Entries Tagged as 'Hardware'

Nyonya Cafe – Authentic Nyonya Cuisine… and more

March 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Usually I will have my lunch in New World Park when visiting CTY Aquatic Shop. After a while, I was not sure which restaurant to try. Nyonya Cafe, which is somehow easily missed, is a place where you can enjoy authentic nyonya cuisine (and more).

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Tags: Food Review · Hardware

Car battery flatted out? Try this.

November 12th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Have you ever experienced battery flatted out after switching off the engine? It may due to the fact of not turning off headlights or the battery is becoming weak, and will result in the car cannot be initiated at all . One way to solve this on the spot is to find a working [...]

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Tags: Hardware

Tool to stress test your CPU

November 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Overclocked your CPU and want to torture it to see how far the CPU can go? Try a freeware called IntelBurnTest which will stress your CPU to the max. It can also be applied on new laptops to see if it will overheat or not. For example, my HP Compaq 6910p survived the test while [...]

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Compaq Presario C793TU – An overheating piece of junk with poor service

October 24th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Few months ago I mentioned on my Compaq Presario C793TU laptop in one of my posts. These two weeks, I had bad experience with this machine, that is, it is overheating at room temperature of about 30ºC! When I first purchased this machine I installed Fedora 9 (a Linux distribution) under air-conditional environment which is [...]

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Tags: Hardware · Linux Survival

Have slow machine? Don’t throw it yet.

October 12th, 2008 · No Comments

What can you do with Pentium III today? I have a Pentium III 800MHz at home acting as BitTorrent client now.  Few years ago it is able to play Starcraft, Quake III Arena, Call of Duty 1, Medal of Honor 1, etc nicely. It is just too slow to play latest games nowadays. You will [...]

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Noisy disc spinning sound on fat PS2? Try this!

October 8th, 2008 · No Comments

I found out that some backup disc on PS2 will have loud spinning noise when inserting them into my fat PS2. The sound (“mmmooooccckkk”) is just like a disc looses its grip when spinning. The issue happens even on latest TDK Gold 100 pieces cakebox version. The game just cannot be read at all.
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How to clean your fat PS2 len?

October 7th, 2008 · No Comments

If you own a fat PS2 like me, it is probably at least 3 years old by now and the len’s performance may not as good as the default. Unlike slim version in which you can just open the tray and clean it, fat version requires you to un-screw the case. So, here’s a tutorial [...]

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This is what happened if you use Windows

October 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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Gold reflecting layer DVD media good for PS2

October 5th, 2008 · No Comments

You may have burnt many video game ISO files to be played with your console machine. Putting legal issue aside, video game consoles are usually quite picky on choosing the backup media. The same disc usually can be read easily and smoothly using PC CD/DVD drive, but not on the video game console. You may [...]

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My Very First Laptop (Compaq Presario C793TU)

June 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Even though this is not the first laptop I used, Compaq Presario C793TU is the first laptop paid using my pocket money. It came under a credit card promotion from Citibank and was cheaper than market price for about RM400. Currently I have a company notebook (HP Compaq 6910p) which is technically [...]

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