Today is the 6th day with the new iMac. The feeling toward it is still more "strange" and "hard to use" than a Windows PC. Probably I am too used to the "Windows-way".
Besides transferring some songs, importing Emil Chau's "Rain Man", and writing blogs, these days I spent most of my time on importing and organizing my photos with iPhoto. I already successfully crashed the iPhoto several times. For example, create an album "2004 HK 1-day trip" under some folder and fill it with several hundreds photos. Then create another smart album under another folder, set the name of this smart album to "2004 HK 1-day trip" and set the smart settings to "Album is 2004 HK 1-day trip". Then the program freeze and not responsing. But it keeps taking more and more memory slowly.
Today, I plugged an USB harddisk with NTFS format to the mac. I didn't realize that Mac OS X cannot write to NTFS partition (may be I just forgot). Anyway, after several click and move folder, the computer frozen! What? It's a Mac... My first hard-reboot.
I still too new to Mac. But somehow it looks like Linux to me now, besides with the familiar interface of iTunes and iPhoto.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Order of 20" iMac (MA589/A)
Long waiting for nearly a decade, I'd orderd a 20" iMac with upgraded harddisk and keyboard/mouse finally on Wendesday. I'm expecting it delivering in one or two weeeks. By that time, I've to decide whether I should settle the bill in full by cash or EPS and save $500, or settle it by 12-month interest-free installment on VISA card without any discount. Assuming that I select the installment and the money was put into a saving account, the complex interest and the cash rebate on VISA card can add up to $200-$220. That mean I still have to pay $280 extra for the installment. My friend said that is the fee for installment. Quite true. But paying $13930 in full now is quite heavy and unhealthy to my financial report. Yet, $280 in value, unless the interest was rasied by a double, otherwise, the money in saving account can never earn that back.
I just thought of another installment: first I settle the bill by cash and account into Liability, which then I return it month, on my own schedule. That way, the money will not instantly gone on my report and yet, I get both installment and cash discount. (umm... this may sound complicated but... it just fits and works on my financial planner)
Anyway, I still have a week before I've to make up my mind (unless the computer arrive earlier than expected).
I just thought of another installment: first I settle the bill by cash and account into Liability, which then I return it month, on my own schedule. That way, the money will not instantly gone on my report and yet, I get both installment and cash discount. (umm... this may sound complicated but... it just fits and works on my financial planner)
Anyway, I still have a week before I've to make up my mind (unless the computer arrive earlier than expected).
Monday, September 11, 2006
Letters Replace Numbers for New Nokia Phones
〔電信產業〕諾基亞效法敵手,未來新手機將以名稱代替數字編號
(路透社) 09月 08日 星期五 08:10PM
路透赫爾辛基電---全球最大的手機製造商諾基亞(Nokia)周四表示，將效仿競爭對手頗為成功的RAZR、「巧克力」等名稱給新手機命名，代替過去的數字編號方式。
諾基亞行銷主管帕爾迪(Keith Pardy)在花旗集團(Citigroup)紐約投資者會議的網路視頻中說：「未來你們看到的將不光是我們的編號系統，你們將開始看到具有某種意涵、且對消費者有重要意義的名稱。」
帕爾迪並未說明究竟是會為全部新機型命名，還是仍會有部分機型以四位數字編號問世。諾基亞本周稍早推出了7390、7373、7360等新機型。
競爭對手摩托羅拉(Motorola)超薄型RAZR手機熱銷，隨後決定多款新機型以四個英文字母命名，諸如SLVR(讀音為sliver)和PEBL(讀pebble)。LG電子的超薄滑蓋手機「巧克力機」也掀起搶購熱潮。
分析師稱，給手機起名並不會改變根本，但對該計劃予以肯定。FIM Securities分析師許厄蒂表示：「沒有人會記得數字。人們希望用名字稱呼手機。數字沒有意涵或感情色彩。」(完)
--翻譯 烏雲高娃;審校 劉瑞芬
(路透社) 09月 08日 星期五 08:10PM
路透赫爾辛基電---全球最大的手機製造商諾基亞(Nokia)周四表示，將效仿競爭對手頗為成功的RAZR、「巧克力」等名稱給新手機命名，代替過去的數字編號方式。
諾基亞行銷主管帕爾迪(Keith Pardy)在花旗集團(Citigroup)紐約投資者會議的網路視頻中說：「未來你們看到的將不光是我們的編號系統，你們將開始看到具有某種意涵、且對消費者有重要意義的名稱。」
帕爾迪並未說明究竟是會為全部新機型命名，還是仍會有部分機型以四位數字編號問世。諾基亞本周稍早推出了7390、7373、7360等新機型。
競爭對手摩托羅拉(Motorola)超薄型RAZR手機熱銷，隨後決定多款新機型以四個英文字母命名，諸如SLVR(讀音為sliver)和PEBL(讀pebble)。LG電子的超薄滑蓋手機「巧克力機」也掀起搶購熱潮。
分析師稱，給手機起名並不會改變根本，但對該計劃予以肯定。FIM Securities分析師許厄蒂表示：「沒有人會記得數字。人們希望用名字稱呼手機。數字沒有意涵或感情色彩。」(完)
--翻譯 烏雲高娃;審校 劉瑞芬
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
E Bible for Mobile (free)
Recently, one of my friends turn to Pocket PC phone from Symbian S60 phone. Smart choices because Pocket PC could be more applicational than Symbian, when both are being compared on phone devices.
He found a free Bible for Pocket PC, namely Pocket e-Sword (official website). It is quite powerful, honestly. And most importantly it is free. However, it doesn't seems to be stable on my Acer n300. Probably because I've installed the program to memory card instead of the internal memory, which the website recommended. I don't have any screenshots yet. But you may find more from the link above.
At the same time, another friend is looking for a e-bible for her Nokia 6280. Here is the one her friend had referred to her: Go Bible. This is a Java (J2ME) applications. Please note the Java limitation of your phone prior to installation. Owners of Nokia phones may click here for device specifications.
May God bless you.
p.s. By the way, I found some links from http://www.christianpda.org/. Registration is required even for browsing. What the! Browsing should be registration-free. It seems to be a personal information collecting forum. Be aware.
He found a free Bible for Pocket PC, namely Pocket e-Sword (official website). It is quite powerful, honestly. And most importantly it is free. However, it doesn't seems to be stable on my Acer n300. Probably because I've installed the program to memory card instead of the internal memory, which the website recommended. I don't have any screenshots yet. But you may find more from the link above.
At the same time, another friend is looking for a e-bible for her Nokia 6280. Here is the one her friend had referred to her: Go Bible. This is a Java (J2ME) applications. Please note the Java limitation of your phone prior to installation. Owners of Nokia phones may click here for device specifications.
May God bless you.
p.s. By the way, I found some links from http://www.christianpda.org/. Registration is required even for browsing. What the! Browsing should be registration-free. It seems to be a personal information collecting forum. Be aware.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Mac Spoofs
Looking for news about Mac, I found these on web. They're super funny. Enjoy.
1. Crash Different - Mac also crash...
2. PS3 vs Wii (compare with the offical Get a Mac ads)
3. Also this and more. Feel free to check out www.macspoofs.com yourself.
1. Crash Different - Mac also crash...
2. PS3 vs Wii (compare with the offical Get a Mac ads)
3. Also this and more. Feel free to check out www.macspoofs.com yourself.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
RatRace
' This code really works! Copy and paste into VB
' The truth - Rat race - V1.0 - Vince Natteri - http://techotek.com - Copyright 2006
' This code runs constantly
Sub RatRace()
Dim YourAge As Integer
Dim Salary As Double 'Actually, integer will do but I am just flattering myself
'Get the age
YourAge = InputBox("What the heck is your age?", "Your age again:")
'What the heck is his age
If Not IsNumeric(YourAge) Then
MsgBox "You can't remember your age and have succombed to the rat race."
Exit Sub
End If
'Start the rat race!
While (YourAge < 65 )
'WeekDay returns 2 for Mondays and 7 for Saturdays...
If Weekday(Format(Now, "dd-mmm-yyyy")) >= 2 And Weekday(Format(Now, "dd-mmm-yyyy")) <= 7 Then
MsgBox "You are: " & YourAge & ". Now go to work, please your boss and draw an income and pay the bills"
Else
MsgBox "Relax, it's the only day in the week you can do this"
End If
'Is he dead?
If (MsgBox("Are you dead yet?", vbYesNo) = vbNo) Then
'Increase age by one if it's been an year
If (MsgBox("Is it your birthday yet?", vbYesNo) = vbYes) Then YourAge = YourAge + 1
Else
MsgBox "Sorry to hear that. Hope you've worked well and made some large corporation more money."
Exit Sub
End If
Wend
'Over!
MsgBox "Congratulations! You've been working all your life to pay bills! Hope you enjoyed being part of the rat race! Good bye!"
End Sub
' The truth - Rat race - V1.0 - Vince Natteri - http://techotek.com - Copyright 2006
' This code runs constantly
Sub RatRace()
Dim YourAge As Integer
Dim Salary As Double 'Actually, integer will do but I am just flattering myself
'Get the age
YourAge = InputBox("What the heck is your age?", "Your age again:")
'What the heck is his age
If Not IsNumeric(YourAge) Then
MsgBox "You can't remember your age and have succombed to the rat race."
Exit Sub
End If
'Start the rat race!
While (YourAge < 65 )
'WeekDay returns 2 for Mondays and 7 for Saturdays...
If Weekday(Format(Now, "dd-mmm-yyyy")) >= 2 And Weekday(Format(Now, "dd-mmm-yyyy")) <= 7 Then
MsgBox "You are: " & YourAge & ". Now go to work, please your boss and draw an income and pay the bills"
Else
MsgBox "Relax, it's the only day in the week you can do this"
End If
'Is he dead?
If (MsgBox("Are you dead yet?", vbYesNo) = vbNo) Then
'Increase age by one if it's been an year
If (MsgBox("Is it your birthday yet?", vbYesNo) = vbYes) Then YourAge = YourAge + 1
Else
MsgBox "Sorry to hear that. Hope you've worked well and made some large corporation more money."
Exit Sub
End If
Wend
'Over!
MsgBox "Congratulations! You've been working all your life to pay bills! Hope you enjoyed being part of the rat race! Good bye!"
End Sub
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Holux GPSlim 236
Today I borrowed a GPS module from my boss - Holux GPSlim 236. Tried many times but I still couldn't get a fix on the satallies. Downloaded the user manual from official website, I found out that the chip set is third generation. It should be the latest chip set and should be the best so far. Anyway, it won't work indoor. I'll try it some where outdoor later. What a stupid GPS module!
Monday, July 31, 2006
Screensavers for S60 2nd Ed. (free)
I'm looking for screensavers for Symbian Series 60 and came across the following blogs. They are nice, sharing tips and free applications for S60. Good places to visit if you're one of the nicely (poorly?) designed handset users.
ClockSaver V1.00 Nokia S60 from Freeware for symbian smarthphones
Making the most out of Nokia N70 - Part 3 from Crazy Little World of Mine
ClockSaver V1.00 Nokia S60 from Freeware for symbian smarthphones
Making the most out of Nokia N70 - Part 3 from Crazy Little World of Mine
Monday, July 03, 2006
Red Hat Linux 8.0 Part IV
My old laptop is sitting in office now. I tried to setup the network cards other than the default one - 3Com EtherLink III. Here are the drivers for my network cards:
However, I still not able to compile and install the drivers of RT2500 into Linux. The Kernel is yet an unknown area to me (even I've recompiled it once without any knowledge). May be using the EPX-ET 10BT is good enough for now.
Reference:
- 3Com EtherLink III LAN+33.6 Modem PC Card (3C562C/3C563C)
drivers: 3Com 3c589 series PCMCIA [3c589_cs]
Eiger Labs EPX-ET 10BT
drivers: FMVJ-18x PCMCIA [fmvj18x_cs]
LevelOne WPC-0301 11g Wireless PCMCIA CardBus Adapter
drivers: Ralink 2500 (for older OS w/o this drivers, may download here. compilation required).
However, I still not able to compile and install the drivers of RT2500 into Linux. The Kernel is yet an unknown area to me (even I've recompiled it once without any knowledge). May be using the EPX-ET 10BT is good enough for now.
Reference:
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Universal Source for S60 2nd and 3rd Edition
Working OT last night, I finally finished migrating the UI to another platform. Still working now and I thought it only takes couple minutes to convert this S60 3rd Ed. application to S60 2nd FP1+. But it turns out to be couple hours. Sigh.
A resource file (RSS) has been reformatted to be compatiable with both 2nd and 3rd SDK. I also prepared two set of the project files (MMP). But when compiling, it said...
C:\\D\\2006\\06\\my_project\\0606\\DATA\\my_project.RSS(12) : Syntax error
C:\\D\\2006\\06\\my_project\\0606\\DATA\\my_project.RSS(12) : Label not found
* RCOMP failed - deleting output files
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'perl' : return code '0x1'
What the heck!?
p.s. USP - Universal Source Project is a project which try to develop application in Single-Source-for-Multiple-Platform (SS4MP). Most of the controls would be managed by MACRO. Most, if not all, common files or codes would be written once and only once. Hence, same program would behave nearly exactly the same on several platform. Also, making debugging a "one-time" work.
A resource file (RSS) has been reformatted to be compatiable with both 2nd and 3rd SDK. I also prepared two set of the project files (MMP). But when compiling, it said...
C:\\D\\2006\\06\\my_project\\0606\\DATA\\my_project.RSS(12) : Syntax error
C:\\D\\2006\\06\\my_project\\0606\\DATA\\my_project.RSS(12) : Label not found
* RCOMP failed - deleting output files
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'perl' : return code '0x1'
What the heck!?
p.s. USP - Universal Source Project is a project which try to develop application in Single-Source-for-Multiple-Platform (SS4MP). Most of the controls would be managed by MACRO. Most, if not all, common files or codes would be written once and only once. Hence, same program would behave nearly exactly the same on several platform. Also, making debugging a "one-time" work.
Monday, June 12, 2006
Keymapping Software
These days I was playing Virtual On (PC version) because my boss found a copy. He also bought a model of one of the robots. I would like to have Virtual On origami but they are too expensive.
I had connected my Microsoft SideWinder Freestyle Pro gamepad but it cannot be recognized in the game. There is a software to customize the gamepad under XP environment - SideWinder Game Controller Software 4.0 (review of another M$ gamepad). However, it cannot be found on the Web (details).
On the web, I found several key mapping software. Although they don't help my situation, I would like to share them here:
Auto Hotkey - Remapping a Joystick to Keyboard or Mouse
PPJoy - Parallel Port Joystick Drivers
panuworld "joyadapter" XP
I had connected my Microsoft SideWinder Freestyle Pro gamepad but it cannot be recognized in the game. There is a software to customize the gamepad under XP environment - SideWinder Game Controller Software 4.0 (review of another M$ gamepad). However, it cannot be found on the Web (details).
On the web, I found several key mapping software. Although they don't help my situation, I would like to share them here:
Auto Hotkey - Remapping a Joystick to Keyboard or Mouse
PPJoy - Parallel Port Joystick Drivers
panuworld "joyadapter" XP
賣得就賣，廢物無價
痴呆XP促成的「Mac X政變」加上屋企準備裝潢，引發出「IBM兼容PC減持計劃」。很無奈地，我就是擁有五部PC和兩部PPC，還有五部Game Consoles，還有毛公仔、模型......反正就是很多。
計劃第一步進展順利，收鑊比預期高：放賣三隻硬盤，打算賣個七百六，結果賣了八百八。第二步是決定第四隻(WD80GB)的去留，並歸還借來的電腦（減持至4部）。之後要處理部經典PC：十多年的486。這是部極級486 (DX2-66MHz/64MB RAM/2MB VRAM/800+400MB HDD/10Mb LAN)，不論RAM還是VRAM，HDD還是Network，都是486時代的終極形態，若以當年市值算，或許非花三萬元不可。時移世易，今時今日它是沒啥用處；除非用來玩十年前的遊戲。Last but not least，剩餘的零件電線，還有flatbed scanner和color printer。實在是太多了，可惜它們又不是古玩，否則隨便找個收藏家送過去便成了。
近日瀏覽拍賣網，發現真的原來什麼東西也可以賣，就連砌過的模型都可以（當作parts賤賣）。讀書時大花筒，掃了好幾盒MG(Master Grade)級的高達模型，砌來砌去，還有幾盒未開。以前吉之島賣一百八，家下都賣二百六了，那豈不是升值了？以市價八折賣，大概都可以賣二百，陳年模型不跌反升，這個世界是瘋了嗎？既然如此，我想賣兩條磨穿了的牛仔褲，磨穿了不是很有型麼？有型就有價......對吧？
有時想，活在物質主義的社會，一個人擁有（買入）的東西還真多呢。靈魂一走，除了留下筆保險金，還留下一堆個人垃圾。
計劃第一步進展順利，收鑊比預期高：放賣三隻硬盤，打算賣個七百六，結果賣了八百八。第二步是決定第四隻(WD80GB)的去留，並歸還借來的電腦（減持至4部）。之後要處理部經典PC：十多年的486。這是部極級486 (DX2-66MHz/64MB RAM/2MB VRAM/800+400MB HDD/10Mb LAN)，不論RAM還是VRAM，HDD還是Network，都是486時代的終極形態，若以當年市值算，或許非花三萬元不可。時移世易，今時今日它是沒啥用處；除非用來玩十年前的遊戲。Last but not least，剩餘的零件電線，還有flatbed scanner和color printer。實在是太多了，可惜它們又不是古玩，否則隨便找個收藏家送過去便成了。
近日瀏覽拍賣網，發現真的原來什麼東西也可以賣，就連砌過的模型都可以（當作parts賤賣）。讀書時大花筒，掃了好幾盒MG(Master Grade)級的高達模型，砌來砌去，還有幾盒未開。以前吉之島賣一百八，家下都賣二百六了，那豈不是升值了？以市價八折賣，大概都可以賣二百，陳年模型不跌反升，這個世界是瘋了嗎？既然如此，我想賣兩條磨穿了的牛仔褲，磨穿了不是很有型麼？有型就有價......對吧？
有時想，活在物質主義的社會，一個人擁有（買入）的東西還真多呢。靈魂一走，除了留下筆保險金，還留下一堆個人垃圾。
Thursday, June 08, 2006
抗衡熱力
自從房裡電腦患上奇怪的痴呆症，加上老父為了區區五百個大餅的電費單嘈到拆天之後，連續好幾晚都睡前關了電腦，冷氣也沒開。自從電風扇嘈音之失眠夜之後，我又再次開著冷氣睡。今早在某手機商office等運到時，他們動作還真慢，這不是重點，而且升級變降級，算，這也不是重點。我覺得自己似乎作感冒，奇怪是冷氣Settings依舊，為何作感冒？或者少了部電腦這個heat source，房就凍了。
今日沒空打開部痴呆電腦，因為一晚內要看四套電視劇和遊戲7788，洗完碗還在走廊練blades，該沒多餘時間了吧，除非一小時能當兩小時用，這…有可能嗎？但最後還是用ＰＤＡ扒在床上看電郵上網，覆了兩個拍賣問題和寫這篇東東。
我發現原來我還挻空閒，又或者這叫無聊。(on mobile)
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Defragmentation
There are way too much of stuff in my room. I'm planning a garage sale. Oh well, I don't have any garage. So, may be sell them on the second hand market or online auction.
First of all, the most valuable things to sell are harddisks. I've nearly 10 of them. Four of them are duplicating each others. Deleting the unused and moving other files to my Buffalo Disk Drive, the total of free space added up to 380 GB.
Let's cash them ASAP. After all, they will be useless (and worthless) when I replaced my desktop with an iMac with 500 GB disk space.
What else? Here is still way too much of stuff. (on mobile)
First of all, the most valuable things to sell are harddisks. I've nearly 10 of them. Four of them are duplicating each others. Deleting the unused and moving other files to my Buffalo Disk Drive, the total of free space added up to 380 GB.
Let's cash them ASAP. After all, they will be useless (and worthless) when I replaced my desktop with an iMac with 500 GB disk space.
What else? Here is still way too much of stuff. (on mobile)
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