And you never can tell

Hurrah for real html tags, embedded videos does not get much easier.

So the throat discomfort is mostly gone, however I started to develop a really bad runny nose, so bad that I fear that may die from asphyxia every two minutes. Oh and I rammed my mom's car into a pole in the last mile home (literally). Irony has it it felt more like a closure since I knew I might as well crashed on the motorway with my mind all fuzzy. Before you start getting worried, just to let you know that I am not hurt, the car is drivable, all the damage done is the dislodged bumper and couple of lights smashed, which will be patched by tomorrow the quickest.

The morale of the story, don't drive while on a hypoxic high, especially in a car that you are not totally familiar with.
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Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
Robert Heinlein

I wish I am able to take his POV into real life, and his statement is the most correct. The grass is always greener, and you will find out that other people's shoes are a lot less comfortable when you get to wear them. At least everybody deserves 8 hours of sleep everyday.

What still bothers me? I can totally see my significant other leave me because she cannot make me happy, not going to happen.

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And the game: Synopsis, a blend of authentic 8-bit visual experience with some quirky gameplay, especially suited to Nintendo fanboys.

Sickness, kindle and other things

First of all, not been totally well for the past few days, I suspect strep throat however it could have been anything and the outcome would not be any different. Getting better now, but will need a few more days to fully recover.

Finally made some progress towards my backlogged project lists, have installed the water loop before realising that the tubes with quick change connectors are larger than the pre-cut holes, which means there will be more gruesome action of dremelling in the upcoming weekend.

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In other news, bought myself a Kindle 2 in response to the recent implosion of the evil forces, sure it has a lot of character like PC, even manages to crash from time to time, however I quite like this little bit of crudeness.

Despite the small screen, manga appears to work pretty well out of the box, a bad scan can always be dealt with the appropriate software. Ahh I will be busy for the break, good to know that.
(Milestone Note: First time to include pictures in any post)

3 Apr 2010

Uneventful Easter Saturday, got up date and wasted too much time wondering what to do. The loop is still in parts and I will have to get it sorted tomorrow.

Leo visited near the end of the day to have the fan assembly replaced, pretty straightforward but I accidentally poped his escape key and lost one of the the nylon tidbits, had to do some pretty complicated keyboard graft and he ended up with a naked Break/Pause key:-(. Then became somewhat depressed again for the mess, but Leo was good at cheering me up. Bless him, I am still the perfectionistic loser.

Still dizzy from the two stouts I had

Supermicro C2SBX+ 1.2a BIOS changes

This is what I have received in mail and hope this information will help other people out there wondering at SuperM's infinite wisdom of keeping users in the dark. I will postpone the actual upgrade till all other unfinished business could be settled because the upgrade has already caused one premature RMA.

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BIOS Rev 1.2a Update: CBXPC198.ROM Date:12-19-2008 ver. 1.2a

1. Add menu item "CPU Overheat Alarm". (All X7 & C2 Phoenix BIOS Project)

2. Fix system can't boot with IEEE 1394 card. (All X7 & C2 Phoenix BIOS Project)

3. Support BIOS editor change BIOS default BOOT order. (All X7 & C2 Phoenix BIOS Project)

4. Support BIOS editor can set default supervisor password. (All X7 & C2 Phoenix BIOS Project)

5. Add BIOS revision in setup menu. (All X7 & C2 Phoenix BIOS Project)

6. Add DMI event log to log system error event and IPMI event log. (All X7 & C2 Phoenix BIOS Project)

7. Microcode updated. (All X7 & C2 Phoenix BIOS Project)

8. Fix system can't boot from Compact Flash card via IDE or IDE-to-SATA adapter.

9. Fix AHCI mode SATA hard drive detection issue.

10. Enable hard drive S.M.A.R.T. feature.

11. Set add-on slot PCI bus master default to enable.

12. Only display warning message for keyboard error. (C2SBX/C2SBX+)

13. Fix USB keyboard hang up on USB 2.0 HUB issue.

14. Add setup item to enable/disable EHCI controller.

15. Fix S3 resume issue.

16. Enhance 1600MHz XMP/non-XMP memory support. (All X48 chipset)

17. Fix BIOS display incorrect memory size in POST screen.

18. Add PCMCIA (CARDBUS) device support.

2 Apr 2010

FORCING myself to write something, already missed two days and I knew this will happen, if I did not force myself to write today the entire endeavor may have been abandoned indefinitely.

In various news:

Test season is over, finished BIOSCI349 lab report on Thursday too so no uni work for a while from now.

Been to the shore this morning to pick-up a UPS bought on TM a while back, encountered several speed cameras at speed near 60kph, let's hope that I did not trigger their mechanical wrath...

Spent the rest of the day cutting the metal part of a Thermalright HR-01 LGA775 pushpin kit to fit a Zalman water-block, the finished product is crude however serves the purpose well. Was testing the loop but had visitors so distraction ended the day.

My folks are planning for a trip somewhere during the break but I am not keen, will keep myself occupied with my various projects and work commitment.