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Replacing Rear Drum with Disc Brake

greedy5513 — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:21:50 +0800

I was wondering did anyone perform the conversion from rear drum brake to disc brake for Honda City?

Any good recommendation on what brands to get for the mod?

I never like the rear drums on my honda city and for better safety, I'm planning to change it.

Hopefully sifus here can guide me and give me some advise

Using Mobile Network with 3g Modem

greedy5513 — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 12:24:05 +0800

I am currently using a mobile phone to share my 3g network via hotspot for my own use, is it possible that I get a 3g modem to connect to the mobile 3g network instead of using my phone as hotspot?

The 3g network I'm using is without quota or speed throttling.

Finding 2 Laptop Bag that holds 2x Laptop

greedy5513 — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:46:58 +0800

Guys, I'm travelling(flying) a lot and I need help finding a laptop bag that holds 2 laptops 1x personal 15.6' 1x work 14", 2 power adapters, 2x mouse, a few small tools like multimeter, precision tools, battery bank, passport etc easily.

Using a dell provided laptop bag currently and I feel like I'm stuffing it too full when I'm travelling.

Anyone who travels a lot with x 2 laptops? need help from all the sifus here

any shops in lowyat that sells watercooling parts?

greedy5513 — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:43:49 +0800

Can tell me the name and the level? Wanna get some parts

ATX & MicroATX

greedy5513 — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:56:32 +0800

Why ATX motherboard is always more expensive than MicroATX motherboard? more expensive means better?

What is the difference in terms performance between a ATX motherboard & MicroATX motherboard?

Overclocking? Better circuit board?

Formatting Windows XP

greedy5513 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:39:24 +0800

I got a dell latitude C640 with a faulty CD rom drive. I wanted to know how can i format it since i got no floppy to do network boot, and the motherboard doesn't support USB boot. Any ideas?

Seat Belts/ Half Cut shop in IPOH

greedy5513 — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:32:48 +0800

guys, my seat belt spoiled, now it's like those fluffly cloth where all the threads came off, so now I'm looking for replacement but don't know where to start

Where can I find a replacement? I've asked those car spare parts shop but not available. it's an old proton saga.

If you are bored...

greedy5513 — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:54:30 +0800

Stop reading if you dont wanna spend you night laughing..

Nothing keeps a relationship on its toes so much as lively debate. Fortunate, then, that my girlfriend and I agree on absolutely nothing. At all.

Combine utter, polar disagreement on everything, ever, with the fact that I am a text-book Only Child, and she is a violent psychopath, and we're warming up. Then factor in my being English while she is German, which not only makes each one of us personally and absolutely responsible for the history, and the social and cultural mores of our respective countries, but also opens up a whole field of sub-arguments grounded in grammatical and semantic disputes and, well, just try saying anything and walking away.

Examples? Okey-dokey. We have argued about:

Ahhhhhhhh

* The way one should cut a Kiwi Fruit in half (along its length or across the middle).

* Leaving the kitchen door open (three times a day that one, minimum).

* The best way to hang up washing.

* Those little toothpaste speckles you make when you brush your teeth in front of the mirror.

* I eat two-fingered Kit-Kats like I'd eat any other chocolate bars of that size, i.e., without feeling the need to snap them into two individual fingers first. Margret accused me of doing this, 'deliberately to annoy her'.

* Which way - the distances were identical - to drive round a circular bypass (this resulted in her kicking me in the head from the back seat as I drove along).

* The amount of time I spend on the computer. (OK, fair enough.)

* First Born's name (Jonathan). Then, when that was settled...

* How to pronounce First Born's name.

* Our telephone number.

* Which type of iron to buy (price wasn't an issue, it was the principle, damnit).

* Where to sit in the cinema. On those occasions when we a) manage to agree to go to the cinema together and, b) go to see the same film once we're there. (No, really).

* Whether her cutting our son's hair comes under 'money-saving skill' or 'therapy in the making'.

* Shortly after every single time Margret touches my computer, for any reason whatsoever, I have to spend twenty minutes trying to fix crashes, locked systems, data loses, jammed drives, bizarre re-configurations and things stuck in the keyboard. There then follows a free and frank exchange of views with, in my corner, 'It's your fault,' and, in hers, 'It's a curious statistical anomaly.'

* Margret enters the room. The television is showing Baywatch. Margret says, 'Uh-huh, you're watching Baywatch again.' I say, 'I'm not watching, it's just on.' Repeat. For the duration of the programme.

* She wants to paint the living room yellow. I have not the words.

* Margret doesn't like to watch films on the TV. No, hold on - let me make sure you've got the inflection here: Margret doesn't like to watch films on the TV. She says she does, but years of bitter experience have proven that what she actually wants is to sit by me while I narrate the entire bleeding film to her. 'Who's she?', 'Why did he get shot?', 'I thought that one was on their side?', 'Is that a bomb' - 'JUST WATCH IT! IN THE NAME OF GOD, JUST WATCH IT!' The hellish mirror-image of this is when she furnishes me, deaf to my pleading, with her commentary. Chair-clawing suspense being assaulted mercilessly from behind by such interjections as, 'Hey! Look! They're the cushions we've got.', 'Isn't she the one who does that tampon advert?' and, on one famous occasion, 'Oh, I've seen this - he gets killed at the end.'

* Margret thinks I'm vain because... I use a mirror when I shave. During this argument in the bathroom - our fourth most popular location for arguments, it will delight and charm you to learn - Margret proved that shaving with a mirror could only be seen as outrageous narcissism by saying, 'None of the other men I've been with,' (my, but it's all I can do to stop myself hugging her when she begins sentences like that) 'None of the other men I've been with used a mirror to shave.'
'Ha! Difficult to check up on that, isn't it? As all the other men you've been with can now only communicate by blinking their eyes!' I said. Much later. When Margret had left the house.

* The TV Remote. It is only by epic self-discipline on both our parts that we don't argue about the TV Remote to the exclusion of all else. It does the TV Remote a disservice to suggest that it is only the cause of four types of argument, but space, you will understand, is limited so I must concentrate on the main ones.
1) Ownership of the TV Remote: this is signified by its being on the arm of the chair/sofa closest to you - it is more important than life itself.
2) On those blood-freezing occasions when you look up from your seat to discover that the TV Remote is still lying on top of the TV, then one of you must retrieve it; who shall it be? And how will this affect (1)?
3) Disappearance of the TV Remote. Precisely who had it last will be hotly disputed, witnesses may be called. Things can turn very nasty indeed when the person who isn't looking for it is revealed to be unknowingly sitting on it.
4) The TV Remote is a natural nomad and sometimes, may the Lord protect us, it goes missing for whole days. During these dark times, someone must actually, in an entirely literal sense, get up to change the channel; International Law decrees that this, "will not be the person who did it last" - but can this be ascertained? Without the police becoming involved?

* We're staying at a German friend's flat in Berlin and he brings out the photo album, as people do when conversational desperation has set in. It's largely pictures of a holiday he went on with Margret and a few friends several years previously. And consists pretty much entirely of shots of Margret naked. 'Hah! So, here's another photo of your girlfriend nude! Good breasts, no?' I sat on the sofa for hours of this - I think I actually bit through my tongue at one point. Fortunately, though, everything turned out all right because Margret, me and one careful and considered exchange of views revealed it was, '...just (my) hang-up.' Great. I'm sooooo English, apparently.

* See if you can spot the difference between these two statements:
(a) "Those trousers make your backside look fat."
(b) "You're a repellently obese old hag upon whom I am compelled to heap insults and derision - depressingly far removed from the, 'stupid, squeaky, pocket-sized English women,' who make up my vast catalogue of former lovers and to whom I might as well return right now as I hate everything about you."
Maybe the acoustics were really bad in the dining room, or something.

* She keeps making me carry tampons around - 'Here, have these, just in case.'
'Oooooooh, why can't you carry them?'
'I've got no pockets.'
Then, of course, I forget about them. And the next time I'm meeting The Duchess of Kent or someone I pull a handkerchief out of my pocket and shower feminine hygiene products everywhere.

* She really over-reacts whenever she catches me wearing her underwear.

* Now, what you have to realise is that this was from nowhere, OK? Don't think there were previous conversations or situations that put this in context. Oh no. Just imagine the, 'What the f...?' moment you'd have been standing in if your partner had said this to you, because you'd have had as much preparation as I did. So, it's just after Christmas and Margret's moaning about her present (I forget what it was, a Ferrari, I think - but in the wrong colour or something), um, actually, let me come back to this, that reminds me...

* Presents. Before every birthday, Christmas or whatever I'll say, 'What do you want?' And Margret will say, 'Surprise me.' And I'll reply, 'Noooooo, just tell me what you want. If I guess it'll be the wrong thing, it's always the wrong thing.' And then she'll come out with that, 'No, it won't. It'll be what you chose, and a surprise, that's what's important,' nonsense. And I'll say, 'Sweetest, you say that now, but come Christmas morning it'll be, "What the hell were you thinking?" again, won't it?' And she replies, 'No. It. Won't.' And I say, 'Yes, it will.' And she says, 'Don't patronise me.' And the neighbours freeze in their seats for a moment next door, before jumping up and removing anything they have on the shelves on the adjoining wall. And, in the end, Margret gets her way. And I hunt around in utter desperation for two months for something before finally finding the one item that will work at 7.30pm on Christmas Eve for a cost of twenty-three-and-a-half thousands pounds. And on Christmas morning it's, 'What the hell were you thinking?' But anyway.

* Back at the previous item, it's just after Christmas and Margret's going on about her present, which was, you'll recall, a necklace of a single diamond suspended on a delicate chain of white gold and sapphires. And this is what I hear come out of her mouth - 'Why didn't you get me a wormery, I dropped enough hints?' You what?

this is taken from http://www.mil-millington.com/

TV TUNER FOR LAPTOP

greedy5513 — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:15:52 +0800

Do any of you guys using TV tuner for your laptop?

if yes how it works? do i need a anthenna?

via ports(usb?) or comes with the laptop?

I'm planning to get one but I don't know where to start since the price list in lowyat main page got a few brands

How do i know which is good? Help, lost here

ICS between Ubuntu and XP

greedy5513 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:09:42 +0800

Hi everyone, here's my problem with ICS

my main computer Ubuntu,8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) is the computer that connects to the internet via PPPoE

(If im using Windows XP on this main computer, i got no problem setting up the internet connection sharing and file sharing via dhcp, and network bridge)

this main machine which is running on ubuntu now, connects to the net using motherboard ethernet,

It has 4 other NIC with crossover cable that distribute to computer A,B,C,D (all this 4 comps running on windows xp) lets call my ubuntu machine HOST

Let me simplify this
Internet < HOST (ubuntu) < A(XP),B(XP),C(XP),D(XP)

< connects to

I have no problem setting my ubuntu machine connect to the net via eth0, but i can no longer share files between my windows xp, that's okay i have another hard disk that runs windows XP and i can do all my sharing there.

but first of all i need to solve the Internet Connection Sharing(ICS) or else i'll get a lot of noise from my younger sisters and brothers and also my parents when im learning ubuntu and they cant online to do their things.

I know most of you will suggest me to get a router but i have quite a few of NIC lying around and its pointless leaving it there not using it when i have it.

this is from ubuntu forums from a guy name anaoum about ICS link

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1. # ifconfig ethX ip << lets say eth0 is the HOST and my desired ip is 192.168.0.1
2. # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE <<< this i don't understand
3. # apt-get install dnsmasq ipmasq << im getting dns masquerade and ip masquerade?
4. # /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart << after installing restart it, am i right?
5. # dpkg-reconfigure ipmasq << i dont get this either, don't ask me to google because i've done it and its not in layman's term for me this ubuntu newbie, i always wanted to try to use ubuntu but this internet connection sharing is the reason i din use because it gives such a headache but now my urge is hard to resist.
6. Repeating 1 and 2? << can anyone tell me why?

7. grub editor? thats for port forward right? correct me if im wrong.

Now I'm trying to figure out whats the meaning of the code, before i follow the guide blindly and get it done with and I'll never learn right.

so if anyone have any experience in this kindly light my path because I'm quite lost.

anyway thanks for reading my long post