Electric cars…
I want a fully electric car. One that can go 200 km at highway speeds on an over-night charge. I might accept a chargeable hybrid: one that has sufficient battery…
Old school gamers
I went to meet my Mom and sister Judy at the casino today. This is a pretty common thing: every couple of weeks they come to the Langley Cascades Casino…
Chemistry is fun
I have a stainless steel coffee mug that Irene bought me a while back that I really like. I use it several times a day. It is an extremely well…
Journey down the Root Canal
My visit to the endodontist yesterday (Tuesday) could be described as a success. He confirmed based on my description of the pain and a neat diagnostic trick involving a piece…
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…