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Last weekend, zitseng.com and the rest of my servers were moved to a new data centre. The rental costs at the old place had sky-rocketed and it was not economical for us to stay with them anymore. This was responsible for some of ...
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The inaugural Singapore Grand Prix and the first Formula One night race is set to take place in less than 3 weeks. Here’s a preview of the night-time lighting of the race track. It’s awfully brightly lit, possibly ...
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I bought the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus from Comex last week. The 1TB model was selling at only $239 (was $309 the week before at Sim Lim Square). I had planned to get an external hard disk for my MacBook to put Time Machine backups ...
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I’ve been wanting to say this for the longest time. Since receiving this mass email this morning, I thought it might as well be now. SOME NUS STUDENTS ARE REALLY VERY STUPID! Does it make sense to leave a notebook out there ...
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Yeah, it’s my turn to show off my Google Adsense cheque. It’s a small little sum of money. It will be cool if it can grow to a tidy monthly income, but for now, it will suffice as some occasional pocket money to make ...
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One of my servers died recently. A few days prior to that, there was something very odd with its clock, which was stuck between 03:14:31 and 03:14:35. Then on its last day, it suffered a kernel panic. After a hardware power ...
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Nowadays, Apple picking up awards from a “PC” magazine isn’t very surprising anymore. This time, Apple has once again swept up all the awards from PC Magazine’s 21st Annual Reader Survey in all the ...
| Lifestyle & Family
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After our excursion to Comex, we headed over to Conrad for dinner at Oscar’s. We were feeling slightly obliged to dine at Conrad after having exploited their valet car parking services. You know how it is like when Comex is ...
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We picked up a Nokia E66 business smartphone from M1 at Comex. It was going for quite a good price it seems. $298 for a low-end 2 year contract, considering that it is $368 from M1 Shop’s “Online Exclusive”. The ...
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This is the second day of Comex, and the first time in a long while since I’ve visited a computer fair of this sort. They are just too crowded for my liking. So today’s excursion to Comex was like discovery of a new ...
