I finally bought all the parts to a new computer system I am building. My current desktop is getting long in the tooth (almost 5 years old) and isn’t the most stable. With a eye on my new system lasting the same 5 years or so I am building a Quad Core, 8GB system using the Shuttle SP35P2 Pro as the basis. Wish me luck!
Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Ian Cheung
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One of my pet projects oboeyasui.com is down. My service provider just turned it off without any notice. It is the first time I have had a site become so popular (apparently a million hits a day) that it got shut down. So I don’t know whether to feel extremely sad or just normal sad.
I can’t really argue with my service provider about turning it off, as the site was hosted on a shared server. I didn’t realise it had grown into such a monster. It would have been nice to have been given even a day of notice. Also they say that I need a $125 a month package to host it. Since the service was a free service (it didn’t even have ads) I don’t think that I can afford to pay out $1500 a year out of my own pockets. I do believe that other providers probably could host it for a lot less but still it wouldn’t be self-supporting. It’s a shame as it was a useful (and popular!) service that no-one else was providing.
Maybe one day it will live again. Let’s see…
PS. I’ve managed to keep a few shortcut urls going via manual .htaccess/apache rewrite rules going.
Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Ian Cheung
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Our second child Jamie Robbie Shinji Jan Ji Cheung was born last week. Both baby and mum are doing fine, and Michelle is now a proud big sister. I’ve posted a couple of photos and a video to facebook but I know not all of you have a facebook account so will post some photos and the video here. If you have flickr you can see a few more photos.
Photos:
Video:
Posted on February 13th, 2008 by Ian Cheung
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It’s my birthday soon and usually an infallible present choice for me is a Liverpool shirt or some other kind of merchandise. However this year if you are thinking about getting me something like that, don’t. I still support Liverpool Football Club (and always will) but I don’t support its owners and the way they are behaving. And as they seem to listen to money first and fans last, I will not buy any official merchandise until things change. I also don’t want anybody to buy merchandise for me.
If you are a lifelong fan like me, I hope you will consider doing the same for the sake of our club.
Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Ian Cheung
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For anyone thinking of buying a Sanyo Xacti DMX-65, you should know that the software bundled with it is incompatible with older AMD processors. And possibly very old Intel processors. The software is Ulead’s MovieWriter 5 SE for Sanyo and is used to create DVDs from your videos.
I have an Athlon XP2500+ in my desktop and it crashes when I try to import movies from the camera. It works fine with my laptop which has a Intel processor but it doesn’t have a DVD burner. It’s all a bit annoying.
One solution I found is a program called DVDSanta. It seems to work fine and is $30. You can find it here http://www.dvdsanta.com/
Posted on January 11th, 2008 by Ian Cheung
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