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Moving To New Data Centre

September 9, 2008 | Technology | 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 ...

Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus Mini-Review

September 4, 2008June 12, 2014 | Technology | 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 ...

Death Of A Server

September 3, 2008 | Technology | 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 ...

Apple Sweeps All Awards

September 2, 2008August 18, 2016 | Technology | 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 ...

Nokia E66 Mini-Review

August 30, 2008August 10, 2013 | Technology | 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 ...

Pre-Comex Shopping

August 29, 2008 | Technology | Another item I acquired during my pre-Comex shopping trip last weekend is this notebook cooler pad. It has two fans, is slightly elevated at the back so that it is tilted forward, and it emits a cool blue hue when it’s ...

Logitech V320 Cordless Optical Mouse

August 28, 2008November 2, 2009 | Technology | I know Comex starts today, but I somehow ended up at Sim Lim Square last weekend and did some pre-Comex shopping. I bought a bunch of things, including this Logitech V320 cordless optical mouse to use with my notebook at home. ...

Fixing a Dying Hard Disk

August 26, 2008August 27, 2008 | Technology | My (wife’s) desktop PC at home started to act up. The boot hard disk was dying. This was a Windows PC. I didn’t want to re-install the OS and all the software, partly because I can’t find the serial numbers of ...

WordPress Release Testing

August 25, 2008 | Technology | WordPress is a great blogging software. But its frequent releases that break backward compatibility is upsetting some users. Is the WordPress team to blame for poor release testing? Someone has come out to defend the WordPerss ...

SingTel Announces iPhone 3G Prices

August 20, 2008August 21, 2008 | Technology | Hello, Singapore. SingTel has announced their iPhone 3G prices. You could get the phone free, if you’re willing to shell out $205 every month for the next 24 months. The prices are high, but not unexpected (see here and ...

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