May cause mood swings…
I went back to my dentist today for a follow up regarding the pain I'm experiencing with the tooth that was prepped for a crown. I've now been booked in…
Business Time
My nephew sent me a bunch of Youtube links relating to a folk duo from New Zealand called "Flight of the Conchords" Their music, at least from the samples I…
Aching jaw, and LOLCats…
I mentioned previously that I had some long-overdue dental work done last week on Thursday. Post-dentist, it was relatively pain free. Until Monday afternoon, that is, when it was as…
Vacation over…
Time is relative. When I started my vacation, two weeks seemed like forever. Now that I'm on my last day of vacation, two weeks seems to have been hardly enough…
Asus M2R32 motherboard: defective RAID/AHCI?
I mentioned in a previous post here that I picked up some additional hard drives. The 750 GB drive is running happily in an external eSATA-connected enclosure and is providing backup for my machine. The other two drives are sitting on a shelf, and will remain there indefinitely. There is a story behind their banishment from my computer. It isn’t that there is anything particularly wrong with the drives themselves: I’ve finally concluded that my Asus motherboard has crappy RAID/AHCI support.
I have spent the last couple of days repeatedly building and tearing down my machine. First I built a RAID 1 array. Bear in mind that the drives I’m using are good quality Seagate 7200.10 drives: they have full SATA2 support, including Native Command Queuing (NCQ). The drives they displaced were high-end WD Raptor 1500ADFD drives: arguably, the Raptors are better drives, but I had suspicions that WD drives might be behind my problems putting my system into standby mode in Vista. I was wrong.
Can’t tawk, my mouf is fwozen
I just got back from the dentist. Nearly two hours in the chair: in itself, that's tiring. But the part that is bugging me at the moment is that the…
A terabyte a day
I bought 1.75 terabytes of potential disk capacity today. That storage comes in the form of three 3.5" Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 model hard drives. For a few moments I was holding all…
Boating…
Chris, Kalen and I went boating yesterday. This is sort of a "traditional" thing, as in we've rented a boat and risked drowning three times in the last decade or so. …
Airshow 2007
My friend Chris and I had a great day at the Abbotsford Airshow today. As per usual, I'm mildly sunburnt (despite sunscreen) and tired. I also have several hundred photos…
I may not be smart…
...but you can't fault my persistence. I have managed to break my main PC again. The exact same cause: once again, I decided to try putting my machine in standby…