Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Ultimate Keyboard

Picture from http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

Every key is customisable. Wow !!

Free Pascal Compiler , maybe useful

Hello ,

Saw a free compiler recommended on the internet. Supports ARM / POWERPC / x86 / Win64 / Win32 / WinCE

http://www.freepascal.org/

Will give it a try to see how useful it is.

Have a nice day.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Lightning sighting

Evening 9/9/2007 around 8pm , a display of lightning from the sky. It lasted quite long , more than 20mins , until i became bored from looking at it.

P1010085

BTW: Transformer DEMO, unable to test it. missing xinput.dll file.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Transformers the game , DEMO

Will be doing a stress test on my old laptop. :)

http://www.transformersgame.com/content/downloads/Transformers_Demo_US.exe

provided it runs on my computer :(

Thanks
Have a nice day.

Monday, September 3, 2007

The Sub-Notebooks

We used to have Libretto sub notebook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libretto_(notebook)

Now we have
http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/toshiba-libretto-u100-s213/4505-3121_7-31383674.html?tag=txt
http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/sony-vaio-vgn-t250/4505-3121_7-31270249.html

and also the EEEpc(a cheaper alternative)
http://ngkwongtak.blogspot.com/2007/08/eee-pc-in-hkccf-2007.html

The circle is almost complete.
Thanks
Have a nice day.

Engineering Long Lasting Machines

Hello.

Recently, i was considering buying one of the latest computer from DELL, the m1330. But while my intention was to buy one of these cool toy, i just couldn't find a good reason to satisfy my "want" for getting one. Because my current computer the DELL Inspiron 8200 is still functioning quite well. Although the battery had failed and i have changed a new battery, upgraded the original harddisk to a larger 80GB harddisk.

Thinking about this............

Today i saw an article telling about the voyager space probe , which is still functioning after 30 years. This reminds us to that machines can be designed to last for a long period of time and perhaps if we use the same machine for a long period of time, we could have reduced the amount of technological waste generated by discarded machines. Eg. spoilt mp3 player,discarded computers,playstations...

So. i think maybe i should continue to use my current Laptop which is 5 years old, and hope that it would still function for 5 more years or more. BTW: it cost me $3500 back in the year 2002.

And also something interesting is that , the voyager space probe uses not battery, but RTG a smaller version of something like a nuclear reactor, which can generated watts of power.




ok.
Thanks
Have a nice day.

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Last half-hour price for COMEX 2007

Hello,

Well went to another computer show for the year again. This time round, it seems that DELL is offering the best deal for performance laptops. The DELL M1330 , with T7300 , extra 9 cell and 3 year warranty is $2629 , which is actually quite a good deal, considering how good the laptop is designed.

The sales lady said if you upgrade from the standard package by about $400 , she is willing to give $150 discount.The $2629 is after discount.

During the last half hour , most of the laptops are give a $100 to $200 discount and also the cameras are also given a approximately $100 discount from brochure price.

For this COMEX 2007(02/9/2007) , i bought a 7 port colourful powered usb hub for $16 and Kingston SD Card for $31.20

ok.
Thanks
Have a nice day.