Sabterdeyz

It's coming close to 4am in the morning and I'm adding another one for phuck.

last week was a full blown OT week for me. Had to format/ghost a whole department and all it's 600+ Pc's. Next week's a registration week for new students.

finally done with our work at 12am

Installed the latest version of Ubuntu which is 8.04 LTS. Real cool interface. Reminds me of Mac OSX. Nice...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Well, that's all for now folks! Gunite for now! Muaks!

Overcome the layzee

It's a new month already and I'm updating an entry at 3am in the morning. somehow have some better idea when I'm updating at this time of the day.

What I'm gonna talk about is wonderment. "What does it mean?" you say? Don't ask me. All I can say about that word is that I'm wondering about something and It's been haunting me for quite some time now.

If you're wondering what's keeping me awake at this late hour. Meet Mr. Crackpot:

try looking past the plastic

So now, back to my WONDERMENT. This item is purely IT based. So, anyone who might know how to help out or give me some suggestions or ideas, please feel free to do so.

no more Mr. Pau

I'm currently wondering about the so called water cooled PC system would be better than the conventional air cooled system. As from my previous entry, you can see that my PC is encased in Mr. Pau. But because of some rather disturbing overheating issues I had while my pc was running in the case, I just had to move it out of the freakin box back into a conventional computer case (which I've drilled in as much hole as I can to make way for better air flow for my radiator).

WaterCooling Setup

And now that it's in the pc casing, I've installed my Water Cooling System, which consists of a custom CPU water block, a Thermaltake radiator + 120mm fan and a Nirox 2800 pump. All and all, everything installed and running through my CPU, I still can't get the desired temperature that I've heard so much of where some even come close to 20C.

the radiator

Mine somehow, remained at 40~45C during Idle but rose consistantly from 63~65C during 100% load and kept on going. I'm not sure what's the suitable temp for the CPU, but what I've read, I should try and keep it below 60~65C at load. And this is with a Water Cooled setup. So, what am I doing wrong here?

the Hidden fan

My wild guess is that because my pump is in my water tank, it kept heating up the water during pumping cycle, so, when it reaches the radiator, the water could only be cooled down to just 40~45C. Is that a good thing? Somehow feel a little uneasy.

So please, anyone, ENLIGHTEN me! tell me something I don't know or doing wrong.

P/s: I'm using a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz (OverClocked to a steady 3.0GHz).

Re-Building and Re-Shaping

Qave is the name. And it a band of mine. It consisted of:

Me, Guitar

Chary, Guitar

Julian, Drums

Frizzol, Bass

We never had any vocalist before. Not sure till when. Sometimes we take turns singing. Sometimes it's me, sometimes it's Frizzol and sometimes it's Julian. We used to have a sessionist Bassist, but he was really hard to contact. We used to have guest vocalist, but that's that as well.

Now, it's been too long since there's any action, I'm wondering If there's going to be much anymore. One of us is really starting to get hard to contact. So, there might be a cutoff and might minus a member.

Go Figure.

Music, Love, Life.. It's all that counts..

Mr Pau

First of all, Meet "Mr. Pau"

It's been a while since I've had the thought and idea of doing something with "Mr. Pau aka Mr. Dumpling" and it doesn't involve eating it. But as you all know, dumplings all have something that's put inside for extra taste and flavour eg: Meat, Vege, Butter, etc. That's why I decided to call this document box as "Mr. Pau" because I'm going to put something in it and turn it into something else. Here goes:

Meet the insides

It's still not something i can eat right? So, to move on, here's Mr. Pau and the insides assembledCool huh? Ok, next, from the side

After a lot of cutting and measuring and final assembly, The Complete and functional and currently using,
Mr. Pau!

Mr Pau worked like a dream. Especially after I increased all the fan's speed.

It's a complete project, but It's still a prototype. Planning on building a real case with this design later in the future. If budget permits.

Older

It's finally Official. Today is the 15th of June and I've just turned to a tender golden age of midlife crisis and quite possibly wrinkles. If you're saying "there's also white hair", well, I got loads of those before my 16th year, so, It's not a big issue to me.

Being Older Is Just A Matter Of Numb3rs

This year would have to be the most active year of all for me. I'm trying to achieve so much this year. Most of it is about owning some of the stuff that I've been wanting to own for some time now but could not have afford to and some of it are just skills from my past, present and also future. Here's a little list starting with the 3 things I've wanted to own:

1. New High Tech Phone: (Bought)

N82

2. A High End Gaming and Multimedia PC: (Bought)
Might not LOOK like much, but POWER is only skin deep.
Runs on:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz 8MB L2 Cache 1066FSB
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 Motherboard
Tendcend 4GB DDR2 800 RAM
480GB (320GB+160GB) 7200rpm SATA Hard Discs
Colorful Nvidia 9600GT 512MB DDR3 (OverClocked Version)
CoolerMaster 550w Real Power PSU (SLI ready)
Lite-On 20x DVD-RW
Lite-OnCD-ROM 52x
2x 80mm Casing fan
1x 120mm Casing fan
Reclycled Casing.

3. A Brand Spankin New Car. BMW 1 Series Coupe:
Still a Dream so far, but it's damn hot and cool dream. Check out those lines and those rims.

Now it's the 3 other things:
1. Find My Dream Girl: (Found)
Love you dear.

2. Get Married With My Dream Girl: (Married Already)
For your info, that's not our marriage certificate. It's a bus ticket to LaLa Land..

4. Last But not Least, Learn How To OverClock a PC: (In Progress)
Currently experimenting with watercooling. But going towards pelter cooling and dry
ice cooling as th picture above shows. Absolutely Glorious.

All and all, I'd have to say that this year is the year where I'm trying to get everything done so that when my wife gets back here, I can spend more quality time with her.
I've already passed 1/4 century of my life. And I'm expecting to spend all of it with those I love and with god's guidance, be successful along the way as well, For my children and their children and for more generations to come.

To all my friends who wished me a Happy one, A million thanks goes out to you. You all mean the world to me. Thanks again.

And to my lovely wife, I love you so ever more and thank you for everything from you. You've given me more than any man can ever ask for. Being with you is more that what I could ever ask for and I can't wait to be with you when you finish your training. Love you dear.

So, To End This Entry, I'd Like To say,
Happy 26th Braynumb!

Adios Senorita

To SueCan.. AKA Amoi This one's for you..







Tomorrow is the day that my long time colleague Sucan will be leaving us for KL. Been here with us for nearly 3 years now. It's great to see that she got what she wanted all this while. But it's sad to see her go. Now, there only just me and Zainal left to carry out the work. You're always the Amoi among us Can and we'll make sure to keep in touch always aight? And take care of yourself there! Peace Moi!