coming up soon. Yikes 25…!

Until we meet again :)

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