Something BIG is coming?

My head is splitting. I dont know if you belive me, but I think I am senstivie to the tectonic plates movements. I often get headaches when an earthquake is coming. I had a bad one these few days. I slept ok, my blood pressure is normal and I have not been playing FPS much...

I can only hope I am wrong.

Ghost Mail in Outlook

Due to a SMTP failure, some of the mail and receipt were stuck in Outlook. However, these are never shown in the Outbox or Deleted Folders. I keep seeing some mail trying to send out every few minutes, but I was never able to pin point that was wrong.

So, here is the solution to remove those failed acknowledgment and stuff :
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/deletereadreceipt.htm

You should download this utility from Microsoft :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3D1C7482-4C6E-4EC5-983E-127100D71376

Xiao P is sleeping...

The weather is hot in the few days and I guess thats what makes Xiao P feels hot too. He is sticking his head out while he sleep. He has lost some fur on his face due to molting...

Windows Home Server - The Inside

Ok, lets take a look inside of the WHS.

Pretty messy no matter how I tried to tidy it.

Cooler Masters Back fan.

The bird's eye view. Notice the 2 HDD fan (gold) and the exhaust fan?

A close up of the 2 HDD fans. Its a must no matter how much you use the HDD. Without it, the life span will shorten and failure rate will increase.

The Pentium D Processor and Fan.

2 Sticks of the SIS DDR-800 1GB RAM.

This is the exhaust fan sucking all the hot air out.

I will put up another articles for the additional parts I added in later on.

Windows Home Server - The Outside

Ok, lets see version of the the finishing product. I had added some other components in addition to the previous specs and this is how it looks like. Kinda remind me of K.I.T.T from Knight Rider though. Although this casing is call VIOS 9002, it has NOTHING to do with cars though. :)

This is the front, the DVD Writer is concealed in a bay door just like the F117.

The black reflective surface gives it a good look. It has none of the stealth fighter's radar wave adsorption capabilities though.

The back is not concealed for ventilation. It has an additional exhaust fan in PCI slot if you can see it and sleeve fan mounted at the back plate. The 4 USB ports can be seen from here of the Asus Mobo.

This is another close up of the front.

And this is the reason why its cool. Its blue, just like my Habu and Reclusa.

F*cking Bitch TAKES ALL at Expo Popular Sales

Ever wonder why certain items as advertise is never available at the sales? Today I met such a bitch in Singapore Expo. There was this item on sale and I arrived early at 10:10 (it starts at 10am). There I saw a bitch pulling a truck of 10+ of THAT item. Straight away I know its shitted. I went around to ask and guess what? Its OUT OF STOCK! Why? One fu*king bitch bought it all. Thats the reason why they should always limit to max number of item per customer. Does this not make sense. I mean, you buy 3, nothing to say. Buy 10+ WTF? Go cut yourself into pieces har? (Btw, its a paper cutter).

OK, lets join me in a prayer that the f*cking Singaporean Bitch cut herself in her eyes (ok , lets make it better by cutting her childrens and grandma as well) while using it...

R4 NDS V1.16

There is a new release for the R4 Card for NDS system. The new BIOS has some fixes for games.
Again as usual I had customized the package. This is much bigger than the official release though. I had included the US and EU Action Replay Cheat Codes as of 23 Feb 2008 into the user define codes sections. The original offical code is still there too. Anyway, just unpack the whole thing into your SD Micro from this package overwriting all.

http://rapidshare.com/files/94434305/R4NDS116.rar

This works for new SD Micro as well. Thats the beauty of R4.

WHS and the Anti Something

Hai, to make the WHS perfect, I am sure everyone wants a Anti virus, Anti Spyware or something on it. So did I. First off, I tried ESet Business Suite with everyone including the Personal FW. Bad mistake, its pretty hard to configure it to make it work properly and most of the WHS function were crippled by it. Ok, maybe just the Anti Virus. Works well for a few days.

Until I tried to delete something over the network. I think its because WHS tries to sync it (double copy?) and Eset tries to delete it etc.. totally crashed the server. Rebooted. Tried some other things like make a copy then immediately delete. Happens again.

The mistake made was it says its works with WS2003. But this is the main difference here. WHS is NOT Ws2003 even though the underlining core is about the same. Today, I had only heard of Avast having a WHS antivirus solution. I really hate it because I tried the Vista one before and I had to reinstall Vista again after that. Unless someone can give me a FREE permanent license for this, I am not considering installing it to try and remove after expire.

Just to update, I had remove Eset for now and the server was up like a few days since then. No hiccups, no reboot. Backup went 100% fine. So, does this mean I should advise anyone to stay off Anti Virus until the WHS certified branding is in?

WHS Data Corruption Error KB 646676

Just to give everyone else using the WHS a heads up that there is a know issue with saving files directly to the WHS. BTW, I always thought this is a bad idea. I would save local then transfer back to WHS. But whatever reason if you are doing that using the following (which MS has confirmed) :

•	Windows Vista Photo Gallery
•	Windows Live Photo Gallery
•	Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
•	Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
•	Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
•	Microsoft Money 2007
•	SyncToy 2.0 Beta
•	Intuit QuickBooks
•	uTorrent

or these (which MS cannot confirm) :

•	Photoshop Elements
•	Zune Software
•	Apple iTunes
•	TagScanner
•	Mozilla Thunderbird
•	Adobe Lightroom
•	Intuit Quicken
•	MS Digital Image Library
•	MP3BookHelper
•	ACDSee
•	WinAmp
•	Windows Media Player 11
•	Microsoft Office Excel
•	Visual DataFlex

Then you should stop it right now until a fix can be issued.

Follow the story at : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;946676&sd=rss&spid=12624

Xiao P vs Tissue Paper

I don't know about other hamster, but Xiao P is definitely one who has the something for tissue paper...

Home Server below $800

How I do it? I will spend the next few entries over the next few days trying to document this. Before I start, I stressed that I had tried with a basic configuration and has opt to upgrade some of the component after testing it for 1 week to improve performance.
Anyway, lets take a look at the stuff I bought first.

Item	Cost
Asus P5KPL-VM Mobo + Intel LGC775 Pentium D E2200 (2.2Ghz)	$275
SIS DDR2-800 1GB RAM	$34
2 x Seagate SATA2 500GB 32MB Cache	2 x $197 = $394
VIOS V9002 Casing + 450W Power	$50

Anyway, this is the first setup. For the setup itself, I will "borrow" a DVDWriter to install Microsoft Home Server. After which, I can keep the DVDWrite in or simple pull it out.

Dawn of War SoulStorm : Intro

Ok, here is the intro. You can download the demo of 1.2GB, but this is going to be release on 6th March 2008 anyway.

Dawn of War SoulStorm : Sisters of Battle

Here is the video :







The Sisters of Battle is a elite group consisting of 4 orders from the Imperium Army. Like the Inqusitors, they are charged to purge the corruption and evil from inside the Imperial forces.

Dawn of War SoulStorm : the Dark Eldar

Here is the video :



The Dark Eldar are evil race that enslave humans and most of their forces relies heavily on slavery.

WHS vs Defrag with Diskeeper or PerfectDisk

My Windows Home Server was up and running for a while. Only recently due to itchy fingers, I decided that a defrag may do it some good. Of course, I remembered MS has warned not to use the build in defrag. So there is 2 obvious choices out there with the Made for WHS label. Diskeeper 2008 and PerfectDisk 2008. Ok, the mistake I made was using the Server Edition trial instead of using the WHS version. What happened?

Due to the VSS or shadow copy function, when the defrag tries to move the file, VSS thinks the files has been changed and tries to keep track of the changes. Now you see the problem? So much so that the WHS actually locks up due to a deadlock.

But searching on the MS Forum :

"As all defragmenters use Microsoft's defrag APIs, until MS makes changes in those APIs or changes how VSS works so that it can detect defrag activity on 4k cluster size drives as they do with 16k> cluster size drives, you will always run the risk on Vista, 2003, 2008 and Home Server of restore points/shadow copies being purged when you defragment. The best that defrag vendors can try to do is work around this by detecting if a VSS enabled drive has a "non-optimal" cluster size and try to do something to mitigate file movement..."


Wow! Ok, just all the mumbo jumbo. The conclusion is that until something can be done about 4k cluster, its not advisible to defrag it at all. And you can change it to 32k cluster, but all hell WILL break loose making your whole WHS crash.



Conclusion. DO NOT USE A DEFRAG software in your WHS. Not until it can fully support the VSS and 4k cluster. The so-call WHS version of these software just skips the drive which are 4k cluster, which is not really what you wanted in the first place (or paid for).

All About My Dog Marimo

Why there is no enough space on public buses

The pictures says it all. Well done, Singaporean.

PSP 3.90M33-2

We have a minor update again for the PSP to 3.90M33-2. If you are on 3.90M33, I suggest you upgrade, otherwise, you may want to hold a while till maybe -4 or -5 before doing a one shot upgrade. Anyway, here are the changes :

Changes in the firmware:
- Improvements in plugins loading code:
* Fixed some problems with problematic cards due to filesystem not mounted.
* Now plugins should read the faster.
* Problem fixed with lines with spaces at the end.
- Added the rest of regions to the recovery option fakeregion.
- (PSP SLIM): Added patches in nand ipl to allow Booster multiiplloader and TimeMachine iplloader to boot from nand.
Note: only 3.90 M33-2 and higher can be booted from nand in slim with those ipl loaders, not official Sony firmwares or previous versions of M33.

Changes in updater:
- The 3.90 eboot downloading code is now more stable, no more freezes after selecting AP- Memory stick write in the 3.90 downloading code is delayed the maximum possible for faster operation (the system prefers big chunks of data written at once).

I wont include the 390.PBP here for one step upgrade since its pretty big and if you are a big follower of mine, you will probably be at 3.90M33 anyway. But if you need, download from my previous post, extract 390.PBP and put together with the EBOOT.PBP here. For everyone else in 3.90M33, just download this to the main directory of your memstick and run it. Takes less than a minute to complete.

Download :
http://rapidshare.com/files/91929623/390M33-2.RAR

CWCheat V0.2.1A

Again, there is a minor update for CWCheat. I had as usual strip the package and remove everything else other than the stuff you will need for the PSP Slim only. If you have other plugins like USBSlimCharge for example, you will need to edit your GAME.TXT, POPS.TXT and GAME150.TXT (Actually, as far as concern GAME150.TXT is not used for the PSP Slim, at least not until DA has complete his new project Time Machine which allows kernel 1.5o on the Slim). Otherwise, just put everything into the main directory. Hold R and cold boot. Enable the plugins if its disable and reboot. There you have it.

Oh, did I mention that the CHEAT.DB is of 15 Feb 2008.

Download :
http://rapidshare.com/files/91927721/CWCheat021A-SlimOnly.rar.html

CJ7

A lot of people say this is BAD. Even worse than the 1/2 stars only Ah Long Pte Ltd. How can it be? There is only 1 way to find out.

I have no choice but to watch this in chinese here. One thing I must say is that this is not as funny as his previous movies. This is a quite serious movie. Stephen Chow no longer plays the “hero” or even the main character in this movie. In fact, the movie was pretty sad at the end. Maybe that is why many people find this bad. Their expectation was complete wrong. But I find that this is NOT a bad movie. I haven’t watch Ah Long Pte Ltd and do not intent to waste $8 watching it in the cinema. But I seriously think people should set the expectation right before going into this one.

This is close to the E.T. type of show, a bit of jokes here and there, but generally serious. The main characters are from a very poor family and many of the things I find people laughing all over are in fact quite sick because everyone here live in luxury (at least have the $8 to enjoy this show in the cinema). But in fact, such family (and even worse) do exist. That is probably me thinking too deeply into it. CJ7 is cute and if there is such a thing, I won’t mind queuing overnight for it. That for sure.

I would advise you to go watch it, but prepare youurself. Do not expect to laugh until you have a stomachache. Expecting something a bit more meaningful and bring something back for thoughts. There are quite some “punch” at various other movies as well, so it definitely is good if you had watched them.