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Entries on technical stuff
Last Saturday, my colleagues are celebrating my boss’s birthday at Sentosa.
Finally a chance to take photos on my D80 again. I’ve been neglecting it for more than 2 months.
I took like 200 photos. Most of them overexposed when I used my 50mm prime lens at f/1.4, Aperture priority. I’ll need to start learning how to work with the different metering modes.
Also, when taking shots on 2 people, one of them got out of focus because of the thin depth-of-field.
Still a lot to learn!
Dell S2409W. Full HD.
Delivered straight to my home last night at around 8.20pm.
Thinking back to the days where I had to use a 15″ LCD monitor at work makes me shiver.
Watching 1080p animes are sooooo awesome now. Lots of detail flooding my field of vision.
Working on photoshop is also a lot better now with more viewing space. Same goes for coding.
Next up on my shopping list, a White NDS Lite and a new computer!
So last Friday my PC at work died right? Thus I went down to shop for a new one. I get to customize the parts I want.
I went for a quad-core PC because I always run a lot of apps. Photoshop, notepad++, multiple browsers, IIS, MySQL, outlook, etc.
I also went for a faster SATA harddisk, 2 sticks of 2GB ram, a cheap but good graphics card. It all totalled to $970. Pretty cheap for a strong computer.
Thus, I’m tempted to upgrade my gaming computer at home. I’ll probably do so when I get my bonus salary this year.
All the while I’ve been using a SFF PC as my 24/7 PC running bittorrent and serving my blog.
I suppose the cooling isn’t good enough. I might revive one of my old computer case to use as my next 24/7 PC, and the SFF as my portable one for LAN parties or experiment with all those different Linux OSes out there.
Slowly backing up all my files to the NAS. Don’t intend to do this one shot in fear of killing the drive.
Probably another week or 2 before I start restoring everything.
The other day when I was at SLS shopping getting my NAS replaced, I checked out this Indian shop who also provided data recovery service.
The guy quoted me $600 for the data recovery service. Once I get my harddisk back from the other company, I’ll send it to this shop to try.
My bad luck with computers didn’t stop, it has affected my webhost and thousands of sites were down for a few hours.
Meanwhile, I need to get my NAS working and backup some files on my gaming computer,
so that I can pull out one of it’s harddisks to use on my other computer,
so that I can access the other harddisk on my server computer to check for backups.
I got the NAS to work after a lot of crazy troubleshooting which involved disturbing a friend and pulling out a spare modem and having wires run all over the place.
Turns out that I confused DNS server with proxy server and I didn’t disable the proxy server setting in my browser. Thus I couldn’t access anything in my own LAN because it was going through the proxy.