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Xmas Gifts

Xyanide — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:33:06 +0800

Since Christmas is just around the corner, I thought it would be a good time for me to get something for my mum and sis.

I was looking at rewarding my mum with a relaxing escape, somewhere along the lines of a spa treament. Family's from Penang and I found two which seemed quite decent from the internet, CHI, The Spa and Danai Spa. CHI looks good but I guess it might be too expensive for me. Would be really helpful, if someone could give me some pointers and perhaps better ideas?

Sis is 16, wondering if it would be a good idea to put her together with my mum for spa or maybe get her an electronic gadget instead. Again, any advice would be really helpful.

Unfortunately, I will not be in Malaysia to spend Christmas with them, so I would need to be able to purchase the gifts from overseas.

Many thanks.

Hard disk drive error

Xyanide — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:43:09 +0800

Hi guys,

I have a Dell lappy which was physically abused and resulted in:

1) OS could not start
2) Dell diagnosis found a hard drive error
3) Tested my Hitachi hard drive with the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test and the error was, "defective device...accessive shock"

Called Dell and gave them the error code from the Dell diagnosis........was guided to reformat the lappy and now everything seems to be working properly in the Windows environment, however the error messages are still there whenever i carry out the tests...

Are there problems with the test or my drive is faulty but is still able to run the os?

If my drive is faulty, how do I get Dell to replace the hard disk for me since everything is still running?

Many thanks....

USA vs. UK

Xyanide — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:15:26 +0800

Hi guys,

just wanna compare between US and UK for higher education..

Regards

Noob in need of advice

Xyanide — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:29:03 +0800

Hi guys,

I'm about to graduate soon with a degree in mechanical engineering and i'm looking forward to get a good start in my career. However i'm fresh in the working scene and it would be really great if someone could give me an overview of the jobs available for me together with their future prospects. Thanks.

Power Factor Corrector

Xyanide — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:52:44 +0800

Hey,

I am involved in a project to correct the power factor . I ve given the task to measure current and vltage from the main incoming which is 240Vac using both voltage and current transducer ...this value will be input to the microcontroller PIC18F258 and have to read the signal and digitized it ...

Any idea of how the circuit should be form ?

Headache for this ...

Thanks if anyone could help

Help needed for 2 problems..

Xyanide — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:30:27 +0800

Hi guys, i've got 2 problems with my Windows XP which i've tried to figure out for some time now...

Help&Support

nLited my XP and took out Help & Support ..didnt know some other program's help files depended on it . I was wondering if anyone would know how I could view these help files without reformatting .. THX

Thumbnails

okay..second problem, nlited XP took out Windows Picture and Fax Viewer..didnt know thumbnails depend on it, tried installing many image viewer programs (irfanview,xnview,picassa...etc) but couldnt get thumbnails to work.. Any way I could get it fix without reformatting?

Thanks for reading... Hopefully someone could help...thx

Samsung Ultra Edition II 10.9 / U600

Xyanide — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:31:59 +0800

Hi guys, I'm planning to get the Samsung U600. Hope you guys could help me with some questions.
1) Anything that I should know about the phone before I get it?
2) Anyone has anything against the phone?
3) What's the current price of it in Malaysia?
4) What are the colours available in Malaysia?

Thanks very much in advance.

ad-hoc wireless network help

Xyanide — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:15:59 +0800

hi guys, i'm running a ad-hoc wireless network connection with ICS at home. So i'm really new into this and i just followed the network wizard to setup the connection but the problem is it kept disconnecting like every 5 mins but at times it could last for maybe an hour. Everytime when i disconnects, it has problems connecting back again, for like 10 - 20 mins the status of the connection would be acquiring network address. Anyway i was really frustrated with it so now i manually configured the thing and i use static ip's for the host and the client and today after 30 mins using it, it seems to be working fine. anyway what i did was I set

Server:
Ip : 192.168.0.1
Subnet : 255.255.255.0
Default gateway : black

Dns: Blank

Client:
Ip: 192.168.0.2
Subnet:255.255.255.0
Default gateway: 192.168.0.1

Dns : (i got this values from my server computer, i type ipconfig/all and i just copied the values from the LAN adapter's DNS values)

So my question is did i set it correctly? and what is DNS?

Finally, i use windows firewall on both the laptops. I was wondering if the windows firewall affects anything inside my network or it just monitors what goes in and out of my network with the internet? if it does affects what happens inside my network how do i configure it? what should i allow thx in advance.

WMP 11 HELP Needed

Xyanide — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:49:59 +0800

Hi guys, I'm having a small problem with WMP 11 which is really making me frustrated with it. Is there a way to make my WMP11 playlist stay in the now playing tab even after i restart WMP11 ? more like the winamp style where songs which are added to the playlist dont dissapear when winamp restarts. Thanks in advance. Cheers.